Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-04-18
COAST ITEMS.

Pleasanton, CAL, is greatly excit-
ed over find of natural gas.
Lizzie Wright, a colored servant
girl, has fallen heir to a large fortune
in Virginia.
A German named Israel Oscar
Lystrom hanged himself at Los An
geles, Tuesday.
An unknown young man COM
mitted suicide at the Corts MADEIRA
railroad station, Tuesday.
Henry Quescot, leader Of the Sal
walton Army at Marysville, has
been found guilty of theft.
A large vein of coal has been dis
covered in Pine Gulch, about two
miles from Point Bolinas.
Practical jokers at MERGED have
driven Thomas Kable, a simple
minded fellow, into insanity.
The testimony for the prosecution
in the Olsen case at MERGED is near
ly all in, and is believed will be in
sufficient to convict.
Masked men robbed the Postofice
at Deep Creek Falls, Wash, Sunday,
and set the building on fire, causing
loss of two adjoining buildings.
A deadlock between the Union
Pacific and the contractor of its
Puget Sound extension, has at last
been broken. Work will be re-
sumed at an early date.
At the Spokane Postoffice H. E.
Riddle, mailing clerk; Oscar Law
ton, chief Of carriers, and another
carrier whose name is withheld have
been arrested for thefts.
Two farmers, renting Chino beet
land, introduced gangs of China
men, and Monday night other
farmers broke up the camp and
hauled off all the Celestials.
Julius Ferrari, an italian resident
of Stockton, received notification
Monday from the italian Consul at
San Francisco to return to Italy
and re-enter the Italian army.
The flame from the gas well at
the old Odd Fellows Cemetery at
Pleasanton is said to be as thick as
a mans thigh and as straight as an
arrow for twelve or fifteen feet into
the air.
The Cinnamon arrested at Wat
sonville for ironing within the city
limits in violation of an ordinance
passed at the last meeting of the
City Council will contest the legal
ofity the ordinance.
Frank Hull and nephew from
Franklin, Idaho, were killed by In
dams near Blackfoot, Idaho, Mon
day. The people are in arms and
will demand from the Indians the
surrender of the murderers.
1t is reported thst the South Bend
Land Company has offered re-
ward of $4,000 and Mrs. Rose a re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and
Identification of the parties in the
mob concerned in the shooting Of
Rose and Edwards at Sealand,
WASH, Saturday.
A regularly organized gang of
robbers was captured at MERGED
Falls, Sunday. They have been
operating in MERGED, Mariposa and
Fresno counties, and when arrested
had horses, wagons, stoves and
household furniture in their possess
sion belonging to people in the three
counties.
There is much sympathy shown
for the Kaweah settlers who are be-
ing dispossessed of property they
settled upon in Tulare county. The
trial is now going on at Los Ange-
les. The evidence that the men
acted in good faith and their ap-
pearance have excited very friend
ly interest in their case.
The Indian who killed William
Hull and nephew near Eagle Rock,
Idaho, has been killed. His death
was reported to the Indians as a
case Of suicide, but the Indians
finally found ont that he was killed
and are becoming very warlike, and
the settlers are coming into Eagle
Rock fear the Indians will murder
all the white people.
The drift sand in the channel at
Humboldt Bay is deposited by the
tides, and mainly comes from ero-
sion of the north spit or peninsula,
but navigation has been 80 COM
pletely DISTRACTED of late that in
coming steamers have been unable
to reach Eureka except at extreme
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