The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-09
COAST NEWS.

Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, the novelist, is
in San Francisco. .
Big sampling works are to be erected
at Missoula, Montana.
Tacoma claims to have found district
where 1900 had not been counted.
The wheat yield in Suffer county is
large, running thirteen sacks to the acre.
Helena is going to advertise her re.
sources to the amour. of $50, 900 or SIS,
900.
Nearly $500 were subscribed at a
meeting at Sacramento to establish
swimming baths.
Again forest fires are devouring the
best pine timber in the mountains of
Idaho. The fires have started earlier
than did those of last year.
Farmer Jones of Huron, Tulare county
has harvested 1880 sacks of wheat from
$50 acres. His next neighbor, Frank Nc
Clellan, gathered zoos sacks from lGO
acres Of volunteer.
The Assembly candidates nominated
by the Republicans at Sacramento Thurs
day appeared on the platform and pledg.
ed themselves to vote for Leland San.
ford for Senator.
John Kesseler has been arrested near
Indian Diggings for horse-stealing. He
has served term in the Penitentiary for
killing his father, and finds that life in
San Quentin is picnic for him.
The steamer Silver has commenced
running again between Petaluma and
San Francisco, and with the steamer
Gold and twelve schooners and sloops
will make business by the creek route
livelier than for several months.
The fight of the Montana Union Rail.
road Company and the Anaconda Min
ing Company over the alleged overcharges
has been settled by the company paying
roads charges, and everything is now
running as if nothing had happened.
Squatters have gone on the military
reservation near Fort Angeles, Wash,
and the jumping fever extends over to
Port Townsend. The squatters are
regularly organized, and are prepared
to contest any claim the Government
may institute.
The Ventura Free Press says on the
Fourth an enterprising youth tied sheet
at the four corners and took header
from the top of barn. The parachute
failed to work. but the amateur aeronaut
descended in great style and is now laid
up for repairs,
A party Of prospectors who have been
prospecting on Sheep mountain, near the
Colorado and Wyoming line, have dis.
covered an immense lead of gold.bearing
ore, with some some silver and lead.
The vein is eight feet thick and is shaft.
ed for depth of 20 feet.
Cheyenne is discussing the improvement
of an extension of her water system, and
the press of the city is urging the expe.
denture of at least $500, 900 in the work
The proposition to build for the future as
well as the present is good one.
At Victoria, B. c., Saturday, the keel
OF the fast steamer was laid on Stevens
shipyard for Stuart, the smuggler, whose
boat Alert was seized by the American
customs authorities at Port Townsend a
few weeks ago. The boat will probably
be put in the same service.
Sierra Valley leader: G. B. Stanley,
who came to this State in 1910, is pros
pecting in this and Plumas county.
When he came here there were only six.
teen Americans and twenty-six English
known to be on the coast. He is 60
years old, hale and hearty. He was at
Montery when Captain Jones hoisted
the first American flag in 1910.
A man with handkerchief over his
face and pistol in his hand robbed the
money drawer of the Coronado ferry
Office Tuesday night. Miss Louise Har-
rison is the cashier, and she was easily
awed into silence, while the burglar in
his nervousness got but 80 cents from
the drawer, but this was done with a
Waterman within fifteen feet of him.
The robber said he had had nothing to
eat for days, and begged the lady's
pradon for alarming her.
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