Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-11-30
COAST ITEMS.


Chambers are reported at Fresno and Ma.
,daria, Cal.
Oil was struck in large quantities at Santa
Barbara. Cal, last Saturday.
Eight hundred Anaconda miners are out
of work on account OF the FIRE.
French prunes will be extensively planted
in Shasta county, CAL, this season.
Peytcn Wilkes, about one hundred years
old, died at Greenville, Or, Tuesday.
Quantities of opium are said to be snug
gled into the United States at Okanogan
Lake.
Susanville. CAL, had severe earthquake
Tuesday. Three miles from town the shock
was not felt.
The Coast Seamen's Union at Seattle is
ordering men not belonging to the union off
vessels in port.
J.W. Mauay, who shot Marshal Wilson
at Oceanside, CAL, has been sentenced to be
hung December 2oth.
A well-devised plan of escape from the
Washington pententiary. at Walla Walla,
was detected few days ago.
A man-eating shark was caught in seine
off the shore Of Humboldt county, CAL,
this week. 1t was 10 feet long.
John L. Carey, Los Angeles dairyman,
took dose of aconite In mistake for Jamaica
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There is rumor at Tucson that F. w.
Smith, late Receiver of the Land Office
there is short in his accounting $4,000.
Victoria, B. c., offers 100000 for the Sui
Iyan Jackson mill, and part Of the money
has been raised and deposited in the bank.
1t is SAID that George L. Jones of Fresno.
who has wife and child, was lately married
in San Francisco under the name of G. H.
Legg.
The Petaluma paper says that GOO victims
invested in lottery run by a San Francisco
paper, and the only winner drew yellow
covered novel.
The Napa, CAL, track cannot be put in
condition this Fall for record breaking, and
Sunol, Palo Alto, Stamboul, Phalles and
Adonis were removed to San Francisco this
week.
A butcher of Walla Walla was carving a
large porker last Thursday, when his knife
struck hard body near the center OF the
spine. He dug out a $40 gold piece, dated
1887.
Oranges in Southern California are four
weeks earlier than in the past FIVE years.
carload of navels left Pomona Thursday for
the East. The shipments will be slow until
January.
Chavez and Brunette, arrested for the
murder Of Charles Glass, at Tropico, near
Los Angeles, whose body was placed on the
railroad track, are held to be guilty by the
Coroner's jury.
Editor Penrose, of the Salt Lake Desert
Nts0s, who refused TO answer questions re
lating to the number OF wives he had, has
been released from PRISON, where he had
been confined for contempt of Court.
An Indian council is called at the Puyal.
dup Reservation, to decide whether the right
of way to build railroad from Sumner via
Puyallup to Tacoma and along the water.
front to Browns Point, shall be granted. A
council refused the request last March.
E. w. Drummond, a farmer living near
Los Guilicos, Csl., has been arrested and
charged with assaulting his step daughter,
II years old. Drummond asserts that the
girl has been instigated by her grandmother
to make charge that is without foundation.
sheep owner in Fresno county, CAL,
lost 400 sheep a few days ago by having
them eat fermented wheat. The sheep were
in field of uncut wheat, which the late wet
weather had started to ferment. The sheep
did not live an hour after eating the wheat.
May Wilson, California girl, last July,
in coal oil explosion, was roasted from the
hips to and across the shoulders. She is
now at Stockton receiving her FIRST medical
treatment. A spongy growth has formed on
the back, and curvature Of the spine has re-
suited from frequently leaning forward to
seek relief from pain.
While visiting a sawmill near Winlock,
Or, Tuesday. Mrs. F. Bridges was caught
by revolving shaft, whirled through a
small aperture and tossed to floor eight feet
below. Her only wound was scratch on
the side Of her face, and the only remnants
of her clothing remaining were shoes and
stockings and wristbands.
A negro called at the house Of Mrs. Gis-
commazsi, near Salinas, CAL, the first Of
this week, and after forcing her to give him
something to eat and all the money there
was in the house, cruelly beat her and raw.