The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-07
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Namber Of Miscellaneous Jotti"g'
Brisny and ourtIy Told In This
Column.

A five.acre ranch has just been sold
in Pomona for $4,000.
The white scale has appeared in
Anaheim orange orchards.
Stations all along the Southern Cali.
fornia road are being reprinted.
A movement is afoot to build =
$4,000 Masonic temple at Orange.
The Plumss Supervisors will build a
pesthouse near the County Infrmary.
l. N. Hoag. the newly appointed
Postmaster at Redlands, is 70 years of
age.
Ventura proposes 20 issue eco, 900
forty-year bonds for q new electric
light plant.
Charles Lathrop has sold the La
throp block at Pomona to Louis
Phillips for $40. 900.
A twenty pound son was born to the
wife Of Gustave zeisler. in Walla
Walla. the other day.
San Luis obispo county. since Aug.
ust. has paid bounty on 10000
squirrel tails at cents each.
G. p. Baird Of Angels Camp has
petitioned the Town Trustees for AN
electric-lght franchise.
By January /. 1899, the Santa Fe
road will have spent $4,000 in i'm.
provements on its Southern California
lines.
Madame Lewis, the queen Of shop
lifters," who was arrested recently in
Seattle, pleaded guilty of petty,larceny,
and was fined $50. She promised to
leave Seattle.
It is stated that the State Normal
School in Chico has been n loss to the
Chico school district Of $4,000 ON &C,
count Of no State money being drawn
for those atte 1ding the institution.
The Ontario Surprise says: North
Ontario, with its five packing.houses
running at full blast reminds one Of
the boom days New buildings are
going up and there is general stir all
around"
The Klamath Falls Express says
that the parties who bought dogs in
Klamath and jackson counties, Or,
for the Klondike trade, and shipped
them to Seattle. lost $500 in the
venture.
Robert Neal, of Wilbur, Wash, has
been appointed inspector Of fruit in
Lincoln county. This is the ninth
county in Washington which has or
ganized according to the recent law
and appointed inspectors.
The Oregon Telephone g. Telegraph
Company will push its line through
from Cottage Grove to Roseburg early
in the season. A number OF poles and
orossbars have been gotten out near
Cottage Grove TO be used in the work,
The cost to Clatsop county Or, for
the trial of Howell and the two trials
OF Ward was about $500 each, or $500
for the three. This amount, together
with the interest on the missing
money. makes the cost to the present
time about $4,000.
Governor Budd has appointed Mayor
Phelan member of the Board of Re.
gents of the University of California,
vice George T. Marye. term expired.
j. West Martin was appointed to sue
coed himself. Both appointments are
for period of sixteen years.
The sheriff of Lane county, Or, has
opened the tax rolls for the collection
OF 1897 taxes. The law says that
taxes will become delinquent on April
/, but owing to the rolls being opened
Tor collection at so late date this is
not practicable, and the rolls will
probably be kept open longer.
Company c, of the N. q. W., in
Walla Walla, has received 80 rounds
OF fixed ammunition for use in the
Springfield rifles with which the men
are armed. No significance is attached
to the occurrence. however, as the car.
tridges will in all probability be ex.
pended in rifle practice. /
At the request of Mayor Olmstead,
the Spokane city council summarily ,
removed c. F. Backus from the office
OF police judge, to which he was ap.
pointed two months ago. Intemper.
ance and collision with the gambling :
element are given as the reasons for
his removal. Justice Saunders will
succeed to the office.
Postmaster ]. o. Miller Of Bakers.
held and his office force are being
troubled with the regular spring visi- /
tation Of peculiar and as yet un. |
classified bug W: ich comes in the mail
bags arriving from the south. The
bugs look very much like giant mos.
quitoes without wings. Their habit is {
10 crawl around for few days, then I
hunt warm place to die. ]
From the present outlook, it will
not be at all surprising if. before the
season of 1898 is far advanced. there
will be upwards Of 1900 quartz and
placer miners laboring in the mineral
regions tributary to Baker City, Or.
and that the yield of gold for this year
will surpass that Of $4,000, 900 in
1897, by many hundreds of thousands
OF dollars. says the Baker City Demo-
crat.
Shespmen in Grant County, Or.
are counting on heavy crop Of wcel
this year. their fiocks having been
kept In good condition during the past
winter. Should spring weather pre-
rail. shearirg would soon be general in
hat county, as sheepmen are anxious !
o get their wool ready for market and I
hen wait till the mountain roads be- h
ween Them and the railorad become 4
ayigable 4
Since the work done on the south n
tty by the government last fall. says q
'e Eapdon Recorder. there has been a is
arka6 fmurovarnaut in tina NINTH ~ an,