Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-06-20

now closed at midnight.
A jury has been secured and the
trial of six soldiers for the hanging
of young Hunt, at Walla Walla,
has begun.
The disaffected Indians on the
Banning Reservation have chosen
William Williams, a full-blooded
Indian, as Chief.
The wife of Joseph A. Winneger
of Sea Bright, Santa Cruz county,
drowned herself while in despond-
ent condition Friday night.
Fred Wyman, a cowboy, has been
arrested at Helena, Mont, and it is
believed, he will throw some light
on the assassination of Editor PEN
rose few days ago.
Payson, Utah, is delighted at the
prospect of being opened to sec
ton of country that is rich in min
erals. A coal find within five miles
of the town increases the exultation.
The Coroner's Jury in the case of
Lizzie Kreiss, who was shot at San.
Gregorio, Sunday by boy named
Albert Brown, q resident Of Oak
land, rendered a verdict of acct
dental death.
There is story afloat in Seattle
that the cargo of opium brought
from the Orient by the Halcyon and
supposed to be valued at 100000,
has been cached on a little island
in Pugit Sound.
The Wenatchill stage was held
up and robbed by "lone highway
man" about twenty-five miles from
Ellensburg, June 10Th. The mail
was ransacked and the registered
packages taken away.
William Curtis, of Tillamook
county, Or, was killed on the 18th
by,a vicious stallion. When found
the horse was on his knees tearing
the-man to pieces, and had already
eaten part of his body.
Edward T. Hoffman of Pasadena,
who had a suit pending against
physicians with whose treatment he
was dissatisfied, died this week, the
result of injuries received in a fall
from a building seven months ago.
q The soldiers of Walla Walla
charged with lynching young Hunt
have succeeded in setting aside the
Indictment of the Grand Jury, but
information was Immediately filed
charging the soldiers with killing
Hunt.
A water claim at Azusa, Los An
geles county, in Fish and Roberts
Canyons, branches of the San Ga
briel, has been jumped by two men.
The water is very valuable and the
trouble promises to lead to blood
shed.
Serious trouble is anticipated
with band of about 125 Indians
who are encamped near Spokane,
and who have been having nightly
drunken carousals. They have
been ordered to move on by the
Sheriff of the county.
The fourth trial of L. A. Powell,
for the killing of Editor Smith at
Redwood City has begun, but it is
not believed verdict will be OBJ
tanned. The interest in the trial,
owing to the lapse of time since the
crime was committed, has been
much reduced.
w. R. Dyer, an attorney at Selma,
Fresno county, has disappeared
leaving a note requesting his wife to
go to her sisters and saying that he
had been greatly harassed and had
TO leave Selma. Dyer is young
man, it. is said, of reckless habits,
and who spent money faster than
he made it.
Two members of the Death Val
fey Scientist Expedition report hav-
ing seen the trail of man and
horse, who seemed to be lost. The
man was evidently seeking water
and at one point left the trail within
a few hundred yards of what he
sought, There is no doubt that
death overlook the man.
From several localities along the
New Mexico-Arizona border and
from the Black Range in South
western New Mexico continue to
come reports that rowing bands of
Indians have been seen during the
past,tw weeks, and militia COM
posed of miners has been organized
at Chloride for protection.
A dispatch from Milton says the
damage to wheat and barley by the
grasshoppers has been considerable,
but SO far not of that amount to