Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-09-05
COAST ITEMS.

more cutters.
Extensive forest fires are in the
mountains near Boise City.
Palo Alto and Sunol are both to
be driven at Stockton to beat their
records.
Plenty of white and Indian labor
has been secured for the Mendocino
hop-felds.
Consul Jay Ewing, at Victoria,
B. c., is in disfavor with the people
of that city.
The mackeral along the southern
coast are said to be fat, plentiful
and biting freely.
Edith Lee and Mabel Skinner,
aged fourteen, were drowned in the
willamette, at Independence, Or,
Monday.
Hop picking is well under way in
Oregon. The market is very dis
couraging and some yards will not
be picked.
Many witnesses in the Davis will
contest at Butte, Mont, are now
testifying to the genuineness of the
document.
A 3-year-old son of B. B. Gessner,
of Stayton, Or, set fire to his cloth
ing while playing with matches,
and was burned to death.
While train No. "a was running
at full speed near Denison Station,
A. T., car of powder blew up, and
E. w. White and August Beckman
were killed.
The outgoing stage to Modoc
county was robbed about 1880
o'clock Tuesday night, three and a
half miles from Redding, by lone
highwayman.
Three small boys, the eldest only
ten years, were arrested at Fresno
for shooting holes in three boats on
Dry Creek. They said they were
playing Cbileans and were firing on
the insurgent fleet at Valparaiso.
John Johnson, a blacksmith of
San Bernardino, was found dead
Thursday. He and two compan-
ions wound up a debauch at the
place where the body was found by
drinking a gallon of grape brandy.
At Mission San Jose Saturday, as
F. S. Brown was returning home
with a load of wood, one of his
daughters, aged five years, ran up
TO the wagon to get a ride, but fell
under the wheels and was instantly
killed.
There are factional quarrels be-
tween the McFarlands and Olsens
in MERGED county, originating since
the Ivett murder, for which one of
the Olsens was tried, and it is be-
lieved there will be some killing yet
before peace is restored.
At Visalia an attempt was made
Sunday by some unknown party to
poison number of boarders of Mrs.
McDermitt, by introducing into the
material with which the lady made
ice-cream Scroton oil. Eleven per-
sons were made seriously i'll.
Four more sealing schooners have
returned to Victoria, B. C.,-the
Carlotta G. Cox, Annie C. Moore,
Borealis and Geneva. The Carlotta
C. Cox, brought 1913 skins, the
Geneva brought 496, the Annie c.
Moore 1850, and the Borealis 800.
Tuesday, at Eugene City, Or, the
little boy of S. A. Ogden was play
ing with another boy, who had a
cartridge of giant powder, which he
told the Ogden boy to touch match
to, the explosion probably resulting
in the loss of eyesight to the boy.
Within the last two days every
foot of the San Joaquin, river from
below Hamptonville to a point
above Millerton has been covered
with mining claims. 1t is believed
the bed of the river is filled with
gold, and survey has been made
with a view of turning the river
from its channel.
Miss Cora Eubanks, while re-
turning to her home in Cathay Val
ley, Mariposa county, CAL, was
stopped by an armed man, made to
dismount, and was then cruelty
beaten and choked. She was I'M
conscious when found. The whole
community is out with arms in
search of the villain.
A sequel to the sudden disap-
pearance from Tacoma, a week ago,
of Secretary Edward Albertson with
$4,000 of Fidelity Trust Company's
money, is the subsequent disappear
ance, since last Thursday, of John
L. Cohoon, his brother-in-law. The
+wo families live in the go me- hnuSe