The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1891-05-21
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

The Advocate says the dog poisoner is
plying his vocation at Austin.
While r. w. LiDfeld was dsmounting
from bicycle OF Reno be fell and badly
strained his ankle.
The Mayor of Walla Walla has de-
cided that the saloons of that city must
be closed on Sunday.
About fifty feet OF the Electric Light
Compsny,s fume at Reno Yves washed
away night before last. 8#
People have already commenced to
| flock to Lake Tahoe. The resort will
probably be more popular than ever this
| Summer.
Thomas Garrity OF Sacramento, con-
victed Of killing Tom Barnes, . gambler.
was sentenced to five years at Folsom
yesterday.
o. B. Wilson, ex- Mayor Of Great Bend.
Kan, who is wanted there on . charge of
embezzlipg $4,000, was arrested st
Seattle yesterday.
Willie Murphy. Of Genoa, has cha
lepged Patsy Hanifsn, Of Empire, to run
q l00-yard footrsce for $50 or 500 a side
| ct the Carson track.
Truckee ia much excited over the
Bonner Lake End aud prospecting parties
| have fenced in ten acres or more of the
land and are guarding it with sbotguns.
Train % on the Oregon Short Line was
wrecked Sunday evening near Tunups,
station about twenty-five miles east of
Glenn's Ferry, Idaho. Fireman Peake
was killed.
The National Guard at Virginia City
have donated out OF their Treasury sl75
to fit up gymnasium for the use of the
company, and have begun the purchase
OF the necessary articles.
Carson Tribune: Mrs. Jennie Fisher,
who has so long and so efficiently filled the
position of Clerk in the State Library, bias
finished her duties in that place. Lieu
tenant Governor Poujid now presides 10
the library.
The Pinche Record says Thomas Hicks
and W. r. Fountain have been held to
answer without bail for the murder of F..
O. Griffith, the coal burner. Hick g was
Griffi,h's partner. Neither of the defend
ants made statement.
A Pasadena man has patented an in
vention for propeling street cars by the
explosion OF nsptha. which is carried iu
the csbooss of the car. The system has
been tried ou one OF the local lines and
works very successfully.
One of the bright school teachers at
Santa Maria, CAL. at the meeting OF the
local school teachers association. last
Friday night, read paper in which she
1 s,ateu thas VIC haHs mulu0teu Tue
Mayor of New Orleans and eleven of the
murderers were hung"
The Journal says o. K. Stampley, well
known to old Humboldters, and for some
time landlord of the St. Charles Hotel .,
Carson, is now proprietor of the Park
House, 473 Fourteenth street, Oakland
California, where he will be pleased tt
meet old and new friends.
| The Independents says Deputy Fish
Commissioner Close arrived in Eiko from
the fish hatchery ct Carson with con
signment of eighty Thousand young tron.
which he deposited 10 the Humboldt
river at that place. Another shipment
will arrive 10 about week.
| A Fresno man named Hutchinson re-
| fused to appear in court when summoned
He was fined SIS, which made him so
angry that he stood and swore at the
Judge until the penalties against him
amounted to $3.50, or that many days in
the freezer, where he is now cooling off.
Grasshoppers are becoming so numerous
over 10 Butte county. Cal, that public