Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-09-27
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Tons Of wine grapes were sold at Sanoma,
Gal, this week for SIT per ton.
tits rumored that "Lucky" Baldwin is
talking Of building big hotel at Bear VAL
iey, Cal.
A shipment OF 1000 cases of canned
peaches from San Jose direct to London this
week required twenty cars.
W. B. Farwell has been arrested at Port
land for embezzlng $4,000 from his employ
.er. Farwelps parents reside at Seattle.
Thomas Bryan, employed in the terra cot
ia works at Vallejo, had his left hand torn
of almost entirely Tuesday by the machinery.
A French prune orchard near Selma, Cal,
is turning of immensely this year. The
owner thinks it will yield him $1,000 an
acre.
A Union Pacific freight ran into band Of
cattle Thursday at Cape Horn, eight miles
from The Dalles, Or, and eleven cars were
smashed.
John ]. Svellson shot, fatally. Chas. Lock-
EFT, Tuesday, at Salt Lake. Both were en-
.ployed in the Rio Grande Western yards and
had quarreled.
At San Jacinto CAL, H. T. Hewitt, a
merchant, shot Spanish boy through the
abdomen. There is much excitement among
the Spanish population.
A colony of Nationalists, with forty men,
.bers, has been formed at Highlands, San
Bernardino county. Their individual bank
accounts are worth 100000.
Mrs. John Govan, of Sequim, WASH, killed
herself Wednesday. Her son was killed by
Indians two years ago, and her mental facul-
had gradually grown weak.
Some time ago the 4-year- old son of Sher-
man wager Of San Bernardino swallowed a
needle, and the other day the needle came
out Of the calf Of the boys leg.
Another Pete Olsen has been arrested at
Stockton, but it is not believed that he ans
,wers fully the description of the murderer
of Mrs. Lyons, in Napa county a few years
ago.
The stage running between Los Alamos
and Lompoc, Santa Barbara county, was
robbed FIVE miles from the former place Tues
day by one map. The express-box only was
molested
The MADEIRA Mercury says that Colusa
man named Reed has bought 1900 acres
of land from the Nevada Bank, six miles
west of Berendia, which will be cut up into
small farms.
The Chinese have been arrested at The
Dalles, Or, charged with being implicated
in the robbery of the First National Bank one
week ago, and $4,000 of the money was
found on them.
Frank Cochran rode up to La Grande
Hotel at Sisson Thursday, and with a Win
chester rifle shot Nate Defreese in the back,
the ball passing out at the breast. Cochran
rode of to the woods.
A contract to build the large pottery sheds
at Carbondale. Amador county, has been let.
The pottery company intends covering FIVE
acres, where the ware will be placed. The
contractor says the work will require thirty
carloads Of lumber.
Three brothers named Whitfield, under ar
rest at Astoria, charged with an attempt to
rob the postothce, are now accused of MUIR
.dering young Crosby at Tacoma, murder
that has been mystery ever since its CON-
initial, about one year ago.
Boise City's recount shows population
of 3.9z2, gain of 80 per cent. on the offic-
ial enumeration. The Board of Trade now
wants new count or the acceptance by
Commissioner Porter Of this last enumera-
ton, which is properly attested as being
correct.
The Big Dry Creek Flume Company, at
Fresno, CAL, projects the building Of Aume
about forty-three miles long, with view to
floating down lumber and also conveying
water to the plains about Letcher for irri-
CATION. The company will be compelled to
dig tunnel half mile long near the head
of the works.
Herbert Rapelje of the New York Natl
and Express, who started from New York in
April to cross the continent in canoe, ar
rived at Missoula, Montana, Monday from
Buford, on the Missouri river, finding it nec-
.essary to have his boat transferred from
there by rail in order to cross the Rockies.
He goes down the Missoula to Clark's fork,
and down the Columbia to the ocean.
A Truckee genius has Invented divining
rod which he claims will determine the To-
.cality Of gold or silver, and the firm of A.
v. Chillis q Co., of Truckee shipped one Of
the instruments, to which the manufacturer
has given the name of skiing Solomon's
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