Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-11-21
COAST ITEMS.

The saloonmen at Sacramento are
fighting the grocerymen.
The Skagit river flood broke log
jam which has lasted three years.
Sacramento is to be connected
with Perkins by an electric road.
The first carload of raisins ever
shipped from Kern county left Ba-
kersfeld this week.
Los Angeles will hold the annual
show of the American Poultry As
ISOLATION in February.
Provo, Utah, is excited over rich
mineral discoveries which have re-
Gently been made near there.
The Phoebe Consolidated Mining
and Reduction Company is reducing
about one hundred tons of ore daily.
Ten convicts were put to work
Wednesday grading the new road
which is to connect San Rafael and
Tiburon.
The old fonrng-mill with new
machinery has started up at Bakers
field. 1t has a capacity for 600 bar
rels day.
The Selma irrigation district has
voted against issuing bonds to pro-
vide an irrigation scheme under the
Wright law.
Otto Stolp, restaurant waiter
ct San Rafael, is charged with steal
ing $50 and check for 81, 700 from
Mrs. Wheeler last Saturday.
Small bands of reindeer have
been left at Oonalaska and Uniak
Islands. This is the beginning of
their introduction into Alaska.
Redondo Beach proposes to place
heavy anchors and mooring chains
in the ocean, to which vessels can be
anchored during stormy weather.
Butte, Mont, is making an organ
lied effort to rid the town of Chi
nese. There are about 1900 there
and general system of boycotting
is suggested.
VIM. B. Smith, who escaped from
the Tulare county Jail with Grafton
Dalton, has been captured in the
eastern part of San Joaquin county
and returned to Visalia.
Rev. H. C. Gillingham, who was
recently suspended by the Modesto
Presbyterian Church, has charged
one of the leaders of the prosecution
in his case with fraudulent voting.
Messrs. Willard and Mcdonald,
who have one of the best paying
little mines in Nevada, had their
mill robbed at Holbrook last week
of amalgum estimated to be worth
$1,000.
Charles L, Foster, police officer in
Ross Valley, is charged with assault
ing prisoner while under arrest,
and the case has great interest to the
people in the valley and at San
Rafael.
VIM. Thompson proposes build
ing hundred thousand dollar hotel
in Reno. Such hotel would make
Reno a Summer resort for Califor-
mans and a Winter resort for weak
lunged Eastern people.
Railroad men say business on the
Central Pacific is heavy. Special
trains are being run daily to take
freight over the road. 1t is expect
ed that the freight will continue
brisk until after the holidays.
A demand has been made by a
United States official upon the city
of Los Angeles for Spanish archives
in its possession, but the city offici-
ais decline to obey until they are or
dered to do so by the Council or by
the courts.
A recent shooting scrape at Hal
brook, A. T., has occasioned pro-
test by the people of that section
against men who go there "to do
their killing and make Arizona pay
the cost" The offenders were from
New Mexico.
A large quantity of pig-tin has
been hauled down from the mines
this week to be shipped by rail from
South Riverside, says the Bee, which
adds that the mines are now turn
ing out large quantities of this val
liable product.
A Chinaman named All Kew was
stricken with paralysis at Reno and
his countrymen tried to cure him
by placing Goals of fire upon his
stomach and wrists. This treat
ment failed in effecting cure and
the Chinaman died.
Judge Ross of the United States
Court at Los Angeles has sentenced
three Yuma Indians to death for the
brutal murder of an old medicine