The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-09
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Timber of Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and CURLY Told In This
Columns;

A cement pipe factory will be estab-
lished between Yorba and Fullerton.
Between 1916 and 1896 California
added to the worlds gold supply ST.
asa, 112, 904.
Granite from Santee in San Diego
county is being shipped to San Jose for
building purposes.
Sylvester Newhall, a pioneer nur-
seryman and n~romipent citizen of San
Jose, died there recently.
Forest fires are raging in Verdugo
mountains. The flames can be seen
and the heat felt in Pasadena.
John D. Tallant, the San Francisco
banker who became insane while travel
ing Fast, has entirely recovered.
Mrs. Eliza Terrold of San Francisco
has been licensed as a plot of tugboats
that ply on the bay of San Francisco.
A comparison of the present assess
.ment roll of Fresno county shows a
falling off in values Of over 81 ,250, 900.
A suit to prove that the Perris Irri-
CATION district in Riverside county
was never legally organized has been
filed.
The biggest melt of gold ever made
in the mint at San Francisco took place
recently. Four tons of gold were put
in at one charge.
Several prominent people of Port
Townsend, Wash, have been accused
of completely in alleged landing of
Chinese in the U. s.
Thirty-five men who started for
Dawson City, Alaska, returned to
Seattle, because they were convinced
they could not get over the passes this
winter.
D. S. Tuthill, cashier for the firm of
Allen & Lewis at Portland, Oregon,
suicided by shooting him self three
times. Business troubles are assigned
as the cause.
The refuse from the Los Alamitos
sugar factory which finds its way to
the sea via Coyote creek, is said to be
killing fish of all kinds. Fishermen
are alarmed.
In 1896 the wheat acreage of San
Bernardino county was 800 acres. 1t
is now 1000 acres. Riverside county's
wheat acreage is now 5000 acres
against 80, 900 a year ago.
Claus Spreckels is reported to have
donated $40, 900 to the fund being
raised by the Salvation Army for the
purpose of colonizing unemployed men
on ten tracts of land.
R. E. Ford of the manual training
department of the Minneapolis high
school, has been ele1ted to take charge
of the machine shops of the Throop
Polytechnic institute, Pasadena.
There is now only one place where
Sequoia timber can be obtained, the
Government of the United States bav-
ing reserved all of it, except that found
in one canyon below Fresno, Cal.
Oil in Los Angeles sells for Gu cents
a barrel. Efforts are afoot to form a
producers pool to sell the large sur
plus in San Francisco. Storage tanks
of 10000 barrels capacity are con-
templated.
The Delhi creamery, two miles from
Santa Ana, has opened. This cream
cry is one of the finest in the State. 1t
has a separating capacity of So 900
pounds and will make butter from 400
gallons Of milk every hour.
Governor Rogers of Washington has
signed and forwarded to Warden Ca
iron the discharges of nine prisoners in
the p~enitentiary in the early part of
this month. Only two of these will
have their civil rights restored.
The steamer Cleveland has been
bonded to engage in the business of
carrying bonded goods between north
ern ports and San Francisco. She will
be in competition with the Pacific
Coast Company's steamers in that bus
mess.
The Native. Lumber Company of San
.Jacinto, CAL, has sold 1000 cases to
the honey men in that vicinity, which
means twenty five carloads, 800, 900
pounds, which at 8 cents per pound
makes $l5, 900 in that one valley for
honey.
An illicit still has been discovered
at Ellen Valley, near Ukiah, near the
site recently vacated by the late Sla-
vonian colony. The still was concealed
in a tunnel running into the noun
tain, and was in complete working
order when found.
Colusa is in a state of great excite
ment over the announcement that the
attempt made to lynch Pedro Vinelli is
to be repeated. Ever since Vinelli
attempted to murder Miss Florine
Poirier threats of lynching have been
heard on every street corner.
A San Bernardino court has decided
that the conviction and sentence OF an
offender by a Justice Of the Peace
holding court on Sunday are void and
of no account. 1t was a Barstow man
who had been fined for battery, and
he was turned loose by the decision.
f.. Thirteen members of the family and
living on the farm of Henry
neal Metropolis, Ills, were
poisoned and three are dead. 1t is
thought that at least eight of them
will die. A hired girl who is insane
threw a package of poison in the we'll.
The Columbia river salmon pack is
normal one-470, 900 cases of Q doz.
1 lib. tins each. British Columbia
papers prophesy that 1897 will witness
The largest catch in the history of the