Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-05-19
COAST ITEMS.

Martin Pelster killed A. Fl. Dake at
Auburn, Cal, Wednesday.
Marysville's cannery is to have a fruit
dryer in operation this season.
Santa Barbara county has granted but sixty
nine divorces in the past twenty years.
Richard Grant has been acquitted Of the
charge of numbering Peter Andersen at Park
City, Utah.
White boys show superiority over China
men in training hop on poles and
strings in Cal. Strange.
Placer couAty's peach crop promises to be
exceedingly heavy, and all other kinds Of
fruit are in Rne condition.
Forest fires are beginning to be reported
IN the mountains, and the careless smoker
will soon be charged with firing grain fields.
r. D. Gardemeyer and man named Nc
Nabb fired several pistol shots at each other
Tuesday at Suffer City, Cal, without effect.
A Los Angeles man says he has letter
from Jay Gould in which he says he will
seoR own through overland Railroad line.
A burglar carried off over 5000 worth Of
iewelry from the residence Of A. NJ. Cannon,
at Spokane Falls, early Wednesday morning,
Tom Kelly shot at Jack Paterson, brother
OF the late notorious Tom Patterson, at Fres.
ne, Thursday morning, and wounded another
man in the breast.
Portland, Or, promises to give the Cana
dian Railroad steamship Zambis a large
quantity Of freight for China if the vessel
will only call for it.
The Government has seized four sealing
schsoners fer fishing in Behring Sea, and
officials state that every vessel found sealing
in Behring Sea will be seized.
The Columbia Canning Company and the
Thistle Packing Company, ef Portland, sus-
pended Wednesday through financial con-
nectisn with VIM. T. Coleman & Co.
An effort is being made to have the Leba-
non branch of the Oregon and California
Read extended to Sodaville, which place is
becoming prominent in Oregon as sumner
resore.
James Mccarthy, the I6-year-old Storey
county murderer, who killed A. Solar last |
month, has been found guilty Of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to FL years
in prison.
Several arrests have been made of parties
believed to have been concerned in the rob
berry of Sonora, Mexico, train last Sunday.
Hays, the express messenger, it is thought,
cannot recover.
Frank Mack. Of Scio, Oregon, last Sun
day put lighted pipe in pocket contain.
ing shells while out hunting. A finger was
blown of and serious wound in the ABIDE
men was inflicted.
Henry Midland, A miner at Grass Valley,
failed in an attempt at suicide Wednesday
through the non explosion OF a giant pow
der cartridge which he lighted and placed
his head over for suicidal purposes.
William Landreth, who in the most atroc-
ious manner murdered his I6-year-old step
daughter in Polk county, Or, some months
ago, was removed from the Jail at Salem
Thursday to Dallas for greater safety.
Moves Durand, the third party implicated
in robbing the Sonora train, has been arrest
ed. Taylor has made a confession. The
prisoners will be turned over to the Mexican
authorities where short work will be made
Of them.
1t has just been made public at Los Ange-
les that Joseph D. Lynch, lately contest,
ant for the seat in Congress now occupied
by Vandever, was married in St. Louis on
the 10th to his cousin, Miss Belle Stewart,
Of that city.
The Chief Justice of Victoria, B. c.,
when the libel suit of Robert Dunsmuir
against newspaper came on, and an apollo.
gy Of the latter had been read, bitterly de.
nounced the course of journals which ma.
liciously injure regulations.
The latest fish story: A North Pomona
man went up the canyon on Sunday and fell
into big eddy, the water sweeping him
down ever the falls. He was hshed out by
his friends, not hurt bit, and when he fell
in his pockets he found three trout, each sew.
en- incnes long.
Faulty commitments on two sentences will
probably save James X. Kirby, a Selano
convict, from serving FIVE years at Folsom
Both commitments were presented at the same
time and as neither stated that one should
begin when the other ended, Judge Van Fleet
at Sacramento has decided they both run
concurrently.
Governor Waterman at the Suffer county
Changers picnic Wednesday, advised the
farmers to cut up their farms if there was a
demand for it, into small parcels Of FIVE and
ten acres, and not try to lay out towns as
they have done in portions of Southern Cal
ifornia where towns to accommodate a pop
ulation as large as London have been boom
ed into existence