Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-08-01

AT San BernardlnO Tor two days the
mercury went up to Ill deg. and
112 deg, and fer over two weeks the
record was above 100 deg. No dam
age has been done to the fruit crop.
The cannery men in the Column
bia river estimated the pack at the
present time at from 10000 to co.
900 cases short of that at the cor
responding period last season. The
majority of the Gamers state that
the shortage will not exceed 10000
cases.
The new method of sinking ar
tesian wells without casing by the
hydraulic pump continues success
in Antelope Valley. Monday, one
and half miles west of Lancaster,
Los Angeles county, well was sunk
$50 feet inside of five hours, and a
flow of five miners inches obtained.
Two Shoshone bucks named
Spruce Aleck and Laughing Charlie,
fought bloody duel Monday, at
Wells, in an Indian camp. The
trouble arose about squaw. They
were both hobbled together and
fought with knives. They are hor-
ribly mangled and Aleck will die.
An attempt to assassinate three
men from Oregon at the Hotel de
France, at Sanger, Fresno county,
was made Sunday morning by
shooting at them with buckshot.
All three were wounded, one dan
gerously. M Rogallo, the hotel
| proprietor, was arrested and admit
ted to bail.
Mrs. Rudolph Hagen, wife of a
well known brewer of San Fran
cisco, was found dead in her bed at
Bellevue, Idaho, Thursday. She
had been given prescription by a
! physician, and instead of taking
four or five drops for a dose, as di-
rected, she took the entire bottle
! full by mistake.
A forest fire which has been burn
ing along the Stanislaus river, on
the Calaveras side, crossed the river
Tuesday, in the vicinity of the mar
BILE works, near Columbia and sur
rounded and destroyed the works.
Miss Kate McNamee, a daughter of
the owner, was caught by the flames
and burned to death.
Fruit-driers and Gamers in Po-
mona Valley, Cal are rushed with
business day and night, and every
man, woman and child, who can
be employed is called in to help at
handling the apricot crop. Fruit
growers average $2S ton for april
cots and peaches. Many carloads
of dried apricots have been sent
East.
A supposed wild man has been
captured near Tombstone, A. T. He
wore no clothing, and his skin has
become tanned to very black. He
talks nationally, says he is a Cali
fornian, and first began to discard
clothing when he had skin disease.
He is about thirty-fve years old,
six feet tall, blue eyes, high fore
head and high cheek bones. lie
seems to be very intelligent, and
uses very good language.
The oldest printer OH the Pacific
Coast, and one of the oldest in the
country, William Chapman, died at
FL Monte, Los Angeles county, Mon
day, at the age of eighty-seven.
When he reacaed his eighty-third
year he set a stickful Of type for his
home paper and was very proud of
the act. He leaves an estate worth
100000 and gives one-third to his
church, the rest to be divided among
his numerous children and grand
children, who live in the vicinity Of
Sacramento and Marysville.
While the Southern Pacific pas
senger train was passing through
Tunnel IA, in the Siskiyou mount
aims, Thursday, one of the two en-
gines used parted from the train
Engineer Rochefort and fireman