Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-21
Pacific Coast.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 20.-This morn
ing, at a house on Fifth street, near
Mission, girl was handling a can of
naptha near q stove, when suddenly it
exploded, burning her and her mother
badly and setting fire to the premises.
The neighbors exInguished the FIRE with
few buckets of water. Loss probably
5000.
Weather cloudy. with indications of
rain.
Greenbacks unchanged. ...
General Shields, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
in connection with W. II. Martin, Gen.
eral Agent of the California Immigrant
Union, of San Francisco, Judge Peacock.
of Santa Cruz, Messrs. Adams and
Parsons, of Santa Barbara, and others,
have purchased the Lompoc ranch, 50,-
900 acres, Of Col. W. Hollister. of Santa
Barbara, and are subdividing the same
for colonists from the Eastern States and
Europe. This is said to be the finest
tract Of land in the Southern portion of
the State and will be offered to new
corners at low prices and upon liberal
credit. 1t is located at Point Concep.
ton, fronting eight miles on the ocean
and is fourteen miles in length.
FOREST HILL, CAL, August 2O.--Two
Cinnamon were discovered robbing
sluices of the Yankee Jim Mining Com
pany last night, and two shots were fred
at them by the Waterman, killing one
and supposed wounding the other, al
though be has not yet been found.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 20.-The Pacific
Mail steamship Costa RIGA sailed for
Panama and way ports to-day with 81
passengers and 600 tons OF merchandise.
The receipt from the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine to-day aggregated $685. 900.
The attendance at the Mechanics Fair
tonight is good, but the interior arrange
ments by the exhibitor will not be wholly
completed before Saturday.
1t is reported that Goldsmith Maid
will be brought here and entered for the
great 500, 900 race in November.
SAN DIEGO, August 20.-The yield oil
fruit, grain and vegetables was never SO
large i'll San Diego county as this year
everything is abundant and of the best
quality.
Mr.. Gaxiola, President of the Colorado
River Hemp Company, arrived last night
in charge of twenty persons, enroute for
the company's colony on the Colorado
River, in Sonora and Lower California.
1t is proposed to utilize the wild hemp
growing so abundantly in that section.
Arrangements have been made with the
Mexican authorities that every settler
shall be granted three leagues of land.
The party will leave here Saturday morn
ing, overland, and others will follow. 1t
is expected to have 200 families set
tied, who will take up nearly all the
available hemp land in that vicinity.
The hemp, when prepared for market,
is worth 1920 to $3.50 per ton.
SACRAMENTO, August 20.-There is
every indication that the next State Fair
will exceed all that have preceded it
Applications for space at the Fair
grounds are far in excess of former years,
besides AZ applications for stalls from
the East; 30 from Missouri and - from
Wisconsin.
The Governor to-day commissioned
H. H. Deckerman as Notary Public for
Tustin City, Los Angeles county.
Articles Of incorporation of the Con.
solidated Peoples Ditch Company were
filed to. day; place of business, Farmers
vile, Tulare county; capital stock,
$500. Also. the Fannie Belcher
Quicksilver Mining Company; capital
stock, $1,000, 900. Also. the Yountville
Farmers Building Company; capital
stock, $1,000.