Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-03-16
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Four men we're arrested for illegal voting
at Oakland last Monday.
Stock in Arizona is in better condition than
ever before at this time Of year.
A case Of small-po has made its appear.
ance at the Insane Asylum at Salem, Or.
A hehwayman robbed the stage within
six miles of San Luis Obispo Wednesday.
1t is stated that San Francisco capitalist
contemplate the erection Of theatre at Santa
Rosa.
Oil and gas are supposed to exist in large
quantities on the mesa east of Albuquerque,
N. NJ.
A Ventura county, CAL, farmer has a
two-year old Poland porker that weighs goo
pounds.
The burglars who stole $1,000 worth Of
property of Santa Barbara recently have been
detected.
A person stealing dog in Oregon runs
the chance Of going to the penitentiary or
paying heavy hne
George D. Carleton, book keeper at Sc
attic, W. T., has departed, leaving his EN-.
ployers short $40, 900.
A$r,7oo clock is to ornament the Court
House dome at Reddng, Cal. The face
will be six feet across.
A Petalnma farmer signed contract last
week to supply 10000 eggs to San Fran
cisco commission house.
Tommy Powers, nine years Of age, was
drowned in the river at Sacramento Tue sday
by the upsetting of boat.
Strawberries are ripening at the gardens
along Bear creek, Cal. Next month this fruit
will be plentiful at MERGED.
Arrangements have been made for the
erection of fine large fruit shipping house
at LOOMS, Placer county, Cal.
c. E. Kusel has a,o35 olive trees growing
without irrigation below Oroville, CAL, and
he is now planting orange trees.
There were eight 4o-acre farms on the
Waukena tract, near Porterville, Tulare
county, sold last week for $I7,6o
Tacoma, w. T., is Aattering itself into the
belief that the navy yard provided for by
Congress will be established there.
A. Hill, living near Ontario, sold last sea.
son from one third of an acre $273 worth Of
strawberries after supplying family demands.
The San Bernardino Times. Iuder's esti.
mate Of the acreage to be planted to orange
groves this season in that county is 1000
acres.
Tramps are Troublesome at MERGED, and
one of them who attempted highway robbery
Saturday night was shot and wounded and
captured.
Marvin Cravens. book keeper in the pla.
ming mill at Los Angles, is defaalter and
has absconded, it is thought, to the Santa
Clara gold mines.
]. L. Fisher, a young German living in.
Napa Valley, fell heir a short time ago to
$500, 900. He will make his permanent
home in the valley.
The interior of Cal. received a good
soaking rain yesterday. Everywhere, it is
stated, the crops are large and the opinion
expressed is that they are safe.
Eight Indian tribes were represented at
council at Spokane Falls, w. T., Tuesday. to
form confederation to unite the tribes. A
favorable agreement was reached.
Mariposa people are discussing the forma-
ton of an irrigation district under the
Wright law, to obtain the water Of the south
fork Of the MERGED river for local use.
The trouble that existed between the Ore
gon Railway Navigation Company and the
employees is at an end. The boats on the
Columbia river have resumed their trips.
Parties who have been visiting Petaluma
with the view Of locating creamery there
have turned their attention toward the sister
city Of Santa Rosa for a similar purpose.
The North Pacific Consolidated Single
Company has been running to its full cap
acity in the Puget Sound district since its
organization one year ago. and the price has
increased from IS to IS cents in the markets.
/. A number of ladies residing in Petaluma
and vicinity have secured incubators and
gone into the poultry business on an extern
sive scale. They are raising chickens for
market.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, aged one hundred
and two years, nine mounlhs and five days,
died at Salem, Or, yesterday. she was
born at Alsted. N. H., in 1886, her maiden
name being Johnson.
At Albuquerque, N. NJ, it Is believed a
person who killed himself there the other
day and carefully provided that his identity
should not be known was Tascott, the Chi
cago murderer. He answered the descrip.
ton.
A beef.packing association, with capital