The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-03-01
COAST NEWS.

Fresno, a city of near 10000 persons,
reports but seven deaths for the month
of January.
Provo, Utah, has let a contract for q
complete system of water works that will
cost $4,000.
A project is on foot at Seattle to build
one of the finest Masonic temples in the
United States.
John Strife, pioneer of lS49, died at
his daughters residence, Santa Clara,
last week.
The Santa Barbara Press booms Elwood
Cooper as Republican candidate for next
Governor of California.
The loss of cattle on the Snake river
ranges, Idaho, will be no greater this
Winter than the average in other years.
A snowslde on the upper part of Ora
ham, Idaho, caused damages to the Julia
mines and the Silver Mountain Company
| reaching $Zo,ooo.
The Whatcomb county, Or, Commits
sioners have adopted the plans of w. A.
Tithie of Seattle for the new $4,000
Court. house.
The price of bread and flour confec.
tions at Seattle has been advanced 10
per cent. by the recent successful strike
of the journeymen bakers.
]. Giardini, at Los Angeles, after re-
marking to his wife, 81 am a faithless
husband and it is best should die, blew
his brains out with revolver.
At the last meeting of the San Francis.
co Painters Union Henry Georges doc.
trines were discussed, and Endorsed by
the unanimous vote of the organization.
The Red Cloud mine, near Haley,
Idaho, has been sold to Pittsburg pa.
Standard Oil men for $4,000. 1t is as
serted that there is in sight ore to the
value Of of $500, 200.
The Union Pacific has agreed to carry
hay free to feed the starving cattle of thu
settlers of Camas Prairie, Idaho. Their,
is one bloated monopoly that is beginning
to cultivate SOUL
The Del Norte Record says the wate
} in Klaath river rose three feet higher las
Tuesday than it did in the Winter o
1862. Many houses are swept away ant
much stock was drowned.
A single mill at Ballard, Washington
will turn out 100000 shingles a day
Girls will be employed to pack the shin
giles in punches, and the price paid pc
thousand will enable them to earn So t
So SO day.
The three-shift system has been put il
operation at the San Quentin prison jut
MILL The guards are to remain on dut
from twelve 70 thirteen hours, and objec
to the Discrimination in favor of the con
victs.
The room of Governor Waterman a
the Glenwood Hotel, at Redding, was Ell
tered by burglar on the night of tn
18th, who secured 500 in money and tn
gold watch presented to the Governor b
the last Legislature.
A Chinese gardener of Tulare Cit
rents sixty acres of Joe la Marshe for $50
a year, with water supplied from an al
tesian we'll. The Chinaman last yea
sold $1,000 worth Of fruit and vegetable
that were raised on that small farm.
The Western Union sent $4,000 word
and 700 messages from Salt Lake tn
night of the election, and the work wa
7 done so well that that not single pape
failed to receive its matter Five opera
tors worked nearly all night.
. John Cooper, the young man who wa
to have married Miss Lou Baker of C,
lusa, but who left that town on the ola
his wedding was to have taken place. WI
. arrested at Butte City and brought bac
to Colusa Tuesday on a charge of breac
of promise to marry.
Says the Ontario Record: The Sa
Diego daily papers have recently purcha
ed marble quarry for the Kinda
Brothers of this city, and are now enc
getically developing the same-in the
: columns. The fact is the Kimball Brot
e ers have as yet made no such purchas
e but negotiations are pending.
Two years ago Seattle had only :
IS school teachers, whose combined salari
y amounted to $1,000; at present there a
o 6S teachers, with pay roll of 81 SO
and the authorities admit that all teac
ers are ovcrworked and all school roor
= overcrowded. These facts, better tn,