Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-11-02
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stores.
Chico public schools are attended by 724
pupils.
Humboldt county will have to import pc.
tatoes, the crop is so short.
Five persons dug themselves out Of the
sMul,nomah, Or, County Jail Monday.
Frank Dysart, Of Solomonville, A. T., cut
the sixth crop Of alfalfa from his farm last
week.
A steam dredger has just finished cutting
River bar.
Dams are being built in Lassen county that
will secure water enough to irrigate $4,000
acres Of land.
E. P. Ferry confirms the report that his d.
,vorced wife was robbed at Portland cf $II. 900
in notes and drafts.
Bruce Creighton, the garroter and safe
cracker, has been sent to the Oregon Peniten.
.tiary for Aye years.
The Mexican gunboat Democratic has land
ed 900 troops at Guaymas, whs will be sent
against the Yaqui Indians.
,The American schooner Mollie Adams is
reported at Victoria with the largest catch Of
the season, some 1000 skias.
The Southern Belle group of mines, about
thirty miles from Tucson, has been sold to an
English syndicate for 100000.
The Vallejo CAyonieit posts man who
beat it out Of a subscription bill OF IS Isl by
pleading the statute of limitations.
Many newspapers in Northern California
promise to publish "dead beat" list of their
subscribers from and after November Ist.
John Blair, manager for w. R. Mcknight
q Co., at Sacramento, has been arrested for
having female deerskins in his possession.
.The Gallup, N. NJ, Mes0s- Register says
imported chickens from Kansas have brought
chicken cholera OF the worst form to the
coast from that place.
The first ripe orange Of the season Of 1850
was picked from tree in the Oroville Citrus
Associations orchard Thursday. 1t was
Washington navel, measuring eleven and
half inches in circumference.
Last Saturday, at Seattle, there was con-
demned large consignment Of hams and
bacon that came from St. Paul, MINI. A
few days previous there were condemned
5000 pounds Of Chicago ham.
The cases against the EXCLUSIONS officials
at Port Townsend who are charged with en-
rbezzlement have been postponed to the next
term Of court owing to the probable admis-
sion Of Washington as State this week.
Albert Fish was arrested at Delano, Kern
county, few days ago on charge OF burg.
larry committed in the railroad depot. He
was held for trial at Bakersfield, but escaped
from his cell on Tuesday by digging his way
out.
An examination into the Butte powder plot
has resulted in the discharge Of Sternberg's
son and the binding over Of Mrs. Sternberg
and Smitger, who are believed to have placed
the cartridge under Stemberg's head and ex-
ploded it while he slept.
Mr.. Grunsky Of the corps of engineers
surveying the eastern boundary line Of the
State of California has just returned to Sac.
ramento from the final survey, and he states
that California gains ALTO feet in width, or
nearly three, quarters Of mile.
The Governor Of Sonora, Mexico, insists
upon proof that the three men arrested on
his territory and charged with the murder of
Barney Martin, his wife and three children,
are American citizens before he will return
them to the American authorities.
The Nevada Transcript says: Vermersch,
the Sierra county man who killed a neigh.
boris steer to save his own family from starv.
ing, declined tolhave counsel, pleaded guilty,
waived time and was sentenced to one year
in State Prison. He has been taken to San
Quentin.
An old lady near Las Cruces, N. NJ, went
pine nut hunting, and the bears which also
frequent the pine groves at this season, killed
her and ate all the flesh off her bones. A
,I2.year.old child is missing near Abiqua, and
Is supposed to have also served the bears
with food.
C.G. Sayle, administrator of the estate Of
d. S. Terry, deceased, has begun suit against
Frank T. Baldwin and B. F. Langford to
compel an accounting. Terry owned one
tenth interest in mine worked by defendants
in Arizona, the ore in which goes from 81, 900
to $1,000 a ton.
Patsy Griffin, "Happy Jack" Harrington
and Charles Reed, who were arrested Satur-
day at Seattle for swindling Major w. F.