The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-19
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

There are now 145 pupils enrolled
at the Indian school at Perris.
The people at Sespe, Ventura county,
will give free dinner TO all corners
on Thanksgiving.
A passenger train on the NJ. K. and
T. railway was held up and robbed
near Alvarado, Texas, a few nights
ago.
The Hartman Fish Company shipped
10000 pounds of halibut and 1000
pounds of white fish from San Pedro
recently.
Lancaster people object to the S. p.
railroads habit Of letting tramps board
trains at Mojave. only to put them off
at Lancaster.
DR.. Roblee has been engaged by the
school trustees Of Riverside to lecture
to the city teachers upon the subject
of physical culture.
The citizens of Ensenada have con-
tributed and forwarded $4I6 for the
relief of the sufferers from the floods
in the state of Sinaloa.
Col. O. ]. Crewe-Read, manager of
the Mexican Land and Colonization
company at Ensenada, has been ap-
pointed British vice-consul at that
place.
Owing to cloudburst q. p. Ely and
a party Of hunters had narrow escape
from drowning near Los Flores recent
/ ly. The camp was washed away and
all had to swim for their lives.
A petition was circulated i'll Ocean.
side recently for signatures favoring
the expenditures of $400 for securing
expert investigation of the San Luis
Rey river above Pala as a source of
water supply.
Postmaster g eneral Wilson has
given out report. ION the operations of
the mail railway service during the
past fiscal year. 1t shows that the
expenditures for the mail transporta-
ton, inland and foreign, was 4,423,
932, an increase of over one and a half
million dollars over the previous year.
Riverside School District, Riverside
county, holds an election on 18th OF
November to vote upon the assurance OF
$4,000 per cent school bonds. This
election is the second one for the same
issue of bonds. By reason of techni'
cal error in the blanks furnished by the
State, the first election was declared
invalid.
Carlos Martyr, Jr., son of the Rev
Carlos Martyr, known as the Park
hurst Of Chicago" was held to answer
in the Police Court in Los Angeles re
Gently in the sum of $4,000 to answer
to a charge of obtaining money undel
false pretenses. He represented tina
he had fallen heir to vast fortune il
Washington, D. c., and succeeded il
victimizing number of people by get
ting them to indorse worthless checks
The Very Rev. G. Rubio, NJ. A., o
Ventura, has resigned his parish Their
and has been succeeded by Fathe
Scannell of Pasadena. The vacanc,
caused by the transfer of Father Scan
nell will be filled by Rev. B. F. Far
reilly of Visalia, and it Is thought b
the congregation over which he is t
preside that new church edifioe will
be one Of the first things undertake.
by the parish after the new incumben
. is we'll settled.
4 Governor B. J.lFranklin, of Ari
l iona. has arrived in Washington, d. G.
/ and in his annual report shows tina
s the total mining output of the territor
q for the last year was $l3,97S, 26S
OF this amount gold aggregated So
200, 900, exclusive of about $500, 90
taken by prospectors and placer miners
The total increase for the year is $940
900 The total product of gold, silve
and copper in Arizona for the twent
years ended June 30 last aggregate
$127, 1861 The cattle shipment
: from the territory from January
: 1894, to June 30, 1896. reached 90, 81
: head. The territorial board of return
, show that the value of taxable propert
n has gained half million dollars dul
s ing the year and conservative me-
d claim the actual valuation to be 500
= 100000.
. A scene ON the wharf at Redond
> was enacted recently that undoubtedl
caused number of the men workin
It on the wharf to add few gray hairs
d One of the men while carrying DO
!, of dynamite, dropped it; those VIII
/, were acquainted with the contents {
i the box, seeing the accident, mad
S tracks as rapidly as their legs woul
! carry them, others not knowing wins
d the trouble was, joined in the run;
Q was a case of follow the leader.
moment the wharf was totally d.
serted; the men finally realized this
: the danger was over and returned
: their various duties, some frightene
. but still in the ring. 1t was indee
fortunate that the dynamite did mt
!, explode as the men would never hay
had a chance to escape and the loss
: life and damage would have been tie
8 rible.
a In Demand.