Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-11-07
COAST ITEMS.

Rams IN washington nave done
considerable damage.
Beet-tops are in demand around
jacksonville for cattle-feeding pur-
poses this year.
The r. w. Strong Company at
Sacramento, large fruit-shipping
house, has failed.
The, Cajaleo tin mines of South
Riverside turned out twenty tons of
pure tin last month.
Two Chinese lepers on the streets
of Vancouver, B. c., created great
excitement this week.
Nineteen miners lost their lives
by the fall of a cage in the Anaconda
mine at Butte, Mont, Tuesday.
Ranchers around Idaho Falls,
Idaho, are offering potatoes in the
field at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
J. F. Cash, who was arrested at
Portland for forgery, proves to be a
recently-released convict from Cal.
Danville, in Contra Costa is try
ing to get rid of its only saloon, and
much excitement and feeling are
manifested in the matter.
Bill Howard and Abe Jones,
stage robbers, escaped from stage
near Holcombs Station, forty miles
from Redding, Sunday night.
The prospects for the completion
of railroad from Salt Lake to Los
Angeles are fair, according to re-
port that reaches Los Angeles.
It is said that nearly all the Gov
eminent land in the Yakima Val
ley, Wash, has been taken up since
the successful sinking of the first
artesian well.
George e. Holden, Chicago
sporting man, was robbed of nearly
$4,000 between Albuquerque and
Pomona. He carried the money in
a small handbag.
Since vineyard work has ceased
in Fresno county, the town of Fresno
has been crowded with idle men.
Depredations and robberies are of
frequent occurrence.
There is contest at Stockton over
the estate of w. B. johnson, which
is valued at about 100000, between
an adopted daughter and nieces and
nephews of the deceased.
A raisin-drier in the vineyard Of
D. d. Hudson, two miles east from
Fresno, was burned to the ground
Wednesday night, together with
nearly a carload of raisins.
Doctor Warnekros, a dentist at
Tombstone, A. T., has been arrested
and charged with causing the death
of Howard F. Herring who recently
died while being operated on by the
Doctor.
Carl Tibbals, a brother of the
Mayor of Port Townsend, has been
arrested for the larceny of $3.50
from his mother. All this money
except $12 he spent in Spokane
painting the town."
A man named Silva is under ar
rest at Salinas on a charge of en-
bezzlement. He collected dues for
the Order of Chosen Friends. His
mother died and he used the money
to defray the funeral expenses.
Portland citizen have subscribed
$4,000 for an Endowment fund to
the Portland Library Association.
The bequest of Miss Ella NJ. with,
of $4,000, is being expended on
the building, which is nearly COM
pleted.
From reports gathered from fruit
growers in all parts Of California
south of Fresno it is found that the
total prune crop in that region this
season has been one-eigth of full
crop. In Pomona Valley it has
been even smaller than that.
While the Penitentiary Commits
sioners were in session at the Santa
Fe prison, three prisoners, with
''wooden revolvers," wrapped with
tin foil, held up the guard, and two
succeeded in escaping in a carriage
which was in front of the building.
John Moran, section boss on the
Atlantic and Pacific at Needles, has
been arrested at Albuquerque, and
property which was stolen from a
Pullman sleeper on the Goth ult.,
and belonging to Mrs. McClernand
of Fort Wingate was found on his
person.
Specimens of ore which assay
$14 60 in silver, with traces Of gold,
lead and arsenic, have been taken
to San Jose by Charles Schaeffer,
who has located the mine in the
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