Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-04-05
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next Monday.
The salmon season began on the Columbia
river this week.
Two hundred men at the Rocklin quarres
are on strike.
The Republicans Of Orange county, will
meet at Santa Ana, on the 10th to organize.
At Victoria, B. c., asparagus was selling
last week at 40 cents pound.
The striking Union Pacific sw;tchmen at
Portland have returned to work.
The spring run of salmon in Fraser river
is the greatest ever known there.
The sawmill men of Portland and Van
couver have effected combination.
An immense vein of Ignite coal is report
ed at Brownsville, within mile Of West
minister, B. c.
The people of Boise City. Idaho, have
raised $I66 to buy seed grass for the settlers
on Camas Prairie.
1t is rumored at San Diego that the Cuya-
maca will soon constitute part OF the South
ern Pacific system.
ST.. Tiff, prominent farmer living near
Cheney. Wash, accidentally killed himself
while hunting Tuesday.
Henry Sanders, aged nineteen, shot and
killed Della Eddington, aged seventeen, and
himself at Dayton, Wash, Monday.
E. H. Dalrah, wealthy resident of San
Diego, was mistaken for a deer and killed
in a forest about 50 miles from Portland.
An unknown Spaniard attempted to kill
himself at Los Gatos, Monday. He said he
did not want to live as he would have to
work.
The Puget Sound boat companies have
combined on an advance Of about 80 per cent
on freight and passenger rates, beginning
April 5th.
A wind and sandstone stopped travel on
the Atlantic and Pacific in New Mexico,
Monday, sand two to four feet deep lodged
on the track.
The trial Of lawyer Bell, Of Los Angeles,
who was examined Wednesday to show cause
why he should not be disbarred, has been
set for Monday.
Sheriff Gray and posse of Phoenix, A. t.,
overlook two horse thieves near Carisa, kill
ed one and captured the other and recovered
the stolen animals.
Custom Inspectors Coblenz and Billings
at Fresno captured fifty pounds of opium in
the trunk of a passenger who arrived by the
Seattle train Monday night.
&C. Sauer, a keeper at Tillamook Light
house, went violently insane and the others
bound him, put out signals Of distress and
when help came sent him ashore.
John D. Everly, who stole books from the
State Library, of California. and was SEN
fenced to San Quentin for two years, is
wanted at Los Angeles for horse-stealing.
There is boom in the planting of lawns
and the setting out of roses, hedges and or
namental trees at Pomona, CAL, the like OF
which was never experienced there before.
Well-known capitalists at Portland have
incorporated company to secure the right
of.way for and to construct ship canal be-
tween the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Puget
Sound.
H. C. Wall & Co., perambulating firm,
now said to be at Spokane Falls, advertises
in the East to furnish situations for 81, the
applicant to receive one months salary, SIS,
in advance.
A number of children Of Geronimo's tribe
have been placed in the school at Santa Fe,
and Apache chiefs who went with them to
see how they were treated have gone home
we'll pleased.
The murdered body of Henry T. Sunbury
was found near Vancouver, WASH, Sunday.
He came from Sherbrooke, Canada, where
his friends live. Vancouver has offered $500
reward for the murderer.
When the news was received at Windsor,
Sonoma county, CAL, of the jury finding G.
w. Bruggy guilty of murder in the first de-
gree for killing Richard Lorrison, the con-
.demned man was hung in effgy.
1t is reported that fishermen engaged in
their vocation at Richland drift, near Clarks-
burg, Yolo county. CAL, are using mesh
nets in violation Of the law, and are slaugh-
.tering young salmon by the thousands.
A race Wednesday between the fast steam
,ers Olympian of the Union Pacific line and
the new Hudson river steamer, City of King
ston of the Northern Pacific Company, to
Seattle from Tacoma, resulted in the defeat
of the Kingston.
George Rose has confessed that Jens