Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-08-06
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ing Oakland people their fill of SEN
sational testimony.
Clara Belle MeDonalds jewelry
was auctioned off in San Francisco
Tuesday, and brought 5000.
The brewery of Jacob Haltimer,
near Santa Rosa, has been seized
for swindling the government by
using old stamps on beer kegs.
Cora Mains, one of the toughest
female hoedlums that ever deveL
oped under Sacramento auspices,
has run away from her husband in
Marysville, accompanied by Hattie
Reed, Eli Mayo's ungrateful protege.
It is claimed that the boundary
line between Idaho and Washing
ton is thirty miles out of the way,
and a re-survey would probably
place Spokane in Idaho, increasing
the population of that State $4,000.
A party of colored capitalists
have arrived at Acampo, in San
Joaquin Valley, Cal, in search Of
land for colonization purposes.
They are said to represent 5000
families in Tennessee and other
Southern States.
The hiding place of Catarina
CARA, the Mexican Reyolutionist
leader, has been discovered, and a
large posse has been started to cap
ture him. 1t is confidently expect
ed that he will be taken within
twenty-four hours.
Four murderous train robbers
robbed the S. P. train at Calls, Cal,
Thursday night of $4,000 in gold.
Dynamite bombs were thrown into
the express car and the side of it
was blown out. The express mes
senger was seriously injured.
Samuel butcher, the leper who
has been in the Receiving Hospital
of Oakland for the past two months,
has been removed to his little shan
ty at the County Infirmary. He
seems contented enough in his new
quarters, though he complains of
being lonely.
The officers of San Benito county,
Cal, do quick work. Saturday
last two horse thieves named Garcia
were caught and brought to Hollis
ter. Monday they were tried, con-
victed, and sentenced to imprison-
ment for eight years. One was
taken to San Quentin Tuesday and
the other to Folsom the same day.
w. McAlpin, Supt. of a saw mill
near Catskill, N. NJ, was shot last
week by man named Peacock, but
not fatally wounded. Peacock and
MeAlpine's wife conspired to do
away with McAlpine to secure $685.
900 life insurance money. Peacock
fled to the mountains after the
shooting and has not yet been cap
tured.
The Graham Tewksbury feud at
Tempe, A. T., was ended Tuesday
by the killing of Tom Graham, the
last of his family, by Ed. Tewks-
bury, who is a half-breed Chinook
Indian. His family was the most
successful during the feud, as twen-
ty-seven Grahams have been killed
and only three Tewksburys. The
last assassin has not yet been ar
rested.
Mrs. Maxwell, of Elmyra, Or,
last Monday had a quarrel with her
husband, from whom she was re-
Gently separated. J. H. Yates, a
brother of Mrs. Maxwell, interfered
in her behalf. The husband at
tempted to draw pistol, and Mrs.
Maxwell went to the house to get
shotgun for her brother. In taking
down the gun it was discharged,
and the contents entered Mrs. Max
wells left side, with fatal results.
Mrs. Todd, now of San Francisco
and formerly of the Oakland School
Department, has been making
things lively III educational circles
in Oakland lately. On Monday
she submitted charges against Pres
ident Smith of the School Board.
and later she sent to the Board of
Education a lengthy communica-
ton, demanding her salary from the
time she was discharged up to date.
She quotes the Kate Kennedy case
as precedent, and then goes on to
attack certain members of the
board, whom she charges with cor
ruption, malpractices and general
inability.