Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-12-22
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San Luis Obispo is having bituminous side
walks laid.
Victoria, B. c., will have dog and poul
try show next week.
Salt Lake City has an I,S14,pound 3-year
old Hereford heifer.
The total land sale at Bakersfield for three
days amounted to 500, 900.
Five houses in MERGED were decorated
with yellow flags last Monday.
San Bernardino charges $40 day for cir.
cuses and $40 per day for dance houses.
1t is estimated that San Bernardino will
ship $3.50 boxes of oranges this season.
Frederick Goodhue, mai.carrisr at Los
Angeles, has been arrested for robbing let,
tiers.
On the witness stand yesterday San Diego
police officials were charged with receiving
brides.
Mr.. Drew sold lot in Seattle last Satur,
day for $50, 900. He paid S., 500 for it twelve
years ago.
Burglares are still plentiful at Los Ange.
les. 1t was thought the gang of burglars
was captured.
Salt Lake has risen three inches in the last
sixty days, after fall during last summer of
twenty. six inches.
The Governor refuses to pardon Arthur D.
January, who stole 5000 while his father
was State Treasurer.
A strong protest against Statehood for
Utah has been signed by the Liberal Terri
torial Committee of Utah.
Thirteen and one-half tons of barnacles
and shell-fsh were scraped off the bottom Of
the Olyrnpian at Victoria.
The bodies of the two miners who fell in
to the Plymouth Consolidated mine on the
18th inst, were recovered.
An EPSON salts spring has been discovered
four miles from Gallup, N. NJ, also large
deposits Of borax and alum.
A smelter is to be erected at Spokane Falls,
provided the people contribute $4,000. 1t
will give 500 men employment.
The steamers Olympia and Islander, it is
reported, will race from Victoria to Port
Townsend next Saturday for $500 side.
There is a scandal in the City Council at
Spokane Falls, w. T., and charges of brib-
cry in connection with giving the contract to
build bridge.
The jury in the Teller murder case at Spo,
kane Falls, W. T., brought in a verdict OF
not guilty. Mrs. Teller killed her husband
in seIf-defense.
Diphthera among the children in the small
towns in Bernalillo county, N NJ, is epidem-
ic. About two hundred have died in the past
four or five weeks.
John Wesley Hill, Methodist parson at
Ogden, is delivering radical anti Mormon
lectures, and has incurred great hostility
from tbs Mormons.
The Yaquina Bay will be sold to the high
est bidder on the 22nd instant. The machin.
cry will be taken from the vessel and the
hulk left to its fate.
Horse thieves in Arizen FIRE arrows into the
horses they leave when they run off a band.
This leads to the superstition on the part of
the owners that the depredators are Indians.
A proposition, apparently against the will
of the people of Alpine county, is made to
have that county consolidated with Mono.
Alpine will make fight against the move.
There were four boxes of the best Fresno
county raisins, packed in fine style, shipped
from Fresno this week, to Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, Mrs Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Levi
P. Morton, and Mrs. Allen G. Thurman.
A rich strike is reported in the Fourth OF
Julyimine, in the Salmon river country, Idaho.
A large quantity of sulphate Of silver, worth
81 600 ton, has been found. This is said
to be the richest mine in Washington Terri
| tory or Idaho.
Governor Waterman has said that he will
not give his sanction to the bill appropriate
ing money for the London Exhibition unless
the same favor if extended to the Paris Elk.
hibition, which is to be held in 1889. He
thinks both are of importance.
William Jones, one of the four men arrest
ed at Los Angeles for robbing the railway
station at Sepulveda and plundering the
| guests at the 4-Mile House, has made full
confession. notorious gang of highway
men is likely to be well broken up.
The Winnemucca, New, Sil0ey State says;
A rumor has reached here that Io-year- old
boy, named Baker, at Lovelocks, procured
some strychnine and endeavored to get some
of his schoolmates to eat it. Failing in this
he prevailed upon Piute child to eat some
of the stuff and the child died. The boy
has been arrested.
A. N. Polymath, the San Diego jewele
who was arrested few days ago for illegally
restraining Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Tabor in hi