Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-11-23

Sacture Jute bags.
Gibbs, the Portland Pullman car murderer,
pleaded not guilty.
Jose Silva was convicted at Fresno yester.
day of selling bogus bullion.
Some rich finds of gold are reported one
mile and half from Summer, Wash.
Two hunters have been jailed at Placer
vile for killing does in the mountains.
Charles Hastings, a Los Angeles gambler,
is missing. and foul play is suspected.
Seattle has single mill that turns out
goo, 900 shingles in twenty -four hours.
A brutal teamster at Sierra Valley hacked
a valuable horse to pieces with an ak the
other day.
The defendants in the Wham robbery case,
on trial at Tucson, are being thoroughly
identified.
Ripe blackberries were sold in Nevada
City last Friday. They grew at an altitude
of 1880 feet.
Snow is very low down on Mount Shasta,
and great deal has fallen on Coast Range
and Sierra Mountains.
The jetty partially constructed at the
mouth of the Columbia river has already
caused deepening and widening of the
channel.
Louis Mar, who was killed at his house on
the north bank of the Columbia, near the
Cascades, has been found to have been
murdered.
The Grand Jury at San Bernardino is in.
yeshgating the charges of bribery made in
connection with the location of an insane
. asylum at the South.
Modesto is in the throes Of a temperance
revival. The churches combine and dispense
with services in order to give Evangelist
Hilton large audiences.
Harmon Baxter, formerly of Miller, S.
D., accidentally killed his son Ezra near
Spokane Falls Tuesday. Baxter is an invalid
and Ezra supported him.
]. J. Smith, the Canyon Diablo train rob
Der who escaped from the custody of the Of
fcers last Spring, has been found guilty Of
highway robbery at Prescott, A. T.
The Oroville Mercury says the manager
Of the Big Bend tunnel is confident that he
can clear $40 a day to the man. He has
great faith in the value Of the property.
Willie Johnson. charged with the murder
of his step.mother last June in Cathey's
Valley, Mariposa county, was acquitted by
Mariposa jury yesterday, without leaving
their seats.
The policemen and constables at San Jose
are in collision on the fee question. Police.
men can not charge for arrests, but constables
can, so the former turn their prisoners over
to the latter.
The cannon used at Tacoma for firing a
salute on November 18th, the day Of WASH
ington's admission, was taken from an old
Russian war vessel after the sale of Alaska
to the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Drumming were
found dead in their home at Prescott, A. T.,
yesterday. The woman bears marks Of vio-
lence. Drumming evidently killed his wife
and then took poison.
The Mormons on the witness stand at
% Salt Lake "don't remember" and "refuse to
state" when the reasonable teachings of the
Endowment House are the subject of the
lawyers investigation.
Grant and Appel, two young men who are
working a pocket quartz mine between
Moores Flat, in Nevada county, and ALE.
ghany, in Sierra county, use mortar and
have taken out $500, 900 since last spring.
The rain fell in torrents in the interior Of
California this week. Thunder and light
ming, and in some places hail, were features
Of the storm. The rain is general and indi'
cations do not point to an immediate let-up
g. w. Lang is to try an experiment OF
driving 1000 head of cattle from Tombstone
to Los Angeles. He will have to cross the
Colorado Desert. If he can do the job Mr..
Lang will save $4,000 from railroad charges.
In the Wham murder and robbery case,
in court at Tucson yesterday, Henry Towles
testified that sack of the stoten money was
for time in his haystack. hidden there by
one Of the accused, who subsequently took
away the money.
Clinton Terry, son of the late Judge D.
S. Terry, accompanied by Fresno pugilist,
visited Mrs. Terry's "Cousin Rodney" who
occupied 4o.acre tract near Fresno belong
ing to the estate, and threw him and his be-
longings into the street.
Charles Curtis was shot and instantly
killed by his brother -n.law, Philip Engle,