Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-05-11

New York capitalists have purchased 1870
lots near Ellensburg, W. T., and will make
substantial improvements.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holser Of San Buena.
ventura, charged with the murder Of Daniel
Sheldon, have been discharged.
A chrome mine has been discovered on
facilities creek, in the Coast Range, twenty
miles west of Huron, Fresno county.
company is in process Of formation to
thoroughly prospect the natural gas fields
south Of Bakersfield CAL, and only four miles
away.
William H. Lewis, discarded lover Of
Annie Sennetta, threw vitriol in her face yes.
terday at Tacoma, w. T. She will be badly
dishgured.
Prisoners in the Spokane Falls Jail at.
tempted an outbreak this week, but muir
deress in the women's cell betrayed them to
the guard.
VhoAS-oii swap 10 ociiS SAtSHSiNS'y uSSu
in the orchards in the vicinity Of Santa Rosa
tor discriminating the csdlin moth and other
insect pests.
Harry Bethune, the famous Splinter and
Frank Lewis, Pacific Coast runner of more
than local note, are matched for $3.50 side
at Seattle May 10th.
w. H. Pain, a Victoria, B. c., sculler,
says he will accept the challenge Of Hence
man and row for from $500 to 81, 500 in Octo-
Der, at Stockton or San Francisco.
The notorious dance house at Fresno which
was closed by the Vigilance Committee last
year, has been granted liquor license by
the Trustees and the papers predict trouble.
About six saloons out Of sixty in Santa
Cruz have closed on account of the raising
Of the municipal license fee from $I2o to 5000
and the new additional county license Of $50.
The Buckeye dive, near Penryn, in which
midnight murder recently took place, has
been bought out by citizens. torn down and
its keeper, William Harland, ordered out Of
town.
The residents of Black Diamond, Wash,
refused to permit the body of W. D. Kelley
to be buried there, SO it was taken to Seat.
tie. He was shot last Monday while robbing
a house.
Detective Stone of Fresno has captured
Robert Stewart, colored, and most of the
bullion stolen from the Hildreth stage last
July. 1t is said to have been concealed in
hollow stump.
A man by the name Of Smith, driver Of
San Bernardino fire engine, has been run
down by former wife and proved to have
three spouses living, one living with him
there, one in San Francisco and one in Kansas.
Mrs. Mary Diner has pawned her jewels
to pursue her promised husband, George
Morack, East from Helena, M. T. She
doesn't care for the $4,000 she con6dingly
handed to hint is a husband she wants.
Miss Frances Dykes has begun a new suit
against George S. van Every, the Santa
Monica religious and social magnate, to set
aside conveyance Of his property made to
avoid the assessment of damages by the
Court.
The Alturas Era Of April 27th tells Of the
discovery Of very rich gold mine near
Quinn River Desert by man named Freed.
The first locators Of the mine were company
Of immigrants in 1854. who came across the
desert. and many died Of starvation. Freed
found FIVE skeletons near the mine.
The Chinese woman who was returned to
British Columbia from Port Townsend few
days ago, is seeking clergyman at Victoria,
10 marry her to Chinese merchant who will
thus take the woman to Puget Sound. Sew.
eral clergymen knowing the circumstances
have refused to marry the parties.
Says the Victoria, B. c., Colonist: A
woman known as Lottie Hastings, who lives
on Broad street in this city, has been adver-
Using systematically in the San Francisco
papers during the past few weeks for young
girls, ostensibly to work in Victoria hotel,
but whom in reality she wishes to procure
for a life of shame.