The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-22
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary Of Late Events That Art
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Rialto has filed articles of incorpora
ton. Capital stock, $4,000.
The operations for more publ
water at Cotton have interfered witt
the private supply from many srtesial
wells and litigation is likely to follow
over the matter.
Articles Of incorporation of the EN-
porium and Golden Rule Bazaar hav,
been fled in the office of the Count!
Clerk at San Francisco. The capita
stock is $500, 900.
County Assessor Ortman has com
pleted the assessment of San joaquin
county, and the total foots up $50,
605,3SS. The franchise valuation
have been raised $47S,759
A sandstone company of Flagstaff
has received an order for over 1000
carloads Of stone to be used in the
construction Of the High School
building in San Francisco.
MoDaniel's lumber and single mill
near Whatcom, WASH, burned re.
GENTLY; also the dryhouse and $50, 200
shingles. The loss on the plant is
about $4,000 partially insured.
Father Clark, the founder of the
Christian Endeavor Society, was pres
emit at the convention in San Fran
cisco. He was assigned to beautifully
decorated apartments in the Palace
Hotel.
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.
Assessor Siebe of San Francisco has
filed his report, showing total as
sessment of $S45, 1856, 400, of which
$67,01S,1S4 is personal property,
$9O,6S5,740 on improvements and
$lS7, 636, $40 is ON land.
The Washington gold mine at
Julian, San Diego county, which was
reopened few months ago after
lying idle many years, is in good ore
and employs larger force of men than
any mine in that section.
The handsome residence on the Tyler
ranch two miles from Tehama, Cal.
has been burned The house cost
$4,000. The contents also were
destroyed with the exception of a
piano and other articles Of furniture.
The Southern Pacific brought from
Ogden in eight days "a trains, with
SSS oars, bearing "a 1000 people. By
the other Southern Pacific routes 49,.
600 more have come, making 40, 900
Endeavorers and ohesp-rate people in
all.
The search for natural gas at the
County Hospital at Stockton has been
failure Though flow of 10, 900
feet OF gas per day has been secured,
the contractor stated that he would be
unable to go lower for greater SUP.
ply.
J. w. Congdon, California botan-
ist, has donated to Stanford Univer.
sity a large collection of plants. Thew
were gathered in Europe and the
eastern part Of America, and include
many rare and choice specimens.
The collection is valued at $500.
There are no fish in Crater Lake.
Oregon, the deepest fresh water lake
In the world, and the Government has
decided to stock it with trout. The ,
natives used to say that the lake is ;
pottomless, but the soundings have ,
shown its greatest depth to be 1000 ,
feet. :
One Of the new oil wells near Full. I
erton exploded one night recently. {
The flames shot up 200 feet. The dam
age amounted to $1,000. Over seven
nundred acres of grain have been
destroyed by fire in Butte county. The .
wheat was insured for about one.t third !,
of its value.
n. d. Raymond, q, wheelman of Olym. 7
pia' wash, recently broke the record |,
OF time for the road run between TIA. h
coma and Olympia, making the trim "
from the capital city to Tenth street !,
ana Tacoma avenue in one hour and n
minutes. He pedaled over @
the course prescribed for the Olympia a,
and intercity medals. e
There is great excitement in ukiab o.
over the fact that DR.. E. w. King s
medical superintendent Of the Mendo' b
cino State Insane Asylum, has refused a,
70 deliver the keys of that institute over N
to DR.. W. N. Moore, who was an. al
pointed to succeed the present inoum. al
oent at meeting Of the board of di. W
rectors held something over a month Q,
ago. q,
s. W. While, general snnerin.o, T
dent for Cattle King" Henry Miller II
pas discovered daring plot to kidpap t,
Miller, compel hin TO sign a s25. lie
'0O check, hold him while one of the "
party cashed the check and then es. W
APE to Mexico. The best saddle it
took in the country had been selec.
ed by the abductors, and a deserted hs
amp on the further side of Buena OF
Vista swamp was the spot where Mil. dc
or was to be held. W
Millions of young grasshoppers have 70
uddenly made their appearance in the ~
Western part of Nevada county, and ~
re causing fearful devastation to ss
ardens, orchards and ranches. The ~
ests were first noticed in the vicinity a,
Bridgeport. Whence they came y,
om is not known. They are eating ~
'ery green thing before them, and 90
herever they have been scenes of de- 90
'uction are most disheartening to .
nchers and other property -owners. III,
The Traders Bank of Tacoma has be
d another dividend of 30 per cent, dit
ich makes rs cents ON the dollar the
% far paid by the receiver. The cas-,
or dividends were 10. 90 IN IN ana ;po