Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-04-12
COAST ITEMS.

Fresno has begun to manufacture its own
ice,
Pasco, Wash, is to have an electric light
system.
Portland's $500, 900 hotel was formally
opened Monday.
Tombstone, A. T., will vote on disincor-
Poration on the goth.
Della Scott, young married woman at
Mont, killed herself Sunday night.
Denver men are going to put a szo 900
pleasure boat on Great Salt Lake.
Two young men Of Los Olives, Santa Bar.
bara county, have started a turkey ranch.
Charles Bond, at Fresno, for beating
Mrs. Sweet has been given $40 days in jail
Many Oakland refugees fleeing from the
wrath TO come on the I4th, have located at
San Jose.
Aunt Peggy Barnes, a colored woman at
Petaluma, is said to be one hundred and five
years old.
An artesian we'll on Charles Smiths farm,
near Anaheim, is constantly throwing out
small fish.
The Supervisors Of San Diego County pro-
pose erecting iron guide-posts on the Col
orado Desert.
The skeleton Of a murdered but unknown
man was found in Pine Valley, San Diego
county, Tuesday.
The 900 Chinese vegetable-dealers at Los
Angeles are said to be forming a trust TO con-
troll the business.
Twenty three prisoners escaped from the
Spokane Falls Jail Sunday night. Eight
have been captured.
The Mormon Conference at Salt Lake ad-
journed Sunday. The leaders appealed to
the faithful to be firm.
Edward Looney. the slayer of Riddle, near
Biggs, last year, in a land dispute, has been
hardened by the Governor.
A Nationalist society, based on Bellamy's
choking Backward" has been organized at
Santa Rosa with about twenty members.
The system Of overhead electric street-cais
is in full operation at San Jose, and horse
cars are a thing of the past on Santa Clara
street.
Lieutenant Seton Karr, an Englishman,
has started to explore the headwaters at sew
eral Alaskan streams where white men have
never been.
The Morning Star Mining c >mpany, Occur
d'Alene, has just sold to the Globe Smelt-
ing Co., Denver, lot Of 5000 tons of ore
for $36o, ooo--$6o a ton.
Idaho was chrisrened after an Indian girl
of that name, but no Interpretation of the
name could be obtained so it was translated
Seem of the Mountains
John M. Mitchell, who was appointed and
qualified as Postmaster at Oceanside, but
never served, has been arrested for sending
obscene matter through the mails.
H. M. Geiger, Jr., son of the constructor
of the Geiger grade at Virginia City, killed
himself at Wadsworth, New, Monday. The
act was deliberate, but the cause is not
known.
Pho Pico, the last MEXICAN Governor of CAL
ifornia, now nearly ninety years of age, is a
pauper and has been notified to leave his old
homestead Nothing remains of the great
wealth this old man once possessed.
The Oregon Railway Extension Company,
which is backed by the Union Pacific Com
pany, will file at Olympia, Wash, supple
mentary articles athorizing it to build about
three thousand miles of new line in the
Northwest.
From William Henry the Belmont Courier
learns that the country lying between Jefier-
son and Roycroft canyon is covered by one
almost continuous sheet of ice, and that the
snow in the mountains is deeper than ever
before known. He is Of the opinion that no
team will be able to cross the Jefferson sum-
nit before the middle Of next July.
Five boys made bed in an old deserted
building in a gulch south of Portland, Or,
Saturday night. Richard Mills, one of the
boys, threw the end of a cigarette into what
he thought was bucket of dirt standing
near, when an explosion followed, the sup
posed dirt proving TO be powder. Mills was
killed and the other four boys were dread
fully burned.
Articles Of incorporation have just been
filed with the Secretary of State Of the Kings