Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-08-16
COAST ITEMS.


Humboldt river.
Heavy rains have spoiled considerable hay
in Carson Valley in the past week.
All the journeymen toilors at Spokane
Falls are on a strike for better wages.
The carp planted in the Humboldt river
have attained great size, and are driving out
the trout
Wellington strikers are ordered to appear
in court at Victoria to answer charges OF in
timidating miners.
John Hamm, member Of the Salvation
Army ct Grass Valley, tried to cut his throat
with razor Thursday.
Valuable copper lodges have been found
in the Olympic Mountains, Wash. Prepara-
tons for working them are beng made by a
syndicate.
The Hartford Sentinel says the Chinese
laborers have formed union, and refuse to
work short Of 81 50 day in orchards or
vineyards.
Money to build the San Luis Rey Aume
has been raised in Chicago, and work will
soon begin. This will irrigate loo, 900 acres
of San Diego land.
Ed Royal, ten years old, was shot and
probably wounded at Santa Rosa Monday by
companion Of the same age, who was play
ing with a revolver.
David Spencer, farmer near Ashland,
Oregon, while unloading the last load Of hay
of this seasons crop, was killed Thursday
by bale falling on him.
Samples Of minerals from the Olympic
Mountains, assayed at Tacoma, show great
richness in gold and silver, and great excite
ment in mining cir Giles prevails there.
The Helena, Mont, Council has made it
misdemeanor for any member of that body to
vote for any measure before it in which he
has pecuniary or other personal interest.
Mrs. ]. D. Fiske has applied at Fresno for
the guardianship Of the estate Of her two
children. Her husband was recently shot
down in the streets of Fresno by man named
Stillman.
Near Foley Springs, Lane county, Or, W..
H. Walker, Of Staver & Walker, Portland,
while out hunting was accidentally shot and
killed Monday by a companion, who mistook
Walker for deer.
Frank Mcknight was crossing the ferry at
Albany, Or, Thursday, driving a span of
thoroughbred mares valued at So 1000, when
they became frightened, ran of the ferry
boat, and were drowned.
The wife of Charles Packard, awell-to-do
expressman at Fresno, charges her husband
with destroying the family residence by fire
about six weeks ago 10 spite her. He has
given bail for appearance.
Christian Merkle, who confessed to having
killed Joseph Won Wyl, at Napa, after his
wife had been convicted OF the crime, has
been held on charge of perjury, his evil
dence in the case being contrary to his con-
,fession.
A jam of logs on the Dungeness river,
Wash, has backed up body of water eight
miles long by two miles wide. The people
living miles below the boom are in great
danger of being swept away and their prop
.erty ruined.
W. H. Clark of the shipping firm of Liv-
ingston q Clark, San Diego, who lately
started line of steamers between San Diego,
the Hawaiian Islands and San Francisco,
says the Hawaiian Congress has introduced a
bill giving the line subsidy Of $4,000.
H. N. Gregory, Southern California Rail-
road agent at Oceanside, San Diego county,
was found Thursday in the depot with bull
let-hole in bis forehead and another in the
neck, lying in pool of blood and with re-
,volver by his side. tits presumably suicide.
Henry Waldo and Miss Florence Hoffman
were drowned IN American Lake, near Ia
coma, Thursday, while fishing. The boat
was upset and Waldo kept on the surface
with Miss Hoffman until exhausted, when
they sank in each others arms. They were
lbetrothed.
John G. Mcbride, who attempted to get
possession Of a s., ooo, 900 tract of school
land adjoining Tacoma, under the mining
laws, has begun suit against the Ledger Of
Tacoma for $3.50 900 damages for libel.
The paper charged that Mcbride had "salt-
ed" the claims.
The City Of Picking, twelve days and nine
hours from Yokohama, reached Victoria,
August ~. Among the passengers for San
Francisco are the Rev. DIR. Newman, Bishop
of the NJ E. Church of the United States,
who had been attending session of the
conference in Japan.
The death of Arthur Cosgrove, who was
killed last Sunday by fall from parachute
at East Portland, it is now said, was a de-
liberately planned case OF suicide. Cosgrove
was estranged from his wife and it preyed
upon his mind, and when going up in the
balloon he said he would never be seen alive
again.
Moses Moore, a Scotch prospector, at
Jerome Camp, A. T., Arrived at Prescott,
Tuesday, suffering from bite on the right
foot from polecat which he received while
asleep Saturday morning. The animal en-
sbedded its teeth so hruly in his foot that it
was released with difficulty and pulled out a
big piece Of the foot with it. Two bites
from similar animal neighborhood having
produced hydrophobia, Mr. Moore has gone
10 the Pasteur Institute at New York for re-
lief