The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-01
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number Of Miscellaneous JOttinE'
Briefly and curtIy Told In This
Column.


heat from the forest fires near Duns-
muir is oppressive.
Colonel Crocker says it is untrue
that the Southern Pacific has any idea
Of acquiring the Mount Lowe Scenic
Railway in Los Angeles.
The school bond proposition in Han
ford carried and Oriental school dis
triot is to have additional school facil'
titles at cost Of 100000.
Golden Gate, Peralta and Piedmont
are TO be added to Oakland. This will
increase the population nearly $1,000.
This was decided by a special election.
The postal receipts for San Francis
co for May were SOS, 1858, while those
for the same period last year amounted
to but $65, 463, showing an increase of
$29O5.
The new passenger rates to Hanford
made by the San Francisco and San
Joaquin railway were met by the s. p.
Also the 80 cent rate from Fresno to
Hanford.
A train has reached San Francisco
on the S. P. which is the first to make
close connections between thu Sierra
and Pacific roads from mountain points
near the Yosemite.
The steamer City of Topeka has
arrived at Port Townsend from Alaska.
She brought word that the schooner
Gen. Siglin had been wrecked and all
on board were lost.
Governor Budd has reprieved Dur
rant until July o. Meantime the Su-
preme Court will be asked to command
the Warden at San Quentin to execute
the prisoner on the day set.
The Chamber of Commerce has de-.
cided to get out folder giving de-
scription of Orange county, for distri-
button at the Christian Endeavor con-
vention at San Francisco.
Union printers and bookbinders in
San Francisco are greatly excited over
the letting of the contract of the State
university printing to the Pacific Press
Publishing Company Of Oakland.
The wine shipments to New Orleans
are about 800, 600 gallons month, and
at the cut of 10 cents gallon the war
means loss Of $45. 200 month to the
California industry at that point alone.
The affairs of the gigantic lumber
trust in San Francisco have been set.
tied at SO cents on the dollar, and the
big concern, which was known as the
Central Lumber Company, has gone
out of business.
After systematic investigation as to
how the opium, morphine and CO.
caine fiends in the Folsom State Prison
were supplied, it was discovered that
L. N. Desmarias, the prison chemist,
has ben selling it to them.
California is supporting three hun
dred insane Chinese in its asylums, and
as they are not citizens the lunacy
commission holds that the State can
legally transport them. Their main
tenance costs the State $40, 900 a year.
Work will be commenced at Tacoma
at once on the greatest irrigation pro-
ject ever started ON the coast. Sixteen
miles of ditch will be completed this
summer. which will water 5000 acres.
1t is the intention to make the sy stem
water 200. 900 acres.
The Pasadena and Los Angeles cleo
trio railway has begun paying for the
lighting of the streets of Pasadena. 1t
will have to turn over $500 to $3.50 to
the city every month. The company
does this because the town refused to
grant franchise to rival railway.
William Kettler, pioneer resident
OF the island near Ferndsle. in Hum.
boldt county, died at his home there
after a weeks illness. He was native
OF Germany, aged rs years, and re-
sided in that county for over forty
years.
Local agents met in Stockton re-.
Gently and after talking with represen.
tatives from San Jose and Sacramento,
decided to refuse to sign the agreement
which cut their commissions. A meet
ing will be held in San Francisco to
talk the matter over with the COM
panies.
Ground has been broken on the Lake
Tahoe Railroad between Truokee and
Tahoe City. The railroad will connect
the lake with the main line of the
Southern Pacific. 1t will be standard
gauge, and sleepers win be run to the
shores of the lake. A big hotel will
soon be erected there.
The proprietors of hotel in San
Luis Obispo subscribed $500 toward
securing meeting of the Grand ParIor
OF the Native Sons in that city, and
afterwards refused to pay the amount.
They were sued, and the Superior
Court gave judgment against them for
the full amount.
Fire has destroyed several thousand
acres of pasture and grain near Cloud
man. Nearly all the grazing land
near the town was cleaned of its grass.
and the farmers will now have to move
their stock to the San Joaquin river.
as the pasturage toward the Yosemite
has been used up.
Arrangements have been completed
this week for Marshall & Field of
to erect at North Ontario
q factory to cost $4,000. for the man.
nfacture of citric acid from Gull
emons. This will be the second fac
DRY in the State and will utilize
arge amount Of Gull fruit which here.
Dfore has been wasted.
Wool growers in Medicine county
70 comparatively pleased with the re-