The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-16
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Budget OF Miscellaneous lettings
Brieny and CURLY Told in this
Column.

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About 100 students are attending
the summer school at Stanford Univer.
sity.
II is estimated that Visalias new
cannery will pay out $4,000 weekly
for labor.
A large ice storehouse owned by the
Prosser Greer Company was burned at
Boca recently.
Portland. Or, has an athlete named
Kerrigan who can jump a foot higher
than his own head.
Long Beach has voted $1,000 school
bonds. The money will be spent for a
new High school building.
Women at Sacramento are taking a
deep interest in the new Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
The chrysanthemum fair at Auburn
next fall will also have queen. Acres
Of the flower have been planted.
The Antioch pottery has received
the contract and has begun work on
$4,000 feet of sewer pipe for Ukiah.
The Oregon Improvement Company
will establish line of steamers be-
tween Seattle, Wash, and Cooks Inlet,
Alaska.
81 Lovren, convicted at Visalia for
completely in the attempted train
robbery at lagos, was sentenced to San
Quentin for life.
The citizens of San Bernardino are
indignant at the attempt of the South
ern Pacific to grab the Cotton avenue
right-of-way in that city.
The crop of wine juice in San Joa.
quin county will not be more than hall
OF the usual crop, according to those
who are best able to judge.
Suit is to be instituted against the
fiume company by San Diego county
for $S2 ,644.50, the amount due foi
State and county taxes since 1890.
A Farmers Union has been formed
by the Livermore valley ranchers to
promote grain and fruit interests,
fight pests and to keep registry herd
book.
Greek. Latin. German, French and
Spanish will be taught in the Santa
Barbara schools next year if the de-
mand will warrant the formation Of
classes.
Last seasons crop of prunes in Sants
ieteen carloads, hav,
This leaves cleal
crop, which will bt
bingham, who came Il
~.---l- H $40, settled in Shasts
county and gained renown as an Indian
fighter. died at his home near Shingle
town, recently.
Suit has begun by the San Diego
Water Company to enjoin the city
from issuing the $1,000, 900 bond,
voted at the election of acquiring the
Moreno water system.
Tho meeting of the Pacific Coast
Trotting Horse Breeders Association
has opened at Ingleside track. The
fields are large and big crowd prom
Uses to be in attendance
The people of Oakdale, Stanislaus
county, are clamoring for better irri.
CATION facilities. The soil there would
produce abundant crops of all varieties
if properly watered.
There is conflict ON near the Santa
Rosa mines, Riverside county, between
prospectors and those who have squatted
on government land in that locality
for agricultural purposes.
The comet medal of the Astronomi.
cal Society has been awarded to DIR.
Lewis Swift of the Lowe Observatory
Tor his discovery of an unexpected
comet on April ~, 1896.
A convention of orange-growers is
called to meet in the Los Angeles
chamber of commerce rooms ON Fri.
day, July 10th to confer ON methods of
marketing the coming crop.
A wheelman has just started from
Southern California for West Virginia
ON his wheel over route 1000 miles
long. He will travel along the north
ern boundary of this country.
Two monster protests, bearing :. 500
names, have been filed with the Los
Angeles City Council urging the coun.
Gil not to pass the proposed ordinance
to close all places of business ON SIM.
day.
The man who was seen at Erskine
creek and supposed to be Murderer
Durham. was run down by officers
and found to be Tom Cornell, who has
been prospecting in that region for the
past year.
The suit of the Standard Oil Com.
pany against the City of Oakland to
restrain the latter from causing the re.
moval of the company's oil warehouse
in that city. is ON trial in the United
States Circuit Court.
The terra-cotta lady-bug that cleaned
up the woody aphis last August is max.
ing its appearance at Lompoc again.
The work Of the bugs will be watched
with great interest by orchar dists this
season.
The inmates of the Home for the
Adult Blind at Berkeley have sent a
petition counter to the San Francisco
broom-makers' to Labor Commissioner
Fitzgerald. In it they ask for the privi-
lege of being allowed to learn trade,
and refer to the contention of the
broommakers that the blind home COM
petition will beggar them 1.-THE broom
makers) as preposterous.
The output of sweet wines in Cali.
fornia during the past season, accord