Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-06-08
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A sardine factory has located at Roseville,
across the bay from San Diego.
Lee, the Stockton boy preacher, has been
committed to the Insane Asylum.
Marysville sent shipment of black berries
and pears to San Francisco Monday.
The last heavy rainstorm in Walla Walla
county, W. T., destroyed 10000 sheep.
Twenty. three sailors of the wrecked Van
dalia will be sent East from Mare Island.
Los Gatos will close all saloons on July Ist
and prohibit the sale Of intoxicating liquors.
Chinese are said to be pouring into Cali.
fornia over the Mexican border near San
Diego.
Minnie J. Van Horn, daughter of E. S.
Van Horn, has brought suit at San Jose for
betrayal.
c. P. Ferry, whose wife caused a great
scandal in Paris, is suing her for divorce
in Tacoma.
The Haywards fruitmen netted I3H cents
pound on their shipment Of chernes direct
to Chicago.
A small settlement OF Mormons has been
discovered on the Carissa Plains, Kern
County, Cal.
The threatened locust plague Of east River.
side has been stopped by burning over the
uncultiyated lands.
The Cotton Sampling Works are running
day and night on ore from the new mines in
San Bernardino County.
s. Nc Clelland OF Fisk's Mills, Sonoma
county, has lost his entire flock Of sheep by
California lions and coyotes.
The Nevada and California Railroad com.
,menced libel suit Friday against the Lassen
Advoeate, claiming $4,000 damages.
The German singing birds that were lib.
Grated at Portland, Or, the other day, have
settled down for business. They have begun
to build nests.
The second trial Of George Lord, Sheriff,
on the charge Of altering ballots in Boston
Ravine precinct, Nevada county, last No,
vember, begins to- day.
The falls at Yosemite are said to be higher
now than at any time during the season.
Recent rains and SHOWS in the high Serras
have filled the streams there bank full.
John H. O'Neil has been acquitted at
Martinez, CAL, of the charge Of numbering
Philip Stumpf, at Antioch. This was the
second trial, the first one ending in convic.
ton.
Julio de la Cuesta, the son Of prominent
,Spaniard OF Santa Barbara, was shot and
killed by his brother while out hunting last
Friday, his brother mistaking him in the
brush for bear.
A counterfeit s. silver certificate has made
its appearance at Sacramento. On the me
dalton on the back Of the note in the word
"PYxyi6ns" the 81" is missing, and there
are other discrepancies.
The name OF the robbers who murdered
Station Agent Jobs. and Operator Burell at
Silver Station, Montana, are supposed to be
Julius and Robert Quade, brothers. They
are believed 10 be Firms.
Harry D. White was sufFocated in his tent
on the night Of May 18th, in Diamond Val
ley, Oregon. He was overtaken by snow
storm and built a coal FIRE in brazer to
cook his supper. His body was not found
for several days.
Warrants have been issued at San Jose for
the arrest of man named Potter and Miss
Minnies Van Horne. who are charged with
conspiring to obtain money from General H.
L. Gordon, welthy ranch. owner on the
Alum Rock road.
A farmer named Rhodes, residing about
twenty miles north of Snohomish, W. T.,
was arrested Tuesday and lodged in Jail in
that town for assaulting his twelve year old
daughter, and Wednesday he committed
suicide in jail by hanging himself.
The Kern County Californian says;
Last Friday a week ago little boy of "a
named Beckwith, living near White River,
was IOuHu uCdu III the iOau W Dha
His reck was broken. 1t seems he had been
riding a spirited horse and was thrown.
There are now ten men in the Tucson Jail,
all charged with being parties to the robbery
Of Paymaster Wham. Cyclone Bill claims
to be able to prove an alibi. United States
Marshal Meade claims he has evidence TO
hold all the prisoners, and evidence to con-
yict.
A wealthy Fnglishman named Storey, who
does not like the informal American way Of
doing business. is seeking to recover from
the projectors Of an irrigating scheme al San
Diego, similar to that Of the Sweelwa,tr
dam. the first installments he had paid on
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