The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-20
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Budget OF Miscellaneous lettings
Briefly and CURLY Told in this
Column.

grapes and apples.
High prices caused by short vintage
are enabling wine-merchants to get rid
of their old stock.
There is talk of building modern
hotel near the back OF Alta, a mountain
hamlet near Sacramento.
Orange Wales early Crawford peaches
are unusually large, some measuring
1917 inches in circumference.
The Salvation army will begin Pin.
gree town.lot farming in San Francisco
before the winter rains set in.
The Folsom water power is carrying
more power to greater distance than
has been attempted by the plant at
Niagara. H.
San Francisco proposes to have at
her coming home product fair an X-ray
department where people may see their
own skeletons.
San Diego has shipped north another
big cargo of lemons. This is over
64S5 boxes for July alone, or nearly
$4,000 boxes so far for 1896.
The new opera-house at Pomona
will cost $1,000, and the first floor will
be used as an armory by Company d,
National Guard of California.
Santa Clara grants the use of her
plaza for camping purposes. with free
lights and water. to Company E, First
Infantry N. g. c., next month.
All of the space in the Mechanics
Pavilion, San Francisco, has been
taken by exhibitors, who propose to
make the exposition the finest ever held
in the west.
San Francisco's meat inspector urges
that they initiate Eastern civilization
by prohibiting the hanging of meats
outside of butcher shops, which is dan
gerous to the peoples health.
Governor Budd finds that Agnews
asylum is conducted on an economical
and humane basis, and that there is no
other institution of the kind in the
State where the per capita is SO low.
The South Yuba company's dam at
Clipper Gap will be Of rock and earth,
and is to be completed by November.
1t will food forty acres and the capa-
city is estimated at 1000, 900 gallons.
2. d. Johns, of visalia, has in oper-
alton there an invention for dipping
and cleansing prunes, which he has
patented. 1t takes one less man to
operate than the old contrivances, and
is far quicker.
An old burying mound at Sausalito,
which is being cut through by street
contractor, yields many skulls.
Thrifty residents are carting the relics
off for chicken feed, as it makes the
hens lay better. -
The Sunset Oil Company's refinery
at Fresno will be ready for active
operation in few days. The capacity
of the refinery is 1000 gallons per day.
The raw product is obtained from the
Coalinga oil wells, and is transported
to the refinery by rail.
The Fourth street electric road is the
last piece of construction work the
Market Street Company will undertake
in San Francisco this year. The com.
pany announces that it will leave the
change of Montgomery, Sansome and
Post streets till next year.
Captain Erskine died July 22d in
Missoula, Mont. He was SO years old
and was one of the argonauts of Cali
fornia, going to the gold fields in 1S47.
He was prominent in the political
affairs of early California, and was
one OF the famous Sheriffs of those
days.
District Attorney Seawell, of Santa
Rosa, has filed an opinion that the
educational qualification of the Consti-
tutional amendment in relation to the
registration of voters does not apply to
persons who had the right to vote
when the amendment was passed, No.
vember 6. 1894.
The First Baptist Church of Fresno,
one of the finest church buildings in
Fresno, was totally destroyed by fire
one day last week. The fire was
undoubtedly of incendiary origin,
as there were no evening services being
held and a passer-by claims to have
seen a man running away from the
building ut the call of fire.
There is revival of the talk that
the Santa Fe Railway Company intends
to build long wharf at South Santa
Monica and thus be in line for oceanic
business. The latest name for South
Santa Monica is Ocean Park, and it is
said to be splendid point for receiv.
ing and discharging merchandise.
Hereafter no application for
diploma will be received by the State
Board OF Education unless the certifi.
cate accompanying it, if n renewed
one, shows the date of renewal upon
it. The Board will recognize certif-
Gates issued on educational diplomas
when they are of the same grade as the
diploma npon which the certificate is
issued.
Information has been received that
construction work on the ella Valley.
Globe and Northern Railroad would
be resumed very soon and the road
built TO San Carlos this fall. presi-
dent Garland and Secretary Laird are
both in Los Angeles, where the CON-
pany is erecting Offices and arranging
for the early commencement of con-
sfruction work.
It develops that naturalized Japan
sse. now employed at the quarantine
station of San Diego bay, was formerly
a school-mate Of the japanese digni-