Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-03-17
COAST ITEMS.
Tramps are plentiful at Red Bluff.

Spokane Falls, w. L., asks $500 Tor
laundry license.
Dunlap, Fresno county, makes 600 barrels
Of lime per month.
Sonoma vineyard Chinese laborers have
struck for higher wages.
A seizure of ITO pounds of opium was
made at Seattle, w. T.
The Hotel del Monte at Monterey has
about four hundred guests.
Mrs. Ellen Topper, the celebrated Iowa
entomologist, died at FL Paso this week.
At Hildreth, Fresno county, Valentine
Dias shot and killed Pasqual Barcss last
Sunday.
Another rich strike has been made in the
Diamond Hitch mine in the Occur d'Alene
mining district.
The Prohibilionists propose to contest for
the municipal offices in Grass Valley and
Nevada City next month.
A syndicate Of wealthy men is buying
property at Auburn, Placer county, and the
Auburnites are excited over the event.
An arrest effort to establish cable road
al Portland, Or, is being made. Capitalists
rom San Francisco have promised their aid.
Navajo Indians have been stealing bands
Of horses in Anache county, A. T., and set
Tiers appear to have no protection against
them.
Tohn P. St. John, the Apostle Of Temper
ance, has purchased tract OF land near
Chico, and proposes to build himself home
near there.
Railway mail service has been established
snnthe Nevada and California road between
Reno and Camp Ham, LasSen county, dis.
anca Of IS miles.
William Ryan, aged sixteen years, shot
and killed Charles Bradshaw, aged thirty two
at the Manhattan mine near Knoxville, Napa
county, Wednesday.
The experiment. of working convicts on
night shift system in the San Quentin Prison
lutte mill commenced on Monday last and
promises to be success.
Harry Smiley, horse jockey, committed
suicide at Tacoma, W. T., Thursday. He
left notice, stating the reason for suicide,
was he couldn't keep "strate."
The arrest Of Marshal Meade and posse
while tracking train robbers by Mexican SOL
diers has caused excitement on the border
The case has been laid before the President |
Miss Ryan, while on a steamer between
Monterey and Santa Cruz, Thursday, jumped |
overheard and was drowned. She was on
her way from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Deputy Sheriff G. W. Cook shot and kill
ed Deputy United States Marshal Frank Cal,
lin at Ration, n. NJ, Thursday. The kill |
ing was the result OF hard feelings which
originated over the last election.
A brother Of Bernal, the noted Mexican
Bandit. in command of large body Of
marauders, was attacked by Federal troops
a few days ago, and several of his bandits
were killed and many arms captured.
Chinaman named All Lin has been
placed on the pension list. He served as
"landsman" in the navy at San Francisco
during The Rebellion and broke his leg. He
is probably he first of his race TO receive
such recognition.
The cottony cushion scale has made its
appearance on acacia and locust trees in Los
Angeles. A number of properly owners
have adopted the only known remedy of get
ting rid of the pest and are saving of the
branches Of trees close to their trunks.
Joseph Davidson, while chopping out an
Old timber cap in the Consolidated California
and Virginia mine at Virginia Tuesday, let
his AK slip from his grasp, and in falling the
sharp blade struck his breast and cut a fright.
full cash five inches long, barring the ribs.
A sheep breeder in ByerS, Col, has South
down lambs not more than six months old,
that weigh r4o pounds each. They were
brought from Canada, and il has, been est
mated tina they viii clip Twelve pounds of
wool. al least, BY h time they shall be four.
teen months old.
A man named Stephens, formerly from
Missouri, W hese he left a wife, went to Fres
no county, settled near Selma and married a
young woman, hve children being the result
Of a union Of nearly twenty years. His
former wife wanted to come 10 California, so
Stephens had the marriage with wife No. 2
annulled. Now the injured woman sues him
for perjury and damages.
About three years go firm in Los Ange-
les CONNIE ced crysializng rgS. They made
= good article and found d ready ma rket for