The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-24
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.
Santa Rosa's population has reached

ture for State Normal School with
the essential appropriations.
Forty.five carloads of walnuts,
valued at nearly $780, 900, were shipped
from Fullerton this year.
A Sacramento judge has sentenced
James O'Neil, diamond thief, to
thirty years imprisonment.
Governor Budd has granted re-
prieve until June 4th to Salter Wor-
den, convicted of train wrecking.
George L. Bush has raised very
good quality of cotton on his ranch
near Box Springs, in Southern Califor-
MIA.
Wild dogs are becoming numerous
in the vicinity of Wilcox, A. T.,
where they kill great many young
calves.
w. F. Prisk, editor of the Grass
Valley Morning Union, will be the
youngest member in the next State
SENATE.
Some rich gold strikes have recently
been made in Orc Blanco district,
about forty miles out from Tucson,
Arizona.
Gasoline i'll a warehouse of the
Mountain Mining Company in Shasta
county exploded and twelve men were
seriously burned.
Felix Harbrough, aged SO, and a
molder by trade, died at Alameda from
being run over while bicycling by a
fast-driving doctor.
The Salvation Army's home in San
Ramon Valley, near San Francisco,
has opened with three ex.convicts.
One is direct from prison.
Travel to Phoenix, A. T., is increas-
ing encouragingly. The number of
strangers is larger there than ever be-
fore at this time of the year.
Judge Wallace's idea of the enorm-
ity of stealing bicycle is represented
by the formula "ten years. He is
judge in one of the San Francisco
courts.
Two murders and one accidental
shooting, which will result in death,
was the killing record of the mining
camp of Randsburg during the past
week.
The Canadian Pacific has chartered
the New Zealand Steamship Company's
Aorangi and in future she will run be-
tween Vancouver, b. c., and Aus
tralia.
Fifty mechanics employed by Moran
Bros, shipbuilders of Seattle, have
struck. They demanded ten hours
pay for seven hours work, the firm
having reduced the hours to seven.
d. 81. Below, an old man residing
at Long Beach, was struck and killed
by Southern Pacific train, few days
ago, while walking on Alameda street.
He was wealthy and leaves relatives at |
Spirit Lake. Illinois
The city physician at San Diego has
been quietly testing the milk sold
there. He finds most of it watered,
while others had been put through
separator and much of the cream
taken out. A few samples were pure.
Sensational reports are in circula-
tion regarding the Moreno dam which
is to form part of San Diego's $15,-
600, 900 water system. It is charged
that gunny sacks have been used in the
construction of the walls of the dam.
The proposed federation of alumni
OF all branches Of the State university
would embrace over 2100 living grad
uates-of Berkeley 900, of the medical
college $50, of the law college $50, of
the dental college $50, of the college
Of pharmacy 240.
Charles Saven and Andrew Hughes
were thrown into the Cowlitz river by
landslide, while at work repairing
washout on the Northern Pacific rail
road. Slaven was drowned and
Hughes.was fished out alive three miles
down the river. {
Active measures will shortly be !
taken near Santa Rosa toward securing /
an agreement among the farmers to !
cultivate thousand acres of sugar /,
Deets Tor next year. A sugar factory 1
cannot be erected in time for next :
years crop. but the railroads have |
agreed to transport all the first crop of >
beets to other factories in the State at
q nominal cost.
Important mining deals are in pro- S
gress in Lower California. g. ]. Mas i,
ton OF Chicago is now in San Diego. il
negotiating for the Suneno and Lizalda b
mines. below the line, and if he BUYS a
hem will erect smelter in San Diego. D
with fifty tons capacity at first, but d
capable OF enlargement. The smelter "
VIII render possible the development 3
y many mines now lying idle in San 7
Diego county and in Lower California. d
Governor Budd has denied the appli. o.
alton OF Marshall J. Miller, the Marys. y
lie murderer, for computation of =
entence. on the ground that the reason a. =,
dvanced in support of the request :, u
'ould not justify the action. The rea ~ -
On urged b, Miller was that his &C. y
omplice. Stewart A. Green, received ~
life sentence, while Miller was sem
'noed to death. He was hanged last
ridAy. OF
dl
Through long porting over marvellous N,
rship stories James Lewis, an old d.
an past the three-score mark, has di
zen ordered to the Highlands Insane e,
siyum. He was captured on the out on
'irts OF San Diego violently insane, I'D
bbe1ing Of flying and peering into co
. skies for the airship that conveyed al
~ from San Diego to heaven. de
~ ship caxne down and took him
card, landing him at the pearly gates in