Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-02
COAST ITEMS.

The Thermometer reached 81 degrees a
Tacoma, W. T., Thursday.
Pleasanten wants cannery, afruit. drying
establishment and = winery.
Portland, Or, is flooded with strawberries
The crop has matured with rush.
The new exhibition building at Sacramento
will be open to the public to-day.
Cotton is running cut the gamblers and
talking Of organizing vigilance committee
Mr.. Thornton Of Ventura took cut five
tons Of honey from his bee ranch last week
A large lily is in bloom at Chico which i,
Jet black in color and emits a villanous per.
fume.
The Sailors Union is getting the worst OF
the struggle with the shipowners at Port
Townsend.
Apostle Erastus Snow, prominent Nor
mon, aged sixty nine years, died at Salt
Lake Monday.
Forest fires are destroying much good tim
Der on the Northern Pacific road in the Cas-
cade Mountains.
The Southern Pacific is preparing to le
gally assume control Of the Oregon and Cal.
iGornia Railroad.
The miners at Newcastle, w. T., recon-
menced work Thursday. The company has
practically secured victory.
California capitalists propose to take up
400, 900 acres Of pine timber land in New
Mexico and open 1t by srailroad.
Henry Hurdt, jeweler, shot and serious,
ly injured the proprietor of the Lapierre
Restaurant, at Salinas, Thursday.
Mrs. Hardy of Downieville, Cal. was at
work in her garden last Sunday, when she
raked up piece of gold worth SIS.
JehH Crenkite. Treasurer Of Alpine coun.
ty, Cal, was thrown from horse into the
Carssn river aud drowned last Sunday.
New trials have been refused in the cases
Of the parties convicted Of murder in the
Aurora Hotel Ere at Walla Wslla, w. T.
The coal mines at Wilkason, thirty three
miles from Tacoma, w. T., are 10 be worked
AID the product shipped to San Francisco.
Frank Merritt, twenty three years old,
tired to hang himself at Waitsburg, w. T.,
Sunday night, because his sweetheart drop
ped him.
Landreth, whe murdered his step. daugh.
ter, was condemned to death at Dallas, Or,
Thursday. The date Of execution will be
fixed to-day.
A remnant of Geronino's band Of blood
thirsty Apaches, led by two white renegades,
is still raidng in the Montezuma district in
Sonora, Mexico.
c. P. Huntington is haviAg constructed at
the railroad shops In Sacramento twenty.six
tourists cats for his Newport News and Mis-
sissippi Valley Railroad.
Some one in the town Of Whittier. Les
Angeles county, wants 10 trade nice Pssa-
dena lot, all set to fruit trees new in bear.
ing, fer horse and buggy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, wife of the Pro.
bate Judge Of Wasatch county, Utah, was
gored to death by a wild steer at Heber
City, the first Of this week
Mormon Vickory, aged 4S years, was mis-.
taken for burglar by boy named Jenkins,
At Santa Cruz, Tuesday night, and shot
The wound is believed to be fatal.
A bar OF bullion worth 81, 900 was stolen
from Wells, Fargo & Co., at Daggett, A. T.,
Sunday Aight. George M. Blce was cap
tured with the bullion in his possession.
The steamer Hassala ran the Cascade Rap.
ids Of the Columbia river last Saturday.
The distance, six miles, was made in ten
minutes. The trip was complete SUCCESS.
Charles Thomas was ambushed and shot
by a would-be assassin at Albany, Oregon,
Thursday. Great excitement prevails in
the neighborbood and bloody feuds will, it
is feared, be inaugurated.
John Wesley Williams, who murdered his
wife at Marlin, Texas, in March, 1857, and
c. r. Carter, who killed q man at Wichita,
Kan, in February Of last year, have been
captured on the Mohave Desert, after strug.
gle, and sent East
Reports frsm the interior Of Califernia
shew marked improvement in grain over
the reports Of a few weeks ago. Light rains
and cool weather have done much good to
everything but cut hay. The fruit districts
give promise Of an excellent yield and Of a
superior quality.
Tax Collector Estrula, Of the Magdalena
district, Sonora, Mexico, was ordered early
Monday morning BY tive feotpads to hold up
his hands. He did so, but one Of them held
pistol with which he killed one Of the
highwaymen. The other got away but was
subsequently, captured.
While Mrs. Lowell, living near Fresno,
Cal, was passing through the house with {
coal.oil lamp the first Of the week, tn,
chimney broke, and the glass falling on he
hand caused her to drop the lamp, which
exploded, and the dwelling and neighbor
ing barn were destroyed by the FIRE.
Wark on the Squaw Rock Tunnel, on tn
Ukiah and Cloverdsle extension Of the rail
road, has been completed. Work en- thi
tunnel was begun on the 9th Of last Decem
Der, and the men have been labering Ii
nothing but selid rock, and but little timbe
has been used. The tunnel is ,363 feet il
length.
Mrs. Langtry visited her Lake county