Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-02-09
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| Willows has scarcity OF wood.
Oregon's debt is only $43,os4 II.
Sacramento is overrun with thieves.
Herring are caught in Humboldt Bay.
Helena, M. T., will have a wooden mill.
Houses in Body are being moved to Lundy.
San Jose's Citrus Fair will be- held next
| week.
Pomona is preparing for the annual Flower
Festival.
Buyers are in market for the apricot and
prune crop.
Gold in the canons is wild dream Of the
San Diegans.
Farmers are through putting in grain and
are now wanting rain.
The right .of-way for street railway a,
Reno, New, has been applied for.
Sam Ford, Chicago forger, says San
Francisco gamblers got all his money
An Italian peanut vender at Fresno real
ICES an average Of $z4 day in his sales.
The steamer Oregon is in quarantine at
Astoria, having a small.po case on board.
There were 423 arrests in Sacramento last
day.
1t is asserted that not poisonous reptile,
inc nj AM IL.
region.
A Bill has passed the Nevada Assembly
prohibiting the sale Of intoxicating liquors 10
women.
The Hotel Vendome at San Jose will be
opened Thursday. A grand ball will be
given on the zzd.
White6sh were planted in Lake Washing.
ton. Green Lake and Sammanist Lake, near
Seattle, this week.
A passenger car went off 2o-foot trestle
near Middleton. Or, yesterday, and several
persons were injured.
Portland, East Portland and Albina, Or,
will probable consolidate, giving Portland q
population Of about 70, 900
There was foot race at Siuslaw, Or, a
short time since, and the whole bay went
broke on the hind Splinter.
4 mysterious crime occurred at Astoria,
Or, Thursday, in which one man was killed
and a woman dangerously wounded.
A sick passenger on the Oregon created
considerable excitement at Astoria Thursday,
there being fears that the case was small.
pox.
A new depot and freight house has been
begun in Fresno by the Southern Pacific
Company. Both buildings will be pressed
brick.
The Sacramento Grand Jury has several
cases Of official malfeasance before it, and
considerable interest is shown in its expected
report.
Eighty-two boxes of opium were seized at
San Luis Obispo Monday night in Chinatown.
1t is alleged to have been struggled by the
Chinese.
Governor Pennoyer Of Oregon will veto
the bill calling for new bonds to be issued
on the introduction of water from Bull Run
into Portland.
G. M. L. Comstock died suddenly while
playing cards at Santa Barbara Tuesday
night. He was formerly proprietor Of the
Lake Tallac House, Nevada.
A petition is being circulated at Petaluma
praying the Legislature to pass law to pre-
vent the killing Of larks, blackbirds, and
robns-all insect destroying birds.
The Marshal Monument was placed in po-
si,ion at Coloma Thursday and will be un.
yelled on the ed Of March. Grand and i'm
posing ceremonies will be observed.
Samual S Ford Of Kaukakee, ILL.,, who
was arrested at Tucson Tuesday. charged
with forgery, is but nineteen years old. He
committed the crime while at school.
In Ventura flowers are blooming prema.
turely, but contain no honey, and bee keep.
ers say if the first flowers yield no honey
those that follow will yield none throughout
the season.
The people of Santa Fe are indignant that
a petition should have gone to Washington
from Albuquerque asking that New Mexico
should not be admitted into the Union. "a
pestiferous herd" the signers are called.
Wellington coal retails At Victoria at $40
a ton, Of which S. is the price at the mines.
81 50 the freight charge and s. 50 the cost
Of delivery and the retailers profit. At
least s. so Of the Sc charged at the mine is
clear profit.
Captain Charles Stuart Tripler, who was
arrested Sunday at Gervais, Or, on charge