Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-01-16
COAST ITEMS.

DAY ana organized.
A large colony from the East is
to locate in Linn county, Or.
Carleton's Opera Company open
ed San Diego's 100000 Opera
House Monday night.
A proposition at Redlands to is
sue 100000 in bonds to care for
storm water was carried by vote
of Z to /.
George Vincent, a prominent
merchant ofGrass Valley, is charged
with buying a witness to absent
himself in a criminal trial.
Regular freight service has be-
gun on the new Southern Pacific
line into Redlands. Passenger
trains will run in two weeks.
An italian gardener at French
Camp, four miles south from Stock
ton, quarreled with his S0-year-old
mother and then killed himself.
Carl Schmidt, who confessed to
the Greenwood murder, near Napa,
has been identified by Sheriff Nc
Kenzie of Napa, who left Denver
Friday with his prisoner.
Work upon the new ink factory
at Santa Paula is progressing rap
idly. Six large lampback kilns are
being constructed out of cement, in
addition to laboratory and factory.
The full extent of the scandal
connected with contracts for fur
nishing the Whittier Reform School
promises to be given to the public,
and will show remarkable degree
of extravaganza.
The Southern Pacific Company
has rescinded the order requiring
one brakeman to remain on top of
the cars, and the men on the Ash
land division, who were out on
strike, returned to work.
Wednesday was the opening day
of the San Joaquin Valley Mount
ain Railroad as a common carrier
for freight and passengers to all
points between the town of Polasky,
the present terminus of the new
road, and Fresno.
A counterfeiter's outfit, consisting
of several new stamps and dies for
the manufacture of silver dollars,
together with a sack containing fifty
spurious dollars and a large guam
tity of metal, was found in a tunnel
about twelve miles from Auburn,
Cal, Tuesday.
The business men of Ogden, with
the Mayor of the city in the lead,
have organized $4,000 stock COM
pany to bore for natural gas and oil.
1t is claimed by scientific experts
that Ogden is the center of the great
natural gas and oil region in the
Salt Lake Valley.
The Florence and Globe stage
was held up by one man five miles
west of Riverside, A. t., Sunday.
Wells-Fargo's box and two bars of
silver bullion were taken. The
mail was untouched. The robber
is described as tall and dark, with
a heavy mustache. He wore no
mask.
At Victoria the Chinese six-year-
old girl Cheing Man, whose posses
sion has been disputed between her
adopted father Cher purchaser) and
the Chinese Home, has been decided
by the girl volunteering to go with
him. 1t was proved he had previ-
ously had three little ones whom he
had sold.
The Fresno Board of Supervisors
has appointed a committee to look
into the matter of the feasibility of
the scheme for building a ship canal
from Fresno to tide water, following
the course of the San Joaquin river.
The Board of Supervisors propose
to see what can really be done, as
the scheme has been much talked
about.
There is a report from Solomon
vile, A. t., that man and woman
were found murdered on the Dun
can road Monday night. Both were
shot twice and their heads smashed
with an axe. When found two
year-old child was sitting by the
body of its mother, with its head
badly bruised. There is much ex-
element over the murder.
Recently there arrived at Victoria
B. c., 100 japanese to work in the
Union coal mines at Comox, sim
liar number of whites and China
men having already been discharg-
ed. Two hundred are expected on
the steamship Zambezi's next trip.