Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-07-25
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oners.
Bogus greenbacks are circulating
at Salem, Or.
The squaws at Phoenix, A. T.,
have begun towear shoes and stock
ings
At fire in Chinatown in Vallejo
Sunday a 3-year-old child was
burned to death.
The water in Tulare Lake is not
covering one-half of the land it did
several years ago.
Over 500 acres of grain were
burned on the Floyd ranch, near
Milton, Thursday.
Santa Clara has an opium den
where several young men have been
rendered slaves to the drug.
The bark Guy c. Goss is overdue
at Tacoma. She sailed from Japan
with 100000 worth of teas.
The fruit crop in Los Angeles
county is light. The grape crop
promises to be unusually large.
The tree-dweller, missing from
Healdsburg, is reported to have
passed Ingomar, going south, last
Monday.
The Fraser river salmon pack is
so per cent behind the two previous
years. The pack is also short on
the Columbia river.
All Quong's wife, who was stolen
by highbinders from Vacaville and
taken to, Woodland; has been judic-
tally restored to him.
A fabulous gold strike is reported
at Spokane to- have been made on
the Red river. The ore is reported
TO be "thick all over with gold"
Los Angeles intends to carry out
the Sunday-closing ordinance, three
licenses were revoked Wednesday,
for selling liquor last Sunday.
Twenty horses persisted in the
stable fire at Marysville, Tuesday
One of the employees carelessly
dropped cigarette and originated
the fire.
Mrs. A. D. Beecham of Puente,
Los Angeles county, was bitten by
a rattlesnake at Peach Springs, A.
T., last Wednesday, and died in a
few hours afterward.
There is a report that the soda
works at Keller are to change hands
and be greatly extended. The in
dustry could readily be made to as
sumo vast proportions.
The town of Bonneville, in An
derson Valley, twenty-five miles
from Ukiah, has been entirely de-
stroyed by forest fire. Only one
building remains. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Ukiah has had sensation in the
confession of three of its young
bloods that they tore down a large
business sign on the Sd inst. The
authorities had been sitting the mat
ter, with the result noted.
Sixty tons of hay, several tons
of sacked wheat and several acres
of stubble were consumed on the old
Hartley ranch, near MERGED, We'd
nesday. The fire started from Goals
left in the blaeksmith's forge.
Five carloads of horses, valued
at $4,000 were stolen from the
ranch of A. L. Davis, in the vicin-
ity of Ritsville, Wash, on or about
July 4th. The horses were shipped
from Pampa, a small station on the
Union Pacific, to Chicago by way of
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way.
August Drayeur, proprietor of the
Delmonico Restaurant at Tacoma,
WASH, has been missing three
weeks. He had been acting strange
ly for some time past, and his friends
fear that he has wandered away and
is lost or has committed suicide in
a fit of dependency. Drayeur was
well known in San Francico.
Railroad freight agents at Port
land are worked up over the fact
shat the Union Pacific carried forty
eight carloads of wool East which
the Northern Pacific had engaged
and was to have been turned over
at Walla Walla to it. The Union
Pacific claims the wool was billed
to Boston, and they delivered it
there.
For the past three days the water
at Salton has been about stationary,
the inflow being only sufficient to
replace the evaporation. A River
side man has written TO Washing
ton, asking that the authorities pre-
vent attempts to stop the overflow