Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-09-28
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nuisance.
Santa Cruz has 10 months old baby
swimmer.
Firebugs burned three buildings at Ogden
Wednesday.
Tacoma has one lawyer to every $50 of its
population.
The Sacramento police have received no
salary for six months.
Bee-ranches have suffered severely by
brush fires in San Bernardino.
J. H. Hoffman has been arrested at Port.
land, Or, for passing forged checks.
The sports of Albuquerque, N. NJ, have
been freely bled by an unknown Splinter.
The women of Ogden are reported to be
organized and burning disreputable houses.
Cluef Schrum of the Hualapais Indians
says: "Whte man all same as squaw-get
scared at shadow"
The Lincoln Lucky mine at San Pedro, N.
NJ, is showing extensive and rich rock, and
the camp is greatly excited.
There is a runlor at Los Angeles that the
headquarters of the Santa Fe system is to be
removed from that city to San Diego.
Farmer Hall Of Hanford plucked muscat
grape that measured 4 "a inches by 5 a inches.
1t was as large as an ordinary tomato.
George Maybe, who as guardian of an es-
tate at Lincoln, Neb., stole many thousand
dollars, was arrested at Seattle Thursday.
Charles White, an officer of the Salvation
Army, aged twenty two, eloped from Pasa
day.
At late hour Thursday night no trace of
Quentin on fishing expedition had been
found.
sixty-six feet, sends NY flow Of gas that
causes flame at the mouth to shoot six feet
into the air.
7. M. Stewart of Los Angeles is curing
rs. 900 pampas plumes for Eastern markets
He clears from 5000 to $500 an acre from
seventeen acres.
A contract has been awarded for construct
ing the Northern Pacific and Montana Road,
which extends from Missoula, NJ. T., to the
Occur d'Alene country.
There is trouble between the superintend-
ent and the men at the San Pedro, N. NJ.
copper mine, owing to an order that none
but Italians should be employed.
The discovery OF gold in a school section
adjoining the city limits of Tacoma has ere
.ated great excitement. Forty filings for
placer claims were made Thursday.
John Smell negro convict in the Oregon
Pepitentiary. placed his left hand on board
and with a Ratchet cut off the third and mid
die finger. He did it to avoid work.
Thomas Winning, a young Englishman,
while out hunting near Gervais, Or, was
waylaid and shot by unknown parties. He
was wounded in an arm and the back.
Evidence of crookedness in the work on
the Court House at San Diego, are being I'M
earthed, and there is chance for the in
dictment of several of the parties concerned.
Detectives in Utah had just made a strong
case of train robbery against man named
.Curtiss. when the real offenders, Joseph Nay
and Ed Dayton made confession exonerat-
ing him.
Forty tramps going about begging and COM
planning that they could not find work were
set at work by St. Helena vineyardst the
other day, and by noon of the next day all of
them had quit but three.
Pasadena is much worked up over the re-
fusal of the men belonging to the Fire De-
partment to 60 to the burning building Of
Mrs. Beaton, in which three of her children
lost their lives, because the fire was in the
suburbs.
Mrs. Sample, 3oo-pound and very ugly
negro "Voodoo Princess" has been arrested
at Los Angeles on the charge of forging the
win of decea sed barber, in which she was
left $4,000. His friends say she bewitched
the man while he was dying.
During the small pox scare at Los Angeles
in the winter of 1857 the city Health officers
removed the daughter Of Mrs. J. F. EcLaren
to the Pest-house where she died. The
mother brought suit against the city for dam,
ages for $4,000, and the jury has rendered
a verdict for $1,000.
About twenty miles Of the mountains eas
of Santa Ana were on fire Wednesday night
The fire originated in Santiago Canyon, in {
sheep. herders camp, and as the wind was
blowing gale from of the desert, the mount
aims were soon red with the angry flames
Much damage is anticipated before the fire