Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-11-16
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The Eel-riyer canneries are employing
Chinese.
G.. w. Murray, the Oceanside, San Diego
county murderer, has been sentenced te
death.
Balloting for United States Senators in the
Washington Legislature will begin on the
10TH inst.
Canadian fishermen are supplying the
Fraser river canneries with salmon caught in
American waters. -"5
Joseph Walters, discharged soldier, com
mitted suicide at Salt Lake City by slowly
strangling himself.
Police officials at Sacramento are openly
charged with levying blackmail on women
outcasts and their friends.
John w. Lee, who robbed the railroad
ticket Office at Sacramento, has been sent to
San Quentin for two years.
There is great difficulty in getting jury
in the Wham robbery trial at Tucson.
Great interest is shown in the case.
Thepreliminary survey for the great Rio
Grande Irrigation Canal has been begun. The
canal will skirt the foothills of the river for
$50 miles.
The wire. cloth mill at Roseville, San Die.
60 county, is running twenty looms by steam,
the only power wire cloth loom west Of Cen.
trail New York.
Mrs. Emily Robertson Of Auburn, Placer
county, expects to make 200 gallons of olive
oil this winter. The trees will have a full
crop this season.
James Parker of Sacramento has been ar
rested at Msrysville, charged with an at.
tempted assault on . o-year -old girl. 1t is
believed the man is not sane.
One Of the three Japanese pheasants
raised by Thomas c. Bourne of Pleasant
Valley, Ell Dorado county, for the Sports.
mans Club was accidentally killed yesterday.
A young man blowing on ranch near
Gait Saturday found over 1000, and his EN-.
ployer kept all but $40 of it, and left the
plowman to plod his weary way in the field.
1t is estimated from the present returns
that $1,000 votes were cast at the recent con-
stitutional election in Idaho, and that u, 900
of these were in favor of the adoption Of the
constitution.
The will of Bernard Coin, capitalist at
at Los Angeles, is to be contested. Evidence
is appearing which leads to the belief that he
led double life, and had family of chill.
dren by two wives.
A. w. Callen, prospector known as "Old
Grizzly" who killed two men who attempted
to dispossess him Of mine, was acquitted
at Prescott, A. T., yesterday. His son, Jim
S. Callen, ably defended him.
lone hghwayman held up the Coos Bay,
Or, stage yesterday, near Roseburg, cut
open the letters and registered pouches, rifed
them of their contents and handed them back
to the driver, thanked him politely and babe
him good.by.
For some months past an organized band of
White Caps has been carrying things with
high hand at Las Vegas and in San Miguel
county, N. NJ, and the courts are finding
difficulty in obtaining any evidence SO as to
prosecute them.
Willie Johnson, aged fourteen years, but
who does not appear to be more than ten or
eleven, will be tried on the 10th instant at
MERGED for the killing of his step mother last
June. He does not realize the enormity Of
the offense committed.
Two tramps attempted to raid Chinese
logging camp near Vancouver, Wash. The
Chinese repulsed the ruffians, using hatchets
and ayes with serious effect, but were fired
upon, after which the tramps disappeared.
Two Cinnamon were wounded. A posse Of
fifteen men have gone to seek the tramps.
The commencement Of the trial of the
Wham robbers, after lapse of some months
has begun at Tucson. This is the case where
party ambushed Paymaster Wham and his
guard fired into them and succeeded in cap.
turing $4,000 with which the troops in
Arizona forts were to be paid. M. F. Cum
ningham. a Graham county cattle-owner, is
on trial FIRST.
A one legged colored nan whom the Sc
attic police were after the other day took
refuge in cellar, barred the door and de6ed
the whole force. The Fire Department was
called out and the cellar pumped full of
water. When it came up to the negro's chin
he came out and surrendered. Since then he
has been sent to the Tacoma Jail, from which
he has escaped three times.
DR.. g. Tyrrell, Secretary Of the State
Board of Health, in his forthcoming report
speaks quite forcibly against the immigra-