Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-10-25

MOnudy.
Charles Warren, patient in the
Napa Asylum, hanged himself
Wednesday.
All gambling games, including
poker, are to be stopped by the Vic
toria, B. c., police.
The case of Stillman, who killed
Fiske at Fresno, it is thought will
go to the jury to-day.
Silver ore assaying $500 to the
ton has been struck in one Of the
mines at lone, Nye county.
Potato digging has commenced in
Sonoma county. Farmers about
Petaluma say the crop is about two
thirds.
The population Of Oregon is 312,-
419; Washington, 349, 51e; Arizona,
1891; Nevada, A, 1927; California
100000.
Matte Scott, the negress, who
shot Willie Scott, at Tacoma, last
April, has returned and surrendered
to the officers.
Willie Airport of Vallejo, sixteen
years old, while duck hunting on
Lake Chabot Tuesday, upset the
boat and was drowned.
A trial now going on at Bellevue,
Idaho, it is believed will cause the
breaking up of a dangerous gang Of
cattle thieves that has long infested
that section.
At Globe, A. T., Tuesday, D. A.
Reynolds, alias Exit" was shot and
killed by Alexander Grayson. Rey-
nolds had abused Grayson and
made threats to Elk" him.
James NJ. Cameron, who was re-
ported to have skipped from Los An
geles, being out on bail on charge
of forgery, turns up all right. He
had been to seaside resort.
Isaac Boles, a native of. Ohio,
seventy-three years of age and a
pioneer, was choked to death Sum
day while eating roast beef, at the
Sierra County Hospital at Downie-
vile.
Governor Waterman has pardon
ed Melvin Congdon, convicted in
San Luis Obispo, October, 1885, of
murder in the second degree and
sentenced to twenty-five years i'm
prisonment.
Joseph L. Stillman, now being
tried at Fresno for killing John D.
Fiske, says his victuals are poisoned
and he refuses to eat. A strong
case of insanity will likely be made
out by his lawyers.
Six tramps, in revenge for being
put off the cars between Sausalito
and San Rafael, tried to wreck a
train Monday by placing rails across
the track. The officers have cap
tured the whole party.
While train of freight cars was
being backed down to the ferry at
Tacoma Wednesday, the coupling
broke and four cars plunged into
the Columbia river. The loss will
aggregate several thousand dollars.
The Advance crops of the Justiti@
Home Corporation has arrived at
San Jose. They have a tract Of
land which is to be worked on the
cooperative principles laid down in
Edward Bellamy's Looking Back
ward"
Three brothers named Whitfield
have been arrested at Astoria, who,
it is said, have confessed to the MUIR
der of young Crosby on the streets
at Tacoma, and for which crime
two men are now serving a term in
the Walla Walla Penitentiary.
Ice manufacturers of Oregon will
increase their storage capacity.
Large buildings are to be put up at
Cililo on the upper Columbia. The
demand for ice used in shipping
fish and by butchers has rapidly
grown until it cannot be filled.
The United States Circuit Court
at Tacoma, in the tide-lands case
there, holds that under the land
laws of the United States the line OF
high tide is the boundary between
land and water, and that an Act of
Congress cannot be SO construed as
to authorize the entry of mud fats,
or tide lands bare at low tide, but
subject to daily overflow.
A vigilance committee Monday
night went to the Santa Barbara
Jail and demanded Ramon Lopez,
who killed Mary Dezrullo because
she would not marry him. The