Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-07-19
COAST ITEMS.

II-year-old horse thief is under arrest
at Pleasanton, Cal.
Thieves are causing considerable worry to
orchardists in Sonoma valley, Cal.
The School Board just chosen at Salt Lake
stand seven Liberals to three Mormons.
A valuable vein Of Ignite has been found
on Mount Yulupa, in Sonoma county, Cal.
The work of closing the Paine break in
the Sacramento river, below Washington, is
nearly completed.
The miners at Wellington are much ex-
cited over the threatened eviction Of their
families by the Dunismuirs. Many have
Moved into tents.
Receiver Dyer at Salt Lake has resigned
his receiyership Of the Mormon Church prop
erty, and asks the Court to appoint his sue
cessor as soon as possible.
Bert Jeffrey, nephew Of ex-supervisor
John Breen, Of San Juan, Cal, has confessed
to a series Of forgeries on his uncle amount
ing to over $3.50. Jefery is in Jail.
At the school election at Salt Lake Mon
day, the Liberals Tor Gentles) carried four
precincts, giving them majority Of the
Board of Education provided for in the new
School law.
Some sheep men tried to pasture large
band on the Fort Ellis Reservation, Montana,
recently, but the grass was doctored with
saltpeter one night and 400 dead sheep were
found the next morning.
John Hawkins, Of the San Francisco po-
lice, who was dismissed for attempting to
.blackmail young lady at Sacramento, is in
Port Townsend, where he has been for three
weeks, employed as porter.
The fruit shipments from orchards on the
Sacramento river below Sacramento are be-
coming SO heavy that the Southern Pacific
Company has put on an additional steamer
to transport the crops to that city.
Two hundred coal miners are on strike
at Gallup, N. M. The strikers demand that
2.4oo pounds of coal constitute ton, instead
of Zoo pounds, as now, and have also ask
ed for raise Of IS cents on the ton.
Mrs. Brown, representing Chinese mis-
sion at San Francisco, succeeded in rescuing
Chinese girl from vile house in China
town, at Sacramento, where she had been
taken by party of Monaghan conspirators.
Isadore Cohen, cigar dealer at Sacra-
,mento, has been swindled by woman who
got him to cash ticket that had apparently
drawn $500 in the June lottery drawing.
The original number had been changed to a
winning number.
The volcanoes Fugpac and LLAMA, near
Cooks Inlet, have been very active and sew
eral severe shocks of earthquake have been
felt lately. A large quantity OF ashes, and
in places large stones, have fallen in the i'm
mediate vicinity.
Squatters have gone on the military reser-
walton near Fl. Angeles, Wash, and the
jumping fever extends even to Port Town.
send. The squatters are regularly organized
and prepared to contest any claim the Gov
eminent may institute.
At Los Angeles, Thursday, City Justice,
Walter C. Lockwood, Hon. James NJ. DAM
ron, member of the State Legislature. and ].
S. Chadwick, well-known real estate oper-
ator, were arrested on charge of forgery.
Lockwood was Immediately discharged,
while the others will be examined to-day.
Billy Hoffman, while at work on the New
market ranch, east Of Reno, drank copiously
from a. stream of water, along the ditchway
of which some wild parsnips were growing.
An hour afterward son of the ranchman
found him almost insensible on the ground.
The water from the same ditch has already
killed several cattle.
At Newport Beach, Orange county, CAL,
Wednesday, Miss Lottie Sturgeon, daughter
of w. H. Sturgeon, founder of the city OF
Santa Ana, and Lieutenant c. v. Donaldson,
of Company G. Twenty fourth Infantry OF
Fort Grant, A. T., were drowned. Miss
Donaldson was carried from shore by an out
ward current and Donaldson went to her
rescue.
The Butte, Mont, Miner has won victo-
.ry over its compostors, who struck because
the foreman, proof-reader and telegraph ed
.itor were not discharged at the bidding Of
the men. Mr.. Cummings went to Butte in
the interest of the International Typograph-
ical Union and settled the matter. Every
body returned to work as if nothing had
happened.
First Engineer Devere, of the steamship
Jennie, while the vessel was at Cooks Inlet,
Alaska, quarreled with the second engineer,
name unknown. Devere knocked his oppo-
nent senseless, then picked him up and threw
him on the moving machinery, which mang-
led him so that death resulted. The dead
man leaves mother and two sisters in San
Francisco.
Owing to the difficulty Of drying the large
crop of apricots now ripeuing in the moist
climate Of Ventura county, the growers there
have arranged to have the fruit picked and
hauled in carload lots to Newhall, where
hundreds Of Ventura people are engaged in
cutting and drying the fruit, camping oul
meanwhile with their families. Acres q
ground near the Newhall station are covered
with trays filled with the drying fruit.
A man with handkerchief over his face
and pistol in his hand robbed the money.
drawer Of the Coronado Ferry Office, Tues
day night. Miss Louise Harrison is the
cashier, and she was easily awed into silence,
while the burglar in his nervousness got but
90 cents from the drawer but this was done