The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-17
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Budget OF miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and Curly Told In this
Column.

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Columbia river.
The Visalia Labor Exchange is
working 20 establish fiouTmiii, and
the machine shops will add foundry.
The Supreme Court has decided that
]. Witty has no right b. the 800
offered for the capture Of Sontag, the
train robber.
Sausalito is to have floating bath
ing resort that will consist Of hot and
cold water baths. a restaurant and
theater combined.
Los Angeles people are sorry that
some Of the plans for the proper enter
tainment Of the Oakland Alliance Re-
publican Club miscarried.
William Mead, the convict who es-
capped ten days ago from the steamer
Corona, while en- route to San QUEEN
tin, has been caught in Tucson.
The League Of the Cross Cadets, en-
camped at Glen Ellen, had their first
court-martial, when Sergeant O'Con-
nor was convicted Of taking bath.
The motor road from East San Jose
to Alum Rock has been sold for $45,-
900, to satisfy judgment ON a mort
gage, to John Center Of San Francisco.
Machado's livery stable, one Of the
largest in Salinas, was destroyed by
fire last week. The cause of the fire is
unknown. The loss is $4,000 and in
surance 81, 900.
The British tramp steamer Strath-
garry will take the largest cargo Of
barley that has ever left San Francisco
in one bottom. She is loading 1000
tons for Liverpool.
A short eruption at Mt. Hood oc-
CURED last week. Smoke and steam
and an avalanche Of rocks were thrown
from big crevase and nearly killed a
party Of tourists.
Police officers in plain clothes en-
gagged in "hobo" hunt at San Jose,
falling all idle and suspicious charac-
tiers who refused TO migrate within
twenty-four hours.
Captain Crawford, the poet scout,
was accidentally killed by conclusion
of the brain sustained by falling down
bank at the Blewet gold mine in
Kittitas county, Wash.
The miners Of Yukon, Alaska, are
endeavoriDg to induce the Canadian
government to construct sixty miles OF
railroad in that territory to connect
with an interior steamer.
At the Santa Clara county fair in
San Jose, next October, Horticultural
Commissioner Ehrhorn will make a
complete exhibit of the pests and D, ra-
sites which infest orchards and vine-
yards.
There is now at San Francisco boy
babe, the first white child born while
rounding the Horn. This was on the
British ship Muskoga, Captain Grove.
His child was born June "a, during a
heavy gale.
John Hansen, fireman on the Aus
tralia, was discharged because no at
tempted to smuggle into Hawaii twenty
half-pound tins Of prepared opium.
The law is explicit in Hawaii that no
opium shall be landed ON its shores.
A mound Of very ancient skulls and
bones has been discovered at the Oak
land race park. State University
scientists say the skulls are OF very
low order Of intelligence, lower than
the Flat Head Indians, whom these
must have antedated.
The Rev. Charles r. Brown of Char
lesion, Mass, has accepted the call to
the pastorate Of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Oakland. He expects
to be there in time to occupy the pull
pit ON Sunday, October 4th.
1t develops that ON Mrs. Robert
Louis Stevenson's return from San
Francisco to Samoa she was met with
a bill for the care Of her property by
Chatfield, a newspaper man, over and
above what she had paid. She plead
her own case in court and had the bill
reduced one-half.
San Diego's Chamber of Commerce
has rejected the proposition of the pro-
posed new Japanese steamship line.
Asano. the president, upon the guaran-
tee Of receiving 1000 tons of freight
monthly declared he would send ships
to San Diego, but wanted to make
San Francisco port of call.
The police Of Los Angeles are elated
over the capture Of Fred Jones at Spo.
kane. Jones was the proprietor of the
saloon under which the tunnel was
dug to the basement Of the First Ma.
tional Bank when an attempt was made
recently to blow up the vaults.
Robert Louden, the ex-Deputy Tax
Collector who embezzled So, 500 from
the Tax Collectors Office in San Ra-
fael, and was sentenced to FIVE years in
San Quentin, was taken there by
Sheriff Harrison. Louden was in
very poor health, suffering from lung
trouble.
Captain Carrington's recommends.
ton, that the N. q. G. captains or
lieutenants when commanding a COM
pany should be paid for their services
would necessitate S47, $40 appropria-
ton. This is: For captains, not less
than $50 a month; lieutenants with
company $40; first sergeants, $15.
A firm Of San Francisco architects
have invented and patented safety
window. 1t is not only burglar proof,
dust proof and provided with a neat
screen attachment, but each sash
swing In ON hinges clear of its frame.
BY this simple arrangement the glass
can be cleaned on both sides without
danger.
A San Franciscan says that the pres.