Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-12-29
COAST ITEMS.
Hay is very scarce at MariPosa.
Measles in and about Marysville.

Portland'S linseed oil factory is success
The retail liquor license at Oakland, Or
is $4,000 per annum.
San Miguel was the scene of $40,
fire Saturday evening.
Small pox is nearly gone from MERGED
So say the Board of Health.
A death from smallpox occurred at th'
Stockton Pest house. Thursday.
Several Mormons were sentenced for theil
peculiar crimes at Ogden Saturday.
Mumps and scarlet fever have closed the
schools at Arcata, Humboldt county, Cal.
A Vallejo butcher showed dressed pork,
er on Christmas day that scaled SO pounds.
y. A. Jackson of Woodland, shipped
7, 200 boxes Of raisins last week to Eastern
markets.
Yuba county is shipping fine apples to
( Southern California, and sending oranges to
the North.
Vancouver, Wash, is to be lighted by for
ty.fve Brush electric lights of I,2oo-candle
power each.
A dressmaker was robbed on tin the
heart Of Portland at 7 o'clock last Wednes-
day evening.
Thieves at Spokane Falls, w. Tr, succeed
ed in robbing gambling room of $1,000,
Monday night.
Fifty prisoners attempted to escape from
the Portland City Jail last Wednesday night.
Two got away.
The noted stallion, A. w Richmond, died
Wednesday on the ranch of John Hill in
Ventura county.
A fine strike Of oil was made within three
miles of Arrayo Grande, San Luis Obispo
county, last Monday
The story that over $4,000 in coupons,
punched by the city of Sacramento, is miss
ing, is declared untrue.
Creamcries have been started at North va.
kima and Ellensburg, w. T., and one at
Baker City, Or. They cost $40, 900 each.
Large paintings OF shad and speckle3 cat.
fish will be made in the streams of Utah next
June by the United States Fish Commissioner.
Daniel Hamilton, seventy nine years old,
has married his daughters I6.year- old gov
erness at Cucamonga, San Bernardino county.
The Salvation Army barracks at Victoria,
B. c., were cleaned out by sneak-thiefl last
Wednesday. He collected about 81 in small
silver.
Fire bugs attempted to burn down the town
of Saratoga, Santa Clara county, on Tues.
day night, but heavy rain storm interfered.
AS it was two buildings were destroyed
The Salt Lake Tribune says: The protest
against the admission of Utah has already
received 4,76S signatures, with Salt Lake,
Ogden and most of the larger towns yet to
hear from.
The Fresno Republican charges that the
constables of that city pay brakemen to no.
tify them when there are tramps on the trains
passing through town, in order that the con-
stable may obtain fees for arresting the tour.
lists as Migrants.
A flock of nine mountain sheep has recent.
ly been seen among the cliffs of Stein Mount
ain, Elko county, Nevada. A patriarch o.
the flock is reported to be as large as Span
ish mule and his horns resemble the gnarled
roots of an old cedar.
L. F. Durfee, passenger brakeman Of the
Oregon Short Line, was murdered at Poca
tello, Idaho, last Sunday, by E. J. Wright
M cher. Wright escaped, was but cap
J ared in few hours. He was fatally sho
in the head before giving up.
Rudolph F. Kirste, for many months +;
trusted employee of the Santa Fe ticket Office
in Los Angeles, has disappeared with sever
al thousand dollars of the company's funds
He left wife and two children in need o
money. His ruin was caused by woman
The steamer Luf Erickson was burned or
Puget Sound Monday evening and FIVE live!
were lost-Howard Smith and K. Coombs
of Sidney, w. T., Miss Annie Fuller, the
Captains niece, and two unknown persons o
Seattle The FIRE was caused by the exp!o
sioe of lamp, followed by senseless panic
of the passengers.