Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-02-16


victoria's first snow of the season fell
Thursday.
The Mid-winter TaI at San Jose is pro.
nounced success.
A Grange was organized by the farmers at
Gilroy, yesterday.
A large fish cannery is to be started at
North Yakima, w. T.
A heavy snow OF short duration visited
Portland, Or, Thursday.
Sebastopol will hold rousing railroad
meeting next Monday night.
Nine hours will be days work for paint
ers at Victoria, B.. c. after April list.
Digging for the foundation ofthe new Paso
Robes Springs hotel was begun yesterday.
Both houses Of the Oregon Legislature
have passed a law fixing liquor licenses at
$500.
B. C. Holly has sold his great stallion
Woodruff to Philadelphia sportsman for
$40, 900.
An order from England was received at
Pomona yesterday for 500 barrels Of wines
and brandies.
s. H. Soule and his son killed fifteen
polecats in an old house in Little Shasta
Valley few days ago.
San Bernardino opened the citrus Fair
Wednesday. 1t is claimed the display is the
finest ever seen in the State.
Stockton is all in readiness for the Grand
Army Encampment and will entertain the
members royalty.
w. L. Davis, now in San Francisco City
Prison, Is wanted in Albuquerque for muir
der committed Christmas eve, 1857.
meeting of the editors and publishers of
Northern and Central California is to be
held at Sacramento on March 18TH
Footpads attacked two men in the princi-
pal streets Of Victoria, B. c., Tuesday
night, and got away with $500 watch.
The jury in the libel case against S. w..
DeLacy, at San Jose, has disagreed second
time.
The reported shortage in the accounts of
Tax Collector Varnum at San Diego origina-
ted in a clerical error. The accounts are
correct.
Burglaries and roberies are of so frequent
occurrence at Sacramento that there is talk
Of organizing law and order society Of the
best citizens.
Several boys at Lovelocks Of from twelve
to fourteen years of age recently organized
'.bad" gang and robbed their parents hen
roosts and kitchens.
There is possibility that the new Navy
Yard will be established on the Columbia
river. The Puget Sound interests are work
ing hard to secure the prize.
Ogden had fire works, red lights, torches
and an overflow meeting last night to accen-
tuate the liberal victory in Utah. General
Pat Conner was there to assist in the glorih
cation.
Charles S. Tripler, charged with forgery
at Portland Or, has been declared insane
by a competent Commission. If the indict-
ment is dismissed he will be brought back TO
California.
The defense in the Laguna de Tache case
now on trial at Fresno claims to have made
decided point in the production of the crig
inal draft of the contract in Ciarke's own
handwriting.
A New York company proposes to estab-
lish works near San Diego for making potash
from kelp, if the enormous deposits at Port
Lomo can be worked. The article is said
to be worth $r7 to sag a ton.
A determined effort is being made at San
Bernardino to throw the bulk of the railroad
traffic over from the Santa Fe Railroad to
the Southern Pacific. because the Santa Fe
discriminates against that city in freight
rates.
A piece Of property which sold for $4,000
at Marysville before the anti debris decision
of Judge Sabin, was yesterday sold for $ro,-
900, and this fact is pointed to at Marysville
as the result of the suppression of hydraulic
mining.
At the close Of rousng railroad meeting
at Petaluma last night it was unanimously
resolved to incorporate the Petaluma. Sebas
topol and Russian River Railroad Company,
with board Of FIVE directors, consisting Of
four from Petaluma and one from Sebastopol.
The bill in the Oregon Legislature to cor
rec: abuses of seamen at the mouth Of the
Columbia river makes it crime for any
person to board vessel without the permits
sion of the CAPTAIN. This is done to prevent
the enticing of men, once aboard, away from
the vessel.
N. B. Root, assistant General Manager Of
the Northern Pacific railroad COMPANY was