Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-02-21
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Oregon has adopted the Aus
tralian ballot law.
Downieville felt a light earth
quake Sunday morning.
The type-writers and stenograph
ers at San Jose have formed aunion
A quicksilver mine is reported te
have been found nsar Cotton, 6ar
Bernardino county, Cal
Twenty-six tons of frozen sturgeon
were sent East from Poitland, Or.
by rail one day this week
About ~, 800 worth of smuggled
opium was seized at Seattle Wednes-
day on the City Of Pueblo.
Quicksilver has been found three
miles east Of SAINTS Ana on the San
Joaquin ranch in paying quantities
Woodland police arrested two
men Tuesday on suspicion that
they were the Greenwood murderers,
Tacoma acknowledges that it has
very corrupt police end it is striv-
ing for renovation Of the Police
Department.
The FLANDERS ht.ve done consider
able damage in sections Of Monte
rey to stock. All found suffering
are killed at once.
The death is announced in the
Oakland papers of A. ]. Hatch,
formerly Surveyor-General of New
ada, and long resident of Reno.
BY arrangement completed few
days ago the San Francisco steam
ers will not call a: Victoria, B. c.,
except when special freight is await
ing them.
A snowslide at The old Lout mine,
Colorado, swept away boarding
house and killed three miners and
slightly injured three others, last
Wednesday.
A negro named Tom Robin, of
Dallas, Texas, was lynched on gen.
eral principles, on the 18th. He
was notorious character and guilty
of many crimes.
Amelia Gehring, Mrs. Gillig's
maid, who was arrested in Sacca-
mento on a charge Of stealing jew
elry and clothing from her mistress,
has been acquitted.
Hundreds of houses are going up
on the Government reservation near
Port Angeles, Wash, in anticipation
of Congress passing a law giving
squatters prior rights.
Three men tried at Bakersfield
for assault and battery and attempt
to rob have been found guilty and
sentenced to San Quentin for four
teen, twelve and five years.
The Coroner's jury has decided
that Fireman Radcliffe, who died
from wounds received during the
attempt to rob a train near Alila,
received his wounds from party or
parties unknown.
The Sacramento in the vicinity
of Chico was roaring torrent Sum
day night and covered much of the
low ground. Considerable damage
was done to fencing and much
wheat was washed out.
The heirs of persons killed and
whose property was swept away by
the Walnut Grove dam disaster,
near Phoenix, A. T., sued the reser-
voir company for damages, but the
company secured the verdict.
Alfred Due, a Frenchman living
near Tia Juana, on the border of
Lower California, had q pet rattle
snake, and while caressing it last
Sunday it bit him. He died from the
effects of the poison the next day.
A. E. Cowles, a capitalist, living
in Poway Valley, San Diego county,
lie under arrest for shooting at Con-
stable Stone. The trouble original
ed in a lot Of stray cattle getting
into the fenced grounds of Mr..
Cowles and the constable attempt
ing to prevent the cattle from being
driven out. I.
While the son of Mr.. and Mrs,
George Winters, at Port Angeles,
aged six years, was mixing toy
paints, he occasionally dipped his
brush in a cup Of water at his side.
His two-year-old brother came UP
and drank fromsthe cup unnoticed
by the elder boy, and almost imme.
diately went into commissions and
died within an hour.
A furious gale of snow and wind
blew up Tuesday afternoon at Salt
Lake from the northwest, continu'
ing for two hours, picking up spray
from the great lake in vast guam
titles and distributing it through
the snow. The snow when tasteC