Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-08-31

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The klamath river is lower than was ever
known before.
Two prizes are offered at the Placerville
Fair, for the prettiest babies.
United States officers are breaking up a
gang of smugglers at Tia Juan.
Humphreys, who killed James Bushton, in
San Luis Obispo county, has been discharged
A commission is negotiating for the pur-
chase of lands on the Occur d'Alene Mount.
aims.
The conflict between the Sacramento po-
lice and the private detectives of that city is
bitter.
stranger was tarred and feathered at
Susanville last Sunday night for indecent
exposure.
Petaiuma has forbidden the Salvation
Army to beat drums or hold meetings on
the streets.
The forest fires have started afresh. Hell
ena, NJ. T., reports the surrounding country
all on FIRE.
The calispel Indians at the Colville
Agency, w. T., are being crowded out Of
Z the valley by the whites.
Albert Gree, San Francisco barber,
whose wife has mourned him as dead, has
turned up in Sacramento.
The machinery and materials for Govern
ment work at Yaquina Bay, Or, were ship
ped over the Canadian Pacific
Three men have died on the Colorado
desert this month from thirst and starvation,
and within radius Of fifty miles.
A Portland hunter was attacked by owls
one night on Craig Mountain, I. T., and he
killed seven of the birds with club.
Hop. growers in the Willamette Valley
are anxious to get their hops off the vines,
fearing the rainy season will begin early.
Cora, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lenhardt
of Santa Cruz, who eloped and married F.
L. Rae, will be welcomed home with her
husband.
The deaths of Adelbert Devendorf and
Mrs. Annie Ziegler at Sacramento Teusday,
were caused by arsenic, which had been ad.
minstered instead of quinine.
Captain Jack Crawford has secured fifty
Indians in Arizona for his exhibit at St.
Joseph, Mo. They are Tontos, Mojaves and
Apaches, including ten squaws.
A piece of broken crockery cut off the
ear of drunken sheep herder named John
Griffin at Red Bluffs the other night. The
accident happened through fall.
The excitement attendant upon the search
for the desperate Morales in the Santa Ana
Valley has not abated. 1t is believed his
capture will be made in a few days.
Miss Ida J. Pratt, domestic, living one
mile west of Modesto, in the employ of W.
H. Finley, killed herself with strychnine,
yesterday because "she was tired Of living"
There is scarcity of water in Ell Dorado,
no snow being left in the mountains, and
mines, factories, boundaries and grist mills
are shut down and great damage sustained.
The Sierra Buttes mine at Sierra City, at.
ter running successfully for over thirty years,
closed down yesterday. Unless some new
developments are found the mine is pract-
.cally worked out.
George Ehrman plowed up $500 worth of
gold coin and Nuggets on his ranch in Po-
mona Valley the other day. He was en-.
gagged in blowing furrow to check FIRE In
ibis barley stubble.
Olsen and Drager, the Ell Dorado murder
.ers, are building miniature ship for keep.
sake for Sheriff Anderson, at Placerville.
They are working hard to complete it before
their execution on October 10th.
An effort is to be made at San Diego to
have the Government gather the Mission
Indians on one reservation and throw the
rest of the land open for settlement. The
Indians and cattlemen and ranchers In that
section have had trouble for some time.
At Portland the administrator Of the estate
of the late Ben Holiday sold at public
auction 5000, 900 claims due the estate from
the Government for Indian depredatons
committed on the Holiday stage route dur
ing the Civil War to General Rufus ingalls,
for $3.50, as executor of the estate.
Robert Englis, who was assistant distrib-
tor of provisions sent to the Spokane Falls
FIRE sufferers, is accused of having run pro.
vision store and restaurant on stolen supplies.
Being detected he jumped the town, but was
captured at Chico, CAL, and is now on his
way to Spokane.
-Four men who are supposed to be the gang
who robbed the Denver and Rio Grande train
at Thompson Springs, U. T., some weeks
ago. were captured Monday night by Deputy
Marshal Bush and posse of Indians in the
Blue Mountains, in the vicinity of Thompson