The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-10-05
COAST NEWS.

1
The electrical railway cars are sue.
cess in Salt Lake City.
Another ostrich farm is to he started
at Carpenteria. Santa Barbara county,
California.
| The Ceur d'Alene Indians have agreed
to sell about half their reservation for
$500, 900.
G. Fl. Wright OF Martinez has COW
bell that he brought over the plaina to
California in lS45.
Frank Rea of Trsver. Tulsre county,
Cal has tomato vines that stand twelve
feet high that are loaded with ripe fruit.
Bids are wanted at Ogden for digging
ITO miles Of the Bothwick canal. The
work will be done by Eastern capital
lists.
A Mormon brother claims that the
Apostle Peter has been reincarnsted and
has lived in Salt Lake City, but that he
/. now dead.
A Chico (Cal Constable put in bill
Of $1,000 for arrestipg tramps in the
mouth of August and the first two
weeks Of September.
An assessment which has just been
completed shows the taxable valuati'n OF
property in Portland, Or, to be about
$50 100000 compared with $4,000, 1000
of ls9t year.
Mrs. Hiram Smell, Of Malsd, Idaho,
has given birth to sixtets--three boys
and three gi.ls. They weigh eight
pounds altogether. All are quite hearty
and promise to live.
The colored Liberal Club Of Salt Lake
City, 100 members strong, has sent
East for uniforms. All the Gentiles are
now forming clubs and getting into uni
form. They will re Zion Zion.
Wellington Stewart, a lawyer of San
Diego, confined in jill for assaulting
+, young girl, attempted suicide by open.
ing an artery in hi, arm. He was dis
covered in time and the how of blood
stopped.
Private parties are now making sur
veys for two large canals to carry water
from Yakima river to the upper beach of
Kittikas Valley, w. T.. where there are
thousands Of acres Of rich Government
and railroad lands.
Scarcely night passes at Fresno but
rai-ins are stolen from doz n vineyards.
The thieves take the raisins on the trays,
load them into wagons and drive off and
are soon lost in the darkness. There is
talk of recognizing the ,igalantes.
| Among the popular scientific articles to
be published in the Century during the
coming year will be reports of the latest
studies and discoveries made at the Lick
Observatory in California, furnished by
Professor Holden.
The new railroad bridge at Cascade,
in the Sierra Nevadas, is 800 feet long
and over 100 feet high, and was ut up
in four days. Timbers for such struct.
ures are framed 10 duplicate, and kept on
hand at oakland Point.
Henry Miller, Jr., son of the head Ct
the firm of Miller & Lux, the million.
aire cattlemen, married Miss Oldham,
in Gilroy, California. This dspleased
the old gentleman and he disinh. rited
Henry.
A Chinese cook on ranch in the vi
cinity Of Butte City, Colusa county, re
Gently baked cake. using, probably BY
mistake, sheet Of fly paper under th'
cake in baking. The entire family
hired man and all, we're poisoned by tn,
eating Of it, although none of the case
are fatal.
Salt Lake Tribune: When all OF tn,
, contracts for work on the Bear rive
canal have been awarded, and the con
tractors have full complement Of mel
. at work, there will be small army o
about 5000 men throwing dirt along th'
, line of this great canal; and when com
pleted it will be the largest irrigatin!
canal in the United States,
a In Salt Lake City. at this time las
= year, potatoes wero ceiling at 40 cents
. bushel. Now they retail at from 81 t.
O 81 10. The crop was unusually small
i this year, as so many farmers lost none!
A ON account Of the oversupply last yea
q that they did not attempt to raiae larg
d crops this season.