Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-08
COAST ITEMS.

The Ventura county papers are urging
their readers to plant camphor trees.
The Anderson, CAL, cannery will be ready
to run by the beginning of the fruit season.
Mrs. Sallie Greedy (nee Mckinley, form
erly of Reno, died at Vermil!ion, Mont,
January 10Th.
Elmer Hagenbaugh, who stole books from
the State Library at Sacramento, has been
sentenced to three years at Folsom.
Woodland saloon keepers do not hesitate
to give liquor to any boy or girl who has
money to pay for it, says the Democrat.
Ramon Lyon, a I5-year-old boy at Gilroy,
stepped on rusty nail some days ago. and
died Of lockjaw as result last Tuesday
F, There was big row in a Panaca house
hold last week because of the wife taking
| the husbands liver pad for use as hustle
Ninety-fve men at Kelseyville, Lake
county, signed the pledge in one day last
week, and the only saloon in town is now
closed.
George J. Royce, who has been employed
by the Northern Pacific Terminal Company,
is under arrest for passing worthless drafts
at Portland.
The Crowley mine, near Callahan's Ranch,
Siskiyou county, shows bonanza which con-
sists of two parellel lodges, each thirty feet
| wide, with plenty of free gold.
Fred Klein and Frank Cunther, two young
men at Marysville, quarreled about young
lady and had rough and tumble fight for
half an hour. Both were badly battered.
A locomotive on the Atlantic and Pscihc
railroad was run from Coolidge to Albu-
querque, N. NJ, a few days ago, without any
smokestack, barrel being substituted.
For more than two months, not wheeled
vehicle has been seen on the streets of Tus-
carora. 1t is longest sleighing period that
was ever known since the settlement of the
district.
The Riverside Press says Southern Cali
fornia needs 5000 mich COWS and 10, 900
laying hens much more than she wants East
ern tourists, new railroads or separate Stale
government.
Julius A. Stratton and Thomas T. Humes
have been appointed Superior Judges for
King county, Wash. These offices were
provided for by the Legislature owing to the
great accumulation of legal business.
AT Cherry Creek the miners are preparing
to work large acres of placer ground this
Spring. During the Winter they have sunk
many prospect shafts, and found an amount
of gold in the gravel that will pay well for
sluicing.
A Portland dispatch says contract was
executed in San Francisco Monday between
the officials of the Union Pacific and Frank
Upton of Japan, providing for monthly
line Of steamers between Portland and Ash
attic ports.
The Umatlla Reservation will probably
be opened to settlement this Spring. The
lands to be sold lie adjacent to Pendleton,
Oregon, and amount to 100, 900 acres. They
will he sold to actual settlers and only 200
acres to each.
The Indians depredating in Arizona are
said to number about SIX. There is no fear
of general outbreak, although the con-
ditions are good for a raid, there being an
abundance of feed and water in all the
mountain passes.
Mrs. Woodwork, the tent evangelist, is
drawing large crowds at Santa Rosa, Cal.
Last Sunday, for the first time, she succeed
ed in mesmerzing Bennett Valley farmer,
and before the meeting closed the ground
was strewn with PROSTATE forms.
George Stowe confessed that companion,
Frederick Hoyt, shot and killed Enoch Cros-
by, young and prominent business man of
Seattle, last October, while he was on his
way home. There has been much my stery
over the affair and the confession has created
a sensation at Seattle.
James M. Donahue, a son Of the late Peter
Dohahue, the millionaire, died in San Fran
cisco last Monday night, after long illness.
He was President Of the San Francisco d
Pacific Railroad, Colonel of the Fifth In
fantry, California National Guard, and he
leaves an estate worth about S., 600, 900.
The Winnemucca Siivey State says: The
mining experts who went out to Jungo, say
| there are very few dead cattle and a great
many live ones on the Jackson Creek desert.
The cattle look we'll, and as there are lakes
of water miles from the hills, they now
range and get good feed where they cannot
| in the Summer.