Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-06-04
COAST ITEMS.

men and boys in the orchards and
gardens of California.
A highlander war is on in Sacra-
mento and two Mongolians. have
already been killed and several
wounded.
The coast defense vessel Monterey
has her machinery all in place, and
will soon be ready to leave the
docks of the Union Iron Works.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry is said
by the Stockton Asylum doctors to
be improving physically, but is
growing worse mentally.
Joseph A. Shupe, an Oakland
teamster, is in Jail for assaulting the
S-year-old daughter of Mrs. Butcher.
of Oakland. He denies the charge.
On Tuesday morning fire de-
stroyed nearly the whole business
portion of Coquelle City, Oregon.
The loss is $1Qo,ooo; partially in
sured.
Some more crooked work is being
unearthed at the Mare Island navy
yard. This time it is about some
transactions in securing rubber
supplies.
On the night of the 1st Steve
Price, an old resident of Vallejo,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. He was
Respondent.
Bruner has been held in Sacra-
mento on charge of bribery.
There are other charges against the
ex-Assemblyman. He is out of Jail
on $4,000 bonds.
Three men were arrested in Sac
ramento Thursday who are sup
posed to be train robbers. They
admitted that they were stealing
chickens when caught.
The United States surveying
steamer Thetis has completed her
survey for the new cable to the Ha-
waiian islands. She arrived in the
harbor at Hilo May the 21st.
At Salinas, Tuesday, c. w.
Halves was sentenced by Judge
Dorm to serve fifty years at San
Quentin for the murder of E. w.
Wagner at Monterey, in June 1891.
A warrant has been issued from
the Police Court of Sacramento for
the arrest of Mrs. Peever, of Placer
county, upon charge of having
submitted to a criminal operation
in Sacramento about year and a
half ago.
A number of women of Holbrook,
A. T., cowhided man named
Kentner out of town on the first.
Kentner had taken indecent iber-
ties with an S-year-old girl. He
was formerly surveyor of Apache
county, Arizona.
Two men were arrested at Lodi
on the 31st of May, upon whom
were found $500 worth of stamps
and 800 in money. The men are
supposed to be those who robbed
the stage and killed young woman
near San Andreas, Cal, some weeks
ago.
Carolina Fleischman, a German
girl, aged %, died at the German
Hospital in San Francisco, on the
LIST, from a criminal operation. The
operation was performed by fe-
male doctor on Howard street A
young man named Schaeffer, of
Woodville, is supposed to be the
author of the girls ruin.
During an alteration Wednes-
day night between Fracis Marcum
and Samuel Cook, at the ranch of
the former, near Rutherford, Cal,
Marcum was cut on the head by
Cook with Ratchet and Marcum
shot Cook in the left arm, necessi-
tating amputation above the elbow.
Marcum gave himself up to the
authorities.
John Craig, Assistant Secretary
of the California Worlds Fair Com
mission, was arrested Wednesday
on a charge Of forgery. He is ac-
cused of forging the names of Pres
ident Irving NJ. Scott and Secretary
Thompson of the Commission to
checks aggregating $1,000. Craig
forged ten checks in all, the first
one amounting to 81 400.
On the morning of June LIST the
dwelling-house on the ranch owned
by Jones d Dickey was burned to
the ground. The fire started in the
kitchen. The loss is $4,000; in
sured for $4,000 The ranch is sit
uated about one mile from Reno, SO
no alarm was turned in and the
house was left to the mercy of the
flames. 1t was a new house, plas-
tered throughout, and one of the