Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-01
COAST ITEMS.

Mrs. Woodwork, the gospel tent evange-
lizer, is in Santa Rosa, Cal.
Hail-stones half an inch in diameter fell ut
San Luis Obispo. Cal, Tuesday.
The total loss BY the Cheney, Wash, fire
Is $3o, 1000, with $4,000 insurance.
C. Wilson of Cotton is a defaulter.
He mysteriously disappeared two weeks
ago.
Fifteen thousand people in Rogue River
Valley, Or, have been without mail for six
weeks.
Albert Moore is under arrest at Marysville
for robbing a jewelry store there Tuesday
morning.
A merchant of Hueneme got an order last
week from Mexico to ship six carloads Of
pink beans.
The body of D. Donnelly, who fell into
Suffer creek last Thursday, has been found
and taken to lone.
The Columbia river is frozen over. At
The Dalles the ice is half an inch thick and
becoming heavier.
Outlaw Lee White of New Mexico has an
nounced that his ambition is to become
second "Billy the Kid.''
An explosion Of escaping gas in cable
trench at Los Angeles Wednesday caused
considerable excitement.
Two blocks of land at La Playa, San
Diego, have been purchased for Govern
ment quarantine hospital.
The Lompoc Record says one company Of
beach miners took out $1,000 worth of fine
gold in two weeks recently.
A man claiming is be nephew of Post
MASTER General Wanamaker is in trouble for
obtaining money under false pretenses at
Anaheim.
T. G. Wilson, young telegraph opera
tor, lately at Seattle, is wanted in the States
Of Washington and Virginia for treachery to
young girls.
The mines near Sonora, Tuolumne county,
CAL, are all closed for want of water. The
snow in the mountains is deeper than ever
known before.
The lessee of the Willoughby ranch, near
Santa Paula, Ventura county, has two fox.
housds that have killed sixteen wildcats in.
side Of two weeks.
H. c. Doulton has brought suit against S.
c. Lillis and the estate of D. S. Terry, to
foreclose mortgage on ranch east Of Mo.
desto for $4,000.
Eastern Oregon sheep. owners have suffered
much loss by the severe weather. Tuesday
night the thermometer registered between 10
and IS degrees below zero.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Compa.
ny uses only Mojave Indians as section hands
and in ordinary construction work. They
are much better than Chinese.
A large wheat warehouse, with a capacity
os 100000 bushels. is to be erected just
south of the Oregon Improvement Company's
coal bunkers at Seattle, Wash.
w. E. Dussy, the janitor of the Los An.
geles Tribune building, is under arrest and
charged with forging the name of the treas.
urer of the newspaper company to money or.
ders.
H. B. Munsell OF Pomona has been ar
rested on the charge Of bigamy. Mrs. Mel
lie C. Adams Of Carbondale, ILL.,, claims to
be his first wife. He married at Pomona un-
der the name of Munsell.
Miss Abbie Revelle, a stepdaughter of L.
M. Sullens of Port Townsend, attempted
suicide Thursday by jumping from a high
bluff in front Of her house. She fell over
thirty feet and was uninjured.
Cyrus Corrick. who killed Hart, his cousin,
because the latter would not give him bri-
die he wanted, has been found guilty Of
manslaughter by Fresno jury and recon.
mended to the mercy Of the Court.
John Cooper, who few weeks ago ran
way from Colusa two hours before the date
fixed for his marriage with Miss Lou Baker,
has been arrested on a breach Of promise
charge and held to answer before the Supe-
rior Court.
The Umatilla Reservation will probably
be opened to settlement this Spring. The
lands to be sold lie adjacent to Pendleton.
Or, and amount to 100, 700 acres. They
will be sold to actual settlers and only 400
acres 10 each.
It is claimed now by engineers that por-
ton Of the Walnut Grove dam, on the Has
say ampa river, which broke last Saturday
and drowned 20 persons, was not on the
bedrock. and leakage Of 5000 inches
occurred daily.
The Idaho Statesman says the sagebrush
that grows SO luxuriantly in Southern Idaho
is just the thing to graft with the mandarin
orange. In three years the crop can be gath