Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-03-21
COAST ITEMS.

sWarms OF beggars on It's streets.
The jury in the Vincent wife
murder case at Fresno has been Sc
cured after six days.
Napa's City Trustees have adopt
ed 4 plan for q $4,000 steel bridge
across the-river at that place.
Fishermen in Carquines Straits
are having, no end of trouble in
keeping sea lions from destroying
their nets.
Stone-cutters at Vancouver, B. c.,
are on strike for IS a day and eight
hours. They, have been receiving
"a and nine hours.
Yuba City gave seven tramps
who had been placed under arrest
just thirty minutes to leave the town.
They obeyed the order.
The Los Angeles citrus exhibit is
to be reproduced as near as possible
in Chicago. The Fair has been a
great success at Los Angeles.
A joint stock company is being
formed at Victoria, B. c., to control
the. entire stevedoring of Puget
Sound and British Columbia.
The City Council Of Santa Bar
bara has ordered every eucalyptus
tree that stands within 100 feet of
a Waterman to be cut down.
In Tuscarora, New, corn-beef on
the block only brings A cents
pound, and everything below a
chuck steak is thrown out of doors.
William McCrea, a gambler, was
seriously stabbed at Prescott, A. T.,
yesterday by Louis Hernandez, a
Mexican waiter over game of cards.
More than half the 100 special
venire has been exhausted at Fres-
no in the Vincent wife-murder trial
and ajury has not yet been obtained.
At jackson, Amador county,
Joseph Garibaldi, a butcher. has
been burned out for the third time
in four years. The work is incend-
iary.
The Arizona Legislature has
passed a bill exernpting from taxa
ton for ten years all sugar-beet fac
tories built in the Territory within
one year.
Daniel Mcmillan. an old resident
of Santa Cruz was drowned at Hon.
olulu on March 9th. His body was
found floating in the bay the day
after his decease.
A number of cattle have dis
ease known as "black-leg," and
many of them are dying off in the
southern part Of Nevada township,
Nevada county, Cal.
Eugene Boardman, bookkeeper
for NJ. Seller & Co., at Spokane
Falls, committed suicide at Ceur
d'Alene City Tuesday night by
jumping into the lake.
Jim Hall, the Australian, in a
public fstic exhibition at Sacra-
mento Thursday night, battered
Bill Hall, local colored pugilist,
in shameful manner.
Ben Mitchell, notorious charac-
ter, and long a resident of Eel River
Valley, Humboldt county, was
found dead in the road near Eel
river on Sunday morning.
The Umatilla Indians object to
the terms Of the sale of their reser-
walton on April LIST. They demand
that the money received in the sale
be turned over to them at once.
In the State Of Washington there
are indications of harvest in 1891
that may exceed the phenomenal
one of 1890, which blocked the two
transcontinental roads for three
months subsequent to the harvest.
A new variety of fish, called ken
nell fish, has made an appearance
in Yaquina Bay, and it is said the
water is alive with them just now.
In appearance they resemble a
large smelt and are about the size
of an ordinary salmon trout. They
make very palatable dish when
properly prepared.
Two young women, sisters. named
McDermott, one twenty-seven and
the other twenty-four years of age,
were committed to the Asylum at
Stockton this week. There seems
to be a strong affinity between the
two. The suffering Of one, when
seen by the other, is almost imme-
diately impaired to the one free from
pain. The doctor thinks they will
both recover, as they were in the
same condition once before.
Counsel for Vincent. the wife,