Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-12-26

BILE has recently been opened at
Etiwanda in the Cucamunga Mts.
A bull-tight at Los Angeles was
advertised for Christmas day, but
the authorities prohibited the exhi-
bition.
"Whistling Dick" a Truckee
character has been shot at nine
times, and has escaped without the
slightest injury.
J. III. Quackenbush and Patrick
Quinn, miners, were killed by a
premature explosion at Wardner,
Idaho, Tuesday.
So far $4,000 have been paid out
as two weeks wages in efforts to
raise the steamship San Pedro, on
the rocks off Victoria, B. G.
Captain Charley, a Mojave brave,
was in Redlands this week, dressed
in. the uniform of United States
soldier and carrying cane.
City Clerk McKinnon of Ana
cortes, Wash, has been arrested and
charged with issuing illegal certifi-
Gates during a recent election.
Another solid trainload of twenty
cars Of raisins left Fresno for New
York this week. Each car contains
10000 pounds, or 400, 900 pounds in
all.
The last consignment of furs for
the Hudson Bay Company was
shipped to England from Victoria,
B. c., Saturday via the Canadian
Pacific Railroad,
Wheat reports of Oregon of 1891
represent 635,000 acres, which show
an average yield of twenty-four
bushels per acre, making a total
yield of over 100000. bushels.
Judge Hanford at Seattle has SEN
fenced Cowboy" Terry to ten
months in the Penitentiary for
smuggling nine Chinese into the
United States from British Column
bia.
Professor Pierce, who has spent
over a year and a half in investi-
eating the vine disease in Southern
California, tells the Anaheim people
that it has about run its course
there.
Sugar is now being extracted from
the sap Of the sugar pine trees In
the mountains of some of the north
ern counties. 1t is light brown in
color and contains large per cent.
of saccharine matter.
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon
has issued requisition on the Gov
ernor of California for a warrant of
arrest for All Doc, who is wanted at
Portland for the murder of a Japa-
nese woman last Spring. All Doc
is in San Francisco.
II. Cassens, aged seventy years, a
restaurant-keeper at San Rafael,
was robbed by a man who placed a
gun to his breast. The till was emp
tied, also the pockets of Cassens,
after which the robber amused him.
self by throwing glasses at Cassens,
who was severely injured.
The first full cargo of American
tin ever produced from an American
tin mine was received at San Diego
Tuesday from the Temescal mines.
The shipment consisted of 42O pigs,
or $500 pounds. The output of
the Temescal mines is being rapidly
increased, and American tin will be
regularly put on the market in car
load lots.
Freight train 81 on the Nortern
Pacific was wrecked a quarter of a
mile north of Castle Rock, Wash,
Wednesday night. A landslide in
a deep cut had moved the track,
and before the engineer had discov-
cred it the engine went crashing into
the bank, falling over on its side.
Two cars went down the embank-
ment and the track was badly
torn up.
Mrs. Delaguerra, the widow of
Don Pablo Delguerra, who was
prominent character in the early
history of California, is suing for the
plaza on which the City Hall of
Santa Barbara stands, valuable
piece of property in the center of
the business portion, claiming the
land by virtue of grant made by
the Ayuntamiento of the town in
the 40's, and confirmed in 1851 by
the City Council.
The Walker case at Casa Grande,
A. r., has been decided in favor of
A. ]. Doran, representing the Walk
er Brothers and other heirs, as
against the widow of John D. Walk