Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-07-26

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MERGED, Cal.
Incendiaries are charged with originating
recent fires at Spokane Falls.
The snow-sheds on the Cascade division
are being rebuilt and repaired.
A large area Of grass land was burned
over at MERGED Falls Thursday.
The Sheriff contest at San Diego is at an
end. Mcdowell is confirmed as Sheriff.
AT Silver Lake, A. t., Sunday, Mexican
and his horse were gored 10 death by bull.
The amount of the defalcaton of Austin,
the youthful treasurer of Marin county, CAL,
will reach $4,000.
Children playing with matches caused the
destruction Of the residence Of John Loner-
gan, at Rocklin, Cal.
A lot Of railroad officials at MERGED leads
to the belief that the Atchison is seeking an
entrance at that town.
A Sacramento Grand Jury promises to give
the citizens sensation in the shape OF ex-
tensive water works frauds.
A brush fire near Santa Barbara, Cal,
Tuesday night, burned several buildings,
much fencing and pasturage.
The books Of the County Treasurer of
Marin are to be exported to see how much
Austin is short in his accounts.
A FIRE at Ballad, suburb Of Seattle,
Thursday, destroyed a number of frame
buildings, including the Calligous Hotel.
Whale bones were found on the ranch OF
r. d. Sepulveda, one mile and quarter
from San Pedro and zoo feet above sea level.
DR.. Herrick, quarantine officer on the
Mexican border, reports many cases OF small
pox all through the valley OF the Rio Grande
in New Mexico.
At Hanley's ranch, on Butte creek, in
Jackson county, Or, Johnny Tice, aged six
teen years, was gored to death by the ami
mails in the corral.
The bodies OF Timothy Killeher and Pat
rick Murphy, the last two bodies of the An
aconda, Mont, victims, were taken from the
mine Wednesday.
The Anaconda Company and the Montana
Union Railroad have fixed up 3o-day truce,
and several hundred miners who were laid
off will return to work at once.
M. A. Breadove was mistaken for a man
who had nsuted the wife Of James Hurlburt,
at Portland, and received dangerous knife
wound at the hands Of the latter.
Albert Hacker killed Harry Broadway at
Dog Creek, Fresno county. They were old
residents, and the trouble originated in the
disputed ownership of certain Government
timber land.
A reward Of $4,000 will be paid by the
stage-robber who plundered the Carboo, B.
c., stage few days ago. The amount TAX
en- was 81, 100.
A placarded German girl from Baden was
found in San Jose Saturday knowing neither
her place Of destination nor the names of
her friends. She proved TO be niece of ex-
Mayor Otto Of Gilroy, Cal.
The decision in the land contest at Spo-
kane Falls is against Oscar Bates, who
claimed to have bought from an Indian.
Properly worth millions was involved. This
is victory for the city Of Spokane.
An unknown man was killed by the souths
bound train at Livingston, MERGED county,
Tuesday morning. He was evidently for
eigner, was dressed as laboring mar, and
had thirty pieces of soap Of various varieties
in his pocket.
The Victoria Colonial says the Canadian
Pacific Railroad Company offered 10 keep
its steamships on the China line away from
San Francisco If the Pacific Mail Company
would pay it $r44,ooo year bonus. This
liberal offer was declined.
Governor Ferry Of Washington has refused
to accept from the United States Government
the prison at McNeely's Island. He says
no provision has been made for the mainten-
ance of Prisoners, and he has no authority to
contract for their support.
1t is believed that young man was burn
al to a g., D,,ch
creek, Cal. last Saturday. The woods for
miles around were set on fire and are now
burning, covering the hills with rolling vol
umes Of smoke and fame.
The Union Pacific Road has aroused much
hostility at Garfield, WASH, by an attempt
to supplant white labor by Chinese. One
gang Of the Mongoians was driven off, and
the white superintendent resigned in prefer
ence to controlling gang of the hea,hens.
The Humboldt Standard has set the peo-
pie Of Eureka wild by stating that tests
made Of the rock supplied by the contractor
OF the jetties contains free gold that assays
sac to $50 a ton. The contractor has dump
ed thousands Of tons Of the same quality of
rock for 81 ton.
Robert Fuller, the murderer OF the Catho-
lie Archbishop Seghers in Alaska two years
ago, who escaped from the Government
Prison at McNeil's Island last week, where
he was serving term Of ten years for that
crime, is supposed to be hiding somewhere
in the backwoods Of Jefferson county, Wash
ington.
The sum Of $500 was given by c. P. Hunt
ington for the Presbyterian church at Mon
terey. CAL, and placed in the hands of Mr..
Jacks. the Monterey millionaire, who is ex-
pending it as he deems proper. There is
considerable excitement inside church cir
cles over the fact that the money was not
handed to the trustees.
There was a cloud-bu Sunday in the
foothills Of Santa Rita Mountains. A. T.,
covering an area Of square mile. The
water run down the canyon in torrents,
drowning number of cattle and horses.
lot Of wild animals, such as deer. bear and
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