Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-12-12
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The Olive crop in Southern Cali
fornia is very large.
A man passing counterfeit money
has been arrested at MERGED.
The southern orange crop will be
one month earlier than usual.
A baby at Wallace, Idaho,
weighed 163 pounds when born.
The railroad shops at Sacramento
are getting the snow-plows in read
ness.
The machine-shops of Kohn and
Gardiner, at Tucson, have been
burned.
The men in the railroad shops at
Sacramento are working but eight
hours day.
George Maddox, colored, has been
sentenced for life for the murder at
Marysville, of George Ball, also
colored.
Sacramento Valley farmers are
to organize thoroughly to prevent
the resumption of hydraulic mining
In the mountains.
Pilot Christensen, who lost the
San Pedro, has been suspended by
the Naniamo Pilotage Commission
ers for two months.
Albert Bertleson, a German, was
found murdered near Redding. He
had been shot while at work few
rods from his residence.
G. M. Osgoodby, Jr., has been in
dicted by the San Jose Grand Jury
for extortion, under threat of pub
fishing a family secret.
The Halves murder trial at Salinas
has again resulted in disagree
ment. Halves killed young Wag-
ner in Monterey last May.
A. Herbinson, Superintendent of
the Lee mine, four miles from Rock
lin, Placer county, was found dead
Monday. He had been murdered.
Fresno's Chinatown was raided
Thursday evening and much con-
traband opium was fonnd and many
unlicensed cigarette factories were
found in operation.
Mrs. Martha Higuerra Frias,
aged about one hundred and four
years, died at Napa Wednesday.
She was born in San Francisco when
there were but three houses in that
city.
There was to be tug-of-war be-
tween Yuma Indians and Chinese
at Los Angeles Wednesday night,
but when the time came for the pull
the Indians drew the color line and
backed out.
Sensational developments are an
ticipated in the trial of United
States Marshal Parsons at Salt
Lake, who is charged with serious
offenses to female prisoners under
his control at the Territorial Prison.
J. w. Cushman, an old stage
driver, killed himself at Plymouth
Sunday. His stage was robbed a
few days ago, and his enemies said
he put up the job, and in fit of de-
preston he got drunk and killed
himself.
Shortly before midnight Tuesday,
five Cinnamon went to the shoe
shop of another Chinaman named
Why Song on Sixth street, Sacra-
mento, and threw cayenne pepper
in his eyes. They then choked him
and made him give up $3.50.
The body of Sigourette, the
Frenchman who lived at Fosters
Bar, and whose wife was so accom-
modating as to shoot him at his re-
quest, is to be exhumed and searched
for poison which his wife said he
had taken previous to her shooting
him.
The trial of the case of Richard
Tenbroeck VS.. his wife, an action
for divorce, was begun in the Su-
perior Court at Redwood Wednes-
day before Judge Buck. Mrs. Ten
brock appeared in court accompa-
MED by her brother and her maid.
The meeting between the aged
horseman and his wife was quite
cordial.
William Driscoll, a ranchman in
Pomona valley, and former resident
of San Jose, over fifty years old, yet
had a new double tooth cut through
his gums two weeks ago, causing
pain and liberation. When the
tooth had injured the flesh Driscolps
face began to swell. The pain con-
tinuing Driscoll went to dentist,
who made vain effort to extract
the tooth. His efforts aggravated
the"pain and soreness. His face
continues to swell, the tooth contin-
ues growing and Driscoll cannot