Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-09-21
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lHc new aCoina SlleltcIS ilSuteO tnell
Ares last week.
The MERGED river is as low as it was in the
famine year Of 1877.
The name of the Postoffice at Bishop Greek
has been changed to Bishop.
The gamblers at the California State Fair
are said to be losing money.
Santa Ana wants to boycott Los Angeles
for its opposition to the formation of Orange
county.
Frank Bell Of San Jose killed himself at
Salem, Or, Saturday. He led disreputa.
BILE life.
Olaf Aune had his photograph taken to-
,gether with his dead afianced in her coffin at
Tacoma.
Professional pick pockets are getting in
their work at Sacramento. Six were arrested
Saturday.
The Alaska canneries have packed for the
season up to the Iath instant 37I,ooo cases
of salmon.
Sylvestro Morales. the Santa Ana Valley
desperate, has been sentenced to imprison.
sment for life.
Five.eighths of the pupils in the public
schools at Tucson are drawn from the Mexi.
can population.
Peter Chapel, who was shot by David
Steele last Thursday at Washington, Nevada
county, is dead.
Arthur J. Smith, injured by the over.turn-
ing Of the Little Lake, Mendocino stage has
died from his injuries.
Albert Downer, one of the three San Quen-
tin escapes of the 18th of September, was
captured Wednesday near Fairfax.
The two men arrested at Greenville Mon.
day and charged with rohbing the Bidwell
Bar stage have been discharged from custody
Joseph Holiday says his removal from the
,receivership Of his brother Ben's estate is a
conspiracy and he will appeal to the higher
court.
A hammer head shark nine and half feet
long, weighing 900 pounds, was cought by
fisherman at San Pedro Monday after des.
perate fight.
The sixteen .months.old child of Nat
Campbell of Portland, Or, fell into bath.
bholding no more than four inches of water
and was drowned.
Fore fires are raging close to Portland.
The city is filed with smoke and cinders,
and it is impossible to see 100 feet. Much
damage is reported.
Joe Holiday has fed to Washington Ter.
ritory to evade the vengeance Of the Oregon
Circuit Court in contempt proceedings. He
was arrested at Vancouver.
Robert Hagan, sen Of yell.to do farmer
at Santa Rosa, ran his father and sisters of
the ranch last Saturday with a Winchester
rifle. Hagan is supposed to be insane.
The Forest Hill stage was stopped again
Monday by single robber on the grade near
Auburn. The driver was compelled to open
Wells, Fargo's box but the robber got nothing.
George Lowry, Constable Of Lemoore, has
been convicted Of tarring and feathering
Tony Tempke, and sentenced to pay fine
of 5000 and serve thirty days in the county
Jail. He has appealed.
Charles w. Beach, a pioneer newspaper
man and prominent cattle man, was assas-
,sinated Wednesday evening at Mrs. Taylor's
lodging house at Prescott, A. T. He was
writing and was shot through the window.
There is much activity in railroad circles
in Washington Territory, with prospects of
big rate war in few months. The Union
Pacific has headed for Tacoma, and will en-
.deavor to be let in over the Northern Pacific
line from Portland.
Scarcely night passes at Fresnot but raj.
sins are stolen from dozen vineyards. The
thieves take the raisins on the trays, load
them into wagons and drive off and are soon
lost in the darkness. There is talk Of reor.
gani2ing the vigilantes.
A horde Of ttrsmps are infesting Sonoma
Valley. There are now more than twenty
in the county Jail at Santa Rosa. Their diet
is bread and water. Every town in the
county has emulated Santa Rosa's example
and the same tramp diet is furnished.
A Chinese cook on ranch in the vicinity
of Butte City, Colusa county, recently baked
a cake, using, probably by mistake, a sheet
of fly paper under the cake in baking. The
entire family. hired man and all, were poi
soned by the eating Of it, although none Of
the cases were fatal.
A San Francisco sensational sheet printed
2 picture purporting to be Percy Douglass, a
notorious criminal, but the picture was made
from the photograph Of well-known citizen