The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-04
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information From All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Budget OF miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CURLY Told In this
Column.

Eight prize.winners will form the
track team that Stanford University Is J
to send East.
staff Captain Mcintyre of the Saliva
ton Army in this State has been
promted by the new commander to be
major.
Henry b. Alvord and James w.
Findlay have been appointed receivers
of the First-street Railway Company OF
San Jose.
The Oil Exchange of Los Angeles
has advanced the price OF oil to $l.lS
a barrel. 1t is expected that the price
will soon reach $l.s5.
The keel of the United States
revenue cutter Golden Gate was laid
at Seattle recently. The vessel is to be
stationed at San Francisco.
The third whale of the season has
been captured in Monterey Bay. IL
dragged a boat through the water at
the rate of thirty miles an hour.
A party has been at work taking up
the abandoned railroad track in Teme-
cula CANYON to use in extending the
line from San Jacinto to Lake View.
The directors of the blind home at
Oakland have decided to add ham
mocks and pushbrooms to the materials
already manufactured there with sue
cess. This will add materially to the
incoroa aay.ned nv inmates
w. H. Wright, fellow in mathe-
mates at the State University, who re-
Gently left to pursue advanced studies
in the University of Chicago, has been
appointed fellow in astronomy in the
Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Py-
thias, of the State of Washington, con-
vened last week in Seattle, being the
thirteenth annual meeting of the order.
In the parade over 1000 Knights were
in line. The session lasted four days.
The French National League at San
Francisco offers to donate its library
of II 900 volumes to the city on condi-
ton that a separate French library
room be Sc. aside and the name Biblio-
theque Franchise be placed over the
door.
State Bank Examiners J. b. Fuller
and Paris Kilburn, have reported that
the Oakland banks are in exceptionally
good condition and that they outrank
most of the institutions of their kind
in cities the size of Oakland through
out the State.
The largest known oak tree in the
world is growing on the ranch of Gen.
Bidwell at Chico. The late Gen.
William t. Sherman estimated that
1000 men could stand ON the area in
closed within a circle drawn around
the extreme points of its extended
boughs.
Judge Campbell of San. Bernardino
has decided that. no new registration
is necessary in that county, and it
would cost from $4,000 to $4,000. But
meanwhile the supervisors had ordered
the register Cancelled. The Issue of a
supplemental register will cost but a
few hundred dollars.
The Chamber of Commerce of Ia.
coma has called upon the commercial
bodies of Washington to take action
looking to the collection of material
for permanent exhibition in the
international Museum at Philadelphia.
Washington has been chosen to repre-.
sent the West in the museum.
William Kincaid at Santa Barbara
has invented continuance to be at.
tached to mast lights at the intersec.
ton of streets, and which shuts the
light off from surrounding lots, where
it is not desired, and sends four power.
full beams in the nature of searchlights
down the streets. By it fine news
paper print can be read two blocks
distant.
The survey vessel Gedney has re-
turned from San Miguel island, WHERE
Cuyler's harbor has been undergoing 9
new survey for the purpose of ascer
tanning the extent of the changes caused
by the eruption year ago. Sounding,
revealed no material alterations in the
bottom, but the shore line ON the west
side will require new chart to indi
cate the variations caused by the up
heaval.
The Medford Business College il
Oregon was Quilted by fire by the over
turning of a lamp in the room of {
male student while the young mar
was arranging the covers on his bed
The lamp exploded and he had to rul
for his life, leaving all of his belong
ings to the flames. About half of tn,
furniture in the rooms was saved. Tn,
loss expceeds $4,000, said to be full,
insured.
Following is the official list of tn,
number Of sealskins taken by the var
ious schooners reported at Port Town
send and given out by United State
Inspector Fowler: Eppinger, 1851
Columbia, 244; Boring Sea, 22S; Jessie
14O; Teazer, 1877; Swan, 12l; Deehaks
So; C. G. Perkins. 80; Puritan, "a
Total, 2,872. This is the lightes
catch reported for many years.
The Christian Endeavorers have bee
holding an enthusiastic State Conven
ton in San Jose. Secretary Merrill
report showed that the total member
ship had increased 5000. The tota
membership is 54,245, of whom IL,
900 are juniors. The treasurer's repor
was read by e. G. Gilbert of Oakland
and showed q small balance on hand
Miss B. p. Mason, superintendent Of
Junior work, showed the junior branch
10 be in fiourishing condition.
Sqirrels are dying off by the thousands
In Whitman county, Oregon. The
diseaae that kills off the pest is not