Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-08-22


years in San Quentin.
An expert in the Davis will case
at Butte, Mont, holds that the will
is of recent manufacture.
There was abold stage robbery in
Gallatin, county, Mont, near the
Idaho line, last week. The passen-
gers were OH the way to the Nation
al Park.
There is a great fierce looking
eagle at Boyle Mountain, says the
Ketchum, Idaho, Keystone, that has
caught and eaten all of the miners
cats in the region but one.
Forest fires have been raging for
several days near Hurleton and En-
terprise. At Forbestown some dan
ger is feared. About one hundred
miles have been burned over.
Rivera, Los Angeles county,
claims that fifty carloads of Eng
fish walnuts will constitute her crop
the coming season, worth about
$1,000 a carload, or total of $780,
600.
A big fight between the Seamen's
and Longshoremen's Unions and
shippers has been inaugurated at
San Diego by the former, when a
demand was made for an advance
of wages from W 80 to SO per day.
An art picture was ordered from
the show window of store at Los
Angeles and the proprietor substi-
tuted the portrait of Chief Glass,
who is the Anthony Comstock of
that city, and by whose orders the
original picture was removed.
The Tombstone, A. t., wild man
is now believed to be crank, anx-
ious only for notoriety. He has re-
ceived many letters that come from
California women who seem to think
from the picture and description of
the mystery that he is long-lost
husband.
The Supreme Court of Montana
has decided that editor j. A. Mac
Knight Of the Helena Journal was
not in contempt for refusing to tell
Judge Mediation of Butte who was
his informantin an article rejecting
on McHatton's partiality in the
Davis will case.
The latest news from La Plata,
the new mining town in Ogden VAL
ley. is to the effect that the first re-
ports are fully confirmed. An
immense body of ore has been dis
covered which assays upward of 70
per cent of golena and "A to IS
ounces of silver.
All the region neighboriring to
Ogden, U. r., is excited over the
discovery of lead deposits about
twenty-five miles northeast of Og-
den at the head of Paradise Canyon.
The ore is found in enormous guam
titles, and a second Leadville is pre-
edicted by the sanguine finders.
A new gold field was discovered
this week by two Black Hills min
.ers in the hills just north of Soldier,
forty miles west of Bellevue, Idaho.
No reliable estimates of the value
of the quartz are at hand, but the
excitement has gone far enough to
call out over one hundred prospec-
tors. A new mining district has
been organized.
Water is none too plentiful at
Anaheim this season. Open bitches
will have to be abandoned in the
near future in all the old colonies,
and pipe lines constructed. All of
the colonies started within the last
few years have put in piped sys-
tenn for their water and it is giving
great satisfaction. Water must be
saved and pipe lines save a large
per cent. from evaporation and
seepage.
The forest fires that started two
weeks ago on the San Juan Ridge,
in Bridgeport township, Nevada
county, still burn with undated
fury. French Corral, Birchville,
Cherokee, Columbia Hill, Badger
Hill and other towns have had mar
row escapes. Portions of the fumes
belonging to the Milton and Badger
Hill Mining Companies have been
destroyed, also some isolated build
ings and fences.
Two men who have followed the
Colorado river report that two or
three miles from the junction of the
New river and the Colorado large
sandbar has formed clear across the
latter river below where it has cut
through its banks, and as the bar is
gradually growing larger, unless it
is cut through, allowing the Colora-
do to resume its old course, per-
manent flow will be maintained in
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