The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-19
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information from All
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Budget OF Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CURLY Told In this
Column.

A Budget OF Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CURLY Told in this
Column.
The State University offers prize
for the best Undergraduate football
song.
Riverside is making an all-night
thirty-day test of its new electric sys.
tenn.
A Sacramento teamster is prosecut-
ing his own son for stealing watch
from him.
The canal and locks at the cascades
of the Columbia River were opened to
navigation on November 9th.
Mail service to the gold regions of
Alaska has been established for the
benefit of miners and others there.
q. W. Arbuckle of Oakland is
known as Bryan's double, because of
his marked likeness to the Nebraskan.
Bob Fltzsimmons is now in San
Francisco, and the final arrangements
for his fight with Sharkey will soon be
made.
DIR. w. +. Mathews has been unani-
mously elected State Librarian at Sac
ramento, to succeed the late Dana Per-
kins.
The badge adopted by Sacramento's
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children is samll solid heart with
L.. al cocktails Eria.tA ~
Daniel A. Cohen, of Oakland, edits
the California department of the Os-
prey. an illustrated monthly magazine
of ornithology, published at Galesburg,
Ill.
Six weeks ago Mrs. Sarah Ely
secured divorce from Capt. George
Ely, at Oakland, after twenty-seven
years Of marriage They were re-mar-
ried ON the Goth.
Sacramento signal corps will try to
break the record of sixty-seven miles
for photographic signaling in this State,
now held by the Second Brigade Signal
Corps of San Francisco.
Gen. N. 7. James of the N. q. c.,
hopes to see the next legislature pass
law absolutely forbidding the use of
the flag to designate headquarters of
any party, political or otherwise
The Stanford University class in
Pacific Slope History has secured a
complete collection of Indian relics,
for the museum from an almost I'M
known tribe on the Colorado River.
The football players of Honolulu
will send team to San Francisco if
young Mr.. Robertson of the Olympic
Club, who is to go to San Francisco,
can make satisfactory arrangements.
The new mining town of Randsburg
contains some 500 inhabitants. A
man who was given building site
was offered 5000 for it before his lum.
Der arrived. and $50 thousand for the
lumber.
Miss Helen Thirion, of Alameda, a
pupil of the Conservatory of Music of
Paris, has composed waltz, El Fir
tant, that is being played by the Golden
Gate Park band at San Francisco with
success.
The coming Hamburg exposition at
which the Santa Clara valley proposes
to have dried fruit and wine display,
will be the largest horticultural exhibit
ever made in the world,as nothing else
will be shown.
Torrance Brodigan, '49er, and one
IF tho .Nf AAr 81 akw,k 4
Comstock lode, died at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs. E. b. Sanborn, at
Fruitvale, California. few mornings
ago. He was n years of age.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks
as follows: Twenty per cent. Column
bia National Bank. Tacoma, Wash.
10 per cent, First National Bank, San
Bernardino, Cal.
Splendid strikes in gold mines have
been made in British Columbia within
few miles of Vancouver. b. G.. The
Golden Cache mines, which average
$500 or over to the ton. with million
tons practically in sight, are about 200
miles from Vancouver.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com.
pany's steamship St Paul, which ran
upon the rocks at Moss Beach in Au.
gust last, went to pieces the other day,
and the beach is covered with wreck.
age. Not trace of the vessel re.
mains.
John d. Brown, lighthouse keeper
at Point Bonita, San Francisco harbor
for twenty seven years, who has never
failed in duty and who has saved ovel
forty lives, has been presented gold
headed cane by the custom officials
Browns wife has been one Of his as
sistants all these years.
In his coming annual report Genera
Miles will speak at some length on tn,
subject OF manning the Pacific Coas
defenses as well as those in the East
His remarks under this head will b,
of great interest to the artillery, fo
il his plans are adopted, the strength
of the army must be increased.
The Stockton insane asylum hal
1881 patients. the per capita cost PEI
day being 1lscents. Two swimmin,
baths have been constructed at tn,
mems department and one at thu
women's; all are supplied with waite
from the gas wells, which, bein,
about S8 degrees. considerable savin,
for heating purposes is made.
The foreign mail business in tn
Tacoma. WASH. Postoffice is increas
ing with the greatest rapidity. It i