The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Budget OF Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and curtIy Told in this
Column.

The Petaluma wooden mills have
started mp.
The famous Giannelli ranch, near
Santa Rosa, has been sold.
Work will soon be commenced on
Petaluma's cold storage plant.
A 400-pound sturgeon was taken in
the river near Arlington this week.
An electric franchise has been
granted from Sonoma to Santa Rosa.
Bids will be opened October for
the construction of bikes in Tillamook
Bay. Ore.
Santa Barbara capitalists are plan
ming TO erect $4,000 bathhouse at
that place.
The new engines for the Hartford,
Admiral Farragut's old ship, will be
built at Vallejo.
Robert A. Habersham, of Portland,
Or, has been appointed Surveyor
General of Oregon.
Home products at the Mechanics
Fair, San Francisco, are attracting a
great deal OF attention.
Mat Warner, of San Diego, has ac-
cidentally discovered mine of tellur-
ium running $4,000 to the ton.
Worden, the train wrecker, has been
sentenced in Woodland to be hanged at
Folsom December 18th next.
DR.. Lewis Swift. the astronomer in
charge of Mount Lowe Observatory,
has discovered two new comets.
Alameda girls are forming boat
club with view of racing the San
Diego girls crew ON Thanksgiving.
The State Fair at Sacramento ran
behind and the city trustees helped
out by giving $500 from its immigra-
ton fund.
Berkeley has made it misdemeanor
for property owners to allow weeds to
grow ON sidewalks in front of their
property.
William Moore, the confessed MUIR
derer of Mrs. Greenwood at Napa, five
years ago, has been arrested in Los
Angeles.
The Moncron sugar refinery, at
Moncton, B. O., was DESTROYED by fire
the other evening, entailing loss of
over $500, 900.
The Supreme Court has made
ruling establishing the supremacy of
the statutes over ordinances of the
Supervisors.
At the San Luis Rey Mission, San
Diego county, Father O'Keefe is pre-
pairing to have about 100 feet of the
front wall of the court restored.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has
recommended to Governor Budd in his
report that the labor bureau be abol-
ished and instead head office be estab-
lished in San Francisco with branches
in Sacramento and Los Angeles
The long quarrel in tho First Con-
gregational Church, IN San Francisco,
has finally ended. A new minister,
DR.. Adams, has been installed in the
place of the former pastor, DIR. G. 0.
Brown.
The California Navigation and I'M
provement company talks of putting ON
a line of fast passenger boats between
Stockton and San Francisco, by which
the time between those points would
be reduced to four and half hours.
The low price of California hops is
due to carrying over a surplus. There
fore, Sacramento county grower sug-
gests that they let all the yards rest
for year, when there will be short.
age and the new crop can fix its own
price.
The railroad bridge that collapsed in
Humboldt county over Mad river. is
600 feet long. The train had gone
about 100 feet on it when the tragedy
ensued. To reach the wreck the pas
sengers had to go down an almost per-
pendicular cliff.
Over $4,000 is to be refunded to
taxpayers in San Francisco whose per-
sonal property tax has been paid on
the basis OF last years assessment, at
$2.s5 per 500 of valuation. The re-
payment of the excess will begin on
the second Monday in October.
Tacor and San Francisco banks
will assist in recognizing the Yakima
Investment Company, which controls
the Sunnyside Irrigating Canal and
5000 acres of land in Yakima county.
The principal stakeholder in the com.
pany is the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
A San Francisco undertaken saws
that girls are more tenacious Of life
than boys. During two months of
this summer he buried the bodies of
twenty-six boys under years of age.
but no girls under that age. Last
year So per cent more male than female
infants died.
The San Jose Wooden Mills has
closed down for the season, after run
ming six months, owing to depression
in the mraket. Last year the mill
was run for eight months and prior to
that it was run practically the entire
year. When the mill is in operation it
gives work to from 100 to 10 hands.
1t is estimated the California vintage
will be considerable below the normal
this year. but those having wine grapes
for sale will benefit by the enhanced
prices, they being nearly double rates
Of a year or two ago. Wine making is
well under way in many sections, and
the weather is all that could be de-
sired, 80 that the quality of the wine
should be excellent.
Earnest protests have been forwarded /
70 the Secretary Of War by Governor
Bndd, President Craig, of the San /