Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-08-15
COAST ITEMS.

OF canned aprlcOtS laSt OunCay Ill
rect to London.
The Columbia river salmon sea-
son ended Sunday night with $500
cans less than last year.
Twenty-six tins of unstamped
opium were seized in Stockton's
Chinatown Thursday evening.
About seven hundred acres were
burned over on the Hot Springs
road, twelve miles from Gilroy,
Thursday.
Bailey Kay Leach has been held
at Fresno to answer the charge of
forging his wife's name to deed of
valuable property.
An attempt of the Seamen's Union
to prevent the unloading of the
steamer Wellington at San Diego,
Wednesday, was unsuccessful.
Mrs. Green, an aged lady and one
of the Bonner party, died at Ma
dera, Fresno county, Tuesday. She
was the mother of the first white
child born at Stockton, in 1848.
1t has been agreed that those
farmers who were injured by the
breaking of the Galway Canal, near
Bakersfield, will arbitrate with the
canal company in the matter of
damages.
In the Davis case at Butte, Mont,
Monday, seven more witnesses were
examined on the subject of James
Eddy's handwriting, and all said he
was bad speller. The Court ruled
out comparative evidence.
Southern California proposes to
furnish the Eastern markets with
Winter vegetables There are three
months in the year when the South
ern California producer will have
comparatively no competition in the
Eastern market.
Mrs. N. Dingley, dissatisfied with
the Sunday Leaders report of her al
legged divorce proceedings, Wednes-
day went to the Office at Sacramento
and attempted to cowhide J. N. Lar
kin, the editor. She and her two
stepdaughters were elected.
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon
has replied to Governor Ferry, of
Washington, and cites authorities
for his action in refusing to grant
requisition for a man who was tried
in Oregon and acquitted for the
same crime for which he is wanted
in Washington.
Scipio Craig of the Redlands Cit
ograph failed to notify his friends
of his arrival at San Francisco
from the East, where he has been
in attendance at the Editorial Asso-
citation, and his friends have become
alarmed. Mr.. Craig is now on his
way home from San Francisco.
The orchardists and vineyardists
around MERGED, including the great
buhach plantation, have hired white
labor to harvest this seasons fruit
crop, in consequence of which the
Chinese have begun a regular STAN
pede, numbers of them leaving by
every train. At least $50 have gone
from Fresno in the last few days.
Napa is much excited over the
death of Barbara E. Tachada, who
was reported by a man with whom
she went fishing last Sunday to
have fallen into the river and
drowned. The body shows marks
of bruises, but whether they were
received before or after she was in
the water has not yet been deter
mined.
A grass fire was started on the
ranch of J. w. Reams in Wooden
Valley, Solano county, and in a
short time extended to E. J. OKells
in Gordon Valley, destroying all of
the dry feed and many miles of
fences on both places. This is the
ninth grass fire that has been start
ed in that neighborhood during the
past two months and the origin Of
none of them has been discovered.
G. A. Wetmore of the Viticulture
Commission has completed weeks
investigation of the vineyards of
Fresno county. He says that the
rumors that grapes have been hurt
by heat are not true. Wine grapes
are not injured any, and Muscats
only slightly-not to exceed 10 per
cent. The yield of wine grapes
will be enormous, and the product
of sweet wines will be unprece-
.dented.
A cloudburst Tuesday struck Red
lands at 5 o'clock. So far as known