Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-02-28
COAST ITEMS.

Tuesday buried three miners.
The ella river in Arizona is high
er than it has ever been known to be.
Frank Cady, seventeen years old,
was killed at Seattle this week
while coasting.
The Prison Directors viii ask the
Legislature for money to build 500
more cells at Folsom.
At Cornucopia, Or, a heavy snow
slide at the Red Jacket mine de-
i. stroyed the Davis & Howard quartz
mill.
The scheme to remove the Capt.
tai of New Mexico from Santa Fe
70 Albuquerque has met with defeat
in the Legislature.
Ma61er-at-arms Anderson of the
Alert is charged at Vallejo with the
killing of Michael Kelley, corpor-
al on the Independence.
w. A. Armstrong, who slashed
Joseph Welsh at Sacramento, last
Christmas with razor, has been
sent to San Quentin for five years.
Two young men from the south
ern part of Tulare county went to
Visalia, last Wednesday, and took
out license to marry the same girl.
Works for the refining of crude
petroleum are about to be construct
ed at Ventura. They will have a
capacity of from thirty to forty tons
a day.
John Elliott, Sacramento truck
peddler, who started out toward
Georgetown two weeks ago is miss
ing, and it is feared he has been
murdered.
The Washington House proposes
to expel Representative John l..
Metcalfe for receiving a bride.
Metcalfe says he took the bride to
expose the briber.
Five laborers travelling through
the northern part of Montana were
caught in blizzard in the mount
aims and four persisted. The other
man was badly frozen.
The Northern Pacific is believed
to be making an effort to crush the
Hunt Railroad from Eastern Wash
ington to Gray's Harbor, which has
been pretty well under way.
An American wealthy syndicate
is purchasing the Fraser river sal
mon canneries. 1t is believed four
teen out of the seventeen canneries
will be secured by the trust.
A portion of the red men who
were sent to Florida with Geronimo
have been returned to within a few
miles of their old stamping-ground
against the protest Of the citizens.
The trial of Superior Judge Nor
ris B. Sachs, of Port Townsend, on
charge of malfeasance in office,
commenced Wednesday before the
Joint convention Of the Senate and
the House at Olympia.
Stewart Crook, alias Captain Nc
Donald, who was arrested at Port
land for forgery committed in
England, admitted while on his
way East in charge of English Of
cials that he was guilty.
The Southern Pacific track is
washed out for twenty-four miles
east of Yuma, and is five feet under
water. The school house, churches,
converts, restaurants and all the
stores at Yuma but one are flooded.
The petrifed remains of giant
have been found in the Bad Lands
of Choteau county, Mont. One leg
is said to be eight feet long, and a
rib measured two and half feet
The Fresno man is a pigmy in COM
parison.
In the suit ST Mrs. Jane Clark
against the Southern Pacific Com
pany for $4,000 damages for inju-
ries alleged to have been received in
the railroad accident at Lake Lab
ish last November. a Salem jury
awarded the plaintiff $4,000.
Within the past ninety days six
ty head of cattle and horses have
died near The Dalles, Or, from some
unknown disease, the symptoms OF
which are similar to those in blind
staggers. The State Veterinary
Surgeon has examined into the
matter, but has not yet made pub
lie his opinion.
The Santa Rosa Democrat says:
B. Taught caught two large golden
eagles in steel traps on his ranch at
Mark West Friday and presented
them to County Clerk Juiliard, who
will have the magnificent birds
mounted. The larger one measured
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