Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-03-05

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offer bounty of SIS each for Cali
fornia lion scalps.
The pickle factory of Petaluma
turned three tons of cabbage into
sauerkraut in one week.
Reports regarding the loss of cat
tie in Southern Arizona, owing to
the absence of food, are declared
untrue.
The Jury in the Halves murder
trial at Salinas has disagreed. IT.
stood seven for conviction and five
for acquittal.
Shasta county mines have gone
resolutely to work to advertise the
mineral advantages of that portion
of the State.
A man in Gold Run lost the sight
of an eye in looking for the black
spot on the sun through s. piece of
smoked glass.
Crops are reported to be looking
splendid, and the sheepmen and
stockmen on the ranges are pleased
with their prospects.
A mass of snow one-quarter of
mile wide and many feet in thick
ness went down into the valley near
Boise City, Idaho, Tuesday.
The "Tree Commissioners" of So
mona county are rigidly enforcing
the law requiring the spraying of the
fruit trees. No orchard is exempt.
The vaqueros on the Milpitas
ranch, across the mountains from
San Lucas, in Monterey county, are
making preparations for tug -of-war
contest on horseback.
William Christie, the Treasurer
of the Kaweah colonists, has been
arrested and taken to Los Angeles
on charge of sending fraudulent
matter through the mails.
All the parties at Fort Bragg who
were indicted for rioting have been
arrested and given bonds. The
charges are in connection with driv-
ing Chinese workmen away.
Quan Chung, the wealthiest Chi
naman in Idaho, is under arrest at
Boise City and charged with de-
frauding the Government. tits be-
lieved he is the head of large
smuggling gang.
Public Government business at
Fresno is almost at standstill, ow-
ing to the refusal Of the Treasurer
to pay salaries of Deputies in the
Recorder and Tax Collectors offices.
The Deputies have all quit work.
The arrest of dive-keeper at
Sacramento has led to the startling
discovery that there is no ordinance
in that city prohibiting the sale of
intoxicant liquors without going
through the formality of securing
license.
Nearly all the Indians in British
Columbia will assemble at the north
arm of Fraser river on the Queens
birthday and hold grand potlatch.
Ten tho usand dollars in prizes will
be given away and 5000 blankets
distributed by Chief George.
E. L. Huntley of Chicago, a
clothing drummer, who was robbed
in Idaho of $4,000 in jewels, while
on stage running between Koote-
mai and Bonner's Ferry, has had
them restored to him on the pay
ment of $4,000 and a promise not
to prosecute.
A convict named J. D. Bielen, or
Bailey, who is serving life sentence
at Folsom for killing a contractor
in San Francisco, hanged himself
from the railing of the upper tier of
cells. He was cut down promptly
and was alive Thursday, but it is
believed that his neck is broken and
he cannot live.
Henry Avok, from San Francisco,
killed a woman known as Norma
Leighton, at Los Angeles, Tuesday
afternoon, and then committed sui
eide. 1t is supposed the woman
was his wife and she had refused to
live with him. He had evidently
gone to Los Angeles with the pur-
pose of carrying out the programme
he followed.
Seymour L. Rau, prominent
society man of Tacoma, was mar
ried last June to Mrs. Louise E.
Dearborn, now in San Francisco.
By sworn affidavits Mrs. Dearborn
and Rau allege that the ceremony
was a joke, entered into by them un-
suspectingly under assumed names,
and that they had no idea it would
bind them. On this showing Judge
Beverly ann ulled the marriage.
Edgar A. Martin has been arrest