The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-25

President Of the Throop Polytechnic
Institute at Pasadena, has accepted the
Presidency Of the Territorial Univer-
sity Of Arizona. Professor Parker was
formerly Mayor Of that city and has
always been prominent in educational
circles.
Scarlet fever is epidemic at the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute at
Berkeley. Steps will be taken by the
State Board of Health to quarantine
the institution. Nine cases of fever
have been reported since October 14th.
and the spread Of the disease is not yet
checked
Mayor PheIan Of San Francisco will
petition the courts for a restraining
order to prevent the payment Of the
salary demands of the clerks and copy
lists Of County Clerk Curry's Office.
until the legality of the act under
which they were appointed is estab-
lished.
A fatal accident has occurred in San
Francisco, by which Mrs. Mary Vessel
and her three year-old son were burned
to death by the explosion of kerosene
lamp. The child had pulled the lamp
over and the mother in trying to save
the little one received burns which
proved fatal In a short time.
An attempt was made To wreck the
bridge Of the Eureka & klamath River
Railroad across Mad River slough. A
can containing ten pounds Of blasting
powder with fuse attached had been
placed on the bridge. Dampness pre-
vented the fuse from igniting, and the
bomb was found by the track walker.
Judge ]. V. Coffey. of the Probate
Department of the Superior Court, in
San Francisco. has been sued for $780,
900 damages by Attorney William
Tomsky, who alleges he has been
damaged to that extent because the
court chided him for alleged miscon-
duct in his management of the Michael
Levy estate litigation.
Robert Murray has brought suit
against the proprietors Of the Reese
vineyard In Fresno to recover 1000
damages for injuries inflicted by Will
liam Paterson, an employe of the
Reese Company, last month. Paterson
had been employed by the Reese people
to guard their vineyard. Paterson
saw Dewitt Doland and Robert Murray
in the field and shot them.
The schooner Stella Erland has
arrived fourteen days from Cooks In
let, Alaska. She had seven passengers
aboard, who had between them SIC, 900
in gold. Their names were Samuel
Henninger, Henry Mcclure, 7. A.
Nau, W. f. Gibson and John Osborne.
About IS, 900 worth of gold dust be.
longed to Hennlnger, and represented
his years cleanup.
BY the purchase of Grover & Co S
large stock of lumber and the leasing
Of their mill for five years. the Santa
Cruz lumber yard, comprising the
Iona Prieta Lumber Company and
the f. A. Him Company, the Timber
war at Santa Cruz is ended. and the
exclusive control of sixty thousand
uSAOo Va binbot Ahuus anu VI VIC Opcrh-
tions of three mills is assured
W. q. Carter, large land owner of
Sierra Madre, was in conference re-
Gently at Los Angeles with the officials
of the Pasadena and Pacific Railway
Company in reference to an extension
of the line, which now extends from
Santa Monica to Pasadena, on to Sierra
Madre, distance of about eight
miles. The beginning of the trail up
to Mount Wilson is at Sierra Madre.
Hueneme, in Ventura county, is
said to be greatly excited just now over
the probable establishment there of a
mammoth beet sugar factory Practi-
cally the only doubtful point is
whether all of the requisite 10000
acres will be pledged by the farmers to
be devoted to beet cultivation. The
site of the factory has been fixed at the
Lavier tract, several miles east of
Hueneme.