Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-01-11
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A potato famine is reported at Tacoma.
Los Angeles is organizing raid on lot
tery-ticket sellers.
Almond trees are in full blossom in Capay
Valley, Yolo county.
Grading on the Oregon Pacific has beer
stopped by snowstorms.
There are forty feet of snow on some O.
the Central Pacific sheds.
Faro and Chinese lottery games are run
nirg with open doors at Sacramento.
Navigation in the Columbia and Villa
mette is suspended, ewing TO the ice.
A Salt Lake man predicts deluge in the
spring and is building himself an ark.
Eubahks, who murdered his daughter al
Los Gatos, is to be tried on the 10th of Feb
Major Heuer's report fails to allay the
fears that the Sacramento river may change
its course.
The Colusa Gazette says: Catfish are eat
ing wheat on the land where that proposed
canal was to be dug.
A Portland, Oregon, commission merchant
has paid out $4,000 for Iowa-raised eggs
during the past two months.
The clear cold weather has been beneficial
10 the fruit in California, retarding the saI
which had started in the trees.
Two women, occupying different rooms in
a Seattle hotel last Saturday night, blew out
the gas and narrowly escaped death.
Joseph Casey, who killed David Matheson
at Williams, on the Ist Of January. has been
bound over on the charge Of murder.
Henry Miller, arrested for killing an un-
known man at Tacoma, one night last week,
has confessed to having committed the deed
Judge Joseph Anderson, Of Sacramento,
was stabbed during an alteration with an
employee on Monday at his Ell Dorado ranch.
The scale is on many of the apple, pear
and almond trees in Sonoma county, CAL,
according to the report Of the Board Of Hor-
ticulture.
The Tacoma murder mystery is still un-
ravelled. The body Of the unknown man
has been exposed for five days and is still
unrecognized.
Petaluma has a body Of White Caps, so il
is stated, and man who deserted his wife,
lcJ TaacJo, tot ipp
from that body.
Hale and Baughman, owners of hydraul-
ic mine at Indian Diggings, Ell Dorado
county, promises to impound their tailings il
permitted to resume work.
The Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines in
Montana are being thoroughly examined with
the intention to commence work in them il
the fires are extinguished.
A dangerous counterfeit of $40 silver GER
tifcates is floating about the stores in Salt
Lake City. Three were conhscated in one
OF the banks last Thursday.
Spokane Falls is worked up over the con-
duct Of andertakers, who volunteer to bury
persons in INDECENT circumstances and then
sell the body to physicians.
A genius has succeeded in inventing a
machine for wrapping oranges that does the
work Of three men. He says that it can
wrap 1880 oranges an hour.
There is a report in Seattle that Skaggs,
the agent in that city for the Northern Pacific
Railroad, is defaulter for considerable
sum, and is now in Victoria, B. C.
Daniel E. Bandmann has begun suit for
$4,000 against the Northern Pacific, because
it failed to deliver his baggage at Spokane
Falls in time to fill his engagements.
A woman known as Gertie Montrosc, sa-
loon piano player, believed to be the daugh-
ter Of prominent San Francisco physician
committed suicide at Seattle Wednesday
morning.
A corporation has organized in Oregon to
construct railroad. telegraph and telephone
line from East Portland by the most pract-
cal route by way Of the towns of Sellwood
and Milwaukee to Oregon City; also, rail-
road company to run to Barlow Station from
Oregon City.
A very rich quicksilver mine has been
discovered in Pierce county, Wash. The
assays show IS TO 90 per cent. of mercury.
The mine is located within thirty miles OF
Tacoma. The specimens Of cinnabar are
very rich, and it is stated that the deposits
are practically inexhaustible.
During the recent floods at Anaheim every
hummock was swarming with hare and rab-
bits that were driven from the plains. They
were slaughtered by thousands by boys and
men, who used sticks. and when tired of the
sport they would run the poor beasts OIL their
dry places into the raging waters.