The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-24
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important information Gathered
Around the Coast
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
4 summary Of Late Events That Are
Hoiled Down to suit our RnsY
Headers.

very important copper strike has
been made in Arizona.
Great quantities Of coal have recent.
ly been discovered i'll British America.
The Los Alamitos beet-sugar factory
will be in operation by the middle Of
July.
Three firemen were crushed to death
by the fall of burning building in
San Francisco.
The grasshoppers are reported as
doing serious damage in the vicinity of
Polasky, Fresno county.
John r. Wolskill, of Woodland, 90
years old, the first white man that ever
set foot in Yolo county, is dead.
There is rate war on between the
Oregon Railway and Navigation COM
pany and the Southern Pacific for Port
land travel.
The works of the Standard Biscuit
I Company in San Francisco have been
destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to
about $50, 900.
The results of Lima bean growing in
Santa Rita were so satisfactory last
year that quite an area will go into
this crop the present year.
The price of sugar has advanced one.
eighth of cent on all grades, accord
ing to the announcement Of the Wes-
tern Sugar Refinery Company of San
Fancisco
Vice-President G. f. Crocker, of the
Southern Pacific, has returned from
the East. Business in the East, he
says, is yet dull Wheat and corn will
yield heavily.
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association of San Francisco is ad.
vised by interior organizations to pre-.
vent the expectation of adulterated
food products
The Villa Homestead association
has incorporated, at Oakland, for $27,-
900. The purpose is to purchase
lands within Oakland and make suita-
BILE lots for householders.
An attempt has been made in the
southern counties to ffiliate upon some
common basis the orange growers and
fruit exchange but it is given out that
they cannot agree upon basis.
The committee on health reported
to the board of education at San Fran.
cisco that the eyes of 1885 children
have been examined. out of which
number only $50 possessed normal
vision.
The California Fig Syrup Company
has brought suit in the United States
courts against Clinton f. Worden q Co.
ct al. to recover damages for sales of
certain infringements of their patented
medicine.
The Supreme Court has decided that
Tulare county cannot collect from
Kings county its proportional share of
bonds for the construction of court.
house. The bonds were outstanding
when Kings county was created from
Tulare county.
Byron A. Long of Eureka is the sue
cessful candidate for the appointment
to the Annapolis naval academy. He
made 93 per cent on his studies. Long
is little over II years old. w. L. t. |
Neumann of San Rafael was second in |
the examination.
Southern California has this year
marketed about 1000 cars of lemons, a
four-fold Increase during the last four
years. The acreage not yet in bearing
is very large. Nobody can predict the |
rate of increase for the future, but it .
will be very rapid.
Governor Budd has reapointed State
Fair Directors c. M. Chase of San
Francisco, John Boggs of CoIusa; DIR.
w. K. Matthews and J. w. Wilson of |
Sacramento. George Fox of San Joa.
quin county was appointed Director,
vice John Budd, resigned.
The Truckee Box Factory and Lum.
Der Co. in San Francisco, has been
seriously damaged by fire. The plant
was worth $50, 900, with an insurance
of $25, 900. 1t is thought that the
loss will reach $25, 900. They will
resume business as soon as possible,
which will be in about two months.
The report of the San Francisco
Produce Exchange for the month of
May last shows the flour and grain re.
in the State of California ON
June list: Flour. barrels, "a, 900:
wheat, centals, l,733,SS0; barley,
centals, 75S, 600; oats, centals, 81, $50;
beans. sacks. sos, 73O; corn, centals,
$3.50; rye, oentals, 81 $50.
There is war between the Board of
Fire Underwriters of the Pacific Coast
and the local insurance agents of
Stockton. AT a meeting of the agents
last week they refused to sign an
agents agreement whereby they
were asked to pledge themselves to ac-
cept 10 per cent commission, instead
Of 20 per cent, the present rate. The
agents will hold another meeting to
consider whether they will submit or
not in that city.
Eli A. Gage. auditor of the North I
American Transportation and Trading !
company, is in Seattle ON his way to
he company's trading posts on the
ukon, He said recently that he I'M
ierstood chartered British company ,
S preparing to operate on the Yukon j
m the same plan and scale at the |
amous Chartered South African Com.
ANY. 1t will build and govern towns I
md cities, maintain force Of soldiers, /.
operate mines, build steamships, etc. |
The company is understood to have {
Millions back of it. !
There is considerable dissatisfaction 4
mong people in Southern California j
yer the present system of delivering 4
nail from Mexican ports. The mer- a