Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-07-09
COAST ITEMS.

An unknown man was run over
by train and killed in a tunnel
near Port Costa on Monday.
A bloodless shooting affray &C.
CURED between Sacramento Chinese
Thursday night over woman.
An unsuccessful incendiary at
tempt was made to burn the Mag
nolia Hotel in Santa Rosa on
Monday night.
Chas. Reinhart, an Oakland boy,
was ground to pieces on the 9th by
falling under train near the Dali
ton Iron Works.
A sheep man named May fatally
shot saloon-keeper named West at
Ash Fork, Arizona, on the 18th over
game of cards.
Chas. O'Neil, a San Francisco
policeman's son, and a red hot
young burglar, has been sent to San
Quentin for two years.
"Slivers," an unfortunate woman
of Sacramento, tried to drown her
self in the Sacramento river We'd
nesday. She was rescued.
Cracksmen are using dynamite to
blow open safes in Oakland. They
got $500 from the Standard Oil Cos
safe on the night of the 9th.
Roberts, a pumpman at the Idaho
mine in Grass Valley, had roller
fall down the shaft on him on the
9Th. 1t is thought he is fatally in
jured.
A 3-days-old girl baby ives left at
the door of Mrs. E. j. Sawyer, at
Nord, CAL, on the night of the 9th.
The parents of the infant are not
known.
Miss Amelia Worseley was found
near Lorin on the morning of the
7th in a half crazy condition. She
claims she was drugged and assault
ed. The examining physicians are
puzzled about the case.
A party of tourist who have Just
returned to San Francisco from a
trip to the wild interior of Placer
county, bring the story that there is
a woman living alone in a cave
about eight miles above Apologize.
It is announced that President
Huntington of the Southern Pacific
has formed an agreement with Pres
ident Clarke of the Union Pacific,
whereby the Upton line of steamers,
running from the Orient to Portland,
is to be discontinued.
Mrs. Martha Maier, who lives at
Santa Clara, has not seen or heard
of her husband for year. She is
anxious to ascertain his whereabouts
as she says he is kind, dear hus-
band. He used to work for Mark
Strousse and at the California Glue
Works.
The shippers Of Ell Paso have
complained to the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners that the
Southern Pacific is discriminating
against them, and in favor of San
Francisco merchants on shipments
to points in Arizona and New
Mexico.
Eugene CASTOR, an old French
man, who, about week ago, was
convicted in San Francisco of har-
boring a minor in a house of i'll
fame, committed suicide Tuesday
night at his room in the second
story of the house at % Quincy
street, San Francisco.
Nettie Pittman, young woman
who is classed among the "fallen
angels" and who ekes out an exist
ence in low saloon in Sacramento,
attempted to commit suicide late
Thursday night by jumping into
the river. She was rescued by an
acquaintance, however.
The people of Elzulan, Mexico,
have for months past been terrorized
by band of brigands. The other
night they made a raid, caught the
ringleader, killed two more of the
band, and after bringing the leader
to town shot him to death. He di-
Sulged the hiding place of a large
amount of plumber.
David TODD Lees of Fruitvale,
Cal, was shot by unknown parties
last Thursday night while en- route
to his home. He had been out Wis
iting, and as he passed by the old
Melrose race track he heard a rus
ting in the grass. He stopped to
pick up stone and just then the
firing started. One of the bullets
struck him in the abdomen, about
two inches above the navel. The
wound is serious one, and Lees is
now lying at the Receiving Hospit-