The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-09-07
COAST NEWS.

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San Francisco.
Sacrementans pick up boy babies on
their front steps.
The total number of school children in
Oregon is 93,O3S.
| A IA year-old boy at Santa Rosa "held
up" parties late one night last week
Gust for fun"
+, The Helena Journal says in the past
four years tie Montana miners have sent
Sl4, 000.o 900 in gold to ST. Louis.
The Masonic Hall lately com pleted at
Napa, costing $4,000 waa dedicated
Thursday, the 29th ult.
Three men have died from thirst and
starvation on the Colorado Desert last
month and within radius of fifty miles.
A German, a stranger at Susanville,
was tarred and festhered Sunday night
because of indecent exposure to young
girls.
| A gear tree at the old Puriasina Mis-.
sion, Santa Barbara county, stands so
feet hieh, and measures I6 feet around
near the trunk.
Secretary Davis of the State Board Of
Trade is issuing circulars to the miners
and mine-owners Of the coast, asking for
specimens of their mineral products, to
be exhibited in the new California on
Wheels.
The largest fig orchard in the United
States is about to be set out in Pomona
valley, Cal, between Pomona and On.
tario. The orchard will consist Of | /, 900
white Adriatc fig trees and 5000 Smy.
rns fg trees, planted eighty to the acre,
on 200 acres.
1t seems that the Bears Nest mine,
Alaska, for which a 100 stamp mill has
been built, does not come up to expecta.
tions. Reports from there are to the eff.
feet that over 1000 feet of tunnelng
failed to reveal any ore of value, and all
labor has stopped.
Sylvester Morales, the Southern Cali.
fornia desperate, is still at large but
Marshal Wilson, of Ocean side, and
posse are close on his track and his cap.
ture is expected in few days. Since
July 10 he has stolen nine horses, lodged
three bullets in the body of George NJ.
Bunch and stolen a girl
John Maxwell, formerly superinten.
| dent of tho Overman mine on the Com.
stock and lately of the New Idra quick.
silver mine, will have charge and direct
operations Of the Hyde mine, Tuolumne
county. This mine has recently been
purchased by San Francisco men and
will now be operated vigorously.
In sinking well at Keller, Iuyo
county, on the line of the Carson & Colo.
RADIO railroad, mineral spring was
tapped at depth of 20 feet below the
surface, the water of which is supposed
to contain valuable medicinal properties.
| A sample of the water has been shipped
to San Francisco for anal, cation.
Two young men at Echo, aged q and
% years respectively, who are working
| on the Caviness ranch, had tickling
contest on Tuesday last, says the Ore
gon State Journal, which continued un-
til one was almost tickled into eternity.
| They poked one another in the ribs with
much amusement until one noticed with
alarm that his companions eyes were
| fixed and staring and his limbs rigid,
like those OF a corpse
Professor Whitney says that from the
summit Of Mount Hamilton, in Califor-
MIA, more Of the earth's surface can be
seen than from any other spot on the
globe, though it is only about 4, 500 feet
high. The view extends around it in
every direction, and the snow. capped
range of the lofty Sierras can be plainly
seen 200 miles away against the northern
sky. To the south, nearly as far away,
the San Bernardino range limits the
view, and between the wolies roomsfor
the Eastern States, With their rivers,
lakes, mountains and sea coast.
"A mass of amberRria weighing 100
| vonnia "a as raoantI,, ,,;ol Cd ~, Of Gao ~,