The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-07
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down TO Suit our Busy
Readers.

Inc drhn0 canyon nOlel VI ing
staff has been burned. Loss $4,000.
The Carmelo coal mine. near Mon
terey, is to be reworked after four
years of idleness.
The Temple-street Railway Of Los
Angeles may soon be closed, il is said,
rs it is losing money.
The orange crop in the vicinity of
Pomona is to exceed by 30 per cent
the crop of last year.
Typhoid fever is laying low many
prospectoIs and other residents at
Dawson city, Alaska.
Santa Ana has adopted an ordinance
taxing every railroad which passes
through the town, 500 year.
The scheme to raise $4,000 by
special levy for school purposes at Long
Beach is not being favorably received.
Fire destroyed the barley crushing
plant and much grain belonging to ].
r. Jones, at Woodland. Loss, 5000.
Napa county streams have just been
replenished with 90, 900 Lake Tahoe
cut-throat trout from the hatchery at
Sisson.
DIR. T. j. See the astronomer in
charge of the Lowell observatory lost
his books and papers that can never be
replaced.
The Pacific Borax Company will
build a narrow gauge railroad from
Daggett 70 miles to their mines in
Death valley.
Leon Hill has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life at Fresno for the
murder of Lloyd Duke, last June. The
defendant will appeal.
The Supervisors of Kern county have
under consideration special election
to vote on the question Of refunding
the bonded indebtedness of the county.
The Supervisors of Tulare county
have fixed the tax rate at $3.50 on the
500 valuation. Last year the rate of
Tulare county was the same as in
Kings county, $1.60.
The Los Angeles oil wells have
ceased pumping for 80 days There is
big surplus of oil ON hand and the
price has gone down to As cents per
barrel at the wells.
Miss May Newell, teacher,
threatens to give the board of educa.
ton of San Bernardino trouble. She
had four-years' contract to teach and
was recently displaced.
Byron Waters has resigned his posi-
ton as claims attorney of the Southern
Pacific Company. The new man is
David r. Sessions. Waters will 90
into general law practice.
The citrio acid factory about to open
at Ontario has secured supply of Gull
lemons at "a cent per pound. This
gives producers about 10 cents per box
for otherwise useless products.
James H. Barry, editor of The Star,
was among the new appointees as
supervisor at San Francisco, but has
declined to act because his private
affairs will not give him time.
The rumor that John Cudahy, the
well-known packer and Board of
Trade man, was about to embark in
the beet-sugar industry, at Los An
geles, is denied by Mr.. Cudahy.
An engine and dynamo has been
purchased by the Regents of the Ore
gon State University for an electric
plant to light the University buildings.
The plant will be put in at once.
Francis Marion Jolly, a native of
Indiana. and pioneer of California,
died suddenly at Salinas. Cal. He
was seventy three years old and came
to the State in 1851, settling in San
Francisco.
Regents of the University of Cali
fornia have refused to permit homeo.
pathy to be taught in the medical col.
lege. Governor Bndd and Regents
Jeter, j. E. Budd and Foot, voted with
the minority.
The building of the Children's
home Society in Los Angeles is to be
called Victoria Home in recognition of
gift of $1,000, made by the English
residents of that city as Victoria
jubilee memorial.
The Black Diamond Coal Mining
Company has filed libel against the
steamer H. C. Grady, James E. Den.
ny, captain and master, to recover
xl046.44. alleged to be due for coal
furnished the steamer.
The certificate of incorporation Of
the San Diego Land and Town Com.
pany at Kittery county of York Ne.
has been led in the San Diego County
Clerks office. The capital stock il
placed at $3,150,0 900.
w. ]. Bsuman, eldest son of John
Bauman, leading brewer of Tuol. |
umne county. committed suicide at
MS home in Sonora, by shooting him.
sell through the head with a rifle
Sickness caused his act
Joe Choynski and Joe Goddard. the
opposing contestants in two of the great. |
est whirlwind fights in the history of
pugilism, have been matched to meet
In San Francisco in November. The
National Athletic club has secured the
match.
The recent gold strike eleven miles
from Castells, in Shasta county is
creating some local excitement The
ledge is fourteen feet wide, and the
ore is said 10 be rich. This is new
mining section, which has been little
prospeoted.
Los Angeles has a novel COMPANY
Just incorporated under the name Of
the Yot 10y Hing Association. It's OBJ.
lect 10 ITO encourage and cultivate
social friendly and BENEVOLENT rela.