The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-03
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Budget OF miscellaneous lettings
Brieny ana CurtIy Told In this
Column.


Del Norte ranchers are all busy at
present harvesting hay.
Marin county is soon to have a To-
mile driveway from San Rafael to
Tiburon. =
The Sausalito town trustees intend
TO enforce the ordinance against the
booksellers.
The San Jose Board of Trade is get
ting ready for the County Fair ON Sep
TENDER 27th.
San Diego has been definitely chosen
as the terminus Of the new Japanese
line of steamships.
An agent of Claus Spreckels is to
examine the land in Yolo county to
ascertain its fitness for sugar beet rails
ing.
Arthur Scott, a wealthy rancher, is
hauling his grain into Los Angeles by
mule teams rather than pay the S. P.
exorbitant rates.
The Society of California Pioneers
will celebrate at Ell Campo on the 9th
of September S. M. Shortridge will
deliver the Grafton.
Stephen Zadu has been indicted by
the U. S. Grand Jury in San Francisco
for sending threatening postal card
through the mails.
California makes the best sole
leather in the world, yet the people of
this coast are sending over $50, 900, 900
east for shoes every year.
The big Touring mills at Cotton,
owned by ]. f. Suman, are to be re-
moved to San Bernardino. The new
location is at Fourth and b streets.
Russian River Valley owners of hop
yards have contracts at fair prices run
ming for period of years to come, and
are not affected by the decline in tho
hop business.
Admission day will be celebrated in
San FRANCHISE at the Mechanics Fair
with native baby show. Cups will
be given to best boy and girl babies,
twins and triplets.
The contractors for the jetties on
Humboldt bar completed the first three
months Of this seasons work August
9Th, during which time they have put
in 49, 800 tons of rock.
Alameda is considering the economy
of building storehouse to hold feed
for the fire department horses, and to
purchase the feed in lump instead of
advertising for quantities at intervals.
A letter has been intercepted by the
Folsom penitentiary authorities, in
which S. d. Worden, the condemned
train wrecker, was promised that
poison would be SEPT him to commit
suicide.
A melon tree or Papaya, in one of
the college of agriculture hot houses
at the State University is growing
large melons several feet from the
ground. The tree is native of the
tropics
Professor G. F. Holder, of Pasadena.
has started to explore the channel
islands, especially that of San Nicholas.
The earthquakes of last year are said
to have tossed out antiquities and
closed the harbor.
The Chinese trouble at Sisson, which
came near stopping work ON the Sisson
& McCloud River Railroad, has been
adjusted. The railroad company has
been limited to the employment of
seventy-five Chinese.
Testimony was taken by Inspector
Birmingham relative to the grounding
of the steamer Point Arena off Point
Reyes on August 10. Captain Johnson
testified that Mate WickmaE who was
on watch, was drunk.
Horace Poole of San Diego recently
jumped from tower SO feet high into
the ocean at La Jolla before large
crowd, alighting in feet of water
unhurt. The best previous record is
claimed to be SO feet some inches.
Francisco Yndart.a concert hall
singer at Los Angeles, brought
suit to recover 100000 from
the Coronel estate. The trust docu-
mem upon which he based his claim
has just been declared a forgery in
Judge Shaw's court.
Reports from the landowners of Mon
terey county show that nearly $4,000
acres have been pledged for the grow
ing of beets. 1t requires 30, 1000 acres
to supply the new refinery that it is in
tended to build at Salinas, and it is
thought that this number will soon be
reached.
Frank Miller, formerly butler in the
residence of ]. L. Franklin, of San
Francisco, has been arrested in Santa
Barbara upon the charge of atducting
Hattie Aber. l5-year-old girl, who
lived in San Pedro. Miller was sup
posed to have killed burglar in pro-
tecting his masters house.
DIR. Jordan is said to have discovered
a new variety of kelp fish off the coast
OF Washington and James M. Magoun
of the British seal commission has
discovered new MOSES and lichens.
They are members of the various COM
missions now aboard the Albatross to
inquire into the sealing trade in Der.
ing sea.
Judge J. d. Bethune, associate JUS.
tice of the Supreme Court of Arizona at
Tucson. has demanded an investigation
of the request for the appointment of
his successor on the grounds of his
inability to fulfill the duties of his
Office. Judge Bethune has disposed of
more than three predecessors within
the past two years and in addition his
administration is acceptable to Arizona
people.
The new Columbia tariff for towage
of vessels to Portland, has been issued