Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-05-23
COAST ITEMS.

are proving to be wonderfully rich.
The charge against miners at
Wellington, B. c., for conspiracy,
has been dismissed.
The trial of C. F. Hale for the
murder of Mrs. Lottie Mcdowell
has begun at MERGED, Cal.
Vineyards and orchards near
MERGED, CAL, are at least sixty days
ahead of last year in growth.
Burglars opened the safe of c. S.
Taylor at Tucson and got away
with $500 last Sunday night.
The Military Court of Inquiry
into the lynching of Hunt at Wal
Ia Walla, began its session Tues
day.
Oscar Homer, while catching
driftwood in the river at Truckee
Monday, fell into the water and
was swept away.
The Bear has reached Seattle
from Alaskan waters. She brought
down sixteen ship-wrecked sailors
of the schooner Primigan.
o. B. Wilson, ex-Mayor of Great
Bend, Kan, who is wanted there
on charge Of embezzling $4,000,
has been arrested at Seattle.
N. D. Rideout's grain warehouse
at Norman, a short distance from
Willows, Cal, with a quantity of
grain was burned Wednesday.
George H. Miles has been arrest
ed at Los Angeles for the murder
of George w. Miller, in the Garlic
ton saloon last Sunday. Miles was
Miller's business partner.
A company of eighteen bankers
and capitalists from the East and
London have arrived at Redlands
to study the Bear Valley system of
irrigation, with view to investing
in the stock.
Mr.. DENLY, United States Minis
ter to China, has provided for the
sending of the seeds to the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
the culture of tea near that city
being determined upon.
Ed Green, a teamster, was run
over by a loaded six-horse wagon
at Pyramid, Thursday. The calf
and thigh of the mans leg was
lacerated in frightful manner,
and he may die from the effects of
his injuries.
Three masked men broke into the
station house at Santa Onafre, on
the California Southern road, north
of Oceanside, Monday. They got
500 and tore gold ring from the
hand of the wife of the boss of the
section hands.
Last Sunday w. A. Hubert, of
Sacramento. rode a bicycle to Stock
ion, 81 miles, without dismounting,
and made it in four hours and
twenty-five minutes. The round
trip was made in nine hours and
fifteen minutes.
An alleged special agent of the
General Land Office has been oper-
ating through Eastern Washington
for the past month with remarkable
success. He goes by the name of
Pemberton, and has been black
mailing settlers.
George Comygs, a prominent
banker and lawyer of Spokane,
drew a revolver and threatened the
law officers who attempted to arrest
him few days ago. Several shots
that did no damage were exehang-
ed before he was taken in charge.
The trial of the Davis case at
Butte, Montana, has been postpon-
ed to June 22d, on the affidavit of
Henry A. Root, who claims the
will is a forgery and wants time to
take dispositions of witnesses as to
the handwriting of the man who
wrote it.
From the evidence so far obtain
ed in the Walla Walla lynching in
quiry it seems the officers of the
post were as much surprised at the
action of the men as were the citi-
zens, although the former had re-
ceived notification that the man
Hunt would be lynched.
Otto Kreslich, the ranch foreman
of Burbank, who recently eloped
with Miss Mary Carhart, the daugh-
ter of his wealthy employer, and
whose marriage was frustrated on
finding that he had wife in New
York whom he deserted, has gone
there to try to get his wife to con-
sent to divorce.
Peter F. Shorb, machinist, but
who is most always under the inhu-
arco Of HONOR hos haan orroctad