The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-02
rAv,rIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information From All
Over the Coast.
THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Budget OF miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and curtly Told In this
Column.

The Biggs cannery, which will open
July LIST, will employ 400 women.
summerland, Santa Barbara county,
is agitating the question OF incorpora-
ton.
San Diego votes June 27th upon
proposition to issue l,50O,0 water
works bonds.
A dairy with an egg annex fills a
long.felt want at Monecito, Santa Bar
bara county.
Watermelons are in the Phoenix
markets and will soon be coming IN IN
quantities.
The Fourth Of July committee OF San
Francisco offers $50 for the best poem
written for the occasion.
The directors Of Eureka's new fair
association have under consideration
nlans for pavilion to cost $4,000.
The gunboat Bennington will proba-
bly send a detachment to vallejo TO
participate in the Fourth's celebration
The Smithsonian Institution has
donated collection Of 2l5 duplicate
specimens of fishes to the University OF
Oregon.
John Stanton, San Francisco
artist. and Miss Anita Bonnahan, his
favorite pupil, were married on the
10th.
The Democratic State Convention
has adjourned at Sacramento, having
declared in favor of silver, and against
woman suffrage.
Indian Agent Galbraith, at Fort
Steele, b. c., reports that the Indians
of Windermere are making very good
progress in farming
The British Benevolent Society of
California will establish British
hospital at San Francisco, and provide
general British headquarters.
A petition to Congress is being cir
culated in Santa Barbara county asking
that the tract of land embracing Zaca
Lake be reserved as national park.
The finest business block in MERGED
burned last week, due to lamp ex'
ploding, and several adjoining build
ings were destroyed. Loss, 800, 900.
The State Dental Association, which
has been in annual session at SAINTS
-. for some days, adjourned last
The dentists enjoyed an elabor'
nquet.
La Jolla Hotel, twenty mile!
.. ian Diego, has been burned down
The structure, which cost $780, sil
years ago, was unoccupied at the time
Insurance $40, 000.-
Two condemnation suits, brought b.
the San Francisco and San joaquin
Valley Railroad Company, for RICH
of way fourteen miles south of MERGED
have been decided.
Pierre Boissaye, general guard of tn
forests of France, is in San Francisc
ON special government trip aroun
the world for the purpose of studyin
forest growths.
The report comes from the N. g
mine, near Escondido, that strike ha
been made in the mine of such rich
ness that the greatest excitement ha
been caused in the camp.
The nursery men are preparing fo
an immense boom in orange plantin
next spring. The entire eastern has
of the Sierra seems to be destined to /
largely devoted to citrus fruits.
The San Francisco board of educ,
ton rules that in future when fairs {
other entertainments are held in ii
schools no raffies, lotteries or an
games of chance shall be permitted.
Alameda is after $25, GOO of the $75
900 appropriated by government for Il
improvement of Oakland harbo
They would use it to correct the III
sanitary condition of the tidal canal.
S. Koenisberg, general manager
gold, copper and platinum mines
the Ural mountains, Russia, is at Ss
Francisco to study CALIFORNIA; mimi
methods, to see what machinery is be
TO purchase.
River gauges are being placed in Sa
joaquin valley to perfect the foe
forecast system, as is done in the Sa
ramento valley. These stations wi
protect many crop that without the
would be ruined.
Thermal belts" are developing a
over the State, brought to light by tn
years frosts which did not reach then
The latest is in Monterey county aloI
the base of Santa Lucia range on IL
south side of the Salinas river.
The body of Henry Synstrand, oil
of the six sailors who went down wit
the British ship Blairmore when ca
sized in Mission bay three months ag
was rescued last week by John Roac
one of Captain Whitelaw's divers.
Lieut.. Rivadenqra of the Mexici
warship Zaagoza, whose father is
railway magnate. is to marry Scnori
Angel Verez of San Franci SEQ,
singer of prominence, when the sh
returns from her voyage in April, 1875
The plan to be shortly inaugural
BY the San Francisco Presbyteri
Orphanage and Farm near San Rafa'
is TO buy thirty-acre tract for larg
orphanago; also neat cottages for CHI
dren from the slums and an old ladit
home.
The Italian-Swiss colony has pu
chased 640-acre tract of vineya
land near MADEIRA, Mendocino count
Tho land is mostly out in sweet wiz
grapes and. besides, contains warrior
orchards in fruit and olives. A Wi
cry Is also on the place.
The typographical and climatic ina
Of California Just published at Sa