Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-03-14
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which was developed from la grippe,
have occurred in three days at
Marysville.
The straits and waters of Cape
Flattery are reported to be alive with
seals and several schooners were
busily hunting.
J. D. Smith, who killed Percy
William at Fresno, has been found
guilty of manslaughter. Smith will
be sentenced next Monday.
Last Monday a nugget weighing
over fifty ounces was found in the
face of the drift of the Ruby mine,
four miles from Downieville.
One hundred tons of black sand
from the beach at Coos Bay was
sent recently to Astoria to be worked
for gold. It assays 80 a ton.
A wealthy English syndicate has
purchased land in the San Luis Rey
Valley and will start a large fruit
cannery in that section in the near
future.
The Chinese at Marysville had a
celebration Wednesday in which
the big dragon was carried by forty
men. The procession was three
blocks in length.
A syndicate is forming with a
capital of 100000 to plant the d.
C.. Hayward ranch of 800 acres,
near Hanford, i'll Tulare county, to
prunes and grapes.
The riot act was read to the pa
rading miners on strike at Wei
lington, B. c., Tuesday. Judge
Cole of Victoria says he will stop
the professions if he has to arrest
every man engaged in them.
The levee at the J. M. CAVITY
ranch, Stanislaus county, broke ON
the night of March LIST and sub
merged about 1000 acres of land.
The ranch consists of $500 acres at
the junction of Tuolumne river.
Wells, Fargo & Co., have given
the widow of Fireman Radliff, who
was killed during the defense of the
express car by young Haswell
against the Alila train robbers,
So, 800, and assume the funeral and
attending expenses.
J. C. Turner of Victor, Los An
geles county, claims to have located
an immense mine Of lithograpic
stone about forty miles from Yuma,
A. r., and about three miles from
the railroad. Contiguous to the find
is an immense deposit of pumice
stone.
The Auburn Argus tells of res
ident who dreamed that he found a
nugget of gold in Auburn ravine,
and on awaking was SO impressed
that he went at once to the spot in
Dictated in his slumbers and to his
surprise found a piece of gold to the
value of about $40.
Miss frankie Jensen, aged eigh-
teen, who for the past year has been
subject to fainting spells, fell into
creek a short distance from her
home near Fresno, this week, and
was drowned. The water was but
a foot in depth. Miss Jensen's fam
lily is quite wealthy.
Francisco Gotta, who killed Will
liam Trimmer in a duel near Ell
Cajon, San Diego county, Sunday,
has been exonerated by a Coroner's
jury. 1t was developed that Trim
mer had on a previous occasion
threatened Gotta. This fact had
much to do with the verdict of just
ifiable homicide.
Mrs. Mary Clarke, survivor of
the Bonner party, died at Traver,
Tulare county, Wednesday of pneu-
monia. Her maiden name was
Mary Graves, and she was native
of Indiana. Her parents were
among those who persisted at DON
ner Lake. Three of her sisters and
q brother, who were also of the party
are still living.
Catherine A. Green-Greely, the
Berkeley school teacher, who recent
ly sued John T. Davis, the Stanis-
laus county farmer, on an alleged
contract of marriage, and was
worsted, in an Oakland court, has
brought suit at Stockton to recover
SIS, 600 damages from Davis, whom
she charges with false statements
and cruelty, having another wife
and living under an assumed name.
Herman Larson, a fireman at
Seattle, during dock fire last Sat-
urday, was holding the nozzle of the
hose, when the nozzle swerved to
one side, and a powerful stream of
water struck him full in the breast
and hurled him a distance of at
least thirty feet, impaling him on
an iron spike that projected several
inches from the dock. The lower
portion of his abdomen was torn