The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-24
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Budget OF Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and Curtly Told In this
Column.

water works.
Two hundred Lake Indians have
gone to work in the hop fields near
Healdsburg.
The Whitney, Brothers have won the
championship of the Pacific Coast in
tennis playing.
An electric light plant for Kingman
and telephone line to White Hills
are talked of.
The Billiard mine, near Congress,
A. t., has been bonded for $500, 900
until January LIST.
1t is expected that U. s. Grant Jr.
will erect fine four-story hotel ON the
site Of the Horton House at San Diego.
An old ruin has been uncovered on
the Moqui reservation, in Arizona, and
nearly 200 pieces of perfect pottery
found.
1t is claimed that San Diego can
save SIC, 900 year by accepting the
bids to sprinkle the streets by means
of the railway.
Wine-making has been begun by
grape-growers throughout San Diego
county. The prospects are for an
average crop.
The American cutter Perry of the
Alaska patrol has seized two English
and one American vessel for seal poach-
ing in Boring sea.
Tho Oregon Sandstone Company has
withdrawn its suit to prevent the use
of California stone in the construction
of the new ferry depot.
1t is said to have been definitely
settled that Claus Spreckels will erect
his sugar factory on the Spence ranch,
three miles from Salinas.
About 800 acres Of fax will be har-
vested in Napa valley this year, as a
result of the experiments in that
growth inaugurated last season.
Santa Barbara will increase her
water supply. 1t is proposed to con-
struct billion-gallon reservoir, the
entire works costing about 100000
Maxine Elliott, the actress, whose
real name is Jessie Il. McDermott, is
suing her husband. George A. McDer-
mott, for divorce ON the ground of de-
sertion.
The whalers who went out August
22d ON the steamer Queen have at last
succeeded in killing whale, which
is said to be eighty feet long and
fourteen feet wide.
Captain Macmillan Wolff, we'll
known scientist who formerly lived in
San Francisco, is confined in the County
Jail at Los Angeles pending an exami-
nation as to his sanity.
The Hollenbeck Home for the Aged,
at Los Angeles, which has been erected
by Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck in men,
DRY of her husband, the late J. L. Hol-
lenbeck. has been formally opened.
Forest fires are raging all around
Astoria, Ore, and along the Columbia
river on both banks. The weather has
been extremely hot the past few days
and the timber is very dry and pitchy.
"The College of Physicians and
Surgeons" is the name of new medi-
cal college in San Francisco, which
will be a rival Of the Toland and
Cooper colleges. DIR. Silas M. Mouse
is president.
The girls at San Franchises High
School have formed an association to
establish and maintain permanent fee
scholarship at the State University for
the benefit of deserving graduates of
the High School.
The projected Sierra Pacific railroad
to run from Stool ton to jackson, Am
ado county, will have branches to San
Andreas, to Camp Seco, to the Ply
mouth mine in Calaveras county.
Work will soon begin, and it is to be
completed in some six months.
Charles Jensen and Charles Klein, of
San Francisco, are preparing to make
trip around the Horn in 33-foot
sloop. 1t will be the first time such a
small boat left this port for such a
trip. Jensen has been around the
Horn seven times and Klein three.
Under an arrangement recently
made by the jobbers Of Utah with GER
tain transportation lines that operate
from New York to Utah considerable
freight traffic will be taken from the
Southern Pacific Company and trade
from the merchants of San Francisco.
Harry Fl. Webb of San Francisco has
been engaged by the Chartered Com
pany of South Africa to take charge of
the Consolidated Gold Field Com
pany's vast mining interests at
Johannesburg as consulting engineer
the position until recently filed by
John Hays Hammond.
Santa Barbara has voted bonds for
$50, 900 for the construction of salt
water plant for street-sprinkling pur-
poses and the piping to the city of the
water developed by the new city tun-
mel at Cold Springs canyon. being
carried by vote of 902 in favor to 70
against the plan. The bonds are
forty-year 8 per cent bonds, principal
and interest payable in gold.
The Bear Harbor and Eel River
Railroad Company have incorporated
with capital stock Of 5000, 900, of
which 100000 have been subscribed.
The directors are E. J. Dodge, James
Hunter, Thomas Pollard, Calvin Stew
art and a, b, Cooper. The road will
run from Bear Harbor in a northerly
direction for about fifteen miles and