Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-06-14

Caterpillars are stripping the trees at San.
II Rosa, Cal.
San Diego had two distinct shocks Of
earthquake Tuesday.
The Union Pacific expects to run into Sc
attic by December, 1891.
Snow fell on the surrounding mountains at
Belmont, New, on Monday.
The latest behring's seen in Monterey Bay
in twenty-five years are reported numerous
at Moss Landing now.
The Sacramento river is failing at the rate
ef about one inch in twenty-four hoars. 1t
COW marks ~ feet inches.
The Pomona Timer. Cos~iv says the re.
.ceipts from all the orange groves Of Pomona
Valley average 5000 an acre this year.
The fishermen in the neighborhood of Sac.
zamento have formed union and chosen one
man to handle all fish caught by ahem.
A halfinterest in the bonanza group Of
mines in the Harqua Hala district, Ito miles
northwest Of Phoenix, A. T., has been sold.
The plasterers Of Portland have declared
their strike of. 1t is believed all the other
trades now ont will return to work in few
days.
At Las Cruces, N. NJ, the small-pox is re-
ported to be very virulent, not less than one
hundred deaths occurring within the past few
weeks.
Twenty -four Cinnamon were captured in
Arizona, having crossed the line from Quay
mas and taken to Tucson. -Four boys were
in the party.
The little town of Porterville, Tulare
county. had a FIRE Tuesday morning which
destroyed FIVE business houses. The total
loss is about $1,000.
Walter w. Philips of San Francisco, who
shot himself at Sacramento, Sunday, with
suicidal intent, is getting along nicely and
will probably recover.
Its estimated that before the present &C.
.tivity in the cattle market closes full Iso, 900
animals will be shipped to the East from
New Mexico and Arizona.
A contract has been entered into to build
q road from MERGED to Oakdale. The road
will be forty miles in length and will open
up rich section of country.
Frank Hansbrough, brother of Congress
man Hansbreugh, Of North Dakota, has been
convicted Of grand larceny at Fresno and
will be sentenced next Monday.
A quantity Of strychnine has been found
on the person Of Charles Freeman, condemned
to death for drowning in barrel Mark
Feeney, at Antelope, Sacramento county.
The trial Of Constable H. L. Flick Of Au-
burn, indicted at Stockton for kidnapping
the wife Of Go Sam, Chinese merchant. in
March last, has begun at the latter place.
The Bishop Register wants an Indian
school in Owens Valley and says the Piutes
themselves appreciate the advantages Of ed.
,ucation and have themselves set up q school
at Big Pine.
Yesterday at Milwaukee, near Portland,
Or, Daniel Harvey, while laboring under a
fit Of insanity, shot his mother and then blew
out his own brains. The mother lived but
few hours afterward.
A big tree in the Mammoth Forest, fifty
two miles east of Tulare, is being taken out
for exhibition. The tree is ninety.nine feet
in circumference. 1t is intended also for the
Chicago Worlds Fair.
The Modesto jury in the damage case Of
H. A. endenhall VS.. the Southern Pacific
Railroad has given $as. 900 to the plaintiff.
Mendenhall was injured in railroad acct.
dent at .Oskdale in August last.
The Mexican authorities at Magdalena,
Sonora. refuse to allow the return Of Ameri.
can cattle which stray into Mexico, and have
ordered all American cattle hereafter found
across the line to be taken up and sold.
The Governor of Montana has sent 1000
stand Of arms to Miles City. The Cheyennes
are of the regular camp and are shooting
into settlers houses and wantonly killing
cattle. The people are greatly alarmed.
In 4 struggle at Sacramento Sunday be.
tween man named Whitaker and his wife
for the possession Of pistol, the charge was
exploded and the ball entered the wife's side
and killed her. The parties were colored,
and the contest for the pistol was not in anger.
LII. Leach Of Vancouver, WASH, a lead
ing member of the Board of Education of
Washington State, has made the announce.
;ment to the Board At Olympia that he has
been oferrd IS 900 as bride to bring about