Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-12-07
COAST ITEMS.

Hontau1 Legislative SQu8OOic.
Phil Hennessey has been arressed at Fresno
for writing obscene letters to respectable
ladies'.
Antoine Modruga was shot by an unknown
italian at Sisson Saturday. The object was
robbery.
Jake Coin, lost in the mountains back oil
Genoa, New, has been found. His hands were
slightly frozen.
Four men recently killed 1000 geese on
Norman Island, Colusa county, when ammu.
milton gave out.
Peter Anderson Of Colusa county owns q
Holstein heifer that gives sixty.two pounds
Of milk every day.
The MERGED and Mariposa stage was
robbed last Monday six miles above Horni.
tos BY . single man.
The Navel orange crop in Southern Cal
afornia is the heaviest in several years. The
seeding is one fourth less.
Terry Gottsch, a young woman of Diamond
Springs, Ell Dorado county, was found dead
in Sacramento hotel Tuesday.
A smelter is to be located At Los Angeles,
the plant to cost 500, 900. All kinds oil
gold and silver ores are to be worked.
Hopes Of getting the steamer Idaho off the
rocks are being abandoned. The vessel is
laboring in the heavy swells Of the sea.
The Northern Pacific is to construct a
branch line from Kooteuai Station, Idaho. to
Boomers Ferry, thence to Spokane Falls.
A very rich hematite mine has been dis
covered in Whitcom county, Wash. 1t is
said to be entirely free from phosphorus.
Several of the Smoky Valley farmers will
devote some of their time to fruit culture
next year. Fruit trees ought to do we'll in
that valley.
The mountains Of Trinity and Humboldt
counties, Gala, are full of deer .slaughterers.
The carcasses Of skinned deer can be found
in every direction.
A farmer was thrown down and robbed
within few steps of the Paragon Hotel, at
Reddlng, yesterday, by negro, who was
taken and the money recovered.
After the recent rain storm many people
Of Angels Camp. Calveras county, got
money enough for their Thanksgiving dinner
by picking up gold in the streets and in the
shallow streams.
Old man Adams, of the "Lost Adams"
gold diggings, which he found twenty years
ago Iao miles south Of Gallup. N. NJ, but
was driven away BY Indians, has gone to
look for his diggings.
A party who have been made to believe in
. hidden treasure on an island in the Pacific
Ocean, . few degrees below the equator, it
is reported, in Gilroy, will leave San Fran.
cisco at an early day to 60 In search Of the
buried money.
In the testimony at Redwood City regard.
ing the sanity of Mr.. Ten Brock, yesterday,
Miss Meister, the French maid, said Ten
Brock once told her that she was no good
except to dye her mistress hair. She said
he lied, and he twisted her nose.
The two children, boy and girl, of At.
torney Prewitt at Auburn, Placer county,
were showing their grandmother, who had
Just returned from a visit, how much they
loved her by hugging and squeezing her,
when the boy succeeded iu breaking one of
the old lady's ribs.
benjamin. Morrill,, Of Chicago, the owner
Of the property where Suffer Fort stands has
finally agreed to take $40, 900 for it. About
$II,Yoo has already been subscribed snd an
effort will be made to secure the necessary
money to buy the property and restore the
old fort to its former condition.
A maniac boarded the train at Portland,
Or. and had his ewn way until he reached
Pendleton, where dispatch had notified the
authorities, who were on hand and took the
man in custody. The man was we'll armed
with = bowie knife and q pistol. He is a
person Of education and refinement. and ex.
hidited but slight evidence Of insanity when
arrested. He is Philadelphia and mem.
Der Of the firm of G. H. Buchanan Il Co.
OF that city.
The Mayor Of Portland, Or, vetoed an
ordinance prohi biting bands on the streets
1t night. the blow being aimed at the Saliva
tionists. The latter. hearing Of the Mayors
intention. assembled in front of the Council
Chamber, and when the veto was read made
such noise with drums and 6fes that bust.
ness had to be adjourned for ten minutes.
The ordinance was then pessed over the veto
by unanimous vote and amid much merri.
ment.
A fish story comes Santa Rosa: A well
has been dug ON the ranch Of John Walker
who lives q few miles west of this city, which