The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-28
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down 81 suit our Busy
headers.

dryer, has failed for $50, 947.
Herrings are now being caught in
Humboldt bay in large quantities.
Large quantities of sweet potatoes
are being shipped from Santa Ana to
Arizona.
Assemblyman Ryan has introduced
bill to complete the seawall of San
Francisco.
The Great Northern is said to have
placed contract for the construction
of 5000 cars.
Santa Ana is agitation an ordinance
prohibiting expectoration on the side
walks of that town.
A defense association is being formed
by the residents Of the Perris irrigation
district to contest the legality of the
district.
The Riverside Trustees have opened
register, where the unemployed may
register and those wanting help can
consult it.
The resolution Of the late Board Of
Supervisors of San Francisco to place
the Pesthouse ON the Almshouse tract,
is to be rescinded.
No white cornmeal can be purchased
either in Visalia or Tulare at present,
and there seems to be no corn from
which to make it.
No flowers will grow in the town of
al
killed by the noxious fumes from the
big smelters located there.
The Health andl Police Committee
of San Francisco will cut down the
drug bills at the hospital by giving the
supply to the lowest priced wholesale
dealer.
Mayor Pennoyer of Portland, Or. +,
has donated $3.50, half of his first six
months salary, to the City Board Of
Charities to be expended for thu relief
of the needy.
A. r. Welton of Cotton has received
commission from the Cuban army,
and has left for New York. He was
lieutenant in the Redlands Militia
Company. .....
Captain Richard Hoyt, Jr., we'll
known among the steamboat men of
the Columbia and Willamette rivers,
died in the State Insane Asylum at
Salem, Or, few days ago.
II. NJ. Gilbert of Geneseo, ILL.,, who
arrived in Tacoma the other day, says
forty families from Illinois for whom
he is agent will come out in the spring
and settle in Yakima county, Wash.
A club in Riverside has taken up
the shade-tree proposition in a practi-
cal way and suggested to the City
Council a plan for carrying out its
ideas of street ornamentation. The
plan provides for supervision of tree
planting by district commissioners.
While working with pillow and
scraper on a strip of land in the Rands.
burg district recently man is said to
have uncovered a ledge of ore that is
one-fourth pure gold in spots. The
strip is about 400 by 90 feet in extent.
This is the most remarkable discovery
yet made in that famous mining camp.
Among the bills introduced in the
Legislature by Senator Bert is ON au-
thorizing the appointment Of an inter
prefer of the Japanese language il
criminal proceedings in cities of 100,.
900 or more inhabitants. The bill
carries with it the significant fact OF
the increase of the Japanese population
of San Francisco.
A meeting has been in San Luis
Obispo for the purpose of consulting 81
to the most expeditions manner of pro.
curing an appropriation for the erection
of normal school in this city.
draft of petition to the Legislator,
was read, showing the necessity fol
additional school facilities. AS sool
as further data are obtained they will
be sent to Sacramento.
A number of oiIloia,s Oh the Sai
Francisco and San joaquin Vale,
Railroad have arrived III Fresno
While there they will try and clos,
up contracts for right of way between
Fresno and Hanford. If successful
the construction of the road along thi
survey will be commenced within tw
or three weeks. There are about hal
dozen property owners along tn
right Of way who are holding out TO
exorbitant prices.
There will soon be revival in con
struction work on the Valley Railroad
This will be on the extension iron
Fresno, the present southern terminus
to Bakersfield. The right of way ha
been secured, and preparations are nov
being made to grade and track the dis
lance of 100 miles or more. In thre
or four weeks 800 or 400 men will b
put to work on the extension, and it i
expected to have the work finished i,
little over three months. The pros
pect now is that the Valley Railroa
engineers will be sounding their pecu
liar whistle for Bakersfield by tn
middle of next June. when there wi
doubtless be another celebration a
the metropolis of Kern county ths
will rival that of Fresno. AS til
right of way to Hanford has bee
secured the probability is that lare
construction force will be kept bus
through the summer.
The Modesto News says that the col
stsuction of railroad from Stockton
the mother lode has been abandoned
far as Stockton is concerned, and tn,
Oakdale has been substituted. Eng
neers will be placed in the field .
once to make the necessary surveys
the route. The eastern terminus wi
be at Sonora. The route of the pre-
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