Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-03-09
COAST ITEMS.

MERGED county will soon have SC, 900 spring
lambs for market.
Less than 5000 is delinquent on Colusa
county's tax rolls.
William T. A. Gibson, pioneer,
died at Stockton yesterday.
A raisin-grower at Modesto is planting
200, 900 Muscat grape vines.
Tokay grapes fresh from the vines were
on exhibition at Fresno last week.
A large party left Pasadena this week for
the Santa Clara gold mines.
Fresno's colored population is now chiefly
occupied in fishing in the canals.
The Commercial Notional Bank has just
been organized at Spokane Falls, w. 7.
A Chnaman has been doing mos: Of the
burglaries at Napa lately. He is under ar
rest
There is no change in the condition OF
the strike Of engineers and pilots on the
Columbus river.
Contracts for grading on the Spokane ard
Northern Railroad have been let and work
is to commence at once.
A small steel yacht owned in Victoria is
engaged in smuggling cinnamon across the
American line.
tt is at Chino, not at Pomona, that Rich
are Grid proposes to erect beet. sugar fac.
tory and refinery.
An artesirn we'll has been sunk at Petaluma
goo feet. The drills were through decom.
posed quartz full of gold.
The people of Boulder Creek have secured
a lot and are building calaboose. The re-
cent riot led to this move.
Four hundred tons of honey were shipped
last year from Los Gallos creek, in the San
joaquin Valley. last year.
A jury has been secured and testimony
is being taken in the Boston Rayine ballot
box stuffing case in Nevada county.
Two or three walls have been thrown
down and considerable crockery was broken
at Guaymas by earthquakes on the sd. inst
James NJ. Boyle, we'll and popularity known
at Ogden, Utah, killed himself this week.
To gambling is attributed the deed.
The Republican reform element in Sacra-
mento politics captured the city convention
and nominated most of the municipal ticket.
Limbs Of pear tree were shown iu Neva
da City last week so densely covered with
scalebugs that the bark was rough as gra.
ter.
The Lower California gold discoveries
are creating intense excitement. Old nine
RS and spectators are fitting out everywhere
to go to the fields.
Mrs. Walters, living on a ranch near
Bozeman, w. T., was murdered and shock
ingly mutilated Monday. Her husband has
been arrested for the crime.
John Sellars was enjoying himself at Pet
aluma on 5000 which he had stolen at healds-
burg yesterday, when the officers arrested
MIN OH u WdItdut ltout AlCdiStutS.
1t is expected that work will soon begin
on the survey for the ditch to run from the
head of Fall river along the foot Of Soldier
and Saddle Mountains in Shasta county.
Old Docto~ Cog Eye was struck by
locomotive at San Jose and killed Wednes-
day. He was a Chinese doctor and had
many friends among the Caucasians.
A seizure Of between 600 and 700 pounds
Of opium was made at Tacoma. w. T., We'd
nesday night. This is the largest seizure
ever made in the Sound country.
Farmer futile has a small ranch two
miles from Petaluma. On Thursday evening
Of last week he counted four California lions
in his back yard, trying to scratch through
his barn.
The Shasta county Board of Trade has fit.
ted up reading and writing room in the
Odd Fellows building, Redding. which will
prove a great convenience to visitors to the
county seat.
Wallace, Idaho, is said to have assumed
an appearance in strange contrast with that
Of week ago. The fencing in Of jumped
lots and the erection of small shanties have
given the town the peculiar look Of newness.
Reports from Helena M. T., say trouble
of serious nature is apprehended between
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific men in
Jefferson Canyon. The Union Pacific loca.
ton has been jumped by Northern Pacific
men.
According to the recent law passed by
the New Mexico Legislature all dressed beef
from outside the State is barred. A County
Inspector is provided who must inspect all
beeves before they are killed.
A lumberer on Cortez Island, B. c.,
while carrying heavy chain. fell into the