Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-10-06
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Creek, B. c.
Sixty babies contested for the prize at the
Stockton show.
Fears Of an early frost are advancing grape
picking in CAL
Harding, Pearl Pages partner in the Fort
land robbery, wants new trial.
A Kanaka is on trial at Victoria for the
murder of his wife, an Indian Queen.
Frequent attempts are made to burn unoc-
cuped dwelling houses in Los Angeles.
Tehama county will vote on the question
of local option on the 9th of November.
One hundred and forty negro miners were
putito work in the Resign, w. T., coal mines,
Monday
The grading and treste-work on the rail.
road to Montague, from Yreka, is nearly CON-
pleted.
John Dill, we'll digger, tainted and fell
down we'll at Powell's Valley, Or, and was
killed.
Five hundred tons Of hay belonging to
Henry Miller were burned near Gilroy last
Wednesday.
Troops quartered at Victoria, B. c., com.
plain of want of proper shelter, and the mat
ter is being investigated.
A woman called May fell to the sidewalk
at The Dalles, Or, Sunday from an open
doorway and broke her neck.
The jury in the second trial at Salinas Of
Newton Azbell, for the killing Of Reardon
and McArdle last May has disagreed,
The Pacific Hotel and Delmonico Restau-
rant buildings were burned at Tulare Wednes.
day. Damage in all about 81, 500.
G. L. Meadows arm was bitten and brok-
en- into a mass of bleeding tissues by Nor.
man stallion near Huron Wednesday.
The Indians on the Puyallup Reservation
are to vote this year. They are all red hot
Republicans, and number about three hun
dred.
The murder Of George Price by Henry
Hantho at Wardner, l. T., was most un.
provoked crime, and has greatly excited the
people.
stage was robbed near Casa Grande, A.
T., Thursday afternoon by two masked men,
one about eighteen, the other about twenty
FIVE years old.
1t is feared Miss Louise Comet, the young
lady who was ridden down by drunken
woman at Sacramento, Sunday, has received
internal injuries.
The Canadian Pacific has carried 1884,
o74 pounds of wool to the East from San
Francisco. Twenty carloads went through in
one day last week.
The Indians who emigrated from Metlak.
ahtla to Alaska last year, are, it is reported,
much disappointed, and will probably return
to British Columbia next year.
Boughtens raisn-box factory on Pine
Ridge, Fresno, was burned Sunday night and
100, 900 raisin trays consumed in the flames.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Ladies' Mounted Battalion of Visalia
and the Ladies' Tulare Club were among the
uniformed participants in the Republican
meeting at Visalia Saturday evening.
Charles F. Mccormack, formerly an attor.
ney at Portland, Or, committed suicide at
the Insane Asylum at Salem Monday by sew
ering his head almost from his body with
razor.
The Yuba Indians have buried large guam
titles Of watermelons in the sand, SO as to
have plenty of them during the Winter
They keep melons sound in that way over six
months.
During the trial of case in the Police
Court at Victoria, B. c., this week, it was
shown that the opium struggled between
Victoria and the United States is something
enormous.
d. A. Jackson, prominent frut.raiser OF
YoIo county, left for Chicago this week, tax.
ing with him eleven cars Of dried fruit, con-
sisting of raisns and prunes; alse ten tons OF
shelled almonds.
A. stranger. reporting himself as relative
of Oliver Lonkey, of Verdi, was detected in
the act of setting fire to Chinaman's house
at Truckee, Wednesday and only saved him
self from lynching by his sudden disappear
ance.
Alaskan miners say it is impossible to live
in the Yukon country. There is plenty Of
gold in the numerous creeks, but the miners
must pay from $40 to $r4 per day in order to
live. The supplies are controlled by the
Alaska Commercial Company.
Anna Lundstmm, the mistress Of George
Bryson, a notorious caook, was killed by the
latter and thrown into an old and abandoned
mining shaft near Helena. M. T., where the
body was discovered Tuesday. The Jail
guards have been doubled for fear the citizens
Of Helena will lynch the murderer