Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-01-17

Montana's legislative deadlock
is still on.
Jean Daudon, Frenchman, blew
his brains out at San Rafael, Tues
day, where he lived.
There is much excitement over
the finding of oil in the vicinity of
Hubbard, near Salem, Or.
Four persons lost their lives by
the giving way of a section of the
wharf at Victoria the other day.
A bill has been introduced in the
Oregon Legislature to make the le-
gal rate of interest 6per cent and 8
per cent by contract.
Time has been granted Olsen,
charged with the murder Of Ivett
in MERGED, in which to plead to the
information filed against him.
Uuited States Senator Mitchell
seems to have but little opposition
to his return to Congress at the
hands Of the Oregon Legislature.
A thaw has let loose the water
power in the Grass Valley mines
: and about 1000 men who were
thrown out of work by the freeze
have resumed work.
Alexander Gutsch, a young sur
yeyor who was working on the line
of the proposed Lakeport and Ukiah
Railroad, was shot in the left arm
Wednesday by one Burton.
The Coroner's inquest in the case
of Marie Forgous, who was shot by
her husband, August Forgous, at
Sacramento, has found verdict
charging Forgous with murder.
C. L. Mast of Horseshoe Bend,
Mariposa county, has built foot
bridge over the MERGED river. tits
800 feet long, made Of wire cable
one and one-half inches in diameter.
Two persons registered at the Cos
mopolitan. Hotel at Bakersfield, as
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis of Ell Paso,
Texas, committed suicide by shoot
ing themselves in the head Tuesday.
An effort is to be made to impeach
Superior Judge Moses B. Sachs, of
Port Townsend. He is charged by
his enemies with gambling, preju-
dicing cases, and boiling the Re-
publican party"
The abandonment Of Fort Lowell,
seven miles east of Tucson, has been
ordered by the Secretary of War.
The citizens of Southern Arizona
see trouble ahead with the Indians
if the order is executed.
The MERGED Board of Supervisors
has reduced the liquor license from
500 per month to $40 per year, i'll
advance, with bonds for good con-
duct. This has caused much ex-
citement among the high-license
people.
VIM. Dunphy, the millionaire
cattleman, who owns thousands of
steers and tensof thousands of acres
on the Humboldt river and Maggie
creek, was thrown from his carriage
in San Francisco Wednesday and
seriously hurt.
Twenty-Five tramps confined in
the City Jail at Santa Cruz were put
to work on the county roads with a
police overseer, but, as tramps never
will work, they ran away, went back
to town and reports of petty thefts
soon became frequent.
The Los Angeles papers are MAX
ing quite a heroine out of Miss
Gertie Dewey of that city. Miss
Dewey works in dry goods store,
which occupation is said to have
given her sufficient nerve to slash
burglar with carving knife when
he attempted to enter her room re-
Gently.
There was dice game at the De-
pot Hotel at Bakersfield Thursday,
and the porter kept count. Andrew
Mckay, one Of the participants in
the game, disputed the correctness
of the porter's figures, and at the
same time struck him blow with
his fist, which dislocated the porter's
neck, causing instant death.
The body of the woman who was
shot at Bakersfield by her lover has
been identified as that of Mrs. j.
N. Petty of San Diego, who desert
ed her husband several months ago.
The report was first published that
the dead woman was Mrs. Clenden-
ming, whose husband shot Judge
Pierce at San Diego some months
ago.