Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-02-01
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Seattle.
There is caol-oil famine in the north
western cities.
Japanese domesics are dispacing Cinese
at Oakland, Cal.
A family is wintering in hollow tree
near Healdsburg, Cal.
San Luis Rey Valley. CAL, is filling up
with English colonists.
John Bisbey has been held at Napa, CAL,
for outraging woman.
Several more of the Wham abby witness
es have been indicted for perjury.
Mrs. Rankin, of Pasadena, Cal, has twice
taken poison lately, but was saved.
CAPTAIN Shepard, of the cutter Rush, has
been made chief of the revenue marine.
NJ P. Martin assaulted Mrs. J. Taylor, at
Cottage Grove, Or, and she shot him dead.
Navigation on the Sacramento river is LA
BILE to be permanently stopped by the change
of course.
Lucy Weller, aged I6, committed suicide
at Los Angeles because her father had be-
come poor.
The sentence of C. HI. Wilson, San
Francisco murderer, has been committed
from nineteen years to ten
Sandy Odds has got new trial at Port
land, Or He murdered brother gambler
named Morgan for informing.
The Supervisors of Placer county, Cal,
are to be petioned to raise the price of liquor
licenses from 500 year to $500.
Charges that the Chinese gamblers have
been regularly paying for immunity from ar
rest are being investigated at Stockton.
"There are $1,000 children in Salt Lake
City without the pale Of Christian influence"
said a local clergyman Sunday evening
Beans from Santa Barbara and Ventura
counties, Cal, are complained of by Eastern
customers as having been damaged by rain.
Three stages per week was the average of
the lone highwayman operating in the Sier-
ra Nevada mountain towns before he was
captured.
The starting up of new $3.50, 900 reduc-
ton plant of the Eureka & Excelsior mine
at Cracker Creek, Oregon, marks an era in
that section.
1t has been rumored that Ex-Governor
Blaisdel, of Nevada, has made arrangements
to purchase the Nevada City quartz mine, at
Nevada City, Cal.
The first white person born in Oregon
died near Chehallis, WASH, on the 10th of
last December, aged 6o years. His name
wos Marcel Bernier.
w. L. Ryder has just been promoted to
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Wyoming Divi-
sion of the Union Pacific railroad. Mr. Ry-
der commenced railroading as brakeman.
The proposed abandonment Of Fort Mojavc
has alarmed settlers along the Colorado, and
they have asked General Miles to use his
influence to have the garrison maintained
there.
son of S. F. Aver, Of San Jose, Cal.
was arrested some time ago on suspicion Of
being ferger. Now his father is about to
sue the officers for damages for the illegal
arrest.
Part OF Monrovia, Cal, was homesteaded
by DR.. Mueller, of Los Angeles, and he
contracted, in violation of law, to sell it to
the town company before he had his patent.
Action has been brought to cancel the pat.
ent.
The Los Angeles Council has declared for
feited the franchise given to the Salt Lake &
Los Angeles railroad over year ago to en-
ter that city, on the ground that the work re-
quired by the terms If the franchise had not
been done.
Methodist minister named Bond has dis
appeared from Dixie Corners, Wash, with
the wife Of man hailing from Minnesota.
Bonds conduct has been apparently exem-
plary while at work at his station since last
September.
Frederick Hoyt, Richard Murray and F.
Stowe have been identified by farmer
whom they robbed and who overheard them
discussing the murder of young Crosby, who
was shot down in cold blood at Tacoma,
WASH, last October
Johnny Wolfshill of Solano county came
to California in 1916. A few years ago some
one asked the old gentleman what sort of n
Winter we were going to have. Said he:
81 don't know, I've been here too long. Go
and ask some immigrant who has just come
in"
Six new vessels are on the stocks at
Turner's shin yard at Renicia Cal Two are