The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-10
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A summary OF Late Events THAT Are
Boiled Down To suit our Busy
Renders.

The fumigation of orange trees is now
optional with Riverside county grow
ers.
Students of the Alameda Art League
are making display of original poster
designs.
About $500 cases of olive oil will be
shipped this year from Ellwood. The
cases contain one dozen quart bottles
each.
Arizona bandits are surrounded by
the United States Marshals and it is
expected that no quarter will be given
ON either side.
MontereyaC City has sued David Jacks
and forty other defendants for 10000
acres of land granted when Mexico
was in possession.
From the present appearances every
county in the San joaquin valley ex-
cept Kern, will be represented at the
Fresno citrus fair.
The City Council of Los Angelo has
decided to rename about seventy-five
streets and avenues. This action calls
out some lively protests.
Phil Francis, the former editor of
the Santa Cruz Penny Press, has
started new paper in that city which
he calls Phil Francis Note Book.
The hills around Idaho City, are
covered with several inches of snow.
On the summit between Idaho City
and Banner it is two feet deep.
The contract has been let for the
erection of round-house at Fresno for
six engines of the Valley Road. 1t
will cost $4,000 and viii be of brick.
The South Pasadena ostrich farm
near Lincoln Park is great attraction.
There are now sixty old birds and
thirty Young ones in the Enclosures.
The Pomona Fruit Exchange has de.
cided to build an up.to-date packing
house alongside the Southern Pacific
track. Bids are now being received.
The water of the San Gabriel river
is so impregnated with ashes from the
mountain fires that the Azusa ice fac
tory has been completed to shut down.
Two masked men entered recently n
gambling saloon in Belgrade, Mont,
robbed six men of $500 and obtained
as much more from the safe. They
escaped.
The failed Perris bank has paid back
to depositors all but $4,000, and if it
could sell its SIT 900 worth of Perris
irrigation district bonds would pay off
the balance.
The whaling steamer Bluga arrived
from the North with the largest catch
of the season. She had twenty three
whales, 81 900 pounds of bone and 130
barrels of oil.
At Coggins' Mill, near Sisson, the
loggers cut tree short time ago,
which was just 104 years of age. II
was eight feet i'll diameter and pro-
duced $4,000 feet of lumber.
The oldest Odd Fellow in the State
Of California is said to be James David.
son of Santa Barbara. He is "a years
old, and became member of the Odd
Fellows in West Virginia in 1889.
The sewers in Santa Barbara are now
flushed once every day with salt
water, and the health officer reports
that the sanitary condition of tho town
is much improved in consequence.
William Sharenbroch, AL old resi-.
dent of Amador county, who has been
hauling timbers to the mines around
jackson for some years past. was run
over and killed by his own team re.
Gently.
Another Postoffice in Alaska has
been established by the creation of the
office at Dyea. with Samuel J. Heron
as Postmaster. The Office is 2S5 miles
north of Chilkat and 100 miles south.
east of juneau.
Lancaster is moving for road to
Randsburg, sixty miles, in which il
hopes to get the cooperation of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railway Com.
pany, which now runs stage line from
Kramer Station.
There are indications Of trouble be,
tween the physicians and secret socie.
ties Of San Jose, CAL. owing to the re
fusal of the former to act as special
physicians for the societies at a rate
below that agreed upon by the Medical
Society.
As result of the crippled condition
of the Great Northern and the Everett
and Monte Cristo railroads, caused by
the recent heavy storms III the North
west, there is likely to be assertion,
famine in the towns in the Cascade,
flooded districts.
VIM. Greer Harrison, Of San Fran
cisco. has celebrated his 6Oti
anniversary by walking so miles, from
the city to San Jose, without stoppins
for rest or food. This was to demon
strate his theory that with rrope,
care the body does not grow old unit
themind fails.
William X. Roe, alias William
Moore. convicted at Napa of the muir
dor of Mrs. John Greenwood, in 1891
has been condemned to be hung. FL
was very unconcerned and remarked
II don't care; am satisfied Will
being led back to his cell after hearin,
the verdict Of the jury.
Mail thieves recently made raid OF
Pasadena. CAL In the east and ives
sides of the city the United States mai
boxes were not only forced open an
robbed Of their contents, but in man
cases completely demolished. Four
teen boxes were thus robbed and thei
contents destroyed.
An affemnf was rnoantly mada I,