The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-02-23
COAST NEWS.

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Not poisonous reptile, insect Or plant
grows in the Puget Sound region.
The cattlemen of the West are com.
bining to market their own cattle.
Two Australian emus have been added
to the ostrich farm at Coronado Beach.
The Santa Rosa peace officers name is
Yoho, and not Yaho, as printed, and he
is no Yahoo.
young lady, lately from the East,
has purchased the Suffer City Cali
Enterprise.
The merchants of Spokane Falls have
organized for the purpose of fighting the
Northern Pacific.
A tramp was arrested at Los Gatos for
stealing childrens dinner baskets from
the school.house.
A protest comes from New Mexico
against the presumption that school
teachers there are ignorant.
A 37a-pound watermelon, just from
the vine, was exhibited in Ventura
(Cal. shop window last week.
1t costs Lake county at present from
$40 to $50 a day to pay warrants ON
rabbit, coyote, wild cat, cougar and bear
scalps.
Nevada City boasts Of William Hol.
brooke, who yearly chews 1872 pounds of
tobacco, or 30 pounds more than he
weighs.
A late canvass of Portland for diyec.
tory shows the population of that city to
be about 4s,O0O-an increase of 5000 in
one year.
A San Diego man has planted ten
acres of land in mulberry trees, prepare
tory to going into the business of raising
silk worms.
An Indian near Globe, A. r., Satur.
day, shot q teamster from his saddle.
The only object for the murder was to
obtain the Transfers gun.
1t now requires great courage or the
the desperation of starvation in man to
eat California raised beef. He must
brave the deadly anthrax.
A devil.fsh, twenty.feet length, at.
tackled man in boat off Beacon Hill,
Victoria, B. c.. last Saturday. 1t al.
most succeeded in upsetting the boat.
The bones of the mastodon recently
unearth by some placer miners near
Salmon Falls, Idaho, are on exhibition
at Shoshone. Its ribs are nine feet long,
and the whole mass of bones is estimated
to weigh 5000 pounds.
A few days ago at Santa Anna, J. F.
Adams received $50 and interest for sew.
enteen years from J. N. Ferguson of So
mona. Adams gave the money to Fer.
guson when the latter was broke in q
Nevada mining camp.
Two masken men tried to rob the Ban.
ner mine wagon Of S3,0 worth Of bull.
lion, near Grass Valley, last Saturday.
Dick Vincent, the driver, pulled his rife
and fred four shots at the robbers, who
took to the bush and escaped.
The Arizona Prospector says: A min.
er who recently returned to Tombstone
from the Harqua Hala strike. asserts
that the great majority Of miners there
came IRON Phoenix aud can't tell q
quartz cropping from an alfalfa blossom.
The Daily Historian says: There was a
foot race at Sinslaw 3 short time ago and
the whole bay went broke ON the hind
sprinter. Even the big hotel is without
milk, owing to the fact that landlady
lost her cows through misplaced conf
dence in the speed Of the wrong chap.
Two thieves walked into the assay Of
fee Of R. Reichling. on Montgomer,
street, San Francisco, last Thursday, ant
while one engaged the attention Of tn
clerk. the other got behind the counte
and took up = $4,000 gold bar AM
walked away with it and escaped arrest
There is not shadow OF doubt.
says Los Angeles exchange. that tn
cottony cushion scale is dying in 81
parts Of Los Angeles county" 1t !
probably the name given him that
causing his death. Give = dog ba
name and his death is certain"--it
perhaps the same with bug.
The Montanans are much agitate
about the matter OF admission. Tn
newspapers are discussing it daily an
the masses Of the people are CONSTANT
talking about it. The sentiment