Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-04-13
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company.
Salmon are not very plentiful in the Co.
lumbia river.
Butte county has planted 10000 orange
trees this year.
Portland promises grand celebration on
the Washington centennial.
An artesian we'll, 1000 feet deep, is to be
bored at Alila, Tulare county. Cal.
The mysterious Albuquerque suicide
proves to have been crooked Kansas lawyer.
John Bronkee was shot dead in bed in
Grant county, Or, Sunday by Peter Sullivan.
The four Canyon Diablo train robbers have
been captured. They were taken in Utah.
Port Orchard, where the Puget Sound Navy
Yard is to be located, is twenty miles from
Tacoma.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany will run boats from Portland 10 Puget
Sound ports.
Severe earthquakes are reported to have
occurred at Guaymas, Mexico, on the 9TH,
but no damage is mentioned.
At Port Discovery Monday Chinaman
fell over gang saw and his head was com
pletely severed from his body.
The book keeper who stole $500 from the
First National Bank of Butte, NJ. T., was
captured at Helena and taken to Butte.
The Petaluma Cannery opened Wednes-
day with force Of seventy-6ve hands Peas
and asparagus are the articles being canned
now,
G. w. Callahan has been arrested at Los
Angeles for passing forged checks. He it is
believed, is the same person who victimized
people at Stockton.
Six men have been arrested at Banning,
San Bernardino county, for unlawfully seiz
ing and imprisoning A. Knight, rancher,
whom the men had accused Of stealing cattle.
little louise, something like the cabbage
louise, has made its appearance in the late
sown grain at Haywards, but it is thought by
those who have noticed its appearance before
that this rain will destroy it.
Mayor Moran of Seattle, w. T., has sus-
pended Chief of Police Mitchell for NAL.
feasance in Office and nominated Captain
Willard to act in his stead. The charge
against Mitchell is COLLISION with gamblers
Grub Gulch, Mariposa County, CAL, was
abandoned. c. Ward took hold of it and
has struck ledge Of good paying ore, thirty
seven feet wide, which promises to be
bonanza.
d. S. Smalley, a Haywards orchardist,
lost two valuable horses Tuesday, through
the negligence of hired man, who placed
a box, in which poison for gophers had
been mixed, within reach of the horses, who
ate of the mixture.
The Public Administrator at Marysville
while examining the residence of l. P. Marker,
who died some mounths ago, found four
cans of gold, which had been hidden by the
deceased. The gold amounted to $500.
Marker has no relatives in this State.
The people of San Luis Obispo propose to
give the Southern Pacific Railroad, from
Santa Margharita to San Luis, the right Of
way from the mouth of the tunnel 10 the city,
and also the necessary depot grounds. Mr..
Huntington promises when that is done to
build the road.
A sensation has been caused at Los An.
geles by the statement that w. N. Monroe,
the Mayor of Monrovia, protector of numer-
GUS enterprises in that city and vicinity,
went to Mexico to escape prosecution. His
prominent position makes his exodus the
talk of the town.
She Spokane, Post Falls and Eastern Rail-
way and Navigation Company has been or
ganized in Washington Territory, with a
capital Of $4,000, 900, to build from Spokane
east to Post Falls and Lake Pen d'Oreille,
to connect with the St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Manitoba Road.
Juan Rivera, Mexican, who has reached
Yuma on the west bound train, while stealing
. ride, claims to have been shot, kicked and
manned by a brakeman to whom he had re-
fused to pay So that had been demanded Of
him for fare The Mexican is in bad con.
dtion and two brakemen are under arrest.
The favorite sport OF the small boys OF
Sacramento is TO congregate under the cleo
trio lights after dark. Each kid armed with
baseball bat which is used to slaughter
the big black beetles that come swarming in
from the tules. The sport is exciting and
dangerous, for il the boy misses the beetle
he is knocked silly by the beetle.
The following statistics Of the Mormon
Church were read in the conference just ad-
ionrned at Salt Lake: The church has IL
anostles 10 natriarchs nIn hioh nriesfs