The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-17

800 for the best county exhibit.
It is estimated that the orange CROP
of Southern California will fill about
5000 cars
Very fine corn is being raised on a
San Jacinto mountain ranch. 1000 feet
above the sea.
The clergymen of Butte. Mont, are
inaugurating war on the gambling
houses in that city.
Irving NJ. Scott has given splendid
silk banner as challenge trophy for
San Francisco regattas.
1t costs Riverside county $I5.75 for
every man brought in from the desert
district to serve term for vagrancy.
A great find of ambergris on the
beach near Guadeloupe turned out to
be butter from the wrecked steamer
st. Paul.
Several San Francisco schools are
closed because of diphtheria, and to
find if the sanitary appliances need inn
provement.
Sousa, the famous bandmaster, will,
in the near future, make tour through
the Unitd States, getting as far west
as California.
Earthquake shocks were experienced
at Portland. Or, recently. The shal-
ings were sufficiently sharp to awaken
people from their sleep.
George Riley Perkins, an old citizen
of Petaluma, died at his home there
November gath. He was native of
Vermont, and was born in 1908.
A quietus has been put on the at
tempt to make wholesale change in
street names in Los Angeles. The
Landmarks Club took up the matter.
Specimens Of redwood timber ON ex-
hibition in Sacramento represent
bear and dog, the figures being as
oearly delineated rs if done by an
artist.
Lindsay orchardists must have a rail
road outlet for their harvests. They
talk of building an electric line to
Fresno if the. Valley road does not go
their way.
G. j. Armstrong, of Petaluma, kills
on an average of nine horses week
for chicken feed, using considerable
himself, and disposing of the remainder
to neighbors.
William Greer Harrison walked fifty
miles on his sixtieth birthday. He
left San Francisco at 9 a. IN. and
arrived at the Hotel Vendome, San
Jose, at II p. m.
cloud-burst at San Pedro, a few
nights ago, almost swept the little
town into the ocean. Many buildings
foated from their sites and the damage
to property caused by the flood was
great.
The City Council Of Tacoma has
fixed the amount of the tax levy for
next year at eleven mills. Receipts
from the light and water plant will
add materially to the sum raised by
the levy.
Colonel William r. Shafter, COM
handing officer of the First Infantry
Regiment, United States Army, has a
ranch in Kern county, on which he
will locate when he retires from the
service.
A man known as Indian Jake is ON
trial at Fresno for the murder of his
two-year-old stepson. The prisoner is
a medicine man, and seemed to
think that he could not be held ac- ,
countable
The three engineering clubs at Stan. ,
ford will together publish an enign Or.
ing journal at the close of each semes. ,
ter, presenting the best reports deliv. |
cred before the engineering students in
the various societies.
The Legislature will be asked to t
amend the police pension act, so as to I
cover the case Of Chief Crowley of San ]
Francisco and abolish the condition {
that an officer must be sixty years OF I
age before he can get pension ON re. a
firing. G
Preparations are being made to bore q
for oil in the Chino hills. A we'll z
was sunk number of years ago. but {
abandoned before it was deep enough =
to yeach oil strata. 1t is believed that !
the Puente oil district extends into the G
Chino hills.
The foundation of Moreno dam is
completed mp to within eight feet of
the surface of the stream, ard TINS
placed practically out of danger of S
heavy floods. The Otay dam is IN t
to the 9S-foot level, and will BIO fin. n
ished up to the l06-foot level December o
LIST. !,
The Railroad Commission Will inves. a
tigate refrigerator cars for the purpose d
OF ascertaining its Jurisdiction over 1
them, and the Southern Pacific Com. q
pany maintains that these cars ara n
used for interstate commerce and has k
consequently beyond the commissioner V
reach. n
A Sacramento Grand Jury recon-. o
nends that an..amendment to the con- o
be submitted to the next y
Legislature SO as to provide that three.
ourths of the members of jury may
Ind verdict in criminal cases. The K
ury also urges that the liquor license t
q Sacramento county be raised from a
80 to $50 quarter. b
The Matching trays in the State Fish !
latchery at Clakamas. Oregon. re- =
entity became polluted with poisoned i
'ator and 600, 900 young salmon were Q
rstroyed. A total OF ! 900 900 fish 81
I've persisted in a similar manner dur
g the past month. An Investigation
III probably be instituted BY the Ok
Dderai authorities. ia