The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-22

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the tumblers turned with wire.
Ninety eight dollars i'll money and
$40 worth of stamps were taken
There is no clew to the robbers.
Beet planting will commence in the
SIN Juan valley this week and the
acreage to be sown will be about the
same as last season. The price paid
last year for the wedding and cultiva-
tion of the beets was $l.I5 per acre.
This year contracts are being made at
the rate of 81 per acre.
According to the rating of the State
University at Berkeley, the Santa Ana
High School il at the head Of all high
schools OF the State. and the primary
and grammar grades are ranked with
the best. This means good deal to
prospective settlers in Southern Cali.
fornia.
A golf club has been organized at
Helmet, with following officers: J.
H. Botterell. president; f. BecheI,
secretary; f. NJ. Freeman, treasurer.
Among the members enrolled are J.
A. Brown, E. NJ. Freeman, Wright.
Hards. Mum, Prugh, Becher, w. E
and J. H. Botterell, Daggett, Robert
son and Boalich.
An investigation of the ostrich in.
dustry discloses the fact that it may be
one of great profit in certain parts of
California, for it is not only the plumes
which find ready sale at fancy prices,
but the skin is valuable for leather,
and the flesh is said to be palatable,
while even the egg shell finds ready
purchasers.
1t is reported that the contracts for
the completion of the Coast railway
line will be let at once. The contract
for the grading was supposed to have
been awarded some months ago, and
Contractors McMurtie and Stone are
now engaged in this work. High
officials Of the company state that
large forces may be put ON at once, and
that the road will be pushed to com.
pletion within this year.
Articles of incorporation of the
Pecos Valley Railroad and Construc.
ton Con pany have been filed. The
object of the company is to extend the
Pecos valley road from Roswell. N.
NJ. 225 miles northeast to the Texas
Panhandle and connect with the Santa
Fe or Rock Island, with the view of
establishing new through line from
the Missouri river to the Mexican
border.
Charles N. Young. job-printer of
Los Angeles, residing on Lucas avenue,
has fallen heir to a handsome sum
from the estate of the late Joseph B.
McCullagh, editor of the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat. Mr.. Young's mother
was sister of McCullagh, who left
an estate of about 100000 Mr.
Young says as YET there are but thir-
teen known heirs to the estate. As
Mr.. Young has long been unable to
work on account of poor health, the !
money he will receive will be very
acceptable.
The Pasa lena and Mount Lowe
Railroad Company have filed articles
OF incorporation. The capital stock
is 5000, 900. OF this sum $40, 900 has
been subscribed. The incorporators
are Henry M. Newly, A. b. Cody. Us.
Terrence. J. d. Pope, Andrew Nc
Nally and p. NJ. Green. The object in
forming the corporation is to furnish
means for making over the property
OF the company owning the existing
road and as soon as it is offered for
sale under the foreclosure proceedings
now in progress.
Z. Ferrand, who has been employed
by Campbell Johnson for ten Years
past as wine-maker i'll the San Rafael
Winery. near South Pasadena, was
burned to death recently. Ferrand
loaded some wine OH a dray and as
the driver left he saw the unfortunate
man enter the little house in which he
lived near the winery. 1t is thought
that he intended to prepare his break.
fast. Soon the place was seen to he
ON fire and before any one could effect
an entrance, the building was con.
sumed. Ferrand's body was afterward
found in the embers, lying on the
remnants of couch.
In Los Angeles recently Judge Ross
OF the United States Circuit Court rem.
dered an exhaustive opinion In the case
OF the Mercantile Trust Company
versus the Atlantic and Pacific Rail.
road Company ct al, in which he
holds that the latter corporation must
pay the delinquent taxes and attorneys
fees incurred in the long litigation
over certain stretch of road sold by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com.
pany under the conditions of a certain
agreement by which the latter corpora.
ton assumed the taxes and other ex.
penses OF the road pending the payment
OF the purchase price. The amount
involved is 4s,6ss.74.
A decision has boen rendered nv
Judge Noyes of the Superior Court Of
Riverside county which if sustained
in the higher courts will invalidate
the entire $765,OO0 bonds issued by
the Alessandro irrigation district.
The decision is rendered in the case of
John Hansen VS.. W. +. Canadian. COL.
lector of the irrigation district. in
which tho plaintiff prays for an iniunc.
lion restraining the said tax collector
irom selling his property for taxes
levied by the district The decision
is sweeping and of great import to the |
people of the district. as it has long
been held that it was not legally organ.
lzed. according to the letter of the
wright act, and that the bonds were
given to the Bear Valley company for
equivalent never received.
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