Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-03-19
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A gang of clever burglars and
sneak thieves is doing Idaho towns.
The Southern Pacific is replacing
its Chinese section men with white
men in the south.
The Sheriff of San Diego county
has been compelled to reduce his
payroll to $475 per month.
There is a lively fight on between
the local Touring mills at Sacra-
mento and the mills at Stockton.
George A. Smith has been held
for trial at Sacramento for killing
Patrick Brannigan on election day.
A correspondent says that River
side is filled with hooking birds and
the morning air is resonant with
music.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union and the saloon-keepers
of New Westminster, B. c., have
declared war.
There are a great many bogus 81,
quarter-dollar and 10-cent pieces in
Grass Valley. They are said to be
very clever limitations.
The natural gas we'll on l. w.
Hellman's ranch, on the edge of Los
Angeles, continues to give every in
dication Of being slayer.
Dan McCarty, the turfman, has
offered $1,000 for the race track at
Lodi. This offer is supposed to be
in the interest Of Senator Stanford.
w. P. Colt is in custody at Sac
ramento, charged with obtaining
goods under false pretenses. He is
said to be an unusually clever
swindler.
G. A. Warren, owner of the Butte,
Mont, Inter Mountain, has just won
his suit in the United States Su-
preme Court for the possession ofssthe
Comanche mine in Anaconda, val
ued at 100000.
The influx of tourists into South
ern California this month has been
greater than in the same period for
several years. Several large excur-
sion parties are expected during the
coming two weeks.
The question of a railroad from
Livermore to San Antoine Valley is
favorably viewed at Livermore,
though a portion of the Supervisors
are showing a disposition to antag-
onize the enterprise.
Charles Bell, who was charged
with killing Peral Henderson, at
Portland, in a prize fight, has been
discharged from custody. Hender-
sons death, the jury found, was
from 'over-exertion."
The remains of mutilated body
were found at the mouth of Panther
creek, on the Mokelumne river. A
poll-tax receipt in the clothing gave
the name of J. w. Musser. 1t is
believed he persisted in snowstorm
last month.
Constable Fleming, who shot and
killed Deputy United States Mar
shall Pritchard at Oreana, in Owy-
hee county, Wash, has had an ex-
animation and was released by a
Justice of the Peace.
There is much contention in
Brigham City, Utah, over establish
ing waterworks system. Bonds
have been voted, but the opposition
to their issue is so strong that it will
affect the sale, restraining order
having already been issued.
William E. Lee, the only son of J.
J. Lee, of Ell Monte, has lost his
mind from the bichloride of gold
treatment, say his family and
friends. Lee is thirty-seven years
old and man of powerful frame
and strong muscles, but has been
very dissipated until December,
when he went to Dwight for a cure.
Natural gas has been struck near
Los Angeles. 1t is pouring out in
large quantities under high pres
sure, and appears to possess all the
qualities necessary for heat and
power purposes. The we'll has been
bored by l, w. Hellman on his
ranch, a mile or so east of Boyle
Heights, formerly known as the
Repette place.
Mollie Austin, the young woman
whose protestations of affection for
Palmer, the murderer, of Charles
Phleger, created a wild sensation at
Sacramento last Saturday, was TAX
en- to her home at Knights Landing
Sunday night. 1t has since been
learned that on arriving home she
swallowed dose of poison. A doe