The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-09
PACIFIC COAST. NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
summary u Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to suit our Busy
Readers.

The Alcatraz Company will build
$1,000 wharf at Santa Barbara.
Two fires in Red Bluff have d,
stroyed property worth $50, 900.
Southern Pacific surveyors aressl
work ON line from Los Alamitos /
Long Beach.
NJ. b. MeDuflie has been electe
president of the Santa Barbara Boar
Of Trade.
Five Los Angeles restaurant propri,
tors have been arrested for selling i'm
pure milk.
The Los Angeles PEblic Library
TO try the plan of opening the boo
shelves to the public.
The bark Matilda, which went ash 1r
ON Tatoosh rocks, near Port Townsend
Wash, is fast going to pieces
A postoffice has been established a
Bagby. Mariposa county, California
with Benjamin A. Bagby as postmas
ter.
Wednesday, August 18th, was thu
hottest day of the year at Redlan DIS
the shade temperature being ITO de-
grees.
Considerable damage has been done
to crops near Prescott, Ariz., by one OF
the heaviest wind and RAIN storms ever
known.
The expense of operating the city of
San Bernardino last year was $52.772,
The receipts were SAT, 083, leaving a
deficit of $56s9.
Miss Bessie Gallagher of Alameda,
and Miss Carrie Waddell of San Fran.
cisco. have gone to Trinity county on
a prospecting tour.
The Columbia Southern Railroad
Company, a new Southern Oregon
line, will BIZ put in operation about
September 9th.
Edward Oliver, secretary of the St.
George club, San Francisco, has been
charged by James Stanton, director,
with embezzling $3.50.
About half the wheat crop of Yolo
county has been sold at prices ranging
from $3.50 to $l.55, for a $l.8O rate
and some for possible higher figure.
The Riverside Fruit Exchange will
be reorganized. 1t has signed con-
tract which binds the exchanges of
Southern California into central or
ganization.
News has been received in San Fran.
cisco OF the loss of the Norwegian bark
Seladon, which left Newcastle July Is,
1896, with cargo Of coal for San
Francisco.
III steamer Umatilla. which arrived
from Seattle at San Francisco, reports
big rush at Seattle and Tacoma of
Fasteners for the Klondike. Many are
unable to find lodgings.
Los Angeles Supervisors are consid.
ering the petition of nurserymen to
have horticultural Commissioner Rust
discharged on the ground that he prizes
into their private affairs.
The work on the construction of the
new Puget Sound Notifications is being
delayed by strike of the workmen.
who demand an increase of wages he
fore they will resume operations.
The Valley road has finally secured
possession of the land it desired Mt
foint Richmond. near Oakland, by
the Superior Court of Alameda con.
hrming the sale made SC me time since.
The San Francisco market demands
10000 tons of hay annually. There
Is shortage in hay in the Coast
counties this season, and for that mat
ter, all over the State, and prices are
sure to go up by the time winter comes.
The two universities. Stanford and
Berkeley, have leased for two years
the lot on Eighth street, between Har.
rison and Folsom, and it will shortly ,
% fitted up as athletic grounds, with
seating accommodations for $500 Spec
tators.
The Starr Mills at Crockett boupht
~ Mr.. Huntington. will be converted
INTO beet sugar refinery. The incor.
'oration papers show capital stock of .
Y, 100000. @. w. McNear and A. T. .
Mcdonald of Oakland are interested in :
he enterprise. :
A fire at Portland. Oregon. totally ]
destroyed the large frame warehouse :
I W. +. Fuller q Co., situated Mt Q
thirteenth and johnson streets. The r
otal loss is estimated at between $50. b
90 and $4,000. partially covered by O
Insurance. /,
Inc Eastern oysters planted for OK. =
'erlmental purposes year ago by the !,
United States Fish Commission in Va. q
una Bay. Or, are doing we'll accord.
ng to TIE invest cations just mace nv q :,
rofessor Washburn of the University y
Oregon. W
Northern California is to have :;
inning boom and the counties of "a
rinity, Shasta and Siskiyou ID now q,
ling up with prospectors from All i;
arts OF the State. This is brougbt m
,out by the late developments on q,
Office Creek in Trinity county. er
A fire at Elgin, Or. destroyed Beck W
3 saloon, Payne's shoe shop, William S,
zeil's building. the Postoffice. White al
McLeod's office and livery stable. 81
arret and Halgrath's blacksmith shop al
d the city Jail. The same district al
q swept by fire three years ago. 81
Z. g. Berry. J. Reichmann, Mark !,
ebster. @. d. Noble and L. Gundel. =
ger OF Fresno, have been named as a ~ ~
nmittee TO represent Fresno county -
preparations for joint exhibit by -
fonr lower valley counties from =. as
sno 20 Kern at Boston next year. ~ ~
IN ordinance providing bounty OF no.