Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-12-06
COAST IrE,1s.
Seattle and Tacoma are now clear

. Snow-plows are running on the
Central Pacifcin the aerras. The
sheds are reported in good condition.
Whatcom, Wash, is now a port
of entry, and the customs Office will
be open for business iii few days.
The snowfall at Lake Tahoe was
18 inches at last report and it was
believed it would reach 3feet before
the storm ended.
James Donagan, of Virginia City,
New, feIl.a distance Of fifteen feet
at Grass Valley, Wednesday, and
was crippled, probably for life.
DR.. Alice Virgins, the first
woman who graduated from the
Cooper Medical College Of San Fran
cisco, died at Anaheim, recently.
w. r. Lehman, engineer of a
Union Pacific surveying party at
Seattle, was drowned by the upset
ting of a sail-hoat in the sound
Monday.
The teachers Of Spokane Falls
are on a strike. They have resolved
that no position shall be accepted
for less than $50 per month. The
present average is $50.
Alexander P. Russell, who plead
ed guilty to the charge of criminal
assault upon Miss Alice Peace at
San Jose, has been sent to San
Quentin for forty-five years.
The grape crop has been practi-
caliy all gathered, and the rain this
week did no injury, but gave great
pleasure to stockmen and farmers
who are anxious to begin blowing.
Herbert Palmer, a young man,
went into store at Dayton, Wash,
called for a pistol, had it loaded,
and then saying "stand back | am
going to kill myself" sent a bullet
through his body.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck, wild
.ow of J. E. Hollenbeck, at Los An
geles, has decided in trust about
100000 worth of property to found
a home for INDECENT women and
homeless children.
A large deposit of onyx has been
uncovered on the Wenatchee river,
near Elleasburg, WASH, A compa-
ny with a capital of a quarter Of a
million of dollars has been organ
lied to develop the ledge.
Editor Gill of the Phodnix, A. T.,
Republican has to answer an, indict-
ment for libeling ex-Chief Justice
Wright, beside four indictments on
charges preferred by Ex-Governor
Znlick of the same character.
Millions of fish are landlocked in
Washoe Lake and are rapidly being
destroyed by cranes and pelicAns.
The water is not over foot deep
and the finny creatures may easily
be.captured. They are mostly perch
and whitefsh.
The presbytery has erased the
name of the Rev. d. L. Munro, the
Stockton minister, who made a SEN
sational confession few Sundays
ago, from the roll of the ministry
and dissolved his relations with the
Stockton church.
Mrs. Merrill, at Portland, is hav-
ing made post-mortem examina-
ton of the body of her mother
Mrs, Victoria Langrez, whom she is
charged with having poisoned. II
is generally believed Mrs. Langrez
died from alcoholism.
The Salt Lake Tribune has been
sued for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of an alleged libel on Father
Gatien, who went to Salt Lake and
sold town-lot certificates in Spokane
Falls. He was said by some Cath
.olics to be fraud, and the Tribune
mentioned this.
Governor Waterman has pardon
ed H. Gallagher, sentenced from
Placer county in February, 1880
to State Prison for life for the crime
of murder, and also Dennis O'Neil,
sentenced from San Francisco in
November, 1888, for twenty years
for the crime Of murder.
The Congressional Committee on
immigration took the testimony on
the Chinese and labor questions Sat
urday of the leading citizens of Ia
coma. All the testimony was
against the Chinese. A majority
of those questioned by the commit
tee expressed the belief that more
than per cent. of the population
of Tacoma are now out of work
The committee is now in Portland
The Boise City, Idaho, Statesman
says: There is an epidemic preva-
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