Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-02-18
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Democratic Postmaster it has yet had.
The murder of the Ind an Antoine de Hus
at TIA Juana has been traced to another In.
dian named Quatre.
MERGED had rainfall Wednesday which
lasted twenty-five minutes, during which Al
of an inch of water fell.
The death of Joel Herne, one Of the eight
remaining survivors of the war Of 1872, is
announced at Tiptonvlle, n. NJ.
Lewis Jacob Hawkins of Santa Rosa shot
and killed himself with pistol Wednesday.
1t is supposed to have been Intentional.
Tom Patterson who was convicted in
Fresno Of robbery, was sentenced last Satur-
day to serve twenty-five years in Folsom.
The Secretary of the Treasury has APP,
pointed X. X. Norland, second assistant
keeper of the Humboldt, Cal, Light Station.
An election will be held at San Bernardo.
no TO decide whether OF not the city limits
be extended so as to include four times the
present area.
Reliable estimates place the number of
vines to be set out this year in San Benito
county at Ioo, 900. At least 1000 fruit
trees will be planted.
A public meeting at Redding, Cal, has
asked the Town Trustees to call an election
70 vote on the issuance of $4,000 bonds TO
sewer and grade the streets.
The Supervisors Of San Jose have appro-
printed $1,000 from the River Improvement
fund for the purpose of turning Canvass
creek into the Guadalupe river.
The Schooner Flying Dutchman parted
her cable and crashed into the seawal at
Port Townsend yesterday morning during
gale She will prove total wreck.
!. A. Jones, of Cotton, San Beinardno
county, yesterday while lighting match,
inadvertently allowed the fumes to get into
his eyes, which sustained serious injnres.
The State of Sonora, Mexico, levies tax
of s. on every baby born within its limits,
and charges the farmer cents for every
chicken he raises and 50 cents for every
sheep.
a letter bearing the legend If not called
for in ten days" etc,, has been received by
she writer at MarysvilIe, after a detention OF
two years at the Durham Post Office, Butte
county.
Julius Clinton Beach died of apoplexy at
his residence, two miles south of Freeport,
Sacramento county, yesterday. He was aged /
sixty-four, and settled on the Sacramento /
river in 1850.
1t is understood that of the seventy-three T
applications for pardon heard by the Cover
nor last Wednesday only seven pardons, and
one commutation were granted. OF the
pardons four were granted to youths.
The entire Fusion" ticket was elected at
Salt Lake City this week. About two thous-
and seven hundred votes were cast out of S.
600 registered. Lawrence, the straight Gen.
tile candidate for Mayor, recei we'd 900 votes.
J. w. Graves, farmer at Juniper, Una
tilla county, labored under the hallucinaton
that he could not pay his debts although his
estate was valued far beyond his liabilities,
so he hanged himself from rafter of his
cabin Wednesday.
A party OF men fred upon some Mexican
officials near St. Helena, in the Arspe dis
uict, Sonora, some days ago. They were
arrested, convicted and sentenced to long
terms of service in the Mexican Army and
sent to the Yaqui river country for daty.
There were two rabbit drives about eight
miles south of Bakersfield Sunday and about
two hundred persons were present. The
first drive resulted in the death of 1000, and
the second round up over the same ground
added 900 mere to the pile of dead rabbits.
A man by the name OF Daniel Murphy
was found in the wooded bottoms Of Kings
river, near Centerville, having on no clothes
except an undershirt. The parties who dis
covered him chased him on horseback and
caught him with lasso He is in a pre-
carious condition caused by exposure.
An attempt at Salt Lake to take posses
sion of Arsenal Hill, in the northern part of
the City, has just been made by real estate
Spectator, who claims that the property is
only held by the city in trust for actual set
tiers who are willing to pay 81 IS per acre
therefor. The title will be subject for lit
igation.
A bowlder deraied train on the Nor.
thern Pacific Wednesday, near Roza Station.
A wreckng train from Ellensburg cleared
the wreck, but on its return was checked by
an avalanche. Colonel Ramsey ran forward
TO see the trouble and was swept into the
Yakima river. He was rescued, but pretty
badly bruised.
EYidence Is being taken in the Anschlao