Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-09-06

Sonoma has q building boom.
Tacoma quotes hops at 81 cents.

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Sonoma has building boom.
Tacoma quotes hops at 81 cents.
The strike at Copperopolis has ended.
The Company reinstates the discharged men
but refuses to increase the wages.
Frank Ocean, young tramp, has been
sent to Folsom for FIVE years for placing OBJ
structions on the. Oregon railroad.
Natural gas is supposed to underlie the
town site of Suffer City, CAL, and it is like.
ly that companies will be organized to bore
wells.
The trades Of Eureka, Humboldt county,
CAL, are now working on the nine hour-a-
day schedule. There has been no reduction
in wages.
Mrs. Gallagher, who was shot,by her hus-
band At West Point. CAL, few days ago,
although terribly wounded in the face. will
likely recover.
A. cold-storage and packing company has
been organized in South Bend, WASH. with
capital Of 500, 900, to develop the oyster
beds in Shoalwater bay.
The Atlantic and Pacific passenger train
ran into an open switch in the yard at Albu-
.querque, N. NJ, Wednesday. and engineer
Fred Kaufman was killed.
One hundred non. union miners imported
by the Dunsmuirs are expected from England
next week to take the places Of the strikers
in the Wellington, colleries.
The .Penitentiary Commissioners Of Wash.
ington have decided to order IS loom plant
for making jute.bags, in accordance with an
action of the last Legislature.
Monday night the Bieber and Susanville
Stage was stopped near Milford, FIVE miles
from Susanville. and Wells, Fargo & Cos
box taken by a lone highwayman.
A large warehouse containing 1000 tons
OF hay, valued at about sac, 900 was burned
ut Mountain View Wednesday. The owner
of the property is ]. A. Hornberger.
The sale of the Silver Bell mines to an
English syndicate has been contaminated by
the payment Of $Ioo. 1000. The mines are
located thirty miles west Of Tucson, A. T.
The town Of Sanger, Fresno county.
Wednesday, celebrated the. completion Of the
great Moore & Smith lumber Aume from the
mountains which terminates there. its length
is sixty miles.
The mill.owners at Eureka, CAL, have
voluntarily reduced the working hours of
the men from eleven and half hours to ten.
The laborers paraded Tuesday night and
.serenaded the employers.
About fifty cords Of wood lying alongside
the railroad track a short distance above
Blue Canyon were burned Tuesday evening.
The heat was so intense that the train was
not able to pass BY, and it was delayed three
hours.
Miners at Copperopolis are on strike,
because of the discharge Of the underground
foreman, the reinstatement Of whom is de.
,manded, and an advance Of IS cents in
wages added. The saloons are closed and
. guard is at the mine. The Sheriff is on
the ground.
A deposit Of cement has been discovered
near Granville, about FIVE miles from San
Diego. CAL, near the old Spanish Mission.
1t is supposed to be the source from whence
the Mission Fathers got their supply to build
the dam used 200 years ago in Cajon Valley
for irrigation purposes.
A book agent at Stockton, CAL, got a
lady to sign a stub .'.just for reference" af-
ter refusal to buy certificate of member.
ship in = literary club, and now she finds
the signature attached to promissory note
for So IS. There are many cases Of the
same kind in Stockton.
Oscar .Ballou, Of Providence, r. l., is at
the Oregon State Insane Asylum suffering
from hydrophobia. He is rational at times.
but calls the attention Of his attendants
when he feels \ spasm coming on. His
.sufferings are said to he so terrible that he
;prays for an end to life.
On the Cordel ranch. near Clayton, in
Contra osta county, CAL, Wednesday, a
man named Martindale, who had quarreled
during the day with companion named
Burke, took shotgun; and went to the lat
ter's house. where he was found asleep in
chair. Martindale cursed the sleeping man,
and placing the gun to his head blew bis
brains out. The murderer is sixty. nine
years old.
The peculiar bigamy case Of Alva Udell,
whose bail money was garnisheed as soon as
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