Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-08-24
COAST ITEMS.

The salmon run in Alaska has been very
successful.
Latah county, Idaho, boasts Of a genuine
ace thine, with veins from one to four inches
thick.
Judge Pierce, who was shot at San Diego
by dissatisfied litigant, is pronounced out
of danger.
There is some talk of giving Joseph Rods,
. wife heater at Grass Valley, dose of tar
and feathers.
Olsen and Drager, the Ell DORADO murderers
were sentenced Saturday at Placerville, to be
hanged October 10th.
Manuel Padia, desperate horse thief, was
captured near Albuquerque, N. Mex, on
Monday by Sheriff Hubbell.
The stage between Canyon City, Or, and
Baker City, was held up Monday, and the
entire mail captured and riAed.
Frank Crocker, engineer of a thrashing
machine, was terribly mutilated by the wheels
of the machine near Malaga, Fresno county,
Tuesday.
News from Alaska says the Birds nest
mine is unable to find any ore and has shut
down. The buildings were all ready for the
100 stamps.
Alice, the Is-year old daughter of Edward
Quimby, was attacked by bees on her fathers
ranch. near Cucamonga, yesterday and was
nearly killed.
The company building the railroad from
Bellingham Bay to the Columbia river has
largely increased its capital. 1t is now six
million dollars.
A searching party has been organized 10
.unearth Confederate guns said to have been
buried in New Mexico during the retreat Of
General Sibley's army of Texans.
The hop crop of Oregon and Washington
will only be about thirds, but Of good
quality. Most Of the picking will be done
by whites and Indians; but few Chinese will
be employed.
AivS hohoASo SACiOu AuulduS HdVc gone
to pick hops in the Puyllup mop fields. At
Ellensburg. w. T., four of them got whisky
and created a disturbance. One was seri.
(ously wounded.
The remains of young man were found
on sheep ranch near Marysville Buttes last
Saturday. A letter addressed to Nathan At.
tanhuro and e;opad = w M;lI;oo oC o..
ing. was found on his person.
A picnic crowd from San Francisco to
.Gurneville last Sunday made things lively
on the road. The people of Santa Rosa and
Gurneville are determined to make short
work Of any similar crowd hereafter.
A Chinaman Of Grass Valley paid no at.
tention 20 the warnings of his countrymen
that he was working too cheaply, and he is
now recovering from a dose Of strychnine
that was administered to HIM in his food.
In the cowboy tournament at Aqua Fria,
A. T., John Lane rcped and tied three steers
in SAG, being the best time ever made in
Arizona John Merrill beat the record also
by roping and tying single steer in o:3s.
Mrs. Laura E. Sample. colored spiritual
medium, has been arrested at Los Angeles
charged with forging what purported to be
the will of o. L. Susann, a colored barber,
by which $4,000 of his $4,000 estate was
left to her.
The largest fig orchard in the United
States is about to be set out in Pomona val
ley, CAL, between Pomona and Ontario.
The orchard will consist Of 1900 white
Adriatic fig trees and 5000 Smyrna fig trees,
planted eighty to the acre, on two hundred
acres.
Mrs. George Benar, Miss Sallie Wiberg
and Mrs. Frank Morgan, of East Portland,
were lost on Mount Hood few nights ago.
Searching parties were organized and the
lava beds above the timber line were secured.
The lost ones were found about midnight,
;huddled together upon barren rock, 10, 900
feet above the level of the sea, and nearly
chilled to the bone from cold.
Superintendent Of Streets, A. H. Cum
mings, Of Fresno, California, met with
peculiar and quite serious accident this
week. BY an accident he was nearly hung.
A tre alarm sounded, and as the engine
started from the house he jumped onto it.
A rope caught around his neck, but he
chung to the machine and the rope was
jerked violently over his head leaving some
ugly marks.
At San Juan. blythe Sea, Sunday, for the
amusement Of excursionists, a bulls horns
were sawed off and a ten dollar gold piece
was tied on his head for any one to have
who was brave enough to take it of. A
mulatto known as "Bob" made the attempt
and was attacked by the bull. His face
was lacerated, his nose being torn half of.
A half.dozen Mexicans caught the bull by
the tail, while another succeeded in cutting
the money from the animals head.
A dispatch from Shoshone, Idaho, to the
Portland Oyegonisn of August 18th, says:
The agents looking up fraudulent land and