Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-05-21
COAST ITEMS.


near Carson this week.
Two men were shot and fatally
wounded at a negro picnic near
Marysville on the 18th. The troub-
lie was over a girl.
A man is being tried in Bakers
field for murder. 1t is also alleged
that he picked the corpse and fed
the meat to his workmen.
A frightful accident occurred at
the Anaconda mine, in Montana,
on the 18th. A cave occurred on
the 800 level, burying eleven min
ers.
Walter James, who assaulted
Clara Harrington, 12-year-old
girl, has been sentenced to fourteen
years at Folsom by Judge Gray at
Visalia.
Five men were terribly scalded
in Leadville mine last Sunday by
the bursting of a steam pipe which
fed large pump. All but one OF
them have since died.
The warm, pleasant weather is
causing the Lake Tahoe resorts to
assume a lively appearance through
the preparations being made for the
opening of the season.
H. C. Dillon, who has been act
ING as attorney for the Kaweah
Colony in California, has sued the
colony for $1,000 and attached its
water rights, personal and real
property.
VIM. Roney, charged with crimi-
nal assault upon his 14-year-old
niece, was examined at Napa on
Monday and held to answer before
the Superior Court. Bail was fixed
at $4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ingalls, commit
ted suicide at Oakland on the 18th.
The Incorporate habits of her hus-
band drove her to the act. The
couple recently came from Ireland
and were wealthy.
A Carson boy who did not know
his gun was loaded, put seven
buckshot in the back of a squaw
Tuesday. He is said to have been
worse frightened than the squaw,
but not 80 badly hurt.
All Chuck, Chinese, but nat
uralized citizen of Mexico, and
worth, it is said, 5000, 900, has been
arrested at Eagle Pass, Tex, for
entering the United States in vio-
lation of the Exclusion law.
An investigation into the affairs
of c. B. Seeley, Treasurer of the
Napa Insane Asylum, which was
demanded by parties at Napa, has
resulted in placing the gentleman
in better position before the peo-
pie.
Billy Manning, the noted prize
fighter, was sentenced at Los An
geles on the 18th to two years in
the penitentiary for assaulting
Mayor o. S. Woods with loaded
cane. The latter was rendered a
permanent invalid.
Bertha Dufour, hoodlum girl OF
Sacramento, has again been arrest
ed for vagrancy, this time by Con-
stable Rich, of Oak Park. She
was about to depart for Oroville to
enter house of i'll fame. She has
been concerned in a number of sus-
picious transactions, and is utterly
depraved.
Mamie Thurston, IL years old,
the daughter of a farmer near
Stockton, was riding one Of the
horses attached to a harrow, the
other day, when the animal fell,
throwing the child. The horse
arose and started on, dragging the
harrow over the child and terribly
injuring her.
The new town of Ferguson has
four frame buildings in course OF
erection. Business is now conduct
ed in tents, but lumber is being
hauled in daily. A company is
putting saw mill about six miles
from there, and will be ready to
furnish lumber in about two weeks.
The saw mill at Incline opened
up yesterday for the Summer On
account of dull times in Virginia
City the season will not last very
long. The output of lumber gen.
orally depends upon the prosperity
of Virginia City, which place con-
sumes all the wood and lumber
: that is Skinned from Incline