Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-07-21
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SlonS al faSadCna.
Applications for I,43s acres of State land
were fled last week at Carson.
In 1880, Vancouver, B. c., had 7 500 in
Aahirants. Now il has 20, coo.
TIE Wbea,land hop growers are making
strenuous efforts TO get white labor.
1t is estimated that SIS 900 will be requir.
ed for Humboldt Harbor next year.
The Union Pacific has reduced its bullion
rate from Salt Lake to the Missouri river s..
Ida Reigor, who smoked opium with sui
cfdal intent at San Marcial, N. NJ, is dead.
The new Gage Canal at Riverside is TWEEN
ty-one miles long. 1t will irrigate $4,000
acres.
The colored voters Of Yuba and Suffer are
to form Harrison and Morton club next
week.
Suits have been begun against ten defend
ants in Arizona for cutting timber on Gov
ernment land.
Farmer Reid, of Winters, Yolo county,
gathered 2 500 boxes Of tomatoes from 1000
vines this season.
The brickayers, carpenters and painters,
Of Tacoma, w. r, have adopted the 9-hour-
a.day labor rule.
About one hundred men left Victoria, B.
c., Tuesday for the Skeena river to suppress
the Indian uprising at Hazeton.
A deposit Of gravel was unearhed re
Gently in the Blue Point mine at SmartsWlle,
Yuba county, that pays IS pan.
A gambler named Harry Weeks shot and
MORALLY wounded Arad Howe, another gam
A. t. 1ay oh
A genuine case of leprosy has been dis
covered on the ranch Of G. P. Bull, few
miles from San lose It is that OF a China
man.
Many milers and wheat buyers Of Cali
fornia report that wheat is frel two 10 four
pounds heavier to the bushel than it was last
year.
A daughter of Bishop Warren came near
drowning at Santa Cruz on Monday. She
was saved by a gentleman named Arm
strong.
Captain C. B. Dahlsren, patriotic miner
Of Lander county, unturled the stars and
stripes on his mine, 1900 feet above the sea
level, on the Fourth.
The Yuma Indians have been forced Thu
season to gather their mesquite beans from
the ella river, the crop in the Colorado ryer /
Bottoms being short.
A deed was placed on record at Seattle .
last Saturday, whereby Thomas Ewing and .
wife conveyed no acres of land to an incor
porauen for $500, 600.
The persecution OF the Soule family ueal
Sacramento by persons who throw dynamite
bombs sull continues. The family has been
N a state Of siege for months.
A prominent Truckee Meadow rancher
Thursday refused an offer Of $40 ton for
200 ions Of hay. he price offered is sever
al notches above the changer line"
A Chinaman, supplied by over indulgence
in opium smoking, was sufocaled by smoke
created by small tire from an over turned
lamp, in a room a, Marysvlle, Monday.
Leads and Billy McVay, brothers, living
near Corvallis. Or, qu2rreled while drunk,
Monday, and the former stabbed the latter
twelve times. The wounds will cause death.
The trial of the Piute Indian Willie
Dunno, who murdered Charlie Winnemucca
at Pyramid, will probably take place a Car
son next month soon after the United States
Grand Jury meets.
A wealthy orchardist at VacaviIle, who
has large force a work emitting and drying
his crop, states that for SIS daily outlay he
can easily see a return Of $500 when his
crop is disposed OF.
Two men, sheepherders on Hughes ranch, |
have reached Fresno wounded. They say .
Edward Hughes, sixty five years old, shot |
them in the head, neck and shoulder, with /
cut cause or provocation.
DR.. R. !. Elan, an old mining operator,
formerly of White Pine, New, and for the
past sixteen years a resident OF Phoebe, was
drowned at GARFIELD Beach, IN Salt Lake,
Thursday. Instantly resides in san Fran
cisco.
Three Italian fishermen struck school OF
pompans near Capitola beach last Sunday
and 900 pounds were landed in few min
utes. The greater portion was sent TO San
Francisco, where 1t sold readily for 65 cents
pound.
The contractor of the Government build.
ing at Carson has signed his bonds, and the
binding must be finished now inside Of nine
months. Each day spent in building after
the time has expired subjects the contractor
TO penalty of $50.
The DAILY Astoyi1n says: Pilots from
outside report picnic. 1t has done every
thing but snow during the last ten days.
The rain, the wind from the southeast and
the general mugG,ness was good stand Oft
TO the weather ashore.
The Yakima county paper boasts that
Yakima county has population of 5000
whites and 3, 500 Indians, and that in two
years there has been but one white resident
in the Jail, and that there is not house oil
Prostitution in the county.
"Docuess" Mary Won, the murderess, who
is now serving life sentence at San Quen.
tin for the killing Of J. w. Bishop, attempt.
ed Tuesday 10 murder Mary Kane, the ma
tron Of The female department of the prison.
Mary Won was secreted, sprapg upon the
matron and dealt her heavy blows with a
piece of iron. The matron screamed, and
Mary Won was secured, but the matron was
severely bruised about the head and face,