Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-07-18
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Bogus dollars of 1884 coinage are
plentiful in the interior of Cal.
The motive power of the cars from
Los Angeles to Vernon is to be
changed from horses to electricity
Thomas Tabor, Stockton-raised
young man, has been sent to Fol-
som for fifteen years for highway
robbery.
The millionaire Davis will case
has been set for trial at Butte, Mont,
July 9th, an appeal for change of
venue having been refused.
There is trouble between white
settlers and Indians along the Koo-
tenai river In British Columbia.
The Indians are driviag the settlers
of.
The Liberals at Salt Lake in the
school election this week retain six
of the ten members of the Board of
Education and carry the city by
700 majority.
Another break in the Colorado
river 10 sending an immense body
Of water into the Colorado Desert.
The break, it is thought, can easily
be repaired or shut off.
The Southern Paaiic alone has
earned on freights on potatoes GO
ing East this season from Los An
geles 100000. This business has
been built up within three years.
DIR. L. Townsend, a dentist at
Ashland, Or, blew the top of his
head off with a shotgun Tuesday.
To over-indulgence in drink and do
mestic difficulties is attributed the
act.
The night porter in the Western
Hotel at Marysville skipped out
early Tuesday morning with $500,
which he secured from the safe
while the night clerk had gone up
stairs.
Rooney Grain, was shot at Lam
caster, Los Angeles county, Wednes-
day evening, by unknown parties.
The firing was done through an open
window, while Grain was reading a
lay-bOok.
Juan B, Cooper, the millionaire
cattle and land owner at Monterey,
had his left leg broken just above
the ankle Sunday when jumping
from a carriage, the team having
run away.
The total overflow into the Colo
RADIO Desert is now estimated at
about two thousand square miles,
the greater part of which is across
the line in old Mexico. The water
continues to rise.
There is considerable excitement
at Healdsburg over the disappear
.ance of Hohenstein the hermit, who
lived in the trunk of a big redwood
tree near there, and who has mys-
teriously disappeared.
Louis Lyons, who married Stella
Delamont in Sacramento, few
months ago, has bren convicted of
bigamy at Stockton. His wife's
name was Annie Haake, and she is
a resident of San Francisco.
Charley Purvis, aged Is, hanged
himself at Talent, Oregon, Friday
night, with a log chain. The cause
of this act is said to have been dis
appointment in not getting some
articles of clothing which he wanted
from his parents for the Fourth of
July.
The colored miners at Newcastle,
King county, Wash, struck Tues
day because some of them had been
discharged to make room for thir-
teen whites. The company rein
stated the men and made room for
the whites beside the colored men.
Derius Norris, well-known water
front character at Astoria, it is be-
lieved has been defrauded out of a
large and valuable piece of property
and frightened into a sudden de-
parture by the parties who swindled
him. his friends have undertaken
to unravel what now appears to be
crooked work.
Thomas Hinckley of Seattle,
while on spree at Tacoma, entered
q saloon and called all hands up for
adrink. While the bar-keeper was
serving the crowd Hinckley pulled
revolver and began shooting. Will
liam Brannon, the proprietor, and
George Martin, City Tax Collector,
were instantly killed and several
others wounded.
A local freight train on the North
ern Pacific crashed through high
trestle on the outskirts Of Spokane,
Wash Tuesdav and MINCED into