The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-26
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.

A new theatre has been opened in San
Diego.
Wildcats are destroying hundreds Of
fowls in the vicinity Of Visalia.
A wollen mill in Santa Rosa is one OF
the strong possibilities of the future.
The gold output OF Alaska for 1896
was 81 ,670,0O0 as against 100000 for
1895.
The bicyclsts of visalia are consider
ing the project of building bicycle
/ track.
The customs officers are trying to stop
the smuggling of Mexican cigars across
the border.
Petaluma's iruit-dryer has closed
down for the season on account of the
scarcity of apples.
/ A new and clear-toned bell has just
been placed in the tower of the new
Catholic church at Sonoma.
/ Nearly all the prunes produced in
Sonoma county this season have already
been contracted for at fair prices.
Whtelaw Reid, the proprietor of the
New York Tribune, has arranged to pass
the coming winter in Phoenix, Arizona.
Samples of new vein OF coal were
exhibited in Riverside that has been
discovered near Daggett, Cal. The vein
promises well.
4 The Government is surveying the
mountains from Pasadena to San Ber-
nardino and will hold the tract as
Government reserve.
1t is likely that the old private letter
box system in the postoffices will be alb
olished and the letter-carrier service in
San Francisco greatly enlarged.
Fresno county is preparing for the
citrus fair to be held there in December.
1t is confident that the exhibit will be
the finest ever seen in the State.
The San Bernardino High School Ath-
letic Club challenges any high-school
club in Southern California to a match
game OF football for the championship.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce is now rejoicing in the acquisi-
ton of pumpkin that is eight feet anu
six inches in circumference and weighs
$50 pounds.
Corona, South Riverside, will not
be prohibition town. The Trustees
have passed an ordinance fixing the
saloon license at 5000 per year, pay
able i'll advance.
Dairymen in Orange county are
having their cattle inspected by a
veterinary surgeon for the presence of
anthrax. So far no traces of the dis.
ease have been reported.
A. II. Dana has been elected captain
and II. G. Matthias president OF the
Santa Rosa Wheelman. Captain Dana
appointed George Martz and Al Farley
as his lieutenants,
A lumber war has broken out in Santa
Cruz among the local dealers the reason
that no agreement could be reached as
to prices. A cut OF So has been made
making the price Sl2 per thousand.
The new Chino Land Company, Cal.
has offered to the citizens of Chino
bituminous rock from their extensive
quarries free for the Epuprose of put
ting down sidewalks of that material.
San Francisco has four food inspection
stations planned after the fashion of a
Custom-house of taxing stations of the
old walled towns of Continental Europe.
The plan will cost the city about $lO,-
600.
The Pomona Fruit Exchange has
shipped this season 32,S72 boxes OF
oranges and 1905 boxes of lemons.
The highest price received for oranges
was $l.1S per box and lemons 81 .55
per box.
The biggest sale OF wheat made by
local growers this year was that Of
Woods Brothers, the Roberts Islands
(near Stockholm farmers, the amount re-
ceived being near 1921 900. The pur-
chasers were Balfour, Guthrie & Co
They received $3.50 per 100 pounds foi
the wheat and 50 cents for the barley.
The almond growers of California are
being notified by some Of the largest
growers in the State to meet at Sacra
mento on December LIST, to prepare 8
petition asking that the former McKin
ley customs tariff OF five cents per pound
be put back on imported almonds, the
Wilson bin now permits their importa'
ton at 8 cents per pound.
The recent ruling OF Judge Noyes o
Riverside county on the question OF tn,
salary OF the City Treasurer, is stirring
up good deal of interest. In San Ber
nardino the City Treasurer has beer
paid a salary for nearly four years, anC
under the decision would have a claim
OF $4,000 against the city.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for the deep-water harbor at SAINTS
Monica or San Pedro, Southern Califor
mia, and $780, for the expenses OF tn,
commission. The commission consist
ing OF Admiral Walker and four Others
will soon meet in Washington to organ
ize and outline the work.
Colonel A. 0. Brodie of Prescott
has arrived in Phoenix. He is there Il
purchase machinery preparatory t,
, commencing work on the rebuildinl