Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-06-21

The Tacoma cracker factory was burned
Sunday.
A sea lion was captured in the streets Of
Suisun recently.
George Francis Train is to start a news
paper At Tacoma, Wn.
The Howe Packing Company, to handle
the fruit products Of Fresno has been organ.
lied.
&c. Van Dores, . recent arrival at Los
Angeles from Nebraska, has fallen heir to
$4,000.
The hest was 80 intense last Sunday that
it melted honey in the hives in San Diego
county, Cal.
The Grand Epcampmsnt Of Indian War
Veterans Of the North Pacific Coast is in ses-
sion 1t Portland.
A whale seventy feet long was driven
ashore BY some 6nny antagonist at aLencadia,
San Louis Obispo.
William Bennett, rancher, was drowned
in the flooded tules seven miles north Of Rio
Vista, CAL. Sunday.
In one building in Nooksack City. WASH,
q church. saloon and clothing store are
all under the same roof.
FIG. Van Pelt, who worked of = bogus
check On his landlady 1t San Francisco. has
been arrested At Stockton.
An artesian we'll on Charles Smiths farm
near Anaheim, Orange county, CAL, Is con-
.stantly throwing out small fish.
It is said that not less than thirty Dunksrd
families will settle at Lordsburg. Los Ange-
les county, before next January.
The trial Of General H. L. Gordon for IS.
sault to murder c. H. Potter, began in the
Superior Court At San Jose Tuesday.
Thomas Bryant, eighteen years Of age,
was arraigned at Butte City, Montana, the
FIRST Of this week for killing his mother.
The ,warehouse-men of Sanger, CAL, en-.
courage bull snakes to ream about their
grain stacks, a they kill so many rats and
mice.
Indians in Okanogan county, WASH, are
causing considerable apprehensions among
TIE settlers. They are robbing and threat.
.ening the settlers.
The 6remen and coal-passers Of the AlKi
have struck at Tacoma. owing, it is alleged,
to violation BY the steamer Of an agreement
entered into at San Francisco.
Calvin B. Gardner, . popular dentist at
Spokane Falls, and F. NJ. Tull, the son Of
wealthy merchant Of that city, were swept
ever the falls Sunday and drowned.
A Sac. 900 FIRE occurred on the ranch Of
&C. Smith near MERGED. CAL, the FIRST Of
this week. The wind swept the FIRE over =
strip Of country thirteen miles in length.
A$3oo nugget Of gold, with about two
ounces Of quartz. was found by two miners
two miles east Of Shasta, CAL, q few days
ago, in what is known as Pocket Diegings.
Charles Norris cowboy, east Of Pres.
colt, A. T.. some six weeks ago was bitten
on the nose by . small skunk while lying
asleep in camp, and died Wednesday in great
agony from hydrophobia.
The vineyardists in and around Mcpherson
and Ell Modena, CAL, are jubilant over the
fact that their vines are again sprouting roots
which were supposed to be dead. The
dreaded vine disease has also disappeared.
Six American prospectors ran into band
of eighteen Apaches on the eastern slope Of
the Sierra Madres, in Sonora. Mexico. and
had running fight for fifteen miles, and on
ly escaped on account Of the Aeetness Of
their horses.
Joseph c. Thorton. young attorney from
Loeansville, Ind, . graduate Of Yale and
highly indorsed, committed suicide by hang.
ing At Seattle Wednesday. His action can
not be explained. He was not in want, and
was quite prosperous.
Three camps, numbering 1000 workmen
OF the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and
Port Townsend Southern, are at work on
railroads in Olympia. Wash. The latter
camp is driving 1900 piles At deep water
on the west-side terminal.
Until recently the Chinese have expert.
,enced no difficulty in crossing at Tia Juana
into San Diego. but SINCE Collector Of the
Port Berry and Marshal Gard have succeed
ed in capturing about forty Mongolians At
that place, that route has been abandoned.
The Board Of Directors Of the Modesto
Irrigation District has purchased the Whea.
ton dam and all the water rights and claims
OF NJ. A. Wheaton upon the Tuolumne river
for $aI.ooo. The payment is to be 10000
cash and ST., 600 in bonds Of the district, at