Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-08-09
COAST ITEMS.

Ventura farmers are busy harvesting their
lima beans.
Mrs. Annie Koebel jumped overheard from
the upper deck of the steamer Latona
Wednesday, while approaching Portland and
was drowned.
lanes G. Colmesnil, at one tim. United
States Consul at Samoa, is charged at Seat
tie with forgery.
A number Of miners went to work at We'll
lington, Monday. All the houses OF the
company have been vacated.
The Santa Rosa Republican says tramps
fad paradise in the corr-6elds and melon
patches along the Russian river.
Joseph L. Stillman, who shot John D.
Fiske at Fresno, pleaded not guilty in court.
His trial will begin next Monday.
Seattle is going to invite the Grand Army
Encampment, which meets at Boston this
year, to meet at the Sound City next year.
The section hands on the Santa Fe Road
between Las Vegas and Albuquerque, N. NJ,
are on strike for an increase of IS cents a
day in wages.
The State Board of Forestry has 80, 900
tan-bark waffle trees growing at Santa Mon
lea. They will be gratuitously distributed
the coming winter.
Oregon claims that a new census will show
that State has been shorn of its proper popu-
lation to the extent Of 90, 900 or 10, 900, and
will pray for a recount.
Many settlers in the Big Bend country, in
Washington. have been driven away by the
ravages of squirrels that swarm in countless
numbers in that region.
John Schaefer was knocked down in the
streetsof Sacramento Monday night and shot
in the shoulder because he would not s.treat"
two men whom he met.
The udion printers on the four daily papers
at Los Angeles are on strike against re-
duction in wages. The morning papers prom
Used toi issue to-day notwithstanding the strike
Alexander Thompson has been convicted
at Jackson, Amador county, of murder in the
first degree, he having killed VIM. Spray.
The punishment inflicted is life imprisonment
Fred Graves, patient in the Pacific Asy-
lum, private institution in Stockton, CON-
mitted suicide on Monday by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with piece OF glass
from broken goblet.
The four Indians who killed the Indian
medicine man, Bullock, near Mariposa, last
June, will be tried in September. Bullock
was killed according to Indian custom be-
cause he had lost patient.
J.W. Ingraham, ranch employe near
Sacramento, objected to the breakfast cooked
by Chinmen and the latter started for In
graham with knife and Ratchet. Timely
help saved Ingraham's life.
A ranch hand near Tuscarora, New, was
impaled on a pitchfork last week. He fell
from wagon load of hay and the prongs of
the pitchfork pierced his lower jaw and
passed clear through into his nostril.
The Susanville Mail asserts that title to
desert land in Lassen county is being obtain
ed by fraud, and specifies cases where title
has been confirmed to $40 acres when the
claimant had not enough water to irrigate an
acre.
The fruit-cutters at o. c. Browns orchard
at Lemoore struck for raise from 20 cents a
hundred pounds for cutting apricots and IS
cents for cutting peaches, Tuesday morning
of last week. Brown promptly filled their
places.
Sixty miles of the Santa Fe Road between
Benson and Nogales. A. T., is washed out
by rains, and rail communication to Sonora
is cut off. The Santa Cruz river is flooding
the valley, and is higher now than at any
time during the flood.
A. ]. Raglan at Nevada City catches liz
ards with a hook baited with flies. He
throws his line on the rocks and the little
reptiles eagerly spring for the ly. He pre-
sents the lizards thus captured, the Herald
says to "ciry girls who have never seen a
lizard BEFORE"
Rev. Joseph Wexler, alias Isaacs, who
worked churches in the West as converted
rabbi, Joined the Baptists at Denver. and f.
nally drifted to Montana, where he joined the
Church Of the Disciples of Christ. was ex-
4 - III
and he slipped away, going, it is said, to
Dakota.
In the course of quarrel over horse at
Roslin, WASH, Tuesday noon negro named
Mayo stabbed and dangerously wounded a
liveryman named Palheny. Mayo was ar
rested, and through fear of lynching was
brought to Ellensburg and jailed. The ne
groes declare that il he is lynched they will