Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-12-01
COAST ITEMS.

Santa Rosa next season.
Rains have been falling almost steadil,
for FIVE days in Arizona.
No water fowl are to be seen along tn
course of the Humboldt river.
The saloon.keepers of Salt Lake Cit,
have organized protective union.
The total vote of Montana was $4,000
Carter's (Rep.) majority was 5000.
A Pennsylvania company is likely to oper
coal mines on the Santiam, in Oregon.
The output Of the coal mines near Albu
querque, New Mexico, is 42o tons day.
A carload of California grapes was SOLD
at Boston last week and brought 1861 o.
Last Sunday zoo arrests were made by
| the police in Los Angeles. Nearly all were
DRINKS.
Joe Gardella, Of Oroville, Cal, expects
to gather IL 900 oranges from his trees this
Winter.
John Schwartz was killed by mistake fol
| a bear on the lower Siuslaw river the first n
this week.
The output Of the beet sugar factory al
jacksonville, CAL, for last week was soc
tons day.
Mrs. Carrier, of Folsom, Cal, has an or.
ange tree with more than 1000 oranges on
it ready to pick.
A company has been formed at Salem, Or,
with capital of $4,000, to go into the
cold-storage business.
AIo year old Indian girl was tied up and
set on FIRE by her tribe at Port Ludlow, w.
T., Sunday last, but escaped alive.
Extensive shrimp beds have been found
near Victoria, B. c., which have been ex-
amined by the agent of an Eastern syndi.
cate.
Henry Miller, aged II years, who killed
Elmer Wright, boy, last May, at Corvallis,
Oregon, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree.
The Big Bend country Of Washington Ter
ritory is rapidly filling up with settlers.
More than one thousand have arrived in the
last three months.
A skull with little hair on it, found near
the scene Of the Pete Olsen murder in Napa
county, leads to the belief that it belonged
to the remains Of Olsen.
A posse of eight men with Pima Indian
trailers are in pursuit of the Mexicans who
robbed the stage near Tucson. Their rem
devious has bren located.
One of the new blocks in Los Angeles is
said to be in a dangerous condition. The
walls are slowly sinking and the elevator
has to be stopped every other day to
straighten the shaft.
A bricklayer fell from the third story of
a building in the course Of erection at Fresno,
but bounded from one scaffold to another
and dropped in soft mud. He was dazed but
walked off uninjured.
A couple Of men were arrested at San
Diego Tuesday night for breaking into sa.
loon, rolling barrel Of whisky against the
outside wall, and then boring hole through
wall and barrel and drawing of the liquor
in buckets.
D. G. Cole and wife recently went from
California and settled at Netarts, in Tilla.
nook county, Oregon. Monday, while fell.
ing tree on his homestead claim, the butt
of the tree swung backward, striking Mr.
Cole and crushing his head to jelly.
Owing to the high price of lumber and
other building material in Los Angeles,
several houses have been made in Chicago
and imported by rail. Six such buildings
were received last week. Each piece Of
timber is jeinted and marked so that an or.
binary mechanic can put them together.
The Superior Court has confirmed the
sentence of Jack Patterson, who was con.
victed last March of vagrancy by jury in
Justice Stewards Court at Fresno, Cal. Pat
terson is worth from 81, 500 to SIC, 200, and
it was claimed in his defense that he could
not he classed as vagrant as he had abun.
dant means.
James Robinson, whose parents and sisters
live in California, was eaten by mountain
lions in his cabin in Lincoln Gulch, Deer
Lodge county, Montana, where his bones
were found the first of this week. He was
addicted to the use Of opium, and it is sup.
posed that he fell a victim to the beasts
while under the influence of the drug.
The charge Of Marshal Dyer, Receiver Of
the Mormon Church, for his work-$25, ooc
and the charge Of United States District
Attorney Peters-$Io, ooo-have astonished
both Mormons and Gentiles in Utah. Elk
Judge Zane says the charges are "grossly
extortionate, exorbitant and unconscionable. )
The schools will be the sufferers if the &C
counts are allowed by the courts.