Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-15
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California and Nevada.
Five hundred Chinese quail have been
distributed In Yuba county, Cal.
A FIRE at Moscow, Idaho, destroyed $z5,-
600 worth of property last week.
Walk, the slayer Of Tanner at Petaluma,
CAL, has been acquitted by jury.
Mexican troops have killed one of the
half-dozen Apaches raiding in Sonora.
Montana stockmen are opposed to Swee-
ney's stock-tax bill introduced in Congress.
The haiibut fishing schooner George has
arrived at Neah Bay and reports poor sue
cess.
Carl Brown has been acquitted at Los An.
geles Of the charge of blackmailing Willie
Ghilds.
One million dollars were subscribed in
one day at Portland, Or, for Hunts new
railroad.
An old lady was knocked down at the
Gilbert House, San Rafal, Monday night,
and robbed.
been laid out seven miles northeast of b.
kers6eld, Cal.
Apricot-raisers in Tulare, CAL, fear the
buds have been injured by the cold, frosty
nights of last week.
The shorthand reporter in the Superior
Court at Auburn, CAL, accused of over
charges, has resigned.
T. M. Hughes, who shot and killed Frank
d. Romayne in the Salt Lake Tribune Office
some months ago, has been acquitted.
E. Padgett persisted in travelling across
p p1oJcoate la CoI,~ I'll IT.
and last Sunday Bledsoe shot his leg off.
Two Acres, Fallen Leaf and several other
valuable mares owned by E. J. Baldwin,
died on his ranch from exposure in the late
storm.
Apaches who have been raiding along the
Sonora line are known to have killed two
more men, and are believed to have killed
Others.
A 500 900 steamer has been ordered from
San Francisco to run on the route between
Tacoma, Seattle and the new town of Ana
cortes.
Many Digger Inkians have gone into
Marysyille, Cal. They say game is too
scarce in the mountains and there is nothing
TO eat there.
The Tacoma Nez0s declares tn at valua-
BILE field of cooking coal, the first in Wash
ington, has been discovered fifteen miles
from that city.
Two men have been arrested at Spokane
Falls for attempting to fire the Albemarle
House, near where the confagration of last
August started.
Cattle are being driven from Southern
California across the Colorado Desert to
Yuma. The saving of freight makes the
drives very profitable.
The Tonic Indians are reported to be sui
len and many. have not reported for rations.
About thirty Indians, most Of whom are in
irons, are in the guard-house on the San
Carlos Reservation.
There have been several cases of cars
jumping the track in the Slerras owing to
the bad condition Of the road-bed, which
the storms have created, and trains have been
ordered to run slower.
A man named Holland fired three bullets
into Marcel Costeau, at Iona Alta, near
Oceanside, San Diego county, CAL, a few
days ago, because he had employed Mrs.
Holland as housekeeper.
Queen Angeline. daughter Of Chief Seat.
tie, from whom Seattle was named, is to &C.
company George Francis Train on his trip
around the world against time, according to
reports from Seattle, Angelina is SO years
old.
The crew Of the American sealing schoon-
er Lily L., Of San Francisco, unite in charg.
ing Captain Moorehouse with wlllfully pois-
oning Jesse H. Sturgess, aged nineteen,
whose relatives reside on farm near Port
land, Oregon.
s'Dirty Foot" Sioux buck, on Bad river,
South Dakota, got drunk and struck squaw
with an ak, fracturing her skull. A crowd
of bucks gathered and threw ''Dirty Foot"
into fire and kept him there until he was
burned to crisp.
There is great excitement at Los Angeles,
owing to the finding of body which is be.
lieved to be one of the two sailors who were
taken from the schooner Nettie Sandburc at
San Pedro by members of the Sailors Union,
and who have not been heard Of since the
abduction.
Old Chief Colorow is dead, his medicine
man has been killed by order Of the new
Chief for witchcraft, the slayers have been
killed by the medicine-man's friends, and
the Chief with the whole Cocopah tribe is
now trying to kill all the medicine mans
male relatives,
J. w. Wesley owns foothill ranch near
Pomona, Cal. Last September he invested
$4S in chickens and has spent one hour day
looking after them. His receipts from this
single branch have been nearly $500. and he
cannot supply all his orders for eggs and
chickens. The business pays.
An attempt Of Justice of the Peace at
Tacoma to attach the British ship Craigend
is liable to bring trouble to the Justice. His
keepers were placed on the vessel and they
seized the chronometer, quadrant and COM
pass and carried them ashore, without auth
Irritation by United States officials.
Mrs. Edward Boyle. Of Gold Hill, was
bathing her breast with coal oil last Monday
to break cold, and the fluid dripping on
her clothing was ignited by lamp. The
woman,s flesh from her loins tn the TON of