The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-12-06
COAST NE VS.

competed.
Ice on the Boca pond has now reached
depth Of eight inches. and still grow
ing.
A company has been organized at Van.
couver, b. c., to engage in the sealing
business. 1t has $500, 600 capital stock.
The Beardsley Canal, in Kern county,
is being widened to feet on the bot.
tom.
L. L. Blochman of Santa Maria /
raising 5000 lavender plants for extract.
ing oil for perfumery.
A pocket was struck in the Splitter
mine, near San Jacinto, San Diego coun.
ty, recently that yielded So, 900 in two
hours
The Mount Diablo Vineyard Com.
pany's winery and distillery at Clayton,
Contra Costa county, has been seized for
illicit distilling,
Father Horton, who laid out the town
of San Diego, and is now 20 years Of age.
was married last Friday to Mrs. Knapp.
lady 45.
John Garrison, an old miner, who lived
in small cabin near Canyon City, Or,
was burned to death recently. The fire
was incendiary.
The editor of the Auburn Republican
offers his stock Of poultry for sale. His
pursuit Of news has left him little time
to chase truant hens over the placer hills.
Thomas vickers, the young English.
man who murdered an old man at Alviso
on August "a, has been sentenced to San
Quentin for thirty-6ve years.
Ralph Avery of Dull Jura, San Diego
county, Saturday was caught in the act Of
preparing his Agar. child for sacri.
fee. Religious excitement had crazed
him.
Dr. Hoffman of Spring Valley, San
Diego county, believes in irrigation. He
has just completed storage reservoir
that impounds 100000 gallons of
water,
Two firms at Anaheim have shipped
l2S tons Of walnuts this season. At nine
cents pound the price paid growers
thus means $4,000 in their bank
accounts.
Fresno county is larger than Massa.
chusetts by 81 square miles, and is 63S
square miles larger than New Jersey.
The Republican says the county can
easily support 500, 900 people.
Eastern Oregon and Washington are
loudly complaining Of their inability to
get the crops to market, owing to short.
age of rolling stock, The warehouses
and elevators along the road are full.
The Redondo Beach Compass says,
Fish have been SO plentiful that the mar.
ket is glutted and fish are given away.
The finest smelt have gone begging at
four cents pound the past week.
An 8.year.old son of ex.Sheriff Dean Of
Lane county, Oregon, found a derringer
pistol the other day and took it to bed.
During the night it went off, and the boy
was dangerously wounded in the thigh.
The people of Willows, Colusa county,
have paid up all their city taxes, and the
city officers can now go fishing. Such .
thing has not happened before in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant.
At Seven Lakes. in the Gallinas noun
tains, N. NJ, four sheep-iierders were
killed recently by hail.storm. Sixteer
others and 600 head of sheep are miss.
ing. The hail.storm in the mountains
was the severest that was ever known.
Sonoma is much excited over the post
ing of printed notices rejecting upon
couple of young ladies, daughters Of tn
proprietess of an italian hotel in tina
town, who are greatly respected. Th
author of the placards will be summaril.
dealt with if he is found.
The New Era, published at Alturas
Modoc county, CAL, says We ran thi
campaign paper for glory this trip
and got left on the glory, and cash, too
Well know better next time. Gentle
men will put up for any favors receives
through this paper hereafter, and deat
beats need not apply at all.
A tenderfoot who recently located il
Orange county, Cal, was asked b,
neighbor if he knew how to cure qua
vas. The tenderfoot replied that h
never had it, but if it was anythin
worse than the grip" or the lager h
wanted to know the remedy right away
Sixteen Chinese were sent from Stock
ton to the Copperopolis Mining Distric
one day last week to take the places Q
white miners, but the whole camp unite
in showing the Chpsse the way back
No one was molested, but the order t
getout Of camp was peremptory.
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