Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-06-11
COAST ITEMS.

of she interior towns OF California
this week.
A rival ferry company will soon
be started between Oakland and
San Francisco.
J. r. Biggs, charged with the en-
bezzlement of $4,000, was arrested
at Sissons, Cal, Thursday
Trouble over game of poker at
Woodland, Cal, resulted in Span
lard, Jack Car" being killed by
Elijah Brice.
The man in San Mateo county,
Cal, supposed to be the other MUIR
derer of Mrs. Greenwood, turns out
not to be the man.
A transfer agent named Smith
and Rocklin, Cal, girl attempted
to elope Thursday, but were frus-
trated by the girls mother.
The Chicago police are searching
for two japanese gamecocks which
some one stole from Con Mooney,
the well-known San Francisco sport.
The San Francisco highbinders
are threatening the white people
who are taking Chinese women from
brothels and trying to reform them.
The executors of the estate of Mrs.
Theresa Fair have sued Samuel
Rosener to recover $4,000 principal
and $4,000 interest on promissory
note executed by Rosener on June
8, 1888.
A drunken man named Schnei-
der created a panic on one of the
streets in San Francisco Thursday
by firing II shots from his revolt
yer. No one was hurt and the man
was arrested.
Benjamin S. Bailey, the man who
swindled the United States out of
2-cent stamp at Porterville, Cal, a
few days ago, pleaded guilty at Los
Angeles in the United States Court
and was sentenced to pay fine Of
$40.
Title Ludwig, arrested on a
charge of killing Walter de Clark,
her lover, was examined in Tracy,
Cal, this week, and held under
$20,000-bond for trial. The bail
was furnished, and the defendant
was released.
Peter Schneider, a crazy German,
fourished six-shooter on Howard
street. San Francisco, Wednesday.
Five shots were fired at him by the
officers, but he had to be beaten in
to insensibility before he could be
subdued aud handcufied.
James Fielding, of Oakland, re-
ceived a good horse-whipping Mon
day morning by Mrs. Wise of the
Union Hotel Fielding and John
Yoaklum were both suitors for the
widows attention, but the former
was 1ndiscreet in his reflections up
on the merits of his rival
J. A. Van Horn, who was lost on
the desert near Yuma, was brought
to Tucson Thursday. He had ter
rible experience, having gone eight
days without water. He was found
about 80 miles from where he left
his wagon. The rescuing party also
suffered greatly. He will recover.
A party of cattlemen that reached
Buffalo, Wyoming, Sunday, report
finding the shriveled bodies of four
men hanging to tree. They were
unrecognizable and had evidently
been hanging for several weeks. 1t
is believed that they were members
of the invading cattlemen's party,
and that they were lynched by
rustlers.
A hundred or more Italian labor
ers on the Elk Mountain Railway,
near Carbondale, Col, struck on the
7th for an increase of pay. A gang
of men attempted to take their
places, but the Italians opened fire
and forced them to seek shelter, and
the situation is now in the hands Of
the Italians. Although many shots
we're exchanged, nobody was in
jured. The Sheriff is engaged in
organizing posse to 60 to the scene
of the trouble.
The business portion of Jimtown
(Creede) was destroyed by fire Sun
day morning. A great many peo-
pie are homeless. In short time
the fire burned through rows Of
frame buildings for distance of a
mile. Many houses were blown up
with giant powder in an attempt to
stop the fire, but had no effect. A
hundred Deputy Sheriffs were
sworn in to protect the town against