Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-02-27
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are despolled by thieves
Santa Clara county will have a
heavy strawberry crop this season.
Disreputable characters have been
ordered out of Sacramento by Chief
Drew.
Portions of Southern California
were shaken by an earthquake last
Tuesday night.
The Sacramento Board of Trade
favors Wanamaker's proposed post
al telegraph system.
Montana mining companies are
shutting down the mills, owing to
the low price of silver.
A printer named Brandon has
been arrested at MERGED on charge
of burglary at Modesto.
An irrigation district for Calhoun
ga Valley, between Los Angeles and
the ocean is contemplated.
John Felson fell off the high
trestle of the Fort Bragg railroad
Wednesday and was killed.
Rain is anxiously watched for in
the southeastern portion of Arizona.
The past year has been very dry.
The Oregon State Board of Rail-
road Commissioners and the rail-
roads have compromised on lower
rates.
The third trial of Charles Halves
for the killing of Richard Wagner,
drug clerk, at Monterey, last June,
has begun at Salinas.
Sherman P. Brown, who is from
Eastern Kansas, is being sought for,
having fallen heir by the death of
an aunt to large amount of money.
Two whales about thirty feet in
length are reported from Lakeville.
to be swimming in Petaluma creek,
sporting between Donahue and
Lakeville.
The Southern Pacific Oregon
train was delayed at Siskiyou, Tues
day, owing to the trestle north of
that place being injured by powders
from above.
San Jose, owing to continued
growth, is hampered by the old
charter and wants new one. The
desire is also to take in suburbs that
is thickly settled.
w. D. Campbell was arrested in
Contra Costa and charged with
cattle-stealing in White Pine coun-
ty, New. He has been taken to
White Pine for trial.
The Los Angeles Evening Cypress
will be twenty-one years old on the
9th of March next, and the event
is to be celebrated with a complete
''new dress" The Express is the
oldest paper in Southern California,
with the exception of the San Diego
Union.
A report received at San Diego
from Lakeside, in the farther end of
Ell Cajon Valley, states that con-
siderable fissure was made in the
"Cajon Peak" a rugged mountain
of rock, and that a portion of the
river near by sunk ten feet, the re-
suit of Tuesdays earthquake.
1t is stated at San Diego that a
warrant has been issued from the
United States Court for the arrest
of President J. w. Collins, of the
defunct California National Bank,
on a charge of Incorporating the
sum of 100000 of the banks funds.
The rumor had not been confirmed
Wednesday.
The explosion on the railroad near
Poso last Friday, which it was stated
at the time, was caused by dynamite
placed on the track, it is now ascer-
tanned was from a gasoline stove
that had been thrown from a pre-
ceding train. The wheels of the
locomotive struck the stove and the
gasoline was ignited and produced
an explosion.
Apropos of the coming of another
iron foundry in Santa Ana, Orange
county, it might be well, says a
correspondent, to speak of another
industry that has promise, not only
in Orange county, but in all South
ern California, and that is the can
ming of sardines, in which the fish
of our own streams, the tin of Tenn
escal and the oil of our homegrown
olives would form a congenial triple
alliance for mans delectation.
The bleached bones of John Trout,
an Assessor and at one time Sheriff
of Tuolumne county, were found in
a gulch, two miles from Sonora,
Monday, leaning against big rock,