Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-10-12
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and street robbers.
There is membership Of 10. 600 in Cali
sfornia of the I. o. G. T.
John Branger killed himself at the Santa
Clara County Infrmary Wednesday.
Three .fourths Of the inmates of the Ore.
,gon State Prison are morphine eaters.
The retail butchers at Vallejo want meat
speddlers to pay tax of 500 quarter.
Mr.. Stevens of Fanny Davenport's Compa.
ny died suddenly at San Diego Wednesday.
San Diego proposes to offer inducements
to the Union Pacific to build to that point.
The MERGED Board of Supervisors has fixed
the retail liquor lisence at 5000 per quarter.
Ellensburg is determined to enter the Cap
ital contest in Washington with renewed
yyigor.
Mr.. Sterling, editor of the Ellensburg,
WASH, Register, has been held in $500 bonds
for libel.
Reno people have secured Bonner Lake
and reservoir site at Weber Lake for stor
age purposes.
Claus Spreckles is expected in Los Ange.
les next week to discuss the sugar.beet ques.
ton with the farmers.
Locations are being rapidly filed on the
placer ground near Ellensburg. WASH, and
the new coal fields north Of the city.
J. H. Hamilton, who was drowned near
Fresno last Thursday, carried insurance pol.
.icies on his life amounting to 5000, 900.
Bert Jackson, an Indian, has been convict
ed Of killing R. H. Melvin, rancher, near
.Placerville and sentenced to Folsom for life.
Willis N. Eos, private banker at San
Diego, is under arrest for obtaining notes
under false pretenses. His bail is fixed at
$4,000.
The G. A. R., General Committee at Los
Angeles insists that change should be made
in the management of the Santa Monica Sol.
,dier's Home
The flow Of natural gas from the vein
struck at Salinas two weeks ago, and from
which so much gas was expected, ceased
Friday night.
The second trial of Richard Lee for the
murder of William Duncan in the little town
of Gallatln, near Downey, in 1871, has be-
gun at Los Angeles.
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coma, WASH, has caused the citizens in pub.
lie assemblage to denounce the whole police
government Of the city.
Dan Gilroy, of Gilroy, got drunk and
.criminally assaulted lady, Mrs. Leavesley,
eighty years old, who had raised the fellow
from the time he was a child.
Edith Holmes, nineteen years old, was ad.
mitted into the Oregon Penitentiary Monday.
She is the seventh woman ever admitted and
the only one there now out Of 900 prisoners.
Many workingmen have been drawn to
Prescott, A. T., by bogus advertisement
for hands at IS per day. A number Of these
men spent their last cent to reach Prescott.
Homer Nelson received a shock from the
electric wire Monday night at San Luis Obispo
of 1000 volts and fell from fifteen.foot
ladder. He was all right half an hour af.
terward.
The boilers of the sawmill Of the Blue
Mountain Flume Company at Walla Walla,
Wash, exploded Tuesday, killing Isaac
Harding, of Minneapolis, and completely
,wrecking the mill.
The Selma Irrigator man advises the PEG.
pie living near Tulare Lake to raise funds
for building an ark. He says the lake is
soon to overflow its banks. and, if so, the
ark will be mighty handy.
Jack Gay, brakeman on the Puget Sound
Shore Road, has confessed that he was one
of a gang of conspirators that have been
systematically carrying on robberies of goods
In transit to Seattle and disposing of them to
their profit. Six other arrests have followed.
The Britt sh bark Norcross from London,
with general cargo for Victoria, B. C., an.
chored in Esquimalt harbor Sunday night.
On board were the captain and part of the
crew OF the wrecked American ship William
McGilvery, which was abandoned in sink.
ing condition at sea on August 9TH last.
A young man at Petaluma escorted young
lady to ball Saturday night, but the young
lady forgot ball room etiquette and went to
supner with another vounC man The former
became angry and fred his pistol at the lat.
ter, happily without injury to any one. The
town boys sympathize with the man who fired
the pistol.
Frank Ingersoll has been arrested at
Butte, Mont, and charged with being the
author Of the fires which Of late have SO
alarmed the people. 1t is said Ingersoll was
intimate with fortune. telling woman. who
has made herself conspicuous by hre predic.
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