The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-31
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Briefly and Curtly Told in This
Column.


Santa Monica Soldiers Home.
Marysville, Grass Valley and Neyads
City are now connected by a stage line
1t is said that the S. p. will have
no use for lobby at the coming legis
lature.
There are now about 10000 bushels
of wheat in storage in Albany, Or,
held by farmers.
A cooperative creamery is to be
started near Delhi in the near future
by the ranchers.
The enrolment in the public school
of Albany, Or, has reached 610, the
largest in their history.
The new County Hospital building
at Sonora will be completed about
Christmas. 1t has cost 81 900.
The Republican Legion is the name
of club started in Stockton for edu-
oational and political purposes.
+. E Brown is exploiting a scheme
to organize an irrigation district in
the Mojave and take water from the
Mojave river.
The Eseondido mines have cleaned
up twenty pounds of gold in the past
four months, valued at $4,000, besides
lot of amalgam.
The contract for the emplacements
of seacoast batteries at San Diego has
been awarded to the California Con-
struotion Company for $l07,417.
North river, Wash. loggers got over
l,500,0 900 feet of logs below the falls
during the late food, and there is
about 200, 900 feet above the falls to
come down.
The City Council of Union, Or. has
passed ourfew ordinance, prohibiting
boys and girls from lettering on the
streets between the hours of 700 p. IN.
and o'clock a. m.
Many of the farmers in ,Nalla Walla
were not through seeding when the
snow came on November 18th. Proba-
bly, one-third Of the land will have to
wait until spring.
Many citizens of Plumas and Sierra
counties are signing a petition in favor
OF consolidation, the object being to
reduce the tax rate and give them bet
ter government.
The astronomers of the Lowell obser-
vatory who have been working at Flag.
staff t.. announce that since August
LIST they have discovered $50 new
stellar systems.
Two adventures are looking for a
leather sack containing $40, 900 in gold
dust, which they tclaim lies buried
somewhere along the bank of Walnut
creek, in Contra Costa county.
Since the Stars and Stripes were first
raised in California the coast has had
but one representative in the Cabinet
namely Attorney General Williams
OF Oregon, who served under Grant.
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association has put itself on record as
opposed to convict manufactures Of any
sort except jute bags and the breaking
OF prison yard stone for publ, high
ways.
The Antonio Schiappa Petra estate
has been ordered distributed by the
Superior Court of Ventura. The
estate is valued at nearly $1,000, 900,
located in Ventura and Santa Barbara
counties.
Mayor"elect James D. Phelan Of San
Francisco is making good use of his
time by having his representative in
New York keep him we'll informed as
to the progressive methods of good
government in vogue there.
The condition of Mrs. Hawker. of
Stockton, who has been lying at deaths
door for several days, as the result of
faith-cure fanaticism, is improving
steadily under physicians treatment,
and she will probably recover.
The commission provided for by the
last session of Congress to decide be.
tween San Pedro and Santa Monica for
a deep water harbor for Southern Cali.
fornia held its first meeting recently,
but took no action beyond discussing
plans for future action. The commits !
sion is composed of the following mem.
bers, all of whom were present: Ad.
miral John G. Walker, u. S. N,
chairman; Augustave Rogers, Coast
and Goedetic Survey; Richard P. Nor
gan. Illinois; George 5. Morrison, Chi.
oago; Professor William Fl. Burr,
Columbia College.
An experimental California cigar
factory may soon be started for the
purpose Of using here fine tobacco that
has in former years been shipped East
andsthere manufactured and labeled as
Havana cigars and later resold in this
State.
The House Committee on Public
and Grounds, at Washing.
ton, has favorably reported on bills
providing for public buildings at the
following named places: Oakland,
CAL, $85, 10000; Salem, Or, 800, 900;
Omaha, Neb., increasing the limit of
,ost to 100000
A Prescott. Arizona, visitor to the
Castle OF Montezuma dnds that the
pigmy builders made lasting floods in
his wise: Over the eighteen-inoh
loists are laid smaller poles, then viii.
lows. browning these bamboos ON top
'f this framework cedar bark, which
u turn is covered with earth cemented
IN the upper crust.
The Merchants Association of San
francisco has forwarded request to
'ecrutary OF State Olney TO have the
United States Consuls In the largeI
European cities secure copies of their
'espective municipal laws for the asso. .
iation to aid in framing charter for
bis City. Mayor Sutro sends an In.