Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-04-07
COAST ITEMS.


The Colorado river is twelve feet allow
highwater, mark at Yuma, A. T.
Pasadena has in course Of erection build
Tags that will cost ever 81 ,ooo, 900.
Frank Thompson, Splinter, cut his throa
with a pocket.knife at Los Angeles Wed
Rssdsy.
The election Of L. Young as Mayor o
Bellevue, Idaho, this week, is q defeat TO
temperance.
Captain A. B. Smith, Of Inventors Insti
tute fame San Francisco. has fled petition
in insolvency at San Diego.
Charles Kisselbach, Appointment merchant
and the German Consul at Guaymas, Sonora
has failed for a large amount
Astoria has a sIso, 900 bonus subscribed
ready for railroad, and is waiting for q
road to come along and claim it.
John White has been held at Auburn to an.
swer the charge Of firing the water works the
night before they were completed.
Conductor Massey Of the Los Angeles ex-
press was seriously shot by peddler named
Myers on the train near Borden Mon;ay.
Uurequited love caused Miss Jennie Kim.
ball, young artist, of Redlands. San Der.
nardino, to end her life Monday with poison.
AT HALEY, Idaho, on Monday, J. L. &.
Smith got drunk and began to abuse his
wife, when she shot and killed him with a
rife.
Indications Of natural gas were discovered
in Custer street. Los Angeles county, yester.
day. A flow burned with a brillancy su.
perior to the manufactured article.
Myers, who shot Massey, the Southern
Pacific conductor, at Borden, the first Of the
week, now says he was intoxicated, He is
under arrest at Fresno, and is very penitent.
The cattle men Of Mono county are NOV
ing for repeal Of the ordinance imposing
tax on the business Of raising cattle. The
cattle men arc LaxcQ On tuc1I l&Hd anu vi
their cattle.
The Supreme cour, OF Utah Wednesday
sent Moroni Sheets to the Penitentiary for
contempt for refusing to testify regarding
church property and his connection with the
Mormon church.
The Boca Mill Company is about to start
its spring log drive down The Little Truckee
river. The drive will consist of SOC, 900
feet, which is much more than has been put
in the river for many years
Hattie Woolsteen, who is charged with the
murder Of DR.. Harlan, near Compton, Los
Angeles county. and is now on trial at Lo>
Angeles for the crime. attempted suicide by
strangulation Sunday night.
The family Of D. S. Bewley was crushed
beneath the falling walls Of The adobe house
in which they were living, this week. near
Phoenix. A, T., and Two members were
killed and another one is dying.
At the examination Of the Aurora hotel
incendiaries at Walla Walla. w. T., Tues
day, the night Waterman of the Aurora
confessed that the parties arrested prepared
the way and he set the building on FIRE with
r match.
At Los Angeles one day this week when
Man street was crowded with pedestrians.
a tray containing diamonds valued at s. 900
was taken from the Opera House jewelry
store, and the thief escaped and has not
been apprehended.
William Ross, a prominent and wealthy
rancher OF Pilot Rock, Or, was stabbed to
daath Sunday by Frederick Noble, who was
employed by him as one OF his sheep herd,
ers. Ross, who has frequently shown symp.
toms of insanity, attacked Noble.
A couple Of confidence men have victim
lied residents OF Monterey lately. Their
scheme was to obtain loans upon the strength
Of a pawn ticket, for a valuable gold watch.
Anton Pattist, one Of the men, has been ar
rested, hut the ether, Charles Wilson, es-
capped.
A break in the levee of the Seventy six
Canal, where it has been raised to afford fall
enough to run a water. power attached to the
-four mill at Traver, Tulare county, yester.
day, flooded the streets and in some places
injured carpets and furniture, where the floors
Of residences were near the ground. Sever.
al hundred dollars damage was done.
Santa Rosa complains Of the crowds that
&c up to that place on Sunday excursions
from San Francisco. The city was made
Rideeus with their drunken orgies and their
vile language last Sunday. The citizens de.
clare they will suppress similar outrageous