Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-05-10
COAST ITEMS.


developed.
The salmon run in the Skeena river has
commenced.
Petaluma is securing subscriptions to pur-
chase dredger.
In the Truckee Meadows the river has
flooded about 1000 acres Of land.
Three rustlers of Moscow, Idaho, sold
$4,000 worth Of town lots last week.
Nevada City felt series of earth tremors
last Saturday. But few citizens noticed
them.
Recent rich qsartz discoveries at Barker
Mont, are creating great excitement among
miners.
o. M. Thune has been arrested a, Portland,
Or. charged with swindling various Eastern
agricultural houses.
Tho Io-year old son of Contractor Newell
of Spokane Falls was swept over the falls at
that place and drowned
Henry Sullivan, who killed his father-in
law, ]. M. Corrick, Temperance Flat, Fresno
county, has fed to the mountains.
Twenty-nine Chinese landed at Guaymas
Tuesday and Immediately started for the
United States via the Arizona line.
The fruit crop in Placer county, though
late. is above the average in everything. ex-
cept peaches, which will be but half crop.
The two daughters of John Mcdonald of
Albini, Or, aged twelve and five years, fell
from trestle into Montgomery Slough and
were drowned.
The painters and GLACIERS at Seattle are
on a strike, the first on account of the mixed
working of union and non- union men, and the
latter want shorter hours.
No freight trains have been moving on the
Union Pacific, between Portland and Una
tilla, since Sunday, owing to the strike Of
the conductors and brakemen.
No trains are running on the Union Pa
,ci6c or Northern Pacific branches in the Occur
d'Alenes, Idaho, owing to the floods, the
water being at the highest point ever known.
Mrs. F. A. Bresler, who resided within
five miles of Traver, killed her little girl aged
eleven years, and then took her own life
Monday. She evidently had been driven
insane by domestic troubles.
The water is within three and one half
inches of the highest point ever reached on
Union Island, and the work of Strengthening
the levees is receiving earnest attention.
The crops on the island were never better.
The Chinese under examination at Los
Angeles for having crossed the line from
Mexico are seeking to prove that they had
been decoyed across the line by United
States Marshals and arrested as soon as they
had passed over.
The people of Portland are beginning to
be alarmed at the reorganization by the
Chinese of the old highlander societies un-
der the charitable cloak. There is belief
that trouble among those people of muir
derous character is brewing.
The suit of Estep VS.. Armstrong in eject
.ment to recover about two hundred acres of
land, upon which about half the town of
Lakeport is built, has been decided in favor
of Armstrong, and the town people celebra-
ted the event by firing anvils.
Mrs. Mcclure of Marysville is at Grass
Valley looking up evidence to convict her
son-in-law of perjury in swearing that her
daughter was nineteen years of age when he
ran away with and married her. The prin-
cipal objection to the young man is that
earns only 81 a week.
John H. Hall, an Englishman who went
to San Jose with good recommendations, and
Immediately took an active part in religious
and literary nstitutions, is now under arrest
for swindling. His representations and ap-
parent good standing led many people to
trust to the extent of their means.
The citizens of Salt Lake yesterday held
meeting in favor of free coinage of silver.
One of the resolutions adopted says: GAS
silver was beaten down, not by the law of
demand and supply, but by cruel legislation,
we demand that the letters placed upon it
by that legislation shall be broken"
All the farmers and berry -raisers in the
vicinity of West Compton, Los Angeles
county, have concluded to in future dispense
with Chinese labor during the straw berry
the past to work about 500 Cinnamon for two
months, they receiving 81 day. The pro-
ducers have concluded to employ white chill
dren to do the picking from now out at the
same rate Of wages.
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