Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-10-11
COAST ITEMS.


C. E. Arnold has received a life
sentence at Union, Or, for killing
e. A. Shaefer.
The pampas plume crop in Santa
Barbara county is estimated at one
million dollars.
Seven Cinnamon were taken to
San Rafael Monday and charged
with illegal fishing.
One hundred men were engaged
Tuesday infghting fires in the hills
three miles north of Vacaville.
Old Adam, the last Chief of the
Tillamook tribe of Indians, died on
the 7th inst. He was over 100
years old.
A garroter at Sacramento got in
his work ON C. Mendel Sunday night
and captured gold watch and dia-
mond pin.
Seattle has increasd the license
totheetfes containing bars to 81, 900
sunuaily and circuses from 5000 10
$1,000 per day.
The last body of the six victims
of the Petrol disaster in the harbor
of San Diego, five weeks ago, was
found Tuesday.
The American ship Eclipse has
arrived at Portland with 10000
cases of tea for the East and Cana
da and 1880 brick.
George R. Henderson, manager
of the "Seventy-one Cattle Outfit"
was killed near Cheyenne this week
by one of his employees.
Nogales, on the border line of
Mexico and Arizona, is filled with
desperate characters, and the people
talk of a general round up.
C. E. Arnold, who was sentenced
Monday at Portland, to the Oregon
Penitentiary for life, jumped from
the train near Hilgard, and escaped
into the Blue Mountains.
The Sonoma county mountain
fires have been subdued. Fences
are burned down, valuable timber
destroyed and thousands upon
thousands of acres of feed were de-
stroyed.
A bear-hunting party from Fres-
no reports having discovered tree
in the Sierras east Of Centerville,
that about four feet from the ground
measured 12O feet 5 inches in cir
conference.
AnastacioG arigo,a wealthy young
Mexican, shot and killed his wife
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, Monday
night. They had not lived togeth-
er for several months, owing to his
brutality to his wife.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague on
learning Of the death of her son
Willie, at Seattle, telegraphed: "em-
balm body and prepare for ship
ment in best possible manner, and
draw on his father for expenses"
The recent prairie fires in North
ern Dakota were the most destruc-
tive ever known west of the
Missouri river, and the losses will
aggregate several hundred thousand
dollars. The Riverside Ranch Com
pany lost 300 head of stock.
Three young men, from sixteen
to eighteen years of age, the ring
leaders of an organized band OF
youthful thieves, who have been
operating on an extensive scale at
Spokane Falls, were arrested Tues
day and $500 worth of goods re-
covered.
Nathan Willett, a rancher living
near Los Angeles, was arrested this
week and will be taken to Texas to
answer for a murder committed
over seventeen years ago. Deem
Der 2, 1872, Willett is alleged to
have shot and killed a young man
named Woodward in Anerson coun-
ty, Texas, in cold blood. Willett's
ranch is valued at $4,000.
Governor Prince of New Mexico
in his annual report makes strong
plea for the settlement of the land
grant questions in that Territory
He reports the stock-raising and
mining interests in prosperous
condition. The total assessed val
uation of the property in the Terri.
tory is $56,O41.O1O, and the Terri
torial Indebtedness is $87O,96O.
Frank E. Smith, residing al
South Union, near Olympia, Wash.
shot bis father-in-law, John P
Krins, breaking both his arms, at
tempted to shoot Mrs. Smith, and
4ho,, hlour arr his ourr, braina Mrs