The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-09
ALONG Tile COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Budget Of miscellaneous Jottings
Brisny and Curly Told in this
Column.

Column.
Pomona has organized an auxiliary
humane society.
John G. Otto, ex-Mayor of Gilroy,
died June 23d, after long illness.
Forty.tiye cars of wheat have been
shipped from Tluare already this sea-
son.
Santa Barbara has voted to annex
the kindergarten to its public school
system.
A steamer recently arrived at Re-
dondo with $3.50, 900 shingles on
board. n. ~
st, fs.l,s.. =. hasch, Ane of the fines,
buildings in Sonoma, was burned to the
ground.
Salinas is having building boom.
Several brick buildings are in course
of erection.
Palm valley, Riverside county, is
first in the field again this year with
ripe grapes.
The Portland authorities have found
that Chinese lepers have been selling
vegetables there.
A fire in the dry grass at Palo Alto
for time threatened the Stanford I'm
iversity buildings.
The contract for building an addi-
ton to the Union High school at Red
lands has been let for 81 900.
DR.. Y. C. Blalock, of Walla Walla
has been elected grand master of the
Washington Grand Lodge of Masons.
Yaquina bay is expecting to have a
salmon cannery put up there this sea-
son by prominent Columbia river
packer.
San Bernardino's postal business for
the fiscal year ending June LIST was
$4,000, or $4,000 more than the pre-.
ceding year.
The Albany, Or, creamery recently
had to return an order for 5000 pounds
of butter, having orders for 1000
pounds in advance.
The advent into Carson of travel
stained California bicyclist caused a
stir few days ago. He was mistaken
for Murderer Durham.
The Landmarks Club and the Camera
Club of Southern California have
united in their efforts to preserve the
old adobes of that section.
The regents of the university have
decided to hold fifty rural meetings in
California to bring the college profes'
d farmers together.
ermen are finding that thu
r river, between Marysville. ant
lie is the best stocked stream il
....o.les of fish in the State.
Professor Edward Snyder of the Uni
versity Of Illinois, who spent severa'
seasons at La Jolla, has returned to re
side permanently at San Diego.
A party has left Reno to capture {
gang Of horse thieves which has beer
operating in that section, and who ar,
believed to be making for Oregon.
The fish commission has started A
G. Fletcher off to Yosemite, where h
will distribute 500, 900 young trout il
the lakes and streams of that locality.
The wrecked Blairmore has beef
raised from her muddy bed in Sal
Francisco bay and towed half mil
inshore. She was righted and pumpe,
out.
The business men of Salinas City ar
spending thousands of dollars cement
ing and bitumenizing Main street
The bitumen comes from mine nea
King City.
When the next Legislature meet
Labor Commissioned Fitzgerald will
endeavor to secure the passage of hal
a dozen bills affecting the laborinl
community.
There is plan on foot to have tw
big excursions from Los Angeles Il
Santa Barbara this summer. Tn
Santa Barbara Board of Trade is dis
cussing how to entertain the visitors.
The wooden flooring of the Stat
capitol building is being torn up pre-
paratory to the laying of tiles. TIL
contract for constructing the new
municipal building has been awarde,
to Shea & Shea.
The San Diego Chamber of Com
merce has appointed a committee OF
good roads and local improvements
The object is to encourage the forma
ton Of local improvement clubs al
over the county.
The quartz mill at the Vanderbilt
mine, near Snow creek, Maripos,
county, was totally destroyed by fir
Recently. Loss, between $4,000 an,
$4,000. 1t is thought that the fire wa
of incendiary origin.
The San Mateo and Pescadero stag
was held up at Crystal Springs dam
few days ago. Ed. Campbell, tn
driver, put the whip to the horses an
ran away from the lone robber. Tn
highwayman shot five times at tn
driver.
Judge Conlan. of San Francisco, dis
missed the case Of Abraham Green
jeweler, charged with felony embezzle
nent by J. H. Berry, miner. Their
was sensational scene in court cause
by Berry making a move as if to dray
a revolver.
The City Guard Club, of San Fran
cisco, composed of members of Com
pany B, the Oldest National Guar
Company in the State, celebrated it
forty second anniversary with ban
quet in which music and toasts wer
generously interspersed.
The fishemen's strike at Astoria ha
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