Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-22
COAST ITEMS.

SOLO OH rapldly.
Snow is four and half feet deep at
Downieville, Cal.
Frank Johns quartz mill at Grass Valley,
was robbed Monday night.
The Las Vegas, N. NJ, Female Seminary
has been Destroyed by fire.
In the vicinity Of Colusa much grain has
been drowned on the East side.
]. R. Hubbs of Tulare county, CAL, has
date palm trees full of fine fruit.
A carload Of premium oranges and lemons
will be sent from Los Angeles TO Chicago.
C. w. Remsburg, the Fresno alleged de-
faulter, has been captured at Portland, Or.
The material for the Motor line at indie
,pendence, Or, will reach that town in May,
sometime.
The loss of cattle in Eastern Washington
does not exceed 20 per cent. and of horses
10 per cent.
Governor Ferry of Washington, has signed
the bill establishing the Australian elective
ballot system.
The Portland .Oyegonian says Mr.. Bing-
ham, Of Crabtree, has lost 1000 head Of
horses by starvation.
The charges of grand larceny against the
manager Of the Brunswick Hotel at Santa
Ana have been dismissed.
Portland is agitating the question Of re-
moving the Chinese from their present quar-
tiers to the outskirts of the city.
The Walnut Grove dam, which recently
broke and caused such damage in Arizona,
will prob ably be rebuilt at an early date.
Several persons walked across Columbia
river at the Dalles on ice Sunday, March I'd.
This has been only done twice since 1850.
The President of the Lower California
Land Association, with three others, has
been arrested on charge of stealing cattle.
Santa Barbara citizens have offered re-
ward of 81 700 for the miscreants who poi
soned two valuable horses near there last
week.
A party of thirty armed men has started
for the Navajo Indian Reservation in search
of the rich quartz that reports have located
there,
A sheep-herder as Lemore, Tulare county,
is said to have an invention by which COM
mon wells are made to flow like artesian
wells.
A man named O'Callaghan emptied his
revolver at two of his friends in the streets
of Vallejo, Sunday, wounding one named
Moylan.
There is a rumor in Sacramento that an ef-
fort will be made there to head off the mold
ers who are on their way to San Francisco
from the East.
Eighty Tonic Indians who were disorderly
and threatening to the agents at Charley
Pans camp on the ella river, A. T., have
been placed under arrest.
Worb;ortoo Ctota bonJs - .o,.. -
debtedness were sold Tuesday at 3H per
cent. with one-eishth of per cent premium
to run from five to fifteen years.
Mr.. Kerr, of Yakima county, WASH, has
sent to Japan for large quantity Of tea
cuttings. He intends to see what can be
done with that plant in his own country.
The Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and
the Canadian Pacific and Navigation Compa-
ny. it is rumored, at Tacoma, have combined
to raise rates and freeze out small boat lines.
L. L. Boone, a San Diego lawyer, was
fined $50 yesterday. His offense was telling
the Court that decision 1t had just rendered
was the most outrageous he had ever heard.
A gang Of the worst kind of desperadoes
infests the mining camps of Southern Santa
Fe county. N. NJ. Hardly day passes but
some act of robbery or shooting is recorded.
The court-martial at Vellejo to try Com
mander J. B. Coughlan was failure because
the witnesses were civilians who refused to
attend, and there were no means of forcing
them.
When the Oregon Pacific is completed
past Prineville, Or, as near as it is intended
TO 60 to that place, the inhabitants announce
their intention of moving the whole town to
location near the track.
At Salt Lake Monday night J. H. Weston,
railroad fireman Of Thistle shot and killed
two men named Winder and Wells, who at
tackled him for the purpose of robbery.
Weston fired twice and killed both men.
Now that it is settled fact that Coos Bay
is the best harbor on the coast of Oregon
outside Of the Columbia river, two railroads
are projected to that section from the Villa
mette Valley, one from Roseburg and the
from Drain.
The contrsct for carrying mails on Lake
Tahoe has been awarded to f. ]. Baldwin
of San Francisco. He has ordered fast
steamer built at Buffalo, N. Y, for this pur-
pose, and it will also carry passengers to all
points Of interest.
The jewelry stolen in California cities last
year by Dickerson and Rogers, the baker
thieves, has been received from New Jersey
by the Sheriff Of San Joaquin county. The
box will next 60 to Los Angeles and then to
Sacramento, where some of the property was
stolen.
As Engineer Spencer was coming down the
mountain twelve miles west Of Bagdad Tues.
day, he saw a man in a nude state run across
the track. waving his arms frantically.
Spencer stopped the engine and endeavored
to catch the man. but he escaped to the
mountains.
The lower iron bridge across the river
near Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley,
has broken down and now lies total wreck
ST the bottom Of the river. The cause was
probably decayed timber resting on the
abutment, or possibly defective iron work.
The bridge broke three years ago and was
thorouphly repaired then