Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-06-06
COAST ITEMS.

Inc 1ruiJ crop throughout Naca
Valley is immense.
The Indians gathered near Car
son for a grand fandango this week.
Soldiers have gone to the Puyal-
lup Reservation to keep squatters off.
Work has been resumed on the
United States building at Los An
geles.
The first shipment of peaches
from California East left Winters
Saturday.
The trial for the legal possession
Of the Corte MADEIRA has begun at
San Rafael.
The Fraser river in British Col
umbia has risen rapidly, and the
lowlands are being flooded.
A. X. Belden was stabbed to death
by one Lotus at Grande Ronde
River, Or, in disput over so cents.
The Tombstone and Bisbee stage
was held up about nine miles from
.Bisbee Tuesday morning. The rob-
bers got $40 for their trouble.
Horace Harding and Sam Bates,
colored criminals, who are wanted
in Coils county, Texas, for arson
and robbery, have been arrested at
Sacramento.
Mrs. Colwell, a widow and res
ident of Oakland, was burned to
death Sunday at the residence of
her son, Ralph Colwell, near Lotus,
Placer county.
Seattle has shipped to Chicago
for exhibition fir tree 113 feet in
length, with a diameter at the big
end of 50 inches. 1t is believed to
be 440 years old.
William Maloney, who was acct
dentally shot near MERGED last week
by the careless handling of a gun
by young lady whom he was WIS.,
iting, has died from the effects of
the wound.
Nothing sensational has yet been
developed in the case of Hale, who
is on trial at MERGED for the murder
of Mrs. Mcdowell, who was shot
while playing with her child by
some one outside the house.
The four men charged with as
saulting Juryman Sanders, who
hung the jury in the Shankland
case last Thursday at Tombstone,
A. T., were tried before a jury, and
three of them were found guilty.
The leper discovered near Stock
ton is not in SO bad a condition as
reported. He is isolated from the
camp of his fellow Chinese, and was
we'll attended to by them. The au-
thorities concluded to let him re-
main.
Two ministers visited Zwald, the
self-confessed double-wife murderer
in prison at Sacramento, and they
think he is not insane, but that by
his confession he has acted with the
impulse of one who had "seen the
light"
Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck has
given Los Angeles city ten acres for
a park on Boyle Heights, adjoining
the land recently donated by ex-
Mayor Workman. Mrs. Hollen-
beck is the lady who last year gave
$750,0OO for home for aged people.
Ninety-fve birds belonging to the
ostrich farm, near Anaheim, were
sold Monday to satisfy judgment
against the farm. The birds brought
$1,000. A lot of feathers brought
5000. Only enough of the property
was sold to liquidate the debt. The
company bid in the birds.
William Coleman, a young man,
carelessly left a loaded gun standing
against the side of the house, near
Fresno, Wednesday. Children were
playing near the place, and in their
rompings the gun was thrown down,
the load discharged, and Fred Lin
son, five years old, was killed.
1t is reported there is considera-
BILE uneasiness among the settlers in
the vicinity of Tulare Lake. The
water is rising rapidly, principally
from the great body flowing into it
from Kern river, and many of the
settlers expect to be compelled to
leave, losing their crops and suffer
ing great damage in other respects.
III. Cherkins, while working on
the Siuslaw Railroad survey, out
from Eugene, Or, met with pecu-
liar accident. He was walking on
a log and cutting brush, when he
lost his balance and fell, striking
one of the saplings which he had
cut. The sapling penetrated the alb
domen, almost disemboweling him.
Officer Simpson of the Sacrament
to police yesterday gave chase to