Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-05-30

ing a jury In the Powell murder
case at Redwood City.
John Evans, proprietor of the
Western Hotel, at Rocklin, shot and
mortally wounded Tom Tully, Jr.,
Monday.
A man named Armstrong was
kicked to death at Perris, CAL, the
other night. by a citizen named J.
w. Vance.
The experimental tobacco crop OF
three acres, that was planted in Los
Angeles county this season is said
to be doing well.
C. F. Wolston, of Butte, is charg-
ed with throwing a drunken con-
ductor down stairs and probably
fatally injuring him.
From Milton, CAL, comes a re-
port that the plains are alive with
grasshoppers and they are travelling
towards the northwest.
The Walla Walla Grand Jury has
found a number of true bills in the
Hunt lynching case, but no names
are given to the public yet.
The body of Mary Grundler, an
heiress, was found in the river be-
low Spokane, and theories of muir
der and suicide are both advanced.
The United States Grand Jury at
Tucson has returned forty-two in
dictments, twenty-seven of which
are under the Edmunds Polygamy
Act.
Mrs. Emma Spaulding, of Eugene
City, Or, has been arrested for
posting obscene matter. The ar
rest was made by United States
officials.
Monroe Davis a cousin of Marshal
Nagle, who shot Judge Terry, fired
four shots at Joe Thralls, resident
of Indian Valley, last week, but
failed to kill him.
The stern-wheel steamer Gale
donia has successfully assembled the
Skeena river to Hazelton, B. c., 140
miles. Formerly all goods were
canoed or packed up by Indians.
D. Anderton, residing near Or
land, was attacked by a huge hog
the other day and ere he could es-
cape received a severe cut in the
thigh from the creatures tusks.
Charles Green, stagedriver at
Foster Greek on the Columbia river,
is reported to have been killed, but
how, is not stated. Green claimed
to be a cousin of Gen. Ben. Butler.
Willie Prinett, aged thirteen years
at Baker City, Or, was whipped by
his father. This mortified the boy
and he took his own life, shooting
himself twice in the breast with his
pistol.
The grasshopper have played sad
havoc with DR.. Serviss' 2-year-old
olive grove in Thermalito. Nothing
is left in the way of leaf or twig,
and many of the trees are denuded
of their bark.
There is some damage to the hay
crop in California by rain, and ber-
ries and cherries have suffered q
little. Only in a few places did the
wind blow hard enough or the rain
fall heavy enough to lodge the
growing grain.
Arms and ammunition have been
sent to the county officials at Walla
Walla, at their request, they fear
ing the soldiers will resist the law
warrants for the arrest of their
comrades, who are charged with
the killing of Hunt, recently lynch
ed in that place.
The Commissioners to the Col
Vile Reservation have succeeded in
making an arrangement with the
Indians by which 100000 acres,
or a little more than half of the res
ervation, are to be sold to the Gov
eminent for 81 per acre and thrown
open to settlement.
A mass meeting of stockmen from
all points of the county in the
neighborhood of the border line
with San Luis Obispo and Kern
counties has been called for June
9th at Bakersfield, to organize for
mutual protection. Stock thieves
are depredating to greater extent
than ever in that section.
The Temescal tin furnace was
started on the third run last Mon
day 1t is producing about sixty
bars, or nearly two tons of tin met
al, day, from a fve-stamp mill
and two Frue vanners, Ten more
stamps are being added to the pres
ent plant. The mill on the river,
when completed, will reduce 1000
tons of ore weekly,