Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-05-03
COAST ITEMS.

9th. is SAT-.
The Colorado river is higher than it has
been for twenty years.
Coal Of the highest grade has been found
At Carisa, San Louis Obispo county.
National City has an olive oil mill that
will soon be handling thirty two tons day.
The Los Angeles restaurant-keepers have
protested against the giving of dinners for
price by the ladies of the churches.
1t is claimed that the great tmother lode"
has been discovered in Fresno county by the
Kings Gulch Mining Company of Grub
Gulch.
J.P. McCoombs, Secretary Of the Seattle
Relief Committee, was arrested Tuesday on
a charge of transportation Of the commit
tees funds.
William E. Johnson, colored, was arrested
at Portland, Or, yesterday. He charged
with the murder of Jennie McGarvie last
March in Chicago.
1t is now ascertained almost beyond a
doubt that Phineas Lamb, miner, living
at Selma, CAL, was lost in severe snow
storm last January.
Mrs. Alice Reuter-, wLo was charged with
receiving stolen goods from the Brunswick
Hotel At Santa Ana, has been acquitted of
the charge by jury.
A man called "Maltese joe had his skull
fractured by the chief clerk Of the Truckee
Hotel at Truckee Monday. Joe was drunk
and attacked the clerk.
1t is feared that Steve Sisk, one Of the
Commissioners of Boise City, Idaho, who has
deem missing for some time, has persisted in
the snow. He was pioneer.
The Japanese crew of the sealing schooner
Penelope at Victoria got DRINK and for a
while run the vessel, cutting Mate Lunberg
severely. The Japs are now in Jail.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the farmers
in that part of the country are followed by
large numbers of seagulls that get rich pick
ings out of the fresh-turned burrows.
Spokane Falls is taking steps to build
mineral palace from ores taken from tributary
mining camps. The Northwest Exposition
will open September 18th at Spokane.
John Major, an Indian living near the
klamath Agency, Or, killed his wife and
brother Indian and was subsequently, killed
by posse of Indians. Major is supposed
to have been insane.
A shower of worms fell near San Andreas
station, In Santa Cruz county, Tuesday. The
worms resemble the grub, were white in COL
or and had red eyes. They were a new
species to the residents.
Three salmon canneries on the Columbia
River are running, notwithstanding the strike.
Non union men and ranchers furnish the fish
which are in plenty. The fish wheels at the
Cascades are doing we'll.
A fight has taken place between union and
non- union fishermen on the Columbia river
in which several men are said to have been
wounded. Winchester rifles were used.
More bloodshed is expected.
Captain Henry Olsen ofthe sealing schoon-
er Bessie Rutler, which left Astoria ten days
ago, shot and killed sailor, named Billy
Stevens, who was rebellious and advancing
in threatening manner on the Captain.
Five men in all were shot in the fight on
the Columbia river between union and nom
union fishermen. Three were killed. More
trouble is apprehended and the non- union
men are purchasing guns and ammunition.
Two men endeavored to kidnap Mrs. Frank
L. Barkley, the wife of Tacoma building
contractor, Sunday. Her husbands timely
appearance put to fight the men who had
thrown blanket saturated with chloroform
over her head.
George Ross, one of the men with Colonel
Patterson in his search for the lost Adams
diggings, while out in the Zuni Mountains,
where he stopped to cook meal, was, it is
believed, fatally wounded by the Zunis.
He reached Gallup, N. NJ, Tuesday it is
believed in dying condition.
The first through stage to the Yosemite
arrived at Wawona WEDNESDAY. reporting the
road permanently open for tourist travel for
the season. In places road had to be made |
through banks of snow fifteen feet high, |
more snow having fallen in that section than
has been known for many years.
There are only two passes between Taco
ma and Olympia. The Union Pacific is
seeking to occupy both of them and shut out
the Northern Pacific. Three crews of men
are now slashing on the right-of-way between
Tacoma and the Nesqually river, while
fourth crew is at work between the river and
Olympia.
party of Chinese while trying to evade
the officers on the Lower California border
got into the desert. where their exnerience