Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-03-23
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Farmers who planted alfalfa near Lodi,
CAL, all made money.
The gale At Martinez, Cab, destroyed FISH.
ing boats valued at $4,000.
-Four children died in Austin, New, Of ty.
phoid pneumonia, last week.
From now until June rst all fish and duck
are protected by law in Utah.
The total rainfall at Wright, Santa Clara
county, CAL. for the season is 32.zS inches.
Officer Clark. who was shot by a negro
Burglar in NASHVILLE this week. will recover.
Lewis Musee, 4 hotel clerk at Arroyo
Grande, disappointed in love, killed himself
Tuesday.
Officers are after an Oregon City horse
thief, and expect lively fight before he is
captured.
Two victims Of the Salvation Army excite
ment at Victoria, B. c., have been sent to the
insane asylum.
Al non partisan anti.saloon ticket will be
put in the field at Pomona in the coming mu.
nicipal struggle.
The Democrats and Republicans Of Mer.
ced have made fusion ticket to be voted for
on the goth inst.
The people Of Salt Lake City are moving
energetically in the matter of establishing =
public high school.
A whale about sixty feet long and her
sacking calf were washed ashore at San
Diego during the storm.
Charles Willard. burglar at Santa Bar
bara, is held on eighteen charges. His wife
IL also held for burglary.
N. L. Patterson has been arrested at Orc.
vile for passing counterfeit notes. A mum.
Der were in his possession.
A number Of farmers in the neighborhood
Of Wheatland, CAL, will experiment with
sugar.beet culture this season
A few months ago Swan Island, near Port
land, Oregon, was bought by syndicate
for $eo, 900. The price now is $4,000.
John D. James, San Diego private de-
tective, has been sentenced to two years i'm.
prisonment for attempting to levy black mail.
Two wind mills were put up at Independ-
ence, Inyo county, CAL, last week. They
were the first seen in that part Of the State.
Several large tracts of land near Delano,
Cal, have been divided into $, 10 and 20
acre farms that have met with quick sales.
General Bidwell of Chico, CAL, has re
Gently purchased from Jesse Harris, of Fort
Collins, Col fine imported English coach
stallion.
Contracts have been made for planting
about 1000 acres in olives this season within
ten miles of Templeton, San Luis Obispo
county, Cal.
The excitement over the Garlic gold fields
near Holbreok, A. T., continues. Many
miners from the Gallup, N. NJ, coal mines
have gone to try their luck.
Captain E. J. Lanning of Albany will es
tsblish an ice factory in that city. 1t will be
in operation by May Ist and will have ca
pacity Of four to FIVE tons daily.
L. c. Cuff and N. G. Stueman, arrested at
Gilroy, have confessed to having robbed the
stage near San Luis Obispo on the I2th inst.
They have been committed to jail.
A convention of Northern and Central
California newspaper editors and publishers
was held in the Croker Art Gallery at Sac
ramento Tuesday. A permanent organiza-
ton was effected.
The Abbott peach orchard in Suffer coun-
", situated nine miles from town is valua.
BILE property. 1t contains AIS acres, por-
ton Of which was planted in 1883. Two
years later, 1885, the sale of fruit from forty
acres brought $1,000, and the next season
4I3, 900 was realized.
There are about 4,ooo, 900 feet Of logs
along the banks of the Luckiamute in Polk
and Benton counties, waiting for good hard
rain to float them down to the Salem mills.
The Staf<sman says this scarcity Of rain is
bad for the building prospects Of nearly every
city and town in the Willamette Valley.
The Pomona Times says: Some mining
men are making arrangements to 60 up on
"old Badly" near the snow line, to work
some OF the placers known to be there.
There is some fairly good ground in that
neiehborhood, and some very rich quarts
specimens have been picked up there at diff.
ferent times.
Two anti-debris men visited Downieville,
Sunday. At night the miners serenaded
them with tin pans. A bonfire was built on
the plaza and the "slickens" men hung in
ef6gy. The committee appointed by the
citizens to represent the miners resolved to