Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-03-28
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factory.
Tacoma is rigidly enforcing the
new fishing laws.
A jeweler at Chico has lost $500
through an expert burglary.
Sheep-owners near the Zuni Salt
Lakes in New Mexico complain of
heavy loss by freezing and starving.
The new Lighthouse located near
the mouth Of the Silvergate, San
Diego, was lighted Tuesdayeyening
for the first time.
The Batavia, which went aground
in the Columbia river, sustaining
no injury, but was locked at Esqui-
malt and reprinted.
William Smart, a boatman, and
James Cuff, mate of the Glory of
the Seas, are missing in a boat
which they took for sail at San
Pedro.
David Fitzgerald, a young man
of Grass Valley, has been sentenced
to San Quentin for burglary COM
mitted in that city in conjunction
with two Eastern crooks.
The San Jose grape-growers in
Cupertino district have taken pre-
liminary steps to form cooperative
association so as to handle their
own products in the market.
The jury in the case of Lee Ching,
a highlander, accused of assault to
murder, whose trial has been drag
ing along at San Jose for the past
nine days, acquitted him Wednes-
day.
The trial of August Olsen, for the
murder of John Ivett last Novem-
Der, has begun at MERGED. The
work of obtaining jury has begun,
and the case promises to be hard
fought one.
Father J. P. Doyle, a Catholic
priest at Holbrook, A. L., was shot
Tuesday by o drunken Mexican
named Martin Chaoon. The priest
had advised girl not to keep COM
pany with the Mexican.
A Colonel Tarbell, said to be from
Seattle, has been swindling the peo-
pie of Vancouver, B. c., among
whom he had been received through
letters of introduction from promi-
nent Knights of Pythias.
Orsen NJ. Seward, a wealthy
farmer living near Vancouver,
Wash, has just been buncoed out
of 5000 in gold by two young men.
Seward is an old settler and was
warned by friends that he was being
swindled.
The Little Colorado river is BOOM
ing and the people at Holbrook, A.
T., are trying to protect the river
bank with brush and trees but the
current at last accounts was taking
away the earth at the rate of ten
feet an hour.
Hundred-pound bars of tin are
being cast at the present time at
Cajalco, ten miles from South River
side. The furnace will continue to
run until it reduces all the black
tin accumulated on the smelling
furnace floors.
The Boards of Supervisors of
Suffer and Yuba counties are being
sued by newspapers for printing
done. The Supervisors designated
papers to publish the delinquent
tax lists, but the county officials
being of opposite politics, gave the
work to other papers.
George Hood, aged twenty-three
years, with a wife aged sixteen, at
tempted suicide at Riverside, We'd
nesday. The wife's aunt managed
to cause a separation of the two,
who were married last December,
and Hood being unable to persuade
his wife to live with him tried to
kill himself.
The Gilroy burglar, who ex-
changed shots with the night watch
man, Fisher, Sunday night, was
captured at the Eighteen-mile house
Monday, but not before his back
was filled with bird-shot and he had
received a bullet wound. He gives
the name of James NJ. Scott and ap-
pears to be an American.
A special United States Treasury
Agent has taken from one B. Rocks
at Portland about $4,000 in coun-
terfeit money, which Rocks claims
to be necessary part of his bust
ness-that of teaching bank clerks
and others how to detect counter
felt money. Rocks says he will in
stitute suit for the recovery of the
counterfeit bills.
M. E. Hartman, an old resident of
Mojave, and Darwin, Inyo county,
has returned from a trip near Death
Valley. He reports having met two
miners who had secured a location