Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-08-08
COAST ITEMS.

at Ashland, Or, Sunday night.
B. F. Call has been arrested for
starting a fire in a bayfield, at Fair
fax, Cal. Call is believed to be in
sane.
Thieves made raid on the stores
at Sisson Sunday night and got
away with property of considerable
value.
Sacramento opened its now swim
ming baths Monday night. They
are expected to simply pay the ex-
penses of running them.
Johnnie Larsen, aged thirteen had
his head caught in the elevator cage
at Templeton Hotel at Salt Lake
and was crushed to death.
The stringing of ties on the San
Joaquin Valley Railroad has begun.
This line is being built into the tim
Der belt northeast of Fresno, on the
headwaters of the San Joaquin.
An outbreak of Indians in Alas
ka is threatened, growing out of the
differences between the natives and
the managers of the canneries as to
the fishing grounds and prices Of
salmon.
1t has been definitely ascertained
that the Southern Pacific is about
to build a wharf at a point just
north of Santa Monica Canyon, and
about three and half miles from
Santa Monica.
Bailey K. Leach, a printer well
known throughout California, has
been arrested at Fresno on charge
of forgery on the complaint of w.
H. Mckenzie, Manager of the Loan
and Savings bank.
The trouble between the Oregon
Pacific Railroad Company and its
employees on account of the non
payment of the men is assuming a
serious aspect. The amount owing
the men is about $4,000.
A man named Joe Decker, a
miner, is accused of swindling a
syndicate of Fresno hoothill farm
ers; who had combined and en-
ployed him to develop a mine for
them. The farmers are out consid-
cradle money.
The steamer Islander has return
ed to Victoria, B. c., from the north
and reports the salmon pack on
Mas river and at Alert Bay total
failure. The Skeena shows up well
but the northern pack will only be
half its usual size.
1t is stated now that nearly all OF
the sixty-fve men who were on the
Itata when she was brought back
to San Diego are political refugees
from Chile, who were glad for a
chance to leave Iquique. About
one-third have left the ship.
A Yuma Indian is said to have
cured himself of rattlesnake bite
by applying to the wound a poultice
made of the common mock orange
and drinking decoction made from
the same plant. Golondrina is the
scientific name of the mock orange.
A Police Judge at Stockton, not
knowing of the amendment Of the
Legislature to the Penal Code con-
corning the alternative terms of i'm
prisonment, has been sentencing
prisoners to pay SO many dollars
and serve an equal number of days.
All those sentenced since May 10th,
when the law went into effect, will
get free.
The difficulty between the Atchi-
son Road and its switchmen at AL
buquerque, N. NJ, has not been
remedied, and the strike continues.
The company asserts that the de-
mand by the switchmen, that they
be allowed twelve hours pay for ten
hours work, or that another crew be
put on, are unjust, and have refused
to counsel settlement. New men
will fill the position.
A deed has been received at Ba-
kersfeld, CAL, for recordation, Of
lands purchased by a Pennsylvania
man for a consideration of $75 per
acre. The land is worthless, being
rocky mountain side of no value
whatever, yet the man who sold the
land, in his circulars, hints at figs
fruits ETC., and with this utterly
worthless bait is fishing, it seems,
successfully for gudgeons.
Full returns of the election in
Utah show that the Liberals have
twelve members of the Legislature
(one-third of the whole), large
gain over any previous election
The Liberals elect three members
of the Council and SIX of the House
in Salt Lake by pleurality of 100
The Liberals elect the County Col
lector, two Selectmen and County
. A.