The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-10
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number Of Miscellaneous JottinEs
Briefly and ourtIy Teld In This
Column.

Elsinore has voted e20. 900 bonds for
city water works.
The Ojai Valley railroad will be
ready for business about March 30.
The San Bernardino Supervisors
have refused to offer a bounty for
gopher soalps.
or all the localities in San Bernar.
dino county. Rialto suffered least from
the recent freeze.
Clearwater proposes to change its
name, and Yukon has been suggested
as a substitute.
The Southern Pacific Company will
build double track between San Jose
and San Francisco.
The Grand Jury of San Francisco is
preparing to investigate the Harbor
Commission scandal
Redlands ministers will make an at
tempt to solve the tramp question by
starting woodward.
The city of Monrovia has sunk
well for the municipal water system,
which flows fifteen inches.
un the Thresher ranch near Gridley
one olive tree, thirty years old, yielded
thirty-s gallons Of fruit.
A soda.pop factory at Fullerton, the
property Of q. B. Higgins, has a
capacity Of 800 dozen bottles day.
A San Jacinto planning mill is going
into the business of making wash.
boards. None are made on this Coast.
Two Pennsylvania oil men recently
arrived at Petrolia, Humboldt county,
60 inspect the oil field of that district.
An election in the Fullerton Union
high school district, March o, calls
for $4,000 bonds to erect high school |
building.
The merchants uf Fullerton have de- q
clared war on the Santa Fe and are
hauling their freight from Los Angeles s
by wagons. a
During January the Blue Canyon
Coal mine. in Whatcom county, p
WASH, had an output Of 100 tons, the n
largest for three years. I
The Governor has appointed Fletcher
A. Cutler Of Eureka, Humboldt county, ii
Superior Judge of Del Norte county, N
vice James E. Murphy, deceased. Il
Frank Ko. naturalized japanese o,
and member of the Salvation Army,
has left Santa Barbara for Japan to il
work as missionary among his former Of
countrymen. Il
The British Yukon Company says Il
that construction work on the railway
through White Pass, Alaska, will COM tt
mence at once. The road will be al
forty.fiye miles long. 81
The dryness of the season has re- 81
tarded beet planting and except in the
neighborhood Of the factory at Los #
Alamitos, where the land is damp, OF
very little seed has been planted. b,
The City Engineer of Pasadena has 50
submitted estimates Of the sewers "e
needed to complete the system in that
city. Forty-seven miles are needed, In
and the cost Will be- nearly $3.50, 900. q
The jury in the case Of George G. II,
owens OF Modesto. who shot and killed ma
his wife on December 18, brought in
a verdict few days ago of guilty of
murder in the first degree, and fixed the =, ~
death penalty. Nj
The Gilroy School Trustees have 60
adoptd the design submitted by Oak Lis
land architects for new high-sohool
building. The structure will cost
about $4,000. and work upon il will III
begin in few weeks ~
The Valley road is soon to have the SO,
fastest steamer on the San JOAQUIN AL
river between Stockton and San Fran. du
CISCO. 1t is being built by the Califor-
MA Navigation company especially for
he travel along the Valley road.
tramp by the name Of Tom Kope. liza
ICED AZ years, who had been doing fus
'ome work at st. GATHERINGS Convent
Tor three weeks. while under the in.
huence of liquor. stepped in front of IN
rain at Benicia and was instantly va
killed. sit
The steamer Hermosa, which has
been run on the Catalina route for sew.
,ral years, is to be sent to Puget MOI
sound, to run between Seattle and ing
Port Townsend, Wash. The Falcon pei
Ias been improved, and will handle Pri
he Catalina business. me
Rey. DR.. Hartman, for the past u =.
sgen years minister of the EPISCOPAL NJ.
'hurch 81 San Rafael, is dead. A 80,
'eAr ago last Christmas, while ad. -.
Pressing his congregation, he he. Ao'
anne paralyzed in the throat. and since J
hat time no has been falling. An
John Sruer, who has pursued the Ia,
rade of cobler in Ashland, Oregon, for ; ,S.
everal years, committed suicide re. a"'
entity by taking strychnine and then an an
hooting himself through the head u 10.
nth pistol. He was for long time r
miner in Trinity county. Cal. Az Az,
Judge Hanford of the United States bee
curt at Tacoma, WASH, has refused
} release Lee Yee Sing, son Of Chi.
ese merchant, on habeas corpus, hold. :
q that Chinese rejected by the cus.
ms inspectors cannot appeal to the cen
,urts. The judge dismissed the pro. ooi
edings for lack of jurisdiction. TAX
sea
The Alaska Sanitary Company has thr
ZEN organized under the laws OF the ret,
ate of Illinois for the purpose of es. Boa
hospitals in the principal to ]
WINS Of Alaska and the Klondike parI
lining regions, and DR.. #. q. Booth ceiy
9 left for Alaska to carry out the saw
rposes of the organization. spir,
The Valley railroad company has he o
Iployed regular landscape garden.
who will visit all of the principal I'll
tions on the line Of the road and mere
y tne ground. Shrubs, grass and Chic
eral varieties Of flowers will be Asse