Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-10-04
COAST ITEMS.

Bay have been resumed.
Ground is broken at Sacramento
for the new Federal building.
Natural gas has been struck at
Sacramento at depth Of $40 feet.
Abe Hahn, eighteen years old, is
under arrest at Tacoma, Wash, for
forgery.
Hop growers had pretty well gath
cred their crop, and the rains have
not done them much damage.
Oakesdale, Wash, organized Wig
ilantes and ordered three men to
leave within fifteen minutes. They
left.
People in Southern New Mexico
threaten to organize and kill Indians
if the renegades do not cease their
raids.
The liquor dealers of Petaluma
are to test the constitutionality of
the 500 per quarter license ordi-
nance.
The cry for more cars to move
lumber at Portland is still heard,
and Union Pacific officials promise
early relief.
The great acreage of vines sur
rounding Sebastopol and extending
to the Russian river, has been uilin-
jured by the rains.
The population of Montana is
1879, an increase Of 92,61O, or
236.5O per cent Butte has 1O,7O1
and Helena 1884.
Miss Olsen shot and killed gam
bier at Salt Lake Monday night
He had wronged the girl and re-
fused to marry her.
William Robinson, laborer, fell
against saw in a mill near Seattle
Monday and received wound in
his back ten inches long which ex-
posed his vitals.
Olympic Mountain explorers re-
port an unlimited quantity of the
finest timber, indications of coal
and auriferous minerals and swarms
of fish in the streams.
James Flamant, aged 20 years,
and Lee Horrell, aged II, at Napa,
are charged with being ringleaders
of a party of boys who have been
engaded in incendiarism in that
section.
James Dunn and George Martin,
who were collector and bookkeeper
in the agency of the Santa Fe Com
pany at Los Angeles, are missing,
and SO also is about 5000 in their
accounts.
Reports from Fresno and other
raisin-producing sections say the
losses by the rains are comparative
ly light-not 10 per cent-and but
little difference in the classification
will result.
At Deer Lodge, Mont, A. J. Sc
ligman, late Chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee,
has brought suit against the Ana
conda Standard for libel, placing
damages at 100000.
A counterfeiter's outfit was found
under shanty near Madison, CAL,
last week. The tools evidently had
not been used since 1888. Several
specimens of bogus silver dollars
were also found when the deserted
building was torn down.
The lone Valley Record complains
that the railroad does not furnish
sufficient transportation facilities,
and says the people want to ship
coal, sandstone, clay, pottery, slate
rock, and fresh and dried fruits, and
don't want to be waiting for cars
half the time.
Work is to be resumed at once
on the construction of the Astoria
and South Coast Railway, and the
contract has been let to Chinese
from Portland for grading seven
miles out from Hillsboro, and at As
toria to another Chinese firm for
grading several miles up the Lewis
and Clarke rivers.
About 4 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, ten masked men took a land
lawyer, James Harrington, from the
Jail at Bakersfield, gagged him, con-
veyed him to a lonely spot, stripped
him and applied a coat Of tar and
feathers to him. He had been ar
rested on complaint of settler,
whom, it is charged, he had engaged
in a contest of perjury.
George P. Runyon, son of o. R.
Runyon, a rich orchardist near