Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-10-17

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Victoria, B. c., has a population
of 10000 whites.
Snow has fallen in the Upper
Skagit Valley, Wash.
Hopland, Sonoma county, has an
Indian baseball team.
Artesian water is found at depth
of sixty-five feet at Seattle.
Tacoma has built twenty-eight
naptha launches in ten months.
Chicago parties are being inter-
ested in beet-sugar factory for San
Diego.
The meeting of the State Farm
er's Alliance at Los Angeles, next
week, promises to be large.
The miners on the Venus quartz
mine at Campo Seco have filed liens
on the property and struck for back
pay.
Harry Kennedy of Carson pulled
his gun through a fence Sunday
and considerable flesh was blown
off his arm.
The newly discovered borax bed
near Ellensburg, Wash, is reported
to be eighteen feet deep and 80 per
cent. pure.
A fine hotel was opened at Paso
Robes this week and another hos
telry will throw open its doors by
%Ia CT of ,,av4 ,ooNnth
Although officers have searched
the canyons of Bear and American
rivers for evidence of the Colfax
train robbers, none has been found.
The Tibbals 10-acre orange grove,
Just in bearing two miles from River
side, has been sold to a Pasadena
man for $4,000, or $1,000 an acre.
Los Angeles county Supervisors
have struck curious find in the
form of raised bill for a jurors
mileage. He was entitled to 81 20
but put in bill for 1928 80.
1t now seems likely that a rail
road will be built around the falls
at The Dalles, Or, on the Washing
ton side, and line of boats put on
by the Columbia River Navigation
Company.
A prominent member of the new
Grand Jury at Sacramentois Frank
Rhoads, a well-known politician,
who has made fortune as lob
byist. Several others are saloon
keepers and general dissatisfaction
is expressed.
At Tucson, woman was fined.
divorced and remarked within half
an hour. She pleaded guilty to the
violation of the Edmunds Act, her
husband obtained a divorce, and
she married her lover, a Tombstone
man, at once.
Notwithstanding the verdict of
the Coroner's Jury, many promi-
nent citizens of Union, Or, are UNI
willing to accept the theory of
suicide in the case of Mrs. J. c.
Summers, who was found in an ir-
rigation ditch in front of her home
in that city.
A jury at Salinas has been trying
a private detective named Brooks,
who is charged with getting a man
drunk and urging him to set fire to
an unoccupied house and then ar
resting him for arson. The case is
in the hands of the jury, which
finds difficulty in reaching verdict.
Victor Beebe, a young man "a
years old, was killed at a logging
camp near Woodland, Cowlitz coun-
ty, Wash, last Friday night, by a
man named Day. The killing was
cold-blooded. Day fled to the
woods, but was captured, and the
chances are that he will be lynched.
A gold-quartz nugget of the value
of 81 400 was found Monday after
noon lying on the bedrock in the
Washington mine at Iowa Hill. 1t
had lain there for long time, and
many people had walked over it.
Experts say it is one of the hand
soonest nuggets ever found in the
State.
They offer a bounty for the ears
of rabbits in Idaho. The discovery
recently of several live Dummies"
minus their ears has developed the
fact that active bounty-workers are
trapping the jacks, clipping their
ears and then turning them loose
to breed future crop from which
bounties can be obtained till the end
of time.
An itinerant fruit dealer at Port
land fell in love with lady to whom
he had sold a box of peaches. He