Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-09-13

San Diego is to establish tannery.


The strike at Wellington is about over.
Fully 100 men are working.
An approximation Of the population Of
Helena, Mont, under the recount makes it
about 5000.
The State Far at Sacramento claims to be
the finest yet seen in the Pavilion displays
and on the stock ground.
Marshal Kelly Of Nevada City is charged
with being accessory 10 the murder Of Agos-
fino Piezz, at You Bet, in August, 1889.
The body of Captain Hay, one of the Petrol
victims in the Bay Of San Diego, has been re.
covered. Three bodies are yet missing.
A snake cucumber seven feet long and re-
sembling hideous green snake coiled. was
shown the Los Angeles Express few days
ago.
A highlander, Look Sing Sing, shot and It
is believed MORALLY wounded Loo Soon, a
tan game proprietor, at Sacramento Monday
night.
Jack Barry, wealthy saloon-keePer near
Carter, Mont, a few days ago knocked Pat
WEIGH, miner, down and kicked him to
death.
Ninety-6ve men are employed at the
Monte Vista logging camp in Santa Barbara
county. They are getting out $1,000 feetof
logs day.
A recount makes the population of Salem,
Or, Io,4o7. as against 1891 announced by
the first enumeration and afterward correct
ed to $500.
An 8-foot seam of coal discovered at Union
Bay, B. c., has been prospected and coal
field equal to the famous Wellington has
been unearthed.
An old prospector bought piece Of ground
near Nevada City the other day for 5000. He
went for gold, and soon struck deposit that
will pay him 5000.
An infant daughter Of Walter Sheldon of
Spokane Falls got possession OF parlor
matches while in its baby carriage and was
burned so badly that death quickly followed.
There were fifteen killed and seven wound
ed at the Northern Pacific yards last Satur-
day by the explosion Of two premature blasts.
There were thirty-hve men at work at the
time.
Father Camp employs $50 Piute Indians in
picking hops near Folsom, Sacramento .coun-
~. Their time is kept by young woman
Of the tribe who is a graduate Of the Reno
High School.
Copper from the mines in the south part Of
Josephine county, Or, has begun to arrive
by the wagon load, says the Grants Pass
Courier. This will be shipped to San Fran
cisco for practical mill test.
A column of army worms invaded Wood
bridge, Yolo county, last Wednesday. 1t was
half mile long, says the Mail, and was
followed by immense swarms of blackbirds
that were enjoying hearty feed.
The Butte and Champion stage coach was
held up Wednesday in Brown Gulch, about
sixteen miles from Butte, by one masked man,
who made the two male passengers take Of
their coats and vests, so that he could search
them. A lady passenger was not disturbed.
Sunday morning forest fire broke out on
Merkley's place, ten miles south of Grass
Valley, and it has burned vast tracts of val
liable timber and numerous fences. The
barns and houses Of the farmers have been
saved by hard work. At one time Chicago
Park was in great danger.
About one hundred hardened characters
and desperate gamblers had full control Of
the Oregon express from Marysville to Sac
,ramento Monday. They terrorized the pas
sengers and robbed them OF their hat-checks.
The trainmen were powerless, and the pas
sengers were cowed and frightened.
The condition Of the Indians in Long Val
icy. near Salmon river, Idaho, is very threat
ening. The red man thinks the whites have
no right to the country and wants them to
leave. The settlers are greatly excited and
many of them are leaving their ranches and
focking to central point in the valley.
At the Tongue River Agency, in Montana,
the murder of white man has aroused the
settlers. They had declared this Summer
that if another white man was killed they
would send the women and children out of
the country, and, together with the cowboys,
wage a war Of determination on the Indians.
This they are abund antly able to do.
The steamship George w. Elder, while
passing through Glacier Bay, Alaska, at
half-speed, ran into an iceberg which drove
a hole three feet square into the vessel. She
had to be beached, and the break temporari-