Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-03-24
COAST ITEMS.


The Prohibitionists are holding large meet
Tags at Woodland.
DR., Carver was defeated at San Diego, last
Saturday in bird shooting match.
The sheep owners OF Plumas and Lassen
counties were taxed II cents head this year
Fred Crump has been found guilty Of man
slaughter at Portland for killing his brother.
in.law.
1t is claimed that the sugar maple grows
in abundance in the vicinity Of Grass Valley,
the trees being indigenous.
The San Diego street chain.cang, COM
posed of tramps, mutinied Wednesday and
were beaten into submission.
The posse which was arrested in Mexico
while in pursuit Of the Stems Pass robbers
has returned TO Tucson. A. 7.
Two hundred immigrants came into Taco.
ma, w. T., last week from Kansas City,
many Of them with their families.
Delegate Voorhees, of Washington Terri
tory, declines to become candidate for re-
nomination in the coming compaign
Acarload of settler, from Illinois landed
At Bigss, Cal. Tuesday, for settlement, and
another carload is expected in few days
The Nevada Livestock Association reports
the livestock business in fourishing con-
6ition and the losses from winter causes
light.
A number Of miners were discharged from
the Pttsburg Mill al Tuscarora last week be-
cause considerable amalsam was missing on
their shift
George Berger, living near LOOMS, Placer
county, was arrested at Sacramento Thurs
day on the charge of cruelty beating his
mother -in.law.
The citizens OF Nevada City have held an
indignation meeting and started fund for
the prosecution Of the perpetrators Of the
mining outrases.
Work has been commenced on dam, 500
feet long and 60 feet deep, to form reser.
voir for the irrigation Of six sections of land
east of MERGED, Cal.
The jury in Nevada City in the case Of
Henry Colby. tried for the murder OF T. Gi
rard at Granville. last October, ha, returned
a verdict of acquiItal.
NJ Thurston, at Santa Barbara, Cal, the
other day, shot big devilhsh in a pool O
water and cut off one OF his tentacles for
preservation in alcohol.
C. NJ Hardng, the San Franciscan indlcI
ed with Mrs. Rose Bryant OF San Francisco
for robbng Dickinson at Portland was con-
picted in that city Monday.
The body of Miss Ryan, the young lad,
who Jumped from the steamer Eureka INTO
Monterey Bay, has no; been found, and it Is
believed shark have eaten II.
Los Angeles official, hAvr drharred report
ers from witnessing the hanging Of Au'cnias.
the GARDEN Grove murderer, next month. An
appeal 10 the Supremr Court Is 10 be taken
BY Ansthlag
An old man known a. ''Yank" was stopped
by highwayman near OrowIlr, Cal, Mon
day night, but showed fight and though the
robber got of with "Yank's" watch, he was
soon after arrested.
After having laid idle for three years be,
cause of a theory hat its foundations were
no better than mud, the Northern Pacific :
immense dry dock at Alb,na have been
pumped and found 10 be first class.
Nevada local hunters say that the cold
wave which swept across Western Nevada
last January, killed all the rabbits and thin,
ned the ranks of the badgers and coyotes
formerly so numerous on the desert.
A party OF Mexican troop, ran the three
STEMS Pass robbers TO earth and after reg.
ular battle killed all OF them. Their name,
were Larry Shehan, Dick Johnson and Dick
Hart. A Mexican Sergeant was killed.
Jack Hammond Of the white laundry al
Fresno, Cal. has decamped, leaving behind
him many unpaid bills, and taking with him
the finest of his customers clothing. He
had a weeks start before he was found out.
The Chinese bring down from Alaska big
boxes Of dried bears paws, which, they
probably make into a medicine. Bears call
brings the regular pnce of $40 pound, and
is in great demand by the Chinese druggists.
Three hundred and twenty FIVE men are
pushing the construction of the iron works
At The Oswego, Or, mines, where SIS, ooc
have been expended, and $ISo, 900 more will
probably be used in completing the PLAN
before the Ist Of July.
Four men, employees Of the road, wer'
killed and two freight trains and snowshec
wrecked in a collision between two double
header freight trains on the Central Pacific
between Cisco and Tamarac, Monday after