The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information From All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Budget OF Miscellaneous Jotting'
Briefly and CURLY Told in this
Column.

his Office at Stockton.
Tehama county will have one of the
biggest grain crops this year that she
has seen for many season.
County Assessor Dalton of Oakland
has found $1,000, 900 worth of unas-
sessd property in the Oakland banks.
Commencement exercises of the State
Normal School at LOST Angeles took
place recently. There were sixty-one
graduates.
Near San Jose 200-acre wheat field
has crop standing quite six feet
high, and its owner has had section
of it photographed.
The California Editorial Association
will have its summer outing on Cata-
lima Island this year, the dates being
July 25 to 81 inclusive.
The Suffer Canning and Packing
Company has purchased the boiler from
the old Yuba City planning mill, and
are putting it in place on their prem
ises.
Many crops in Modoc will be larger
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prospect for grain was never better.
Some of the farmers have commenced
haying.
Secretary of State Lewis H. Brown
has gone to visit Eastern State institu-
tions, with the view of perfecting
system of economic methods Of conduct
ing all asylums, etc.
The Long Beach Chautauqua Assem-
bly, meets on the 14th and lasts to the
gath. The Southern California Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference meets on
July Gath and lasts to August 3D..
A life saving crew at Fort Candy. ON
the lower Columbia river, saved two
fishermen from drowning, after
heroic struggle, in which the rescuers
narrowly missed being drowned.
Secretary James H. Culver Of the
Mechanics Institute, is expected to
succeed Prof. L. A. Buchanan, re-
signed, as principal of the Cogswell
Polytechnic College at San Francisco.
A force of five men of the engineer
corps of the Southern Pacific is work.
ing between Riverside and Cotton, and
will then be engaged in locating line
south to Riverside and even on to
Corona.
The United States government has
instructed the internal revenue depart
ment of California that henceforth it
will be legal to make brandy from
pears, apricots, pineapples, oranges,
prunes and berries.
Dan M. Murphy, the young San Jose
millionaire, who returned to San Jose
the other day from a trip to Mexico,
astonished his friends by bringing home
q bride, whom he married over year
ago at Los Angeles.
The National Christian Endeavor
Convention in session at Washington,
D. G. has voted to have next years
session in San Francisco. This will
bring about $4,000 delegates, and
probably $4,000 visitors.
The demand for crushed rock for
macadam work, from the new State
plant at Folsom, is so great that the
crusher is over sixty days behind with
Its orders. 1t is probable that second
crusher will have to be put in.
President Sonoda of the Yokohama
Specie bank, who is en- route to London
to arrange for receiving the next in
stallment of the war indemnity from
China, predicts great increase of trade
between the United States and Japan.
The pastors of San Francisco's Con-
gregational club take pains to deny the
report that the death of Rev. Il. P.
Baker in canyon of the Santa Cruz
mountains was caused by bicycle
riding on Sunday. He was walking
when he fell.
Elias L. Palmer, one of the Oldest
II not the oldest-man in Shasta
county, died at his home near Ander-
son, recently. He was past seventy-two
years old and was the father of Rev.
DIR. Ray Palmer, the well-known min
lister and public speaker.
T. J. Stephens, who was arrested in
Los Angeles on suspicion of having
been implicated in the attempt to rob
the First National Bank, has been re.
leased. He proved that he had been
sick in bed for ten weeks, and threatens
big suit against the city for false
imprisonment.
Owing to the failure Of the South.
ern Pacific Company to make suitable
arrangements with the Usen Kaisha
Steamship Company of Japan, that
company was dissuaded from establish.
ing trans-Pacitic steamship line be.
tween Yokohama and San Francisco.
Rear Admiral William Evashinsoff
OF the Russian navy, is at San Fran
cisco to enlist $3.50, 900 capital to estab-
lish salmon fishing and canning in
dustry ON Avisha bay. for which the
Gar has granted him ten-years' con.
cession. The Admiral's wife is an
American.
The movement to lay pipe line
from the new oil fields ON the west
side of the county to Fresno, distance
of sixty-five miles, has begun to take
form. A company largely composed
of Eastern men has filed articles of
incorporation with subscribed capital
of $500, 900, for the purpose of boring
a large number of wells, piping oil to
Fresno and building refinery there.
Rev. FIR. Fernandez, whose funeral
took place at Oakland the other day,
was known as the miner priest. He
was Portuguese and came to Califor-
MIA twenty-six years ago, at the age of Z