Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-08-25
COAST ITEMS.

Oahta Ana IS noooed with counterfeit SI
pieces.
Good stovewood in Yuma, Ariz., is only
worth S. cord.
There was large waterspout in Lake Ia.
hoe last Thursday.
The Governor has again refused to inter-
fere in the Goldenson case.
A case of smallpox was discovered in
McMinnville, Oregon, last week.
Guadalupe Galindo is in Jail at San Jose,
for cutting his wife's throat. She will recover.
Twenty crack oarsmen from the Mississip-
pi Valley will compete in the races on Great
Salt Lake.
The great reservoir at Sweetwater, San
Diego county, is to be stocked with 10000
young trout.
The peach crop of Oregon is larger than
that of any previous year and the fruit is re-
markedly good ond cheap.
Mrs. Susan A. Doane of Pilot Rock, Ore
gon, wandered from home May 18th and has
never been heard of since.
Three hundred colored men have been TAX
en- to Roslyn, w. T., to work in the coal
mines and trouble is feared.
The infant daughter of Dr. Hood Of Marys.
vile, was fearfully mangled by savage dog
at Blue Canyon, last Sunday.
Three salmon fishermen were captured at
buttons Landing, Sunday, and were fined
for violating the Sunday law $50 apiece
A valuable deposit of coal has been found
in the western part of Fresno county, and
company has been organized to develop it.
One watermelon doctored with half an
ounce of strychnine killed 1000 rabbits on
Mr.. Bakers ranch at Traver the other day.
Three men, instead of two, were lynched
in Tonic Basin. This is the result of the
never ending feud between the sheep and
cattle men.
Charles Smith one of the missing convicts
at Folsom, was found concealed in a sewer.
He had been there since Sunday, and was
quite weak.
A terrific wind storm visited portions of
Sprague River Valley last week, doing con-
siderable damage in the way Of demolishing
barns, scattering hay, etc.
c. F. Zapt, San Jose hotel man; was put
under bonds this week to keep the peace to-
ward his wife whom he jerked around by the
hair and beat with bottle.
The Northern Pacific Company has begun
the work of building road from Cheney,
sixteen miles west of Spokane Falls, to El.
lensburg, shortening the distance ninety
miles.
The second trial of J. D. Prewett, for the
murder Of DR.. Powers at Bear Valley, San
Penito county, September II, 1855, has be-
gun at Salinas, and will last probably three
weeks.
Fifteen counties will be represented on
large scale at the Sacramento State Fair, and .
one Of the grandest agricultural and hort.
cultural displays ever presented in the State
is promised.
Asea-lion at Camp Capitola tried to catch
hold of one of the bathers this week, but
bullet from Winchester killed him. He
weighed about eight hundred pounds and was
fleet inch in length.
A fatal malady has made its appearance
am ong the hogs on George Swinhle's farm
at Davisville. and some forty head have died
The most noticeable symptom is swelling of
the throat, speedily followed by the animals
death.
The disreputable conduct of the two
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson at Los
Angeles caused the death of the father, and
the mother to be placed in the hospital The
family was from Muicatine, Iowa, and were
very respectable people.
The editor of the Madison Re0ieV says:
Some people here talk of making US Justice
of the Peace. Thanks. Much obliged. We
don't want the job. We have plenty of enc
mics now. Another thing, we don't know
summons from hand saw.
Arthur W. Dickens, nephew of the great
English novelist, committed suicide in Los
Angeles last Tuesday night, He found his
Financial relations strained" and took the
"easiest solution of the problem" He was
somewhat of misanthrope.
The Occur d'Alene Indians have agreed to
leave to the Indian Bureau the question of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Roads
right of,way though their reservation, and
that railway has filed its plat through their
reservation with the Interior Department
Last Wednesday George Gordon of Big
Valley, Shasta county, was driving with his
family toward Cottonwood, when his team
was attacked by swarm of yellow jackets.
The horses ran awav the family was thrown