Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-03-12
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with Eastern tourists.
Ground is broken at Tulare for
the kite-shaped race track.
Arizona has sold $1,250,000 in
bands to Farson, Leach & Co. of
Chicago.
The thermometer got up to 100
degrees in the shade at Healdsburg
Monday.
The Catholics of Fresno are rails
ing money to send to the starving
poor Of Russia.
A convict named Barry nearly
severed with a razor the arm of A.
Cassidy, a guard, Wednesday, at
Folsom.
John B. Rodgers, (Ind.) was
elected Chief of Police at Sacra-
mento Tuesday. There were seven
candidates.
The Colorado river is rising rap
idly as a result of the downpour Of
the ella river, caused by the melt
ing SHOWS in the mountains.
A wood-chopper at Redding shot
a stranger because che was putting
on too much style" The wounded
stranger was lately from Red Bluff.
Elias H. Parsons, the United
States Marshal for Utah, has been
acquitted on a charge of leasing a
house to Chinese for gambling pur-
poses.
Jack rabbits in some parts of the
State of Washington have caused
great damage to orchards the past
winter, and are increasing in num-
bers every year.
The British Government refuses
to recognize the claim of Captain
Mclean, seized by the Russians in
the Behring Sea, to the protection
of the British flag.
The Peabody mine, at Grass Val
ley is taking out immensely rich
ore from the 400-foot level. The
ledge is four feet thick and filled
with masses Of bright gold.
At Victoria, B. c., the eagles
have been set free from the park,
the wolves shot and the deer will be
liberated owing to the refusal of the
Council to appropriate funds for
their support.
Tobias H. Selling, prominent
resident of Phoenix, A. T., killed
himself owing to financial losses
and inducements in the expendi-
lures of the funds of she Knights
of Pythias lodge.
The identity of the man who
killed the Greek fisherman found
dead in his skiff at Roe Island has
been established. His name is
Camilla and the last seen of him
he was a skiff going toward San
Francisco.
The gold discovery at Cottonwood
Springs is creating considerable ex-
citement in San Bernardino county.
The departures from San Bernard
inc Wednesday were over forty, in
Guiding several business men. Sixty
or more will leave to-day.
The man Martin, under arrest on
a charge of poisoning Fred HEIDI,
ut Fort Bragg, last month, in order
to get his money, cannot be identi-
fed as one of the Greenwood muir
derers, although it was originally
stated that he was the one wanted
for that crime.
The appearance of United States
troops at Ukiah seems to have given
a surprise to the people. 1t is
claimed there have been gross mis-
representations over the occupation
of reservation lands, and that there
is no dispute that cannot be settled
by the courts.
The sealing schooner Umbrina
has returned to Victoria, B. c., in
distress, several sails having been
carried away in the recent gale.
She has 271 skins aboard. Reports
received by the Umbrina state that
the seals are moving north in an
immense army and that the fleet of
schooners are following them.
The grip has again reached the
Indians in Alaska and the fatalities
are very severe, according to re-
cent arrival at Victoria, B. c., from
Alaska. The Indians around Ju-
neau. Wrangel and Chilcat, says
this authority, are in a state of ter
ror, and at all the camps and vii
lagos holes have been dug into which
the dead Indians are unceremoni-
ously thrown.
The Adams and Ranger at Mare