Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-10-31
COAST ITEMS.

Snlppeu IfOlH SANTA hOSd Tludy.
San Bernardino's raisin crop this
season is estimated at 800, 900 boxes.
The 12-oclock saloon-closing ordi-
nance has gone into effect at Sacra-
mento.
Samuel Gates residence seven
miles from Modesto, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Fourteen Cinnamon who had just
landed from Victoria, B. c., were
taken at Port Townsend Monday.
The Culver case, taken to Marys-
vile from Colusa county, has again
failed, owing to the jury disagreeing.
Prune orchards throughout Sono-
ma county are paying as high as 81
and SIS per ton for picking the fruit.
The big fire in the Otis block at
Redlands Saturday night is said to
have been caused by the over-insur-
ance of the tenant.
Oran Beam, aged sixteen years,
has been indicted by the Grand
Jury at Albany, Or, for making at
tempts to burn the city.
Los Angeles shipped last Monday
200 carloads, consisting chiefly of
raisins, canned and dried fruits,
wines, wool, grain and hides.
Eugene City's wheat shipments
are checked, owing to a blockade,
and shippers feel the need of road
to the coast from that point in Or.
The Bonanza paint mines in
Josephine county, Or, have been
leased to firm who will put up a
$4,000 plant for grinding and mix
ing paint.
A rich strike has been made two
miles from Redding, Cal. The
ledge was encountered and the ore
is fabulously rich. Quite an ex-
element prevails over the strike.
The Grand Jury at Los Angeles
are reported to be at work on alleged
steals in the furnishing of the new
Court House of Los Anneles county
and the Whittier Reform School.
1t is reported at Gilroy that Mrs.
Diana Murphy Hill, wife of Morgan
Hill has sold her 10,000-acre ranch
at Madrone to an English syndicate
for 500 per acre. The lands will be
colonized.
Thousands of bushels of peaches
and apples are being fed to the hogs
along the Snake river fruit belt in
Oregon, and all because the fruit
raisers are not prepared to take care
of the crop as it comes on.
Miss Zoa Daniels has sued M. J.
Church, of Fresno, seventy-five
years of age and married for $685.
900 damages for slanderous words
used while speaking of her, and the
case is now on trial at Stockton.
Recent violence to Chinese in
Selma and MADEIRA, in Fresno coun-
ty, has caused much talk of the same
action in Fresno, but mostly by idle
men and hoodlums. The Chinese,
it is said, are arming, and will re-
sist an attack on them if made.
Great interest has been manifest
ed at San Jose in the suit Of Rail
road Commissioner James w. Rea
for 100000 damages from Uriah
Wood, who called Rea a thief and
q boodler, during the State political
campaign. The trial is now on.
German society at Los Angeles is
much exercised over the elopement
of Mrs. Jennie Halmer with Oscar
Overweh. Mrs. Halmer shone as an
amateur theatrical star, being the
soubrette of the dramatic section of
the Turn Verein. Overweh leaves
a wife and two young children.
Mary E. Ballenger, a handsome
French Canadian brunette of at
tractive appearance, and brilliant
conversationalist, has sued Robert
H. Crasswell, owner of rich timber
lands in the State of Washington.
valued at 100000, for attempted
seduction at Montreal, and asks
100000 damages.
John Richie, who was to have
been married at Victoria, B. c.,
Wednesday, received a dispatch
from Glasgow informing him of the
death of his father, mother, brother
and c;cfarip low Rifohia was
made delirious by the news, and
there are fears that he may not re-
cover from the effects of the terrible
blow.
They have on exhibition in Vic
toria a teredo about ten or twelve
inches long in a glass jar full of al
cohol. 1t is marked THE scourge
of Puget Sound AS there are