The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-28
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A summary az Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Silk culture has become an estab-
lished industry in San Diego.
There is talk Of establishing a col
lege of commerce in the State Univer-
sity.
A large storage reservoir is being
constructed eight miles above Oro-
vile.
Pasadena will at once begin work
for her New YeaI rose tournament
parade.
The Vale Union high school district
in Riverside county is to be disincor-
porated.
Rich quicksilver mines are reported
TO have been developed in Line County,
Oregon.
J. ID. Gibbs, Assistant Cashier at the
San Francisco Custom House, has been
discharged.
The town of Santa Rosa is said to be
overrun with sneak thieves and daring
burglars.
An evaporating plant is being put in
at Yakima, Wash, by enterprising
citizens of that town.
A man has been arrested in San
Francisco on suspicion that he Is one
OF the Ukiah stage robbers.
The doctors who held the autopsy on
the remains of the late Senator Fair
in San Francisco, are to be paid $1,000.
The oil well being sunk by the sugar
factory people on the Chino hills is
said to have cost over $1,000 up to date.
Rev. Henry T. Miller, the new pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church,
Redlands, has had his initial reception.
The Los Angeles retail butchers
have formed an association and raised
the price on all meats twenty per cent.
The Queen will relieve the Corona,
which will this winter run to and from
PIT. Townsend, Washington, to Alaska
ports.
The bond of r. NJ. McCabe of San
Jose, in the State Range Quartz mines
of San Bernardino county, has been
sold for $4,000.
A packing plant near Portland, Or,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
600 The plant had a capacity of 800
hogs, 80 cattle and 20 sheep day.
The Rev. Hugh X. Walker, of Balti-
more will succeed the Rev. DR.. Chi
chester, as pastor of the Emmanuel
Presbyterian church, Los Angeles
The Santa Fe road will build ten
mile branch in San Bernardino county,
from San Jaointo to Lakview. Later
this line will be extended to Alessan-
dro.
City Engineer Eugene Capps of San
Diego has filed report charging that
the Norma dam for which the city
voted 81 800, 900 is being faulty con-
structed.
Mail Clerk Freeman has been sus-
pended at San Diego under charges OF
discourtesy and misconduct from the
postmaster at that place. He claims il
is politics.
The Riverside Trustees have set
aside thirty five acres for permanent
park and recreation ground. They
could not make better investment on
behalf of the city.
The Department of Agriculture is
seeking information in Southern Cali.
fornia to help in its plans for the
establishment of flower farms for the
production of perfumes.
:, The Jesuit fathers of San Francisco
are preparing to build boat to run on
the Yukon between Catholic missions
1t will be so feet long and % feet
beam and will be called the st. Joseph.
Beginning the first of the new veal
the California Limited train Oh the
Santa Fe will make triweekly trips.
The travel to and from Southern Cali
fornia is always heaviest in the early
spring months.
The State Fish Commissioner OF
Washington reports that the Pacific
Coast salmon catch for the present
year will break all past records. The
entire catch will amount to nearly
5000 ,0n0 cases.
The orange crop at Riverside will be
third larger than last years, in the
estimation of experts. As better
prices will be obtained, the conditions
are having very depressing effect on
the calamity bowler
Albert b. Summers of San Diego
has secured divorce from his wife,
Sarah E. Summers, after thirty
seven years of happy married life, be.
cause the latter became Spiritual en-.
thusiast and deserted him.
Several efforts have Of late been
made to wreck trains ON the Sierra
railway, by placing distractions ON the
track. The track was creased one
time. SO that the wheels of the locomo.
tive and cars refused to revolve.
The Los Angeles supervisors have
granted license for a saloon lust
outside the Pomona city limits on the
west. Pomona citizens are much ex.
ercisad over the matter, although nc
protest was mado before the board.
A new style Of boat. for use on the
Yukon river is on exhibition in Seat.
tie. 1t is composed entirely of iron
and canvas, weighs less than I25
pounds, and can be taken to pieces
and placed in very small compass.
The Winningham group of copper
mines now to be developed by the
Jerome Copper Co., at Jerome, Ari
IONA, adjoins the famous United Verde
group, which w. A. Clark refused to
let go to foreign syndicate for $780,
900, 900.
Suit has been brought in the United