Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-10-03

est in hop-growing.
Snow is reported in the Cascade
and Olympia Mountains.
The loss by fire to the Stockton
Iron works was but $4,000, !.
Rain in the south this week slight
ly injured the raisin crop Of Cal.
The Stockton iron works were
partially destroyed by fire Wednes-
day.
New Gold discoveries are report
ed from Pine Valley, San Diego
county, Cal.
The Indian scare in Idaho is not
causing apprehension of army Of
ticials at Spokane, Wash.
The losses by the fires on the
Georgetown divide, Ell Dorado coun-
ty, will approximate $4,000.
Riverside, Cal, is to build a
Court House to cost over $500, 900,
to be raised by direct taxation.
H. A. Carlton and John Rogers,
two Santa Rosa wheelmen, are to
make tour of the State of Cali
fornia on wheels.
The wagon road from San Ber-
nardino to the Bear Valley Reser-
voir, thirty-nine miles in length, is
now open for travel.
San Jacinto raisin-growers COM
plain that parents send their chill
dren into the vineyards to steal
grapes for the family.
Four young men at Fresno neither
being over twenty-five years of age,
have been sentenced to Folsom for
one year for burglary.
Baker, the San Quentin convict,
who murdered Bailey, prison COM
rade, has been placed in charge of
the Marin county Sheriff.
Highwaymen near Banning the
other day attacked two Cinnamon
in a vegetable wagon, killing one
and badly wounding the other.
San Bernardino officials have
been cited to explain why they in
terfered with the running of the
Southern California motor road last
August.
The Grand Jury at Reno is I'M
able to find the slightest evidence
upon which to indict an one for the
hanging of the ruffian Ortez by
vigilantes. and asks to be discharg-
ed.
The work of construction on the
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix
railroad, which will connect. Ph@-
nix, A. t., and the Salt River Val
ley with the Santa Fe system, has
begun.
J. w. Johnson, an insane man at
Portland, Or, cut off his hand with
an ak. He had an idea that his
hand would cause him to commit
forgery and thought best to part
with it.
Sparks from the engine hauling
the west-bound local afternoon train
Tuesday started a stubble-feld fire
near Dixon, another between Ba-
tavia and Elmira, and two more be-
tween Elmira and Suisun.
JF Noble, a rancher near Colfax,
jumped from the local train Mon
day evening, while it was running
80 miles an hour. He was asleep
and thought he had passed Colfax.
He only dislocated his shoulder.
G. E. Conley, whose parents re-
side in San Francisco, and who was
engaged as foreman of sewer work
at Albany, Or, died from strangu-
1ation, caused by inhaling food into
the larnyx during fit of vomiting.
The death of 4-year-old child
of Mrs. Spencer, of Martinez, Cal,
has created some excitement be-
cause of its suddenness and belief
that the child was poisoned. An
autopsy showed no evidence of poi
son, but an analysis of the contents
of the stomach has been determined
upon.
John Scott, a Pasadenan, has
been the victim of bold confidence
men, who robbed him of large
sum of money and large amount
of securities. A man calling him
self J. B. Morrison, who personated
a United States Marshal, is impli-
Gated and under arrest.
San Rafael is much chagrined
over the way young man, calling
himself George C. Gorham, Jr.,
was enabled to get into the swim of
all the good people, and subsequent
1y swindle everybody who trusted
him. He married Miss Mamie
Dyer, whom he robbed and deserted.
A number of wineries at Santa