Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-05-24
COAST ITEMS.

Salt Lake expressmen have a union.
The journeymen tailors at Seattle are out
on strike.
Newcastle has sent the first ripe raspberries
to Sacramento.
The timers and metal workers at Tacoma
are on a strike for eight hours day.
Sacramento is trying to break up the gamb.
Ling games inside its corporate limits.
Vancouver, Wash, has begun to rebuild
its court house, which was burned this spring.
Migrants at Sacramento are to be refused
a jury trial in the Police Court of Judge
Buckley.
A 6ae ledge Of iithograhic stone has been
discovered near City Creek Canyon, near
Salt Lake City.
The troops are leaving Fort Mcdowell, A.
T., which is to be abandoned. They 60 to
Fort Lowell, near Tucson.
Monday night. H. w. Pebble, Of Napa,
eloped with Miss Ida Brooks, of St. Helena.
q girl Of seventeen summers.
About 400 union mechanics resumed work
At Portland Wednesday on the 8-hour basis
for the new builders exchange.
All union carpenters who have been at
work near Portland the past week have been
ordered out by the Carpenters Unisn.
Samuel Butler. a farmer living near Kings
City, has been found dead, with q pistol
wound in his head. and it is believed he was
murdered.
Minnie. wife Of Frank Wyatt, aweil.to-de
young farmer living near Philomath, Or,
committed suicide yesterday. She was in
poor health and respondent.
Several arrests have been made at Fort
McDermott, Of parties charged with commit
ting perjury in filing ON land in Malthur
county. The parties are wealthy.
w. N. McMillen, Portland horse Jockey,
known as Billy Mack, eloped last Sunday
with Miss Carrie Dell Day, the daughter of
prominent citizen Of Dayton, Wash.
Annie Plant of Los Angeles, a white girl.
was to have been married to acolored waiter
Ut San Bernardino, when the parents of the
girl arrived in time to prevent the ceremony.
An indictment has been found against
Harry Burrard, a prominent merchant of
Phoenix, A. T., for unlawful cohabitation,
under the Edmunds' Act. Spite is said to
have originated the charges.
The Board Of Directors of the Sunset IT,
Sigation District At Fresno has ordered the
issuance Of bonds to the amount of $3.50, 600
for the construction Of canal. The canal
will be 100 feet wide, Is feet deep and about
twenty miles long.
Rue Brothers, while boring we'll at Ssti-
coy. Ventura county. struck artesian water at
a depth Of 49, feet. The well is about half
= mile east from Saticoy Station. This is
claimed to be the first artesian water north
OF the Santa Clara river.
The Sheriff Of Pierce county, wash, an.
nounces that he will prohibit public slogging
matches hereafter. The Superior Court
Judge At Tacoma promises to lend his aid.
The statutes make prize-6ghting crime in
Washington, punishable with heavy 6ne
and imprisonment.
The warm weather has raised the water in
the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers so
that the island levees in the San Joaquin are
now in greater danger than at any previous
time this year. No breaks are reported on
the island leSees, but there is one at the Ma
glee mainland tract, which will food 5000
acres Of grain.
Soundings At the mouth of the Columbia
show the jetties have cut clear straight
channel ACROSS the bar with a depth of TWEEN.
ty.6ye and half feet at low water. This is
as deep q channel as has ever been known
from river to ocean. and shows the beneficial
effects of the jetty. which is to be run out
over mile yet.
At acolored picnic at Elk Grove, Sunday,
King Day, large negro. took the skin OF
giant hull snake that had just been killed
and placed it on his neck as he would scarf
and then went upon the dancing platform.
The women screamed and fed, and one
went into one faint after another until her
life was seriously endangered.
Mrs. E. N. Cooper. at Stockton is charged
with having obtained money from several San
Joaquin county farmers under false pretenses,
she having induced them to advance money
to enable her to use the influence which she
claimed to have in Washington toward hav-
ing certain lands, now held in the name Of
Jacob Brock As swamp and oyerAowed land.
open to settlement.
Tvo nen who had been To work for Calm