Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-02-20
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The Old Dominion Hotel at Col
vile, Wash, was burned Sunday.
Rents for business property at
Visalia have rapidly advanced of
late.
Work of construction on the Or
egon Pacific Railroad in the direc-
ton of Eastern Oregon, is to begin
as soon as spring opens.
D. D. Olmstead, who stole $112
on the 8th inst, at the railroad de-
pot at Gridley, has been sentenced
to San Quentin for eight years.
Richard Helm, his wife and his
son are charged with poisoning
Jacob Lewis, a merchant Of White
Rock, Mariposa county, and his wife
sometime ago. Helm is Lewis SON
in-law.
Trainmen on the Southern Pacific
in the San Joaquin Valley are
formulating a list of grievances
which they will present at an early
date for the company's consider
alton.
Vancouver, Olympia and New
Whatcom, Wash, are to make i'm
provements in the way of deeper
harbors and wider channels. The
plans adopted are of United States
engineers.
J. F. Berry, charged with arson
at Suffer City, failed to appear at
Yuba Wednesday when his case
was called. His bail was forfeited
and bench warrant was issued for
his arrest.
There is blind Indian in Sonora,
Tuolumne county, who plays har-
monica in way that is said to be
truly wonderful. He wants to go to
the Worlds Fair, and Sonora man
has signified his willingness to take
him.
For some time past there has been
a settlers war brewing in the Little
Tejunga Canyon, just north of Los
Angeles, and it looks as if the Cor
oner would soon have work to do,
as everybody is carrying Win
chester.
Daniel Meyer of San Francisco
has commenced suit against the city
of Sacramento for the principal and
interest of certain city bonds held
by him. The amount claimed is
sos, 800 with interest from February
2, 1888, at per cent.
Last year many species Of the
mavis imported from Germany to
Portland made nests and reared
young in the large trees at Ninth
and Main streets, and in the Fall
migrated to the south. They have
Just returned to Portland and are
merrily whistling about their haunts
of year ago.
The man who cut out his tongue
at Los Angeles last November, it is
now ascertained, is named George
Wilson. He is from wealthy New
York family, is a gambler and the
black sheep of the family. His
father has just died and Georges
share of the estate is $4,000. His
present whereabouts are unknown.
Fashionable circles at Los An
geles are much shocked over the
elopement of Mrs. DIR. Keller, the
wife of Dr. Keller, who came from
Ohio about a year ago and who was
domiciled at the Argyle, a swell
family hotel on Olive street, in the
city. 1t is said clog dancer has
been identified as the man with
whom Mrs. Keller eloped.
Fifteen pairs of skylarks, which
were among the birds received by
the Oregon Association for the I'M
portation of Song Birds last Fall,
and which have been kept in an
aviary constructed for their recep-
ton by Frank Dekum, President OF
the association, were turned loose in
a meadow near Beaverton, a few
miles from Portland, Sunday.
The sealing schooner Eliza Ed
wards has returned to Vancouver
B. c., from her third halibut fishing
trip on the north coast with 40,00(
pounds of splendid halibut. Cap
tain Mckenzie thinks he has found
the winter feeding grounds without
a doubt and that the fisheries will
grow to immense proportions. Sc
far the location of the halibut banks
is a secret with the discoveries.
The case pending at Las Cruces
N. NJ, involving the extradition o
Remijio Sainz, Mendoza and Silvos
charged with leading the mob tina
murdered Mayor Anchita and two
Others at Ascension, Mexico, las
month, is concluded The Judge
orders the discharge of Sainz anC
holds Mendoza and Silvos for extra
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