The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-25
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A budget Of Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and curtly Told In this
Column.

Lee Blasingame, who was shot near
Fresno recently, is recovering.
John Campbell, merchant, dropped
dead in street car in San Jose.
The Native Sons of San Diego have
bought bear cub to be used as mas
cot.
United States Senator Squire is en-
deavoring to secure Chinese Consul
late for Seattle.
Reports from Perris are to the effect
that mining affairs are more active
than for months before.
The colored people of Fresno will
celebrate Emancipation day June lSth'
by picnic at Woods Grove, on the
San joaquin river.
Harry L. Coyne, convicted OF at.
tempting to blow up the residence OF
T. d. Stimson, in Los Angeles, was
sentenced to five years at Folsom.
The Los Angeles Fire Commissioners
have refused to allow the engines and
apparatus of the department to make
part in the Fourth of July parade.
q The Riverside motor train jumped the
track and tipped over when rounding
a curve near Cotton, June I'd. The
passengers were all more or less bruised
Forty bnods, aggregating $4,000,
issued to construct the sewerage sys-
tenn of Ukiah, have been sold to G. ID.
Vincent of Oakland, at a premium OF
per cent.
Three street mail cars will be in
operation in San Francisco by the
latter part of July. They are now be-
ing built by the Market-street Railway
Company.
A Moreno rancher is the first in
Riverside county to experiment with
the Lady Rusk strawberry. A num-
Der of the first crop measure over hve
inches in circumference.
Fishermen at work on the Columbia
river were fired OH by unknown men,
thought to be strikers, concealed be-
hind an ambuscade. Intense excite
ment prevails at Astoria over this and
other recent assaults.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald is
the recipient of very handsomely
framed testimonial from the employees
of the San Mateo Railroad Company
in recognition of services he had rem
dered them in the past
There will he soyeral uueens in the
San Francisco carnival. One will be
crowned ON California day, another on
San Francisco day and an empress may
be chosen from among those who have
figured as queens in interior Fiestas.
Hall Brothers of Port Blakeley, have
laid the keel for the first five-masted
schooner ever built ON the Pacific
Coast. 1t is being constructed for Cap
tain Birkhoern, a well-known Puget
Sound shipmaster. When finished the
craft will carry 100000 feet of lum-
Der.
The foreclosure sale of the Seattle,
Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad,
made recently in Seattle for 81 900 900
by Eben Smith, master in chancery,
was confirmed by Federal Judge Han
ford, and an order signed apportioning
buO AuOAcy duIOlS 1ho SAOuiVolsJ thO
Indebtedness being about So, 100000
Governor Budd has requested the
various State institutions to insert the
following clauses in all schedules for
supplies No goods will be accepted
that are made by convict labor outside
of the State of California" Preference
will be given to goods manufactured in
California, price and quality to be con-
sidered.
The initial step in move for good
roads throughout the State was taken
when the rock-crushing plant at Fol-
som prison was formally opened. The
Bureau of Highways and Prison Direc.
tors provided special train from Sac
ramento to convey their invited guests
to Folsom, and some 800 representative
men of Northern California were pres
emit.
The annual cleanup of the San Fran.
cisco mint will be made from June 10
to July Q, when the whole place will
be gone over, from the floors and
sweepings to the fiues in the melting
antl refining rooms. The Innings of the
furnaces are torn out and ground up to
get the gold that has gone up in vapors,
and carpets are burned to get the filings
that may fall in the adjusting rooms.
The firm of Sisson, Croker g. Co.
will build railroad from Upton TO
the McCloud river. Mr.. Cooley is now
in the field surveying the road. They
have already bought their rails and are
ready to commence grading. The road
will run along the upper side of the
town of Sisson between there and
Mount Shasta and will cross the noun.
tain right opposite Mott, about where
the wagon road crosses.
Nothing but the cool weather now
prevailing in Willamette Valley pre-.
vents the water from flooding Front
street, Portland. Should the weather
turn warmer for two or three days il
is safe to predict that the water will
reach Third street cellars. Bushes,
men have been moving all goods from
the lower floors in anticipation of q
flood. The river is twenty-one feet
above low tide, and some damage is
being caused along the waterfront.
A disastrous fire occurred in the oil
district OF Los Angeles entailing loss
of $500 barrels of oil which, with
other property destroyed, brings its
damage close to 100000 At one
time IL looked as though the entire
oil district would be wiped out, but
through the prompt action of the fire.
men. aided by the men from the oil