Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-08-11
COAST ITEMS.

A strike Of natural gas is reported at th'
Sespo oil fields.
The salmon pack on the Columbia wa
better this year than last.
The Mormon or Peoples ticket was sue
cessful in the county elections in Utah Mon
day.
Fires in the interior are becoming plentiful
and careless hunters are blamed for many o
them.
The supposed hydrophcbia victim at Pet
aluma secured license and was married the
FIRST Of the week
The British man of.war Caroline is tc
leave the North Pacific for the South and
thence to England.
A girl at MERGED got six pronged jack.
stone in her throat the other day and came
near choking to death.
A full grown wild hog with tusks four
inches long was killed in the Temescal
Mountains the other day.
At Hills Ferry a bet OF s.; ooo has just
been closed on horse.race TO take place al
Stockton in thirty days.
The colored troops are cutting hay in
Montana and selling il in competition with
tHC ldIHlSiS Ill lildl SCIllOu'
Field fires destroyed a quantity Of grain
in Butte county and at one time Sunday SUIT.
ter City was in great danger.
Seattle is trying TO drive out a number OF
employment agencies that have swindled
scores OF workingmen and others.
Louis Frey, the Cloverdale sage rohher
has recovered from his wounds and is under.
going trial al Santa Rosa fox his crime.
In a fight between railroad men and some
Mexicans, at Tuscon, A. T.. two Mexcans
were shot, one of whom died during the
day.
Burglars robbed three saloons at Walla
Walla, W. T., Monday night and lef, no,e
recommending the liquor sold in one Of the
saloons.
frankie Dyke is suing George S. van
Every, a wealthy Santa Monican and an off
cial in the Episcopal Church, for breach OF
promise.
c. A. Glidden, whose ranch is in Suffer
county, has taken 10 Marysvlle sucking
colt only four months old and weighing 700
pounds.
Santa Rosans have free.to.all fight over
claimed, is situated TOO far away from the
business part Of the city.
Hester lsaacs, who has been missing from
San Sose for ten days. made her appearance
Wednesday with a conflicting and improba-
Bile story Of where she had been.
Dick Perry, who is in Jail a, Los Angeles,
on the charge of attempt 10 murder, boasts
of killing nine persons-eight men and one
woman He is seventy-three years old.
An attachment has been issued against E. .
J. Baldwin's property in Los Angeles county
in a suit for the amount Of Louise Perkins
lawyers fee in the breach.of promise suit.
A FIRE at Folsom on Tuesday destroyed all
OF Chinatown and a lumber ward There !
were fourteen horses burned TO death. Ii
was hard fight to prevent the spread Of the
Are.
The other day young Grass Valley
woman, whose equally young husband had
been carousing with friend. expressed her
disaPproval OF the proceedings by pelling
the friend with stones.
The Grand Jury of Napa county were not
able to indie, the parties engaged in hanging
the boy John Wright, so they concluded to
censure the Supervisors who voted against
offering reward for the arrest Of the crimi-
aals.
John Mcguire, whose opera house at
Butte, NJ. T., was burned last week, was
rendered an open.air benefit at the race
track last Saturday, which brought him $40.
900. Business houses were closed and
fyiv hi
Thomas Peterson, a Dane, has been ar.
rested al Pasadena for assaulting two girls,
aged five and three years. lie claims that
he was drunk and remembers nothing about
the assault. Peterson is thought 10 be a
criminal who has escaped from Nebraska.
Herbert Spencer, who was arrested last
week in Utah and taken to Salt Lake, is
charged with numbering United States sol
der. in 1859, Just after johnston's invasion
Of Utah, wher the relations between the
Mormons and the military were unsettled.
The prominent growers OF wine grapes OF
Sacramento county have called a meeting
FOR August I4h, to organZe against the
Wine Trust. 1t is proposed 10 FIX a fair
price for grapes, and should the wineries
refuse TO pay it, 10 dry all the wine grapes.
Fritz Ansclag, the Garden Grove, Los An
geles county, butcher, is DESTROYS of poison.
ing himself. S,rychnine was discovered in
the jail this week, witch was within easy
access 10 Anschag who had been overheard
bargaining 10 have the poison brought 10
him.
Parties just in from the PlanchaS de Pa
mining district, thirty miles sou,h-west Of
Nogales, A. T., say much excitement exist,
there over a rich discovery made IN the LIE.
andrena gold mine. workmen are taking
out large quantities OF ore running as nigh a,
$1,000 ton.
Oscar Legault, a powerful mill hand,
Sunday at Truckee, struck negro, who hau
attempted to seal, blow on the bridge o.
the nose. The bones were broken and
pieces were driven into the negro's head
causing death in an hour. Legault was ex
onerated by Jury.