The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
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.

Many valuable books have been
secured in Europe for the college in
Santa Clara.
The contract for coal to heat the
Capitol at Sacramento has been awarded
to the Union Ice Company.
The Olympic Club grounds at San
Francisco have been permanently closed
and the lease has been surrendered.
The master and chief officer of the
wrecked steamer San Beuito have had
their respective certificates revoked.
Tacoma city warrants. aggregating
$500, 900 in value, have been pronounced
illegal by the Supreme Court of Wash
ington.
The new charter of San Jose will
provide that no man be retained as an
employo of the city who does not pay
his debts.
From Danville sixty-eight cases of
measles are reported. They are all
among grown people and two cases
have proved fatal.
The rough bar has played havoc with
the trestle-work off both jetties at
Eureka. No sailing vessels have left
port since the nth.
A passenger train knocked an UNI
known man, believed to be a tramp. off
a trestle near Stockton recently. The
man was taken to Lodi, where he died.
Josiah Houghton, pioneer resident
Of San Louis Obispo, died suddenly at
Santa Margarita recently from heart
failure. He leaves an estate valued
at $780, 900.
It is stated that ore shipments from
the Pierce mines in Arizona have
averaged $3.50. 900 for each of the last
four months. For December they will
reach $500. 900.
The Adjutant- General. in his bien-
NAL report. recommends the Legislature
to allow the National Guard sos, 100
for clothes and shipments, and $50, 900
for encampments.
The San Francisco school board
proposes to strictly enforce the compul-
sorry education law, as there are found
to be 1918 Of school age not attending.
OF these CAT are working.
The San Francisco Board of Health S
chemist has found that of twenty-three
different brands of catsup in the local
market, twenty -one are adulterated,
mostly with salicylic acid.
The bonds of the Monterey and
Fresno Railroad Company have been
placed with q New York syndicate.
Work ON the road from San Jose down
to Santa Clara valley TO San Juan will
be begun about the LIST of March.
A new estimate by directory COM
piler puts Oakland's population, in
Guiding Oakland township to the
Berkeley line. at 97,055; the popula.
ton of Alameda at 1875, and Berke-
ley at 1905; total for the three of
135,125.
The San Francisco Board of Health
has received communication from the
Federal Quarantine Officer stating that
cholera is epidemic in Hongkong. The
Board will hold special meeting for
the purpose of declaring the port in
fected.
Jacob Pollock. an employe at the
Snebley Scanlon mine, dried giant
powder in a stove. The powder ex-
ploded and his cabin was blown to
atoms. Pollock was fatally mangled.
Fifty pounds of powder caps in the
cabin did not explode.
To deposit sand on the rails in front
Of street car recent invention has a
sand reservoir. at the bottom Of which
is horizontal pipe. in which screw
is operated by crank ON the platform
of the car, thus forcing the sand into
slanting tube, from which it runs to
the track.
The City Council Of Santa Barbara
is about to pass an ordinance against
expectorating on the sidewalks, max
ing it misdemeanor. It was agitated
there long before Sacramento and other
cities legislated against it, but now the
Board Of Health has stirred up the
Council to immediate action by point
ing out the danger to health by spread.
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The owner of the Hart mine in
Shasta county has contracted for 100
horsepower of electricity from the
new electrical power station on the
Sacramento river, near Copley. The
electricity is to be used for power pur-
poses in and about the Hart mine and
mill. The machinery is being received
now at tbs mine.
a large meeting Of fruit-growers of
Santa Clara valley and interested oiti.
zens generally has been held in regard
to taking some steps looking to memo
rializing Congress for tariff on fruit
and wine. 1t is urged that the Cali
fornia wine producers, and prune- grow
ers especially ARE in need of protection
against the fruits and wine of Southern
Europe, which are made by cheap and
half-fed labor. The meeting was en-
thusiastic.
Judge Mckinley has rendered a de.
cision In the important case of the
county Of Riverside VS.. San Bernardino
county. The suit was brought to set
aside the award made by the commits
sioners when the two counties were
divided. Riverside county claimed
she should be allowed about $I32, 900
more than she was given OF tie joint
county property. Judge Mckinley
has ordered new commission of ap.
praisement to be appointed and River.
side therefore gains the victory.
Judge Campbell, in his address al
the presentation ceremonies. of Griffith
Park. states that Fairmount Park, al
philadelphia. with its $500 aures, is,
with the exception of the new Los
Angeles park. the largest park in the
world, but this appears TO be an error,