Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-02-14
COAST ITEMS.

Hog cholera has appeared al
Wellington and Namaimo, B. c.
1t is confidently asserted that
Salt Lake is to have $1,0OO.00C
smelter.
Work on the Union Pacific be-
tween Portland and the Sound will
begin in May.
All hogs entering the port Of Vic
totia, B, C., are to be quarrantined
for twenty-one days.
The Washington Senate has pass
ed the bill to establish a jute-bag
plant in the Walla Walla Peniten-
tiary.
Cowichan, B. c., is being made
the shipping port for Chinese and
opium to be smuggled into the
United States.
The bill appropriating 100000
for . portage railroad between Cell
lo.and the Dalles has passed the
Oregon Senate.
The heavy windstorm of Satur-
day night blew many oranges off
the trees at Riveside and other
orange sections.
Lee Doom, who killed William N.
Shelton last December, has been
found guilty Of murder in the
first degree by San Rafael jury.
A new bar-keeper in a saloon at
Butte City, Mont, had his clothes
saturated with coal oil and fire APP
piled to them. He was burned SO
that he cannot recover.
Albert Gibson, WIZ. attempted to
kill Cad York at st. Helena, has
been sentenced to three years at San
Quentin. A plea of drunkenness
failed to have any effect.
Terrence Mosier, 17-year-old lad
and an inveterate dime-novel read
er, pleaded guilty at Santa Rosa to
a charge of burglary and is anxious
to 60 to the Penitentiary.
Dr.. McCallie and Walter Scott
had q difficulty in the streets Of
Moscow, Idaho, this week, and Nc
Callie received a painful wound in
the leg from q pistol shot.
The order throwing open to set
Element the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vatien will 60 into force April LIST.
The land to be sold to the highest
bidders comprises about 100000
acres.
Edward Schooley has been ar
rested at Sanger, Fresno county,
and charged with arson. He was
detected in the act of firing the
Rose block and is believed to be the
author of other fires.
The frost in Los Angeles county,
has damaged the winter vegetables,
such as green peas, string beans,
tomatoes, etc. Oranges are not in
jured to any great extent. Flowers
and shrubs are badly frost-bitten.
The District Attorney at Stock
ton still refuses to accept bank
certificate of deposit as cash in the
County Treasury, and the Treasurer
says he will keep the money in the
bank or resign, he having no secure
place to keep it.
Mrs. C. E. Macy, also known as
Mrs. Joseph Crum, was arrested at
Modesto upon a charge Of bigamy,
as the result of the preliminary ex-
animation of Joseph Crum, who was
charged with assault to murder
Macy and the woman.
A Pasadena man has chartered
sailing vessel to go to Tahiti after a
cargo of orange trees. Heretofore
all Tahiti orange trees in the State
of California have been grown from
such seeds as the spoiled fruit on
regular shipments afforded.
The trial Of B. F. Staley for the
murder of Mrs. Richie at the Camp
ers Retreat in Lake county is occu-
plying the court at Lakeport. This
is the White-cap case in which a
party attacked a house and murder
ed the wife Of the proprietor.
Among the items of news brought
from Alaska by the steamship AL
XII, which arrived at Departure Bay
the hrst of this week is one that
the Indians Of Sitka have been
holding high carnival for week or
two Visiting Indians have been
Toasted, and the principal dainty at
the feasts was tubs of wild straw
berries soaked in seal oil.
A trunk containing photograph
er's outfit, including lot Of gun
cotton, exploded at the Santa Fe,
n. NJ, depot, this week, after the
gentle handling of one Richard
Gentry, who was transferring bag
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