The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-14
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST,
A summary Of Late Events That Arr
Boiled Down TO Suit our Busy
Readers.

The superintendent Of the jetty work
at Gray's harbor entrance says that
fully 1000 feet Of the work will be
built this year.
The Albany, Or. Herald says that
company +, Of Albany, has received
orders from regimental headquarters to
be prepared for service at 10 days
notice.
A machine to make strawberry boxes
has been received in The Dalles. Or. !.
by The Dalles Commission Company.
The machine kas capacity Of 10000
boxes a day.
A cattle-buyer of Oakland. Or. last
week rounded up 100 head of cattle in
the Ten.Mile country. in Coos county.
He will drive the cattle to valley, and
return for another band.
Very few ground squirrels have been
seen in Lincoln county, Or, this
spring, and it is hoped they have gone
the way of the black crickets that ap-
peared a number Of years ago.
A small colony Of Hollanders arrived
in Ritzville, Adams county, WASH,
the first part of last week. and will
make their homes in that county.
Others are expected to follow them.
More than 100 persons have signed
applications for membership in the
naval reserve at Astoria, and the list
has been forwarded to Adjutant.Gen-
eral Tuttle, with request to be mus
tered in.
II has been decided to begin work
in Toledo, Or. on q steamboat TO navi-
gate the YaquiDa river from Newport
TO the head of navigation, at Elk river.
The boat Is to be built at Gregson's
shipyards. and will be a sternwheeler.
An order has been issued out of the
superior Court for Columbia county,
WASH, authorizing the county treas.
urer TO accept $1,000 as payment in full
of all delinquent taxes due the county
from the Northern Pacific Railway
Company.
The Government torpedo boat Rowan,
which is building in Seattle, will be
launched soon. Her construction has
been hurried for some days past at the
instance of officials at Washington.
After the Rowan is in the water her
armament will be put ON and she will
be ready for service in two weeks after
launching. The boat will be chris
tened by Mrs. Edward Moale, Jr.,
wife of Lleutnant Moale of the Helena.
Work has been commenced on the
Government road from Sausalito to
Lime Point and through to Point b.
nits. A few weeks ago United States
Army officers were sent to Sausalito
with instructions to estimate the cost
Of building this road and erecting bar.
racks and Notifications for the defense
OF San Francisco harbor on the Marin
shore. They reported that it would
take 1915, 900 TO build the road. The
money has been already appropriated.
Owing to the efforts of the fruit-grow-
ers' committee at Los Angeles the
board has been reduced. The new rate
will 60 into effect at once. The reduo.
tion is to continue for ninety days.
The rate,will be 81 per 100 pounds in
carload lots. Other reductions re.
quested by growers will probably not
be granted. 1t is alleged in San Diego
that fruit exchanges are secretly op-
posing reductions.
Dennis MCCARTHY. the murderer of
George Fox of Santa Rosa, will not ex-
plate his crime on the gallows at San
Quentin. Governor Budd has, upon
the recommendation of State Physi-
clans #. w. Hatch of the Stockton
Insane Asylum, EN-. Osborn of the
Glen Ellen Home for Predetermined
and A. M. Gardener of the Napa In
sane Asylum, committed the sentence
of death to life imprisonment, without
hope of future pardon.
An epidemic of spinal meningitis is
beginning to be feared on Puget Sound.
1t cannot result from any lack of saui-
tary precautions, but rather through
the worrying of scores of people who
have relatives and friends in Alaska. |
Doctors say that taking cold. followed
by intense worrying, is sufficient to
cause inflammation at the base of the
brain. producing the dread disease. |
During March there have been nine |
deaths from meningitis, most of them |
occurring within few days.
The United States authorities have
arrested W. E. Trip, alias Marion
Brooks, Charles e. Lyon, Charles
Brown and John Wilson at Tacoma
for using the mail to defraud Harper
Brothers, Rand, McNally 4 Co, Mac.
milan & Go. and other publishers of |
school books. His scheme was to re.
present himself as clerk or other officer
of the Board of Education and order
books and supplies sent. One lot sent |
to him was sold to Seattle book store
for $3.50. II is supposed that he in. |
tended selling other shipments in the
same way.
Travel to Alaska has fallen off tire. !
during the last two weeks. |
Arrivals from Eastern States have
been fewer than at any time since De-
cemher, while almost every day has
seen another steamship added to the |
Alaskan feet. Light passenger and
freight lists are resulting in many in
stances.
In the course of his speech on the
sndget at Victoria. b. c., Colonel
Baker. the Provincial Secretary. said
he Government had made arrange.
nunts with the railway company for
he building Of 400 miles of railway
rom Vancouver to the Boundary Greek
district The Ferminus. in all proba-
'ility, will be Rossland. He inferred
bat bonus Of $4,000 mile would
o given.
@. w. Thebo is now in Seattle