Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-06-07
COAST ITEMS.

The soldiers have all departed from Fort
Bidwell.
Helena, Mont. has just incorporated a
snlning exchange.
The citizens Of Fresno believe hrebugs are
at work in their city.
The rich mining strike near Murray, Idaho,
is attracting prospectors and investors.
Small boys, travelling in gangs, rob Chi
nese on the streets of Albuquerque. N. M.
Ranches at the head Of Silver creek, near
Haley, Idaho. are covered with small grass
hoppers.
The Anaheim Gazette charges that the Co
operative Vegetarian Society at Placentier,
practices free love.
The authors Of the San Diego fllibuster
story are daily fling protests against the gen.
eral public unbelief.
The job printers of Spokane Falls struck
for nine hours with the usual ten hours pay
and carried their point.
Frauds in the matter OF saloon licenses
have been unearthed at Spokane Falls, and
several arrests have followed.
L. P. Reid has been discharged at Wood
land for the killing Of Frank Mcneil. This
action meets with general approval.
Newman. Stanislaus county, Cal., boasts
of the first shipment Of barley to San Fran
cisco. Two carloads left their Tuesday.
But few Cinnamon are gathering cherries
At Haywards. Girls twelve years old are
making from $a to 50 a day picking cherries.
In railway wreck at Isleta, N. NJ, Sat-
,urday, 10 California sheep were killed.
The Indians skinned the carcasses and are
preserving the meat.
Juan Caron, who made felonious assault
on a ten.year-old girl at Truckee, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to four years at the
Folsom State Prison.
The Pointer says the question agitating
Whittier is whether the people there shall
surrender the town to the toughs employed as
stone-cutters on the Reform School.
A representative of leading English brew
ers and hop dealers is at Sacramento endeav-
,oring to secure from hop-growers direct
shipments Of hops to the English market.
Three deaths have resulted from hydropho-
bia, the result of bites from mad coyote in
the Indian village of Laguna, N. M. A
fourth man is i'll, and it is believed will die.
An effort is being made to secure a new
trial for Charles Freeman, the man who in
drunken frenzy drowned a poor sickly fellow
named Mark Feeley in a barrel at Antelope
a few months ago.
Mrs. Oscar Steinberg, who was charged at
Butte, Mont, with an attempt to blow her
sleeping husband into the other world with
giant powder, has been acquitted. Her &C.
complete, a man named Switzer, is still un-
der arrest.
M. A. Wheaton asked 5000, 900 for FIVE
acres Of land that were condemned by the
Tarlock Irrigation Society and in jury trial
q verdict for SOS was given-$rs per acre for
the land and $40 for the division Of lands.
An appeal will be taken.
The cabin Of settler named Daniel Yves.
ley Schriever, near Creston, in San Luis
Obispo county, was burned ito ashes Satur.
day morning and his body nearly consumed
in it. Circumstances show the theory of &C.
.cident or suicide to be untenable.
The United States District Judge at Sc
attic has refused to dismiss the case against
the son of Henry Ward Beecher, notwith-
standing the Department Of Justice at Wash
ington has requested through the District
Attorney that it should be dismissed.
While party from Globe, A. T., were
picnickings boat on Whitfield Lake was up
set, and Miss Frush and companion were
thrown into the water. Jerry Ryan, Sheriff of
ella county, went to the rescue, reached Miss
Frush, but became entangled in the weeds,
and both were drowned.
Huntington's surveyors are making a per-
ma nent location of line from Portland, Or,
to connect with his road at Silverton, and
construction work will be begun in few
days. The work Of changing the east side
narrow. guage to standard guage is already
begun. The contract for building the Union
Pacific branch to the sound has been let.
The lone Echo says: A large saw.mill is
b eing put up about thirty-6ye miles east Of
Plymouth, near old Dogtown, in Ell Dorado
county nv San Francisco Darties who have