The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-29
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
Budget Of Miscellaneous Jottlngs
Briefly and curtly Told in this
Column.

The killing of Farmer ID. H. Will
son of Suisun, is still mystery.
Four desperate burglars have es-
capped from Jail at Vancouver, b. {.
The California State Grange will
meet next time in Santa Rosa. October
A, 1897.
The Bank Commission is securing n
brief history of every bank in the State
OF California.
William Linehan was sentenced to
life imprisonment by Judge Wallace
of San Francisco the other day.
The will of John de Lacy, steward
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Gaelic,
has been filed for probate. He left
property valued at 81 900 to his three
sisters and their children.
A magnificent brick and stone quad
rangular building is soon to be erected
at Menlo Park by the Mesdames of the
Sacred Heart for a select boarding col
lege for young ladies. 1t will be one
of California's largest educational in
situations.
After lapse of several years, wild
animals seem again to have made their
home in the timber around Slohomish,
Washington. Several large bears and
cougars have been killed. Considera-
BILE stock has been destroyed and chill
dren have been attacked in the suburbs.
The Farmers Warehouse Companys
corrugated iron hay warehouse, at
Livermore, has been destroyed by fire,
and is total loss. Over 1000 tons
of baled hay were in the building.
The loss is estimated to be over $780,
900, and insurance about $4,000
divided among several companies
The hay belonged to the farmers.
The largest local shipping concern
in the northern end of Central Califor-
mia, the Cooperative Fruit Company,
has been compelled to close its doors
and filed petition in insolvency. Its
business has extended from the Pacific
to the Atlantic and from Canada to
Mexico. Late frosts and untimely
rains are said to be the cause of the
failure.
Next year Santa Barbara will not
have her annual floral festival. This
has been definitely decided upon by the
Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara
Floral Festival Association. The main
reasons for this action are that similar
festivities are common to many Cali
fornia cities and that tourists delay
visiting the city until festival week,
and leave Immediately after.
The Southern Pacific Aailroad Com.
pany has been fined. This action was
taken at meeting OF the Pacific Coast
Passenger Association. held in Seattle,
Washington. The penalty was i'm
posed because of cut in fares, which
the company made in Oregon. IL is
said that the cut was in the nature of
retaliation for the northern lines
going into Southern Pacific territory.
Gen. T. H. Goodman, long asso-
ciated with the Southern Pacific Rail
road as the head of its passenger de-
partment, is reported to be lying on
his death bed in San Francisco. Dur
ing his service in the war he contracted
chronic rheumatism and has ever since
that time been an almost constant
sufferer from it, and it is the culmina-
ton of this trouble which now threat
ems his life.
Inquiries from European houses
regarding dried fruit are still received
by the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce. The demand is for the best,
and is due partially to the low price of
fruit, but more directly to the recent
concessions made by the railroads to
place California fruit in Europe at
nearly the same price as they land it
in New York. A good foreign trade
has thus been built up.
w. Bayard Cutting, the New York
multi-millionaire. has invested in Cal.
ifornia lands. The property purchased
by him consists of 1000 acres in the
Chino ranch. The sale was made by
Easton, Eldridge & Co., the price paid
being $3.50. 900. The sale was the re-
suit OF Cuttings recent California trip.
The land is beet sugar land, Mr.. Cut.
ting being largely interested in sugar
interests throughout the United States.
The mountain fires have again
started in the Sierra Madres. This
last outbreak is something of mys-
terry, and it is even charged that some
of the men employed by the County
Supervisors of Los Angeles to extin-
guish the fires are responsible for their
renewal, so that they might not be out
of work. This appears to be I'M
founded, however. If the fire is not
soon extinguished, the whole front
range, Alpine tavern and Mount Lowe
railway will be destroyed.
The net returns from the late Home
Products Fair. recently held in San
Francisco, are estimated to be $1,000.
The gross revenues were $35 900, and
the expenses about $2S, 900. The
agreement with the Manufacturers
Association was that the organization
should receive PERCENTAGE on all net
profits in excess of $4,000. The
profits this year were larger, relatively,
chan for any fair during the last four
years. The s5-cent admission cut the
revenue in two. but largely increased
the attendance, which is estimated at
100000.
The Stanford mansion. in San Fran
cisco, with frescoes by Italian masters.
marble columns, and other wonderful
bric-a-brac, has. for two weeks, been
imminent danger Of burning up.
II was decided to re-paint the outside
OF the house. The old paint first had
to be removed. and to do this a paint
burner" is used. With this appliance,
tho old paint is blistered and cracked
50 that il Is easily removed by scrap
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