Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-07-14
COAST ITEMS.

Wallop is the name Of an Anaheim school
teacher.
The gamblers are being driven from Port
land, Oregon.
San Diego forces its saloons to close at II
o'clock at night.
It takes ten minutes for train to pass
Cascade Tunnel.
The MERGED, Cal, Board of Supervisors
has decided that alfalfa must be taxed.
The Northern Pacific Company will spend
$500, 900 for shops and depot at Tacoma,
w. T.
Tulare corn stalks are reported as being
ten feet high and averaging FIVE ears TO a
stalk.
Thirty to forty bushels of wheat to the
acre on summer fallcw are reported in Suffer
county, Cal.
James Philips shot at a deer and fatally
wounded Benjamin Cox, near Cherryville,
Or, Sunday.
1t is said that the hotels, boarding and
lodging houses of Seattle are crowded be,
yond their capacity.
A syndicate is organizing a, Port Town.
send 10 raise a cargo of railroad iron which
sunk sixteen years age.
The canneries are hard at work on peach.
es, and many school children are earning
good wages in California.
Astoria has Chinese missionary who has
spoken on the streets. He attracts large
audiences, which are orderly.
A stock company is to publish a Repub.
ican paper in Modesto. The first issue will
appear about the Ist Of August.
The business men Of Portland have been
aroused TO concerted action by the freight
exactions of the railroad companies.
Admittance to the Sacramento base ball
grounds is no longer free 10 ladies on Su"
days, fee Of IS cents being charged.
Work is rapidly progressing on the rxten
sion OF The Northern California Railroad,
between Marysville and Orovlle, Cal.
Puget Sound fr, for fine car work is replac
ing the higher priced walnut and the LoulSi
ana ash as well as West India mahogany.
Small pox has broken out in Albany, Or
Il was brought there by man named Mar
shall. who came from San Bernardino, Cal.
The wife of Ed !. Smith, Clerk OF the
Legislature OF 1858. has run Of from Los
Angeles with a handsome waiter named
CLARK.
The season at Lake Tahoe is now only
fairly opened 1t is some weeks later than
II f.e, nj /
ing in.
The Mexican Pacific railroad is to be bu 1t
forthwith, Mazatlan beng is Pacific termi- |
nus. 1t will be built with American capital
entirely.
The largest meeting ever held in Eel Riv
er Valley was the Republican ratification |
gathering last Saturday at RhonervilIe,
Humboldt county.
There are fears of an Indian outbreak on T
the Skeena river, owing to the killing OF an
Indian murderer by constable. The lndi- /
An was running and refused 10 halt.
A strike has been ordered at Port Town
send by the Coast Seamen's Union. The
trouble is caused by reduction OF wages
from $40 TO SIS month by the ship owners.
Meyers, one of the Lowell murderers,
pleaded guilty to the charge of grand lar.
ceny Wednesday at Sacramento. The Other
Two, Olsen and Drager, pleaded not guilty.
Ten acres of hops were blown down dur
ing the heavy wind Of Sunday. in D. A.
Hopkins field al Wheatland. They were
not far enough advanced to damage them,
however.
A small boy in San Bernardino enjoyed
his Fourth Of July by firing off cracker IN
a store that had large stock Of fireworks.
The result exceeded his fondest wishes, the
whole stock went off in fash. Loss $500.
FIRE occurred in the Chinese quarters at
Placervllle, Wednesday morning, in which
a row Of seven building, occupied by Chi
nese, and three occupied by whites, were
laid in ashes. One Chinaman was burned.
In Eastern Nevada the popular place Of
summer resort is the head Of Rescue River in
the Toiy abe Mountains 1t is place filled
with living springs and beautiful meadows,
about the borders Of which wild roses grow
to the height of Twelve feet.
The four Chinese girls who arrived at
Portland some time since, and who claimed
to be American citizens, having been born
here, although living in China the past sew.
en- years, have been released from con6ne-
ment by Judge Deadly, and permitted TO come
70 San Francisco.
A fatal accident occurred at Anaconda,
M. T., Thursday. Henry Waggener, an EN-.
ploye of the smelling works. while passing
between two belts, was caught and whirled
upward TO the pulley, where he was held
until the machinery was stopped Waggen.
err died on the way to the hospital.
Experienced fishermen say that the recent
storm at the mouth Of the Columbia was the
worst ever known in the fishing season.
Several boats were capsized and four fisher
men were drowned. Some Of The trapmen
were not able to lift their traps for three
days on account Of the heavy winds
Several small boys, all under twelve years
of age, in regular burglar style, stole about
thirty dollars worth OF fruit. candies, nuts.
tebaccos, etc., at MERGED. They are ped