Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-01-23

factory will soon start up.
The extremely cold weather is
killing cattle by the thousands in
Indian Territory.
The tirebugs arrested at Santa
Rosa set fire to buildings just for the
fun of the thing.
There will be much large acre
age put in sugar-beets at Chino this
season than last year.
Joe Croker and George Dawson
have been arrested at Los Angeles
and charged with forging checks.
Eastern experts safe-crackers are
doing work profitable to themselves
at Los Angeles and the neighbor-
hood.
A north wind, so strong as to up
root trees and carry fences and out
buildings, visited Sonoma Sunday
night.
Nearly four thousand acres of
land in the vicinity of Visalia, Tu-
lare county, were planted with trees
and vines during 1891.
Whitefish are now caught in Kla-
math Lake, in Klamath county, Or.
The spawn was brought out in a
Government fish boat four years ago.
A reward of $500 has been offered
by the Governor of Arizona for the
arrest of the murderers of Mrs.
Morgan and Joe Miller near Temple
asst week.
The Sea Lion, which returned to
Victoria, B. c., after a weeks alb
sence to get new cook, reports
seal plentiful, the vessel having
taken seventy.
Harvey Blevins has been arrested
and identified as the person who
held up and robbed the Riverside,
A. T., stage a few days ago. He
has been placed in the jail at Globe.
Carl Schmidt, who confessed at
Denver to having assisted at the
killing of Mrs Greenwood, at Napa,
last February, has been identified
as one of the two criminals by Mr..
Greenwood.
A mastodon's tooth ten inches
long, seven inches from the crown
to the roots, and weighing seven
and quarter pounds, was found
by prospector on Globe Greek, Or,
few days ago.
A Seattle jury in the case of
James Evans, a colured miner on
trial for the murder of his wife,
has disagreed. Two colored men
on the jury would accept no verdict
except acquittal.
Maggie Dean, a 14-year-old girl,
was taken into the mountains from
Phoenix, A. t., and repeatedly out
ragged by Jim Robinson. She will
probably die. Robinson was cap
tnred and will probably be lynched.
DIR. Prowtell, of Phoenix, A. T.,
proposes to make things warm for
those people who originated stories
of a ibelous character about him
and sent them out from Phoenix
during his temporary absence from
that town.
There is report that the citizens
of Kernville and the surrounding
community are nearly all danger
ously i'll with the grip and are in
critical condition, no physician be-
ing nearer than Bakersfield, a dis
lance of seventy miles.
Robert Flake, the protested wool
shipper of Anthony, N. NJ, who at
tempted to swindle the First and
National banks of FL Paso, last
Saturday, with forged bills of lad
ing, was captured In Juarez, Mexico,
and turned over to the United
States Marshal.
A woman calling herself Mrs.
Julia Fibbs has been victimizing
the society ladies at Los Angeles,
and also several hotels. A letter
from Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of
Boston, exposed the character of
the woman, who, when wanted for
arrest, was found to have decamped,
Eastern tree-dealers are greatly
exercised over the attitude of Cali
fornia in reference to the importa-
ton of diseased stock, and exhibit
desire to retaliate by urging Con-
gress to remove the protective tariff
from foreign fruits in order to injure
the home industry. A threat of
that nature comes from a firm at
Newark, Wayne county, N. Y.
Considerable talk is occasioned
at Vallejo over the charges against
Foreman Charles l. Phelps of the
Construction Department at Mare
Island. His offense, as stated in
the preferred complaint, is extort-
ing money from workmen who are
employed under him, making them
pay large monthly bonus for the
privilege of working. An inyesti-