The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
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.

siderable damage at Coronado.
Assemblyman Vosburg wants every
attache of the Legislature TO sign a
roll every day.
Alaska salmon packers have formed
a combine which will completely con-
troll the market.
A sensation has been caused in the
Legislature by the discovery Of certain
erasures in bill.
Assemblyman Mead has withdrawn
his bill to restrict railroad bonds TO
80 per cent of construction.
The Press, of Santa Rosa, wants q
law passed to compel children to pro-
vide for their aged parents.
The inquiry for Southern California
fruit lands around Ell Cajon from
Eastern parties is on the increase.
Four hundred and eighty acres of
new land will be put into corn this
season on the Santa Margarita ranch.
K. p. Stevens, Santa Barbara en-
gineer, through the death of an aunt in
Mississippi, has fallen heir to 81 ,500,-
900.
The Board of Supervisors of Santa
Barbara county have ordered that the
county prisoners be employed upon
the roads.
Westminster township, Orange county,
is petitioning the county board of sup
ervisors for prohibition to apply to
that place.
Fullerton, Orange county, is out for
electric lights and proposes to put in
its own plant, also to establish system
OF fire protection.
The San Francisco Supervisors have
declared unanimously against the
crushing of stone at Folsom prison
for use upon the San Francisco streets.
John Murray and Henry Wilson.
who some time ago passed forged
checks on Riverside and Los Angeles
banks have been arrested at Santa
Ana.
The Assembly Committee on Public
Morals has been instructed to report
at the next session bill regulating
race tracks and prohibiting winter rae
ing.
During hard times, and when butter
and milk do not bring so good prices
the dairyman and creamery man must
produce more of them in order to get a
living.
Butte, Mont. is soon to have an
other smelling plant, to be constructed
INV hn nnoiIanka1 G,,,a1ttYn
composed of Pennsylvania and London
capital.
Bridgeford's bill to provide for the
organization and government of irriga-
ton districts, which has passed both
houses, has been reported signed by the
Governor.
Thomas Fulton, one of the Oldest
settlers of Sonoma county. died at his
home at Fulton recently. He was a
native of Lawrence county, Ind, ~
years of age.
As soon as he shall have the Legisla.
ture off his hands Labor Commissioner
Fitzgerald intends to see that shop
girls are allowed to use the seats the
law has provided for them.
1t IL reported at San Bernardino that
George Worthington, who lately left
with his wagons for Randsburg, had
been thrown from one of them in the
Cajon pass and his neck broken.
A. w. Anthony of San Diego, has
purchased the schooner Wilberg and
will take a six-months' cruise along
the Lower California coast as natural.
list for the Smithsonian Institute OF
Washington, d. @.
At the Railroad Commissioners
meeting, it was decided to temporarily
postpone action on uniform system OF
railroad bookkeeping, pending infor
nation to arrive from the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Shasta county has SO saloons, paying
500 license; Siskiyou has 90, paying
500 per year, Trinity 80. paying 500
Tehama 81, paying $75. and Modoc
l3, with $40 quarterly license. Suffer,
with no license. has no saloons at all.
That business is getting brisker on
the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railroad was indicated by the
action Of the board of directors at re.
cent meeting. So much traffic has
been taken from the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company that a considerable
addition to the rolling stock of the
company was found necessary to handle
It, The directors have decided tc
double the rolling stock of the road fol
the handling of freight.
The report of the San Diego Water
Company for the year 1896 shows the
gross earnings as follows: Consumers,
s79.247; street sprinkling. $1,766;
sewer flushing, 1915; fire hydrants,
$164; sundry water sales, $677; taps,
meters and miscellaneous, $4,1S7;
total. $104, 100. The gross cash re-.
ceipts were $l17.944. The expenses
were: General, 81, Ala; office, $6,632
legal, S7,706; taxes. $l0,043; pump
ing, 1851; fiume water, $22, 5SS
bond interest, $4,000; construction
s4.759; total, $124,6S7.
The bill introduced in the Legisla
ture for the employment of special
ist in sociological education in citiel
and counties" provides that he mus
be person licensed to practice medi
cine, surgery and law in all counties, -
and he shall be paid the same salary
as the superintendent of schools. His
duties include the preparation of data
70 equip parents with knowledge for
the moral, mental and physical train
ing Of their offspring; to lecture before
teachers institutes; to act as special
scunsel and observer during criminal
tasals 10 which insanity is involved,
etc.