Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-05-14
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will be built this season near the
town of Truckee.
Albert Blair and a three-year-
old son of S. NJ. Barrow lost their
lives in a fire at Tombstone Sunday.
Arizona and New Mexico have
elected pronounced free-colnage
delegates to the Minneapolis con-
vention.
Oregon people have, this week,
been celebrating the centennial an
niversary of the discovery OF the
Columbia river.
The Truckee ice companies have
entered upon a spirited rate war 10
control the ice business for the
coming Summer.
White Pine county script is quot
ed at 80 and 50 cents on the dollar,
which is higher price than 1t has
reached for years.
The s. P. R. r. has unexpectedly
Maid over $4,000 into the Nevada
county, CAL, school fund. 1t is
considered O windfall.
The mining excitement near Pr
oche, in what is called Ferguson
district, still continues. The first
reports were greatly exaggerated,
however.
John w. Breckenridge, son of
Buchanan's Vice President, died at
at MERGED Sunday from hypoderm-
ic injections administered by a
physician.
Gin Toy, Bakersfield Chinaman,
on Saturday night stole from a
Chinawoman diamond ring and
pair of bracelets valued at 5000.
To get the ring he cut the woman's
finger off.
An Indian who killed squaw at
Kyoquot, B. c., gave the tribe an
Indian girl to replace the one he
had killed, and this has evidently
been mutually agreeable.
Lawyer Davis of San Francisco
knocked Contractor Linden down
Tuesday because the latter would
not pay 5000 ON demand. 1t was
apparently an attempted case of
blackmail.
Another fabulously rich mining
discovery is reported near Needles,
Cal. Several miners have knocked
out small fortunes with no other
method of ore reduction than a
mortar and pestle.
The Redding stage has been held
up again. The express box was
the only plumber demanded. 1t
was handed out without any ques-
tion. Four men beside the driver
were in the stage at the time.
A Shasta Indian broke the egg
eating record by devouring thirty
two eggs at one sitting. He would
put an egg in his mouth, crunch it
and swallow it, shell and all.
Three masked men entered the
rooms of two ladies at Salt Lake,
who had just returned from a ball,
and with pistols forced them to give
up their jewels. The ladies lost
something over $4,000 in diamonds.
Near Stockton Monday a two
year-old child of S. A. Burnett was
drowned. The parents of the lit
tie one saw the body floating down
the stream, and could have saved
it, but they mistook it for a pass
ing log.
A prospector named Goldberg
was shot and killed by his cabin
mate near Colfax Monday. Both
were drunk. Goldberg had made
and lost several fortunes in Nevada
and California during various min
ing excitements.
An explosion in the coal mines
near Roslyn, Washington, this week
caused the death of forty miners.
Only two boys and two gangs in the
tunnel are known to have escaped.
The shaft was closed up, and the
mine being on fire, there is little
hope of recovering the bodies.
c. r. Bennett of Oakland, Sec
rotary and Manager of the Society
for the Prevention of Vice, has been
charged with seducing a Miss
Gray who came under the protect
ing wings of his philanthropic So
ciety. He was man of family,
moving in high church circles; but
it appears that he had promised to
marry the young girl.
Wyoming rustlers still thirst for
blood. A U. S. Marshal was am
pushed and killed near Buffalo this
week. He was fred upon by five
men, while riding through a raIne
with companion. The latter es-
caDed after a hard ride for miles