Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-04-21
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A case Of smallpox at Seattle, w. T.

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ct Cloverdale..
Spokane Fall, W. T., has raised the liquor
license to $500.
c. J. Smith has 100 varieties Of roses in
his yard at Oroyille.
The fruit crop Of Shasta county promises
to be exceptionally large.
Last Thursday the Thermometer stood at
TOO degrees at San Bernardino.
San Jacinto expects to ship car load Of
watermelons per day this season.
Several valuable cows have recently died
atWillows from pleuro pneumonia.
Douglass county, Or, fruit growers are
devoting themselves principally to Prunes.
A Woodland orchardist has refused to
contract for his apricot crop this season at
81 per ton.
Mrs. Frances Brazier OF Petaluma became
crazy on the subject OF religion and has been
sen, to Napa.
The use Of slickens in the manufacture Of
brick is contemplated at Wheatland on an
extensive scale.
Feed in Oregon suffered from the Geld
weather in March and is poor, and stock is
in low condition.
Santa Ana has been visited by a success.
full horse.thief. He captured doctors $500
horse and top.buggy.
The waters OF Duck Lake, with those OF
Of several springs, near Mountain Meadows,
Cal. have entirely disappeared.
Joe Petersen, Swede taylor, pawned his
watch at Butte City for money to buy pis.
toll, with which he committed suicide.
John Leck, an employe Of the railroad
shops as Sacramento, committed suicide
Monday. Illness had caused dependency.
The Southern Pacific Company's shops al
Sacramento will be increased about one. third,
which means the employment Of 1000 more
men.
A corporation was formed at Stockton
Saturday 10 mine gypsum in Nevada and mil
it there, making Stockton the Company's
place OF business.
William Ryan has been acquitted Of the
charge OF numbering Charles Bradshaw al
the Manhattan mine, a, he sitting OF the
Superior Court at Napa.
August Won Bosom, the alleged German
noble, supposed to have been the man who
jumped from the Morrison. street bridge, at
Portland, the other day, is alive.
Another carload of colored men arrived |
at Fresno the first of this week, and more
are expected soon, to work in he vineyards
The eyardists are pleased with them.
The retail Grocers of Portland complain
Of the Chinese vegetable peddlers and have
prepared an ordinance for submission to the
Council providing for the licensing Of them.
Victoria Lee, the daughter Of the Mormon
DANTE and Mountain Meadows butcher,
John D. Lee, who committed suicide recent.
ly in Arizona, did so, because her COW boy
lover had been killed.
Tom Meyers and Walter Dunlap, two OF
the four vagrants who fatally injured Tall
man, the aged j,ier, in making their escape
from the Jail al Redwood City last February
have been convicted OF granddaughter.
Three Mormon jurors, who declined to
take the Edmunds. Tucker oath, but who
admitted that they had taken the oath and
registered aad voted IN the last election,
were severely lectured by Judge Zane at
Salt Lake Tuesday.
Hattie Woolsteen, who has been on trial
at Los Angeles some days for the killing OF
Doc Harlan, was acquitted Saturday. The
Jury was out twelve minutes. The crowd
cheered her. She says she will remain in
Los Angeles and live down the ISLANDERS ut.
tered against her.
1t is proposed now to carry into effect the
proposition OF bringing water from the Amer.
lean river to the town Of Folsom By canal
six feet deep, thrty.two feet wide and with
fall OF nearly one hundred feet. This will
give employment to the State prisoners, give
power for manufacturing purposes, and make
Folsom a manufacturing town. The canal
can be used for irrigation purposes.
The Elko Nacpenafnt says the railroad
company has issued oaders to fence the road
from Wells to Peko Canyon, at which cattle.
men along the line are much dissatisfied, az
it will prevent stock from free range on both
sides OF the road. They say that the mum
Der Of cattle killed by trains is small item
when compared with the advantage of hav
ing free range, which will be 0bstructed
BY the proposed fence.