Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-08-18
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man named soup is building motel a
Uuiontown, Wash.
A large condor was caught at Puente, Lo
Angeles county, with lasso.
The trouble in Pleasant Valley was al
caused by whites. No Indians have gone or
the warpath.
A few years ago San Luis Obispo county
was swarming with sheep. Now there are
but 1900 in the county.
The steamer Boscowitz, from the North,
has reached Victoria, B. c., and reports al
quiet on the Skeena river.
The barley crop in Ventura county, Cal,
promises to aggregate 90 per cent. Of last
years yield, or $50, 900 sacks.
The British ship Mcmillan sent for police
protection on her arrival at San Diego, be-
cause one Of her crew deserted.
L. Choasd, San Jose jeweler, paid SIS
for bag of gold dust last Wednesday, and
got bag of bronzed sand instead.
A Santa Minca paper says a turtle was
caught in the Kelp near Topanga Canyon
the first Of this week. 1t weighed $50
pounds.
Petaluma Creek, Cal, is swarming with
dead animals, and the papers are complain
ing of the vile odors that come into their
sanctums
The Northern Pacific is building through
the C9ur dAlene Mountains to Missoula, M
T., shortening its main line sixty miles and
its time two hours.
Last Monday the thermometer registered
100 degrees in the sun, at Jackson, Amador
county, and one death, it is thought, from
sunstroke resulted
Howard Spencer and George Stringham,
who are charged with killing Sergeant Pike
in 1889 at Salt Lake, have been held to wait
examination before the Grand Jury.
John Wilson, who was arrested at Maydeld
for robbing the safes of the railroad and
Wells Fargo, has confessed, and Sr,3I4,
which he buried has been recovered.
A Touring mill, with a capacity of 1000
barrels day, and line of steamers to
carry its products to China, are among the
products deemed assured at Tacoma.
S. w. Martin, prominent lawyer and
member of the Sacramento Board of School
Trustees, has been arrested on a charge of
embezzlement. He was released on bail
The Tia Juana lottery and gambling resort
scheme projected by Los Angeles capitalists,
to be established in Mexican territory, but
near the border, is said to be progressing ia,
vorably.
Two Mexican horsethieves were captured .
about seven miles south of Bakersfield, Cal,
the first Of the week. One of the thieves
was wounded before the capture could be !
effected.
r. D. Smith, went into corral at Phoenix, !
ARR, last Thursday, to butcher a steer.
The animal refused TO submit and Smith was
hoisted clear over the corral. He will not
be able to work for some time.
Within the past eighteen months, within
radius of ten miles of Oroville, Cal, 500
acres have been planted in oranges. These
500 acres represent 50, 900 trees, and a small
per cent, if any, of this number have died.
The Supreme Court Of Washington Terri.
tory has decided the law granting suffrage to
women to be unconstitutional. The Legisla.
ture, the Court declares, exceeded its powers
when it passed the law. An appeal will be
taken to Washington.
The vine growers Of Sacramento and vicin-
ity have organized to secure better prices for
their grapes. No sale can be made to a
winery without the consent of committee
Of three appointed to look after the interests
Of the grape growers.
Jerome Barton was travelling across the
Colorado Desert last week when he found a
large.turtle making slow tracks toward water.
The nearest spring was seventeen miles
away, yet the turtles head was pointing ex.
WHY loWdlN INC Spot.
Simon Bamberger, formerly manager of
the San Pete Valley Railroad, and F. K.
Morris, his clerk, have been arrested at Salt
Lake on a charge of embezzHng $4,000 of
the company's funds The charge is made
by the management which succeeded BAN,
berger.
On the Oregon Railway and Navigation
main line freight train, loaded with mis-
cellaneons freight, and one or more carloads
of horses, broke in two when near Pendleton,
Or. The rear end ran into the front end 90.
ing down grade and smashed up ten cars and
killed number Of horses.
Eight men who have been employed as
roustabouts on the steamship Oregon at Port,
land, Or, libeled the ship for wages due,
amounting in all to $72 50. She was arrest.
ed at Astoria on telegraph dispatch from
the United States Marshal, but was not de.