Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-05-25
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lows makes tramps move on.

tgs at Chico.
z Large orders are coming to California
from England for wine.
{ The high license ordinance at Petaluma
will 60 into effect in July.
A corner lot on Pacific avenue, Tacoma,
sold for $685. last week.
The Democrats have small majority in
the Montana Constitutional Convention.
7 The Debris Commissioners are inspecting
the mines in Nevada and Sierra counties.
The Oregonian Railroad is unable to pay
its employees and must be sold at some price.
Z The Gallup, N. M, coal mine strike has
been abandoned. 1t has lasted two months.
Peter Perasich fatally stabbed James Lacy
at the Contention mine at Tom bstone, A. T.,
yesterday.
Petaluma believes prospecting will de-
selop an abundant supply Of gas in that
neighborhood.
! The value of land in Delano has advanced
$40 an acre since the formation of an irri.
CATION district.
Il The green sandstone found near the South.
ern Pacific Railroad in Kern county is claim.
ed to be the finest in California.
"Cyclone Bill" and w. E. Cunningham
have been held at Tucson for trial on the
charge of robbing Paymaster Wham.
Miss Mamie Laid and Charles Reed ran
away from Miss Mamie's parents at Paicines,
CAL, the first of this week, and were mar
ried. . f
! The Tacoma Lease, says five sawmills
and seven shingle mills cannot supply the
demand for building lumber at Centralia,
W.T.. -a
A woman giving the name of Mrs. A.
Sanderson, of Oakland, killed herself at
Butte, Montana, the first of this week. She
had gone to the bad.
I The work ing drawings for the Govern
ment building at Sacramento will be ready
in a few days, when bids will be invited
for the erection Of the building.
Judge John Hunt of San Francisco is re
ceiving strong Endorsements in petitions to
the Governor TO place him on the Supreme
bench to succeed Judge Temple. ~
The South Tacoma Methodist Church has
discovered that Deacon Stone, who has been
occupying the pulpit, deserted his wife in
Kansas and is living with another woman.
i Olives Landing has been opened up as
port. 1t is eleven miles north of Santa Cruz,
and schooners call there principally for
lumber, lime petroleum and dairy products.
laCsConnor, the oarsman, is said to be very
anxious TO break the record, and will make
come strong efforts in that direction atthe
regatta on Lake Washington on Memorial
day
]. L. freeman, San Luis Obispo county
farmer, left $1,000 in paper money in his
goat, near his cabin, and during his absence
the cabin was burned and with the coat and
money.
"a man about fifty years old, with brown
beard and rather fine looking, has been vic.
timizing the people Of Woodland with bogus
sch 100 franc pieces. which he passed
Several hundred ~. ,,
ceived FROM Germany, compris,..,
gales, skylarks, thrushes. starlings, goiu,
green and bullinches, linnets, etc., were
turned loose at the City Park at Portland
yesterday. .a
A sea captain who has gone north from
Victoria to hunt seals declares he will resist
capture by United States vessels, with force
and firearms, if necessary 1t is just pos
sible he will change his mind if the Bear or
the Rush should pay him visit.
Portland merchants declare that The high
duty on all goods shipped into British Colum
bia and the low rates of transcontinen al
transportation on the Canadian Pacific Rail
road had combined to drive Northwestern
.radesmen out Of the, Canadian field.
The Golden Gate Fruit Association has
been organized al Sacramento in opposition
20 the California Fruit Union. The object
Ok the association is to market the fruit of
its members in the East 1t Tie lowest possible
cost. No agents are to be employed and
transactions are to be direct with auctioneers.
A big excitement has been created at
Helena. Montana, over the discovery of
diamonds an FL Dorado bar, fourteen miles
northeast Of that place. Several parties
have organized and left to stake off grounds.
Twenty years ago, and again eight years
ago, similar excitement prevailed, but the
stones found were only corundrums, the
next hardest substance to diamond.
During the recent investigation into the
prison affairs at San Quenten, made by order
Of Governor Waterman, S. +. Maslin, Sec
rotary Of the State Board OF Examiners,