The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-13
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A summary Of Late Events That Are
BstIed Down 20 Suit our Busy
Readers.

stations at Alta and Lowell, ON the
Fresno and Visalia branch road.
Chauncey NJ. st. John, formerly OF
Oakland, will be given an appoint
ment in the San Francisco custom
house.
The Standard Oil Company's ware
house, at San Jose, has been burned
and $685. gallons of oil were con-
sumed. The loss will be $4,000.
Fire has destroyed four frame build
ings in the business center Of Pendle-
ton, Oregon. The loss was $4,000,
and the insurance amounted 20 $4,000.
Gambling. which had been sup
pressed in Whitman county, Wash,
for nearly q year. has been resumed,
and number of games are running
in Colfax.
The body of w. Weber, Keswick
boiler.maker. has been found at Red.
ding in the Sacramento River at the
foot Of East street. His neck was
broken. A murder theory is advanced
by some.
Jonn NOinbyECs lhDoAOA wv yoai .
old. committed suicide at San Jose by
taking strychnine. He had only 5
cents in money and feared that he
would soon be in need of food and
shelter.
Rich placer diggings have been 10.
Gated six miles from Dyea, Alaska,
and but few miles from the coast
These were soon completely covered
by the claims Of miners stranded at
that place.
Supervisor Bugg of MADEIRA county
is charged with being intoxicated
while sitting as a member Of the
Board. and charges have been brought
against him with a view of removing
him from office.
j. W. Perkins of Mcpherson has
shipped seventy-five pounds of Japan
csc morning glory seed to the East.
The growing of flower and vegetable
seeds is one of the coming industries
in this section.
The robber who was killed at Kes.
wick railroad station has been iden-
titled. He was J. @. Sharp, who had
worked fourteen shifts for the copper
company in November, quitting his
job on the 26th of that month.
The City Council of Santa Rosa has
instructed Mayor Jesse TO name 100
citizens. who shall select fifteen free
holders, to be voted for at the next
general election and who, If elected,
shall formulate new charter for the
city.
The delayed explosion of blast in
the Alabama mine at jamestown re.
suited in the death Of ]. l.. Simms,
who came to this county less than a
month ago from Southern California.
He was 28 years old, unmarried, and
had parents residing at Stafford. Kan.
The steamer China, which has
arrived at San Francisco, from the
Orient brought $3.50, 900 worth CT
opium. This is the first importation
since June LIST, when there was 81.
900, 200 worth of the drug in the ware
house.
The San Jose Power Company has
taken the first steps in constructing a
large electric plant, similar to that at
Folsom for the dissemination of power
in San Jose and vicinity. 1t is claimed
that the cost of the proposed plant will
be $500, 900.
The Union-street Railway Company
at Santa Rosa has ought the McDon-
ald-street Railway Company's line,
cars, horses and all. The considera-
tion is not known. This deal puts all
the street railways in the city under
the same management.
Eugenio Maria Swiss dairyman was
found dead in Arroyo GIande creek at
San Luis Obispo. He had been miss
ing for several days. He is supp sed
to have been thrown from his horse
over the embankment into the creek
and broken his neck.
Easterdy's winery, located about
eight miles southwest of San Jose. has
been totally destroyed by fire. The
origin of the fire is unknown. Loss,
$4,000. with $4,000 insurance.
This is the third winery burned in the
county in the last few weeks.
The Bendel- Nelson Company has
organized at San Francisco for the
purpose of packing, drying and pre-
serving fruit, incorporated with
capital stock of $4,000 The direc.
tors are j. w. Nelson, H. Bendel Jr.,
w. I. Hickok. John c. Nobmann aud
Jospeh A. Stulz.
Word has reached Kingman, Ariz.
OF an accident at Ell Dorado Canyon. a
mining district, sixty miles north of
that city. which resulted in the in.
slant death of Lafayette Stinnett. He
fell from his wagon and his head was
crushed by the wheels. He was a
well-known pioneer of Arizona.
The Pacific Mail steamship China,
which arrived in San Francisco re-
Gently, made the fastest trip across
the Pacific that is yet on record. She
arrived fourteen days, twelve hours.
eighteen minutes out from Yokohama.
Her run from Honolulu was made in
five days, seven hours, forty one min
utes.
Property to the amount of $4,000 has
been destroyed by fire at Santa Bar
bara. The greatest loss falls on Silas
Jones. who conducts candy store on
upper State street. Bis loss is $500,
covered by insurance in the Royal of
Liverpool. Other losses fall on the
occupants of the same block and
amount to $1,000.
The United States Attorney Gen.
eral has directed that bill in equity
30 iiied against the Coal Dealers As
sociation Of California, for violation
Of the antitrust law Of 1890. This