Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-04-25

Inc. systematic DOfing OF Wells at
Los Angeles is to be undertaken by
an organized company.
A 500 ton steamer is about to be
put on the route between Portland
and Coos Bay, to make weekly trips.
Steamboat races between Tacoma
and Seattle make travel on the
steamers in that section somewhat
exciting.
British Columbia wants an in
crease in the Chinese head tax. 1t
is now $50 and Victoria wants it
made 500.
Twelve union miners at Yelling
ton, B. c., are under arrest for
beating a non-union man until his
life was despaired of.
E. Humason, a prominent cattle
dealer at Spokane, convicted of cat
tle-stealing, has been sentenced to
two years in the Penitentiary.
M. T. Milliken, sentenced to no
days in the Visalia Jail for nom
payment of SIS board bill, has
been pardoned by the Governor.
Ground has been broken on the
new toll-road from Squaw Rock, on
the San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad, to Highland Springs, Lake
county.
George Whitmore, President of
the Nephi, Utah, National Bank,
was buncoed out of $1,000 Monday
by the familiar old gold brick
scheme.
The Fall River Mail claims that
Swasey, Shasta county, is 1.-THE boss
town of the State and ere long it
will be the Metropolis of Northern
California
McCloud trout that were put in
the Truckee river years ago have
increased, and distributed them
selves in the river from Truckee to
Pyramid and Mud Lakes.
The report at the mines at Frank
lin and Newcastle. King county
Wash, is that the Superintendent
is trying to secure 600 men in Illi-
nois to fill the places of the strikers.
In quarrel on the Jackson, Am
ador county, baseball grounds, Sat-
urday between A. Badaracca and V.
Belluomini, the latter struck the
former in the head with bat and
fractured his skull.
Tom Gallagher, bookkeeper for
the United Verde Copper Company,
at Jerome, A. T., Sunday, shot and
killed James Hawkins, a Constable.
The shooting was cold blooded, and
Gallagher's plea is drunkenness.
The Canadian Pacific will begin
running into Seattle about May
18th. They will enter Seattle over
the Seattle, Lake Shore and East
ern, and # an agreement can be
made with the Northern Pacific the
services will be extended to Tacoma.
The Touring mill of Paso Robes,
which started up but few months
ago, is now being increased to
2OO-barrel mill, which will still be
insufficient to supply the demand
for the -four, Notwithstanding that
the mill runs night and day.
Carl H. Deitrichs, representing
himself as q surveyor for the Union
Pacific Railroad, played success
full confidence game at Tacoma and
skipped. He had engaged about
five hundred men for work, con-
tracted for supplies aggregating sew
eral thousand dollars and borrowed
money of everybody he could. He
is said to be ahead about two thous
and dollars.
At meeting of the State Board
of Health, at Sacramento, Wednes-
day night, resolution was adopted
that heart failure, fever, dropsy,
childbirth, cold, ETC., shall not
hereafter be recognized as satisfac-
tory causes Of death when returned
in the physicians certificates. It
was the expression of the Board
that these terms meant no more
than that death occurred for want
of breath.
The body of Charles French, a
miner near Poso, San. Luis Obispo
county, was found pinned to the
earth by tree which he had felled
and which had fallen across his
thighs, preventing any movement.
His cries could not be heard, and he
had evidently worked and struggled
desperately, but vainly, to release
himself with his knife. He had dug
away at the hard earth and his torn
and bloody nails showed the terri
BILE efforts he had made. He had
been missing eight days.
A duel was fought Saturday by