Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-11-09
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o4nte Aha peanut crop tniS year Is valueo
at $4,000.
George w. Otto has been convicted of gar
Foting at Sacramento.
Santa Rosa proposes to pension the widow
of Julio GARLIC, the city's founder.
The Sierra Valley Leadtr says that beef is
worth only 4 cents pound on foot there.
''Dago Frank" notorious gambler, was
shot and killed at Spokane Falls yesterday
Frank Zeuisburg is under arrest at Fresno
On the charge Of arson committed at Bates
Station.
A Folsom man went out prospecting last
Tuesday and in less than two hours washed
ont $50.
The sandstorm on Sunday in Southern Cal
ifornia did considerable damage to oranges
and lemons.
The United State Land Office at Visalia
takes in daily from 81, 900 to 81 400 for sales
OF timber land.
Sacramento street,car drivers complain Of
the length of hours they have to work, and
will try and have them reduced.
The Oregon and Transcontinental RAILROAD
Company has decided to dissolve and divide
the assets among the stockholders.
That portion of Esquimalt Harbor known
as Constance Cove has been set apart for the
exclusive use Of English warships.
The Chino Champion says two beet sugar
factories are to be started on the Chino Ranch.
They will turn out 700 tens OF sugar daily.
The discovery by an Indian of shallow
creek said to be rich in gold in Omineca dis
trict, Alaska, is causing old miners to flock
there
Charles Roberts, a cattleman of Albu.
querque, picked quarrel with Ralph Crib
bets, an employee, Monday. and Cribbets
killed him.
Edward c. Gunther was shot twice through
the body by Frank Clifford in quarrel about
Gunther's wife, at Fresno Thursday, and is
likely to die.
Several persons in San Diego county are
experimenting with the cassava plant to see
whether or not it will grow in California 1t
does we'll in Florida.
The heaviest snow storm in three years
has visited Northern and Central New Mexi-
co. High winds prevailed and the snow is
drifting and freezing.
The Apaches who murdered Sheriff Rey-
nolds, and his Deputy, Holmes, last week,
in Arizona. are still in the hills. 1t is be.
lieved they will be captured.
An attempt was made to wreck the south.
bound Oregon express just after it had left
Live Oak, a small station between Marysville
and Gridley yesterday morning.
Lumbermen on the Skagitt River, WASH,
have been troubled by the settlers taking the
logs out for 6rewood. Last week two appro.
priators were arrested and fined SIS each.
A young woman Of Crescent City picked
up large pebble on the beach some month
or two since, and sent it to lapidary in San
Francisco. He pronounced it true emerald,
worth s., 600.
Chief of Police Mitchell, at Seattle, has
published notice warning the criminals to
leave the city at once or go to work. He
promises to put them in the chain gang if
they disobey the order.
The owner of the American sealing
schooner Mollie Adams has got in trouble
by contracting his catch in advance at Sc a
skin and trying to sell them to other parties
at Victoria, B. c., now for So.
The steamer Corona has arrived at Victoria
from Alaska with large salmon cargo. She
also had $4,000 worth of gold from the
Treadwell mine, $I2,o 900 from the Cassian
and about 5000 from other claims.
Rich coal veins have been discovered in
Elsinore district, in the San Bernardino
Mountains. Experts say the coal is equal to
the best bituminous coal of Western Penn.
sylvania, and there is enough to supply the
whole coast.
Peter Mcneil, an experienced diver at
Mares Island was suffocated yesterday while
down in nineteen feet of water. The evi.
dences of death were that great suffering had
been endured. He leaves wife and chill.
dren in Oakland.
An order has been issued that public
street he opened through Suffers Fort, with.
in three weeks. if the property is not other
wise disposed of in the mean time. Parties
are endeavoring to purchase the property and
keep it as historic landmark for Califor.
mans.
Leading Chinese merchants at Marysville,
who " ere named as references by some Of
the new c hine Sc women arrivals, express in.
dignatiop over the matter and threaten