Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-08-29
COAST ITEMS.

The drought in the southern por-
ton of New Mexico is causing loss
tostock.
Peach moth and split-stone will
cause a loss to Sacramento peach
growers this season.
James Gray, defendant in a min
ing suit at Victoria, B. c., has been
arrested-for perjury.
Five prisoners made good their
escape from the New Whatcom,
Wash, Prison Tuesday night.
Wine men in Fresno will this year
make wine vinegar. heretofore inn
ported wholly from Germany.
The Gullup, N. NJ, miners who
have been on strike have gone to
work at the company's terms.
The Supreme Court at Los Ange-
les refuses to dissolve the injunction
prohibiting the sale of the infected
Tahiti orange trees at San Pedro.
The hop yards in Sacramento
and Yolo counties will not produce
more than half a crop. This change
has come about during the past ten
days.
The glut Of potatoes in Southern
California continues. In one Sec
ton they are being offered at 5 cents
sack in the ground, the buyer to
dig them.
Rev. C. F. Wood of the Congre-
gational Church at Tulare has
raised a breeze of excitement owing
to his writing love letters to a girl
of fifteen years.
James Armstrong, who was shot
in the side, Friday evening, by
Amos Blake, at Susanville, is dead.
Jones and Blake, who were wound
ed at the time are doing we'll.
The rush to the mines at La
Plata, about twenty-five miles from
Ogden, Utah, continues, and a new
town two miles south of the origi-
nal location has been founded.
Will Sheriff., a carpenter at Salt
Lake, while out driving stopped his
buggy in the residence portion of
the city, and after tying his horse
to a telegraph pole, shot himself
through the heart.
One-hundred-pound sacks of sug-
ar have been sent to President Har-
rison, Major Mckinley, Secretary
Rusk and members of the Supreme
Bench, the first product of the
Chino, CAL, beet-sugar factory.
Maud Lathrop, aged twenty-one
years, living fifteen miles east of
Dayton, Wash, took poison because
her father withheld a letter written
to her by young man of Dayton.
The girl died few hours after tax
ing the poison.
The shipments of fruit for the
past week from San Jose amounted
to over two million pounds, which
is an increase of $4,000 pounds over
the corresponding week last year.
The increase was mostly in green
fruit sent East.
Tacoma capitalists have purchas-
ed the immense De Lion floating
dock projected for Port Townsend,
and have capitalized the Dry Dock
Company at 100000. The dock
will be finished next month and
floated down to Tacoma.
P. Techkella, his wife and three
children, were out driving Sunday,
near Pendleton, Or, when the horse
became unruly and backed down a
twenty-five foot embankment Mrs.
Techkella and one child were killed.
The others were badly wounded.
There is much feeling and excite
ment over the white and Chinese
labor question at Fresno. White
men are arriving at Fresno expect
ing engagements and there were
about 500 Wednesday in the city
awaiting to be taken to the fields.
A corps of engineers is at work
surveying line of railroad through
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at the
head of the San joaquin river, by
way of the Minaret Pass. Nothing
more is known of them, whence
they came or where they are going.
A. B. Knox, has been sentenced
at Vancouver, B. c., to three years
imprisonment in the Penitentiary
for arson in setting fire to the hay
stacks of neighbor named Ellis.
He is worth about $4,000 and
feels his position keenly, protesting
his innocence.
Puget Sound and Commencement
Bay are literally full of salmon.
Nothing like the run has ever been