The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-01
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
4 Budget OF Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and Curly Told In this
Column.


the Valley road into Fresno at once.
The Oakland City Council has un-
passed the new milk ordi-
nance.
o. w. Winthrop was found guilty
Of robbing James Campbell, the Ha-
waiian millionaire.
Coal has been discovered ON the land
of the Salyonian Catholic colony in
Eden Valley, Mendocino county.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has offered to
donate farm at San Anselmo for the
use of the Presbyterian Orphanage and
Farm.
The Market-street system of street
cars in San Francisco will initiate
Portland by putting on sprinkling APP
pllances.
The Fifth International Irrigation
Congress will meet at PhRinx, A. T.,
in three-day' session. beginningl De.
cember 10Th.
Voting for Placer county's chrysan-
themum queen began September 9Th.
The fiesta will be held in Auburn
early in November.
Neither the library at the State
University nor the campus will be
lighted the coming year because of the
lack of money for running the dy-
namos.
Piper, Alden, Goodall & Co. say that
they are about ready to commence the
construction of the Alviso railroad
which is to connect that bay town with
San Jose.
Sacramento citizens will present a
testimonial to brave engineer Martin
J. Ingles, who saved his train by kill
ing the masked robber who was point
ing a pistol at his head.
The annual convention of the State
Teachers Association will be held in
San Jose beginning December 2Sth and
continuing three days. 1t is expected
that 1000 teachers will attend.
San Jose will have an election fol
the puporse of voting upon the issuance
of $4,000 worth of bonds for the
building of a new high school and
completing the main sewer.
A syndicate of Tacoma and Victoris
men have quietly built good-sizet
powder factory on the tide flats ad
joining the Puyallup Indian reservation
and have just begun operating it.
The demand for mining property il
improving conditions in Shasta anC
Siskiyou counties. Electric sspowe
will be used to run mills all along tn,
river, as wood is growing scarce.
The State Fair has attracted a grea
crowd of toughs to Sacramento, and a
the law now prohibits arrests merel,
ON suspicion, the footpads are terrorlz
ing people and cutting the harness Oh
family rigs.
Bandits made q raid ON the Mexican
custom house at Las Palomas, in tn
State of chihuahua, Mexico, but wer
driven off by the customs officials
Two bandits were killed outright, an
two officials MORALLY wounded.
An attempt was made to rob tn
safe in the Office of County Treasurer
William jackson, at Redidng, Shast
county, recently. The robbers wer
unsuccessful, as the vault had "tim
lock" and could not be opened.
Electric power is to be transmitte
from the summit of the Sierra to til
mother lode, and from that point to tn
city of Stockton, where the mountai
force will be utilized in industria
projects and for Illuminating purposes
The Master Bakers Association
at San Francisco, and representative
of wholesale flour dealers, have Ell
tered into an agreement by whic
credit is to be given only to member
of the association. This is to preve1
frauds.
The value of mortgages ON real an
personal :property in Napa county
SO, 1909, $50. The grand total of IL
assessed value Of the county as r
turned in financial statement pr
pared by County Auditor Deweese,
13,1S1,579.
The Associated Charities of San Jo'
intend to inaugurate the Pingree sy
tenn of farming to assist the many pc,
families who apply for aid. The u
of vacant lots and lands in or near Il
city will be solicited and turned in
vegetable gardens.
j. ]. Mccarthy. the alleged rim
leader of the First National Bank tn
nellers now under arresst in San Fra
cisco, says that he had nothing to I
with the job, although he admits ha
ing been in Los Angeles at the time
the attempted robbery.
The First Presbyterian Church
, Fresno has been destroyed by fir
: The origin of the firesis unknown, b
it is suspected to be incendiary for Il
/ reason that the First Baptist Churc
not 100 yards distant. and ON the san
/ block, was destroyed by fire less thu
six weeks ago. The loss will probab
reach $4,000.
The course on political Politics
to be given by Professor Harvey
Powers, is likely to be one of the me
popular at Stanford University on a
! count of its direct bearing on the pre-
! ent campaign. The subjects to
taken up in the class cover every pha
) of the political situation as express
in the platforms of the differe
! parties.
/ The President and Superintende
| of the Los Angeles Chamber of Coz
, merce, are in San Francisco for t
a purpose of making preliminary preps