The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-29
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to suit.Our Busy
Readers.

Inc faShOcuh duu aOihN iaAhbo'
will build stadium, or athletic park.
at Garganza. There is also faint
rumor Of $20O. 900 hotel.
Santa Rosa hopes to secure the Ad-
mission Day celebration by the Native
Sons this year. and is working hard
for it six months in advance.
A sanitarium for oonvalescents, in
which several local physicians of prom
inence are said to be interested, will
soon be founded at Mill Valley.
The steamer Mexico. which left
Seattle recently. carried 430 miners
to the Yukon, the largest number Of
passengers ever carried TO ALASKA by
any vessel.
The Pure Food Congress has sent
letters to all of the Supervisors in the
State, asking for cooperation in the
crusade against the adulteration OF
food products.
The Valley road graders are now 10
miles out from Fresno on the way to
Hanford and grading rapidly and will
have finished their work to Kings
river by the end Of this month.
A violent gale passed over Portland,
Oregon, few days ago, blowing at
the rate of flfty.fve miles an hour,
which is the highest velocity since the
establishment of the Weather Bureau
in 1870. The storm prevailed gener-
ally over Oregon and Washington.
Governor Budd has signed the fol-
lowing bills and they have been trans
mitted to the Secretary of State: Sem
ate bill 507-Authorizing the State
Board of Harbor Commissioners to
establish and maintain a free public
market upon the water front Of San
Francisco. Senate bill 156-Appropri-
ating S41.4S to pay the claim of Ernest
Weyand, District Attorney of Colusa
county, for foreclosing State school
lands. Senate bill 5l3 - Providing
for the construction Of State high
way from Sacramento to Folsom, and
appropriating money for crushed rock
and granite or stone blocks for drains
and culverts for same. Senate bill
494 - Amending sections 1854, 1889.
1492, LAT, / SOL, 1903 and 1905 Of the
Political Code relating to normal
schools.
A new game law has passed both
houses. 1t provides that no person
shall use shotgun of larger oaliber
than number 10 guage. The open
season for different game is as follows;
Male dees, July 10Th to October 10Th,
and then not for sale; for valley
quails, cartridges, rails or wild ducks.
from October 18th to February 10Th;
doves. July 10th to February 10th.
To kill any of the above out of season
is misdemeanor, punishable by fine
of not less than $40 or more than $500.
or imprisonment in county Jail for not
less than 10 days or more than 100
days. or by both fine and imprisonment.
1t is unlawful to hunt, pursue, take,
kill, destroy or have possession of any
female deer, spotted fawn, antelope,
elk or mountain sheep at any time.
The following bills received the
Governors signature and have been
transmitted to the Secretary of State:
Assembly bill 240-Appropriating a
sum to pay deficiency in the erection
and operation Of the Folsom rock
crushing plant. Assembly bill 10
Requiring corporations to pay their
employees at least once month. As.
sembly bill 0S-Providing for public
school teachers annuity fund and
amending the law of 1895 relative to
the same. Assembly bill 3s4-Amend-
ing the act of 1876 relative to fire de.
partments. Senate bill 574-Amend.
ing section 534 Of the Political Code so
as to read las follows: 1.-THE annual
salary of the Superintendent of State
Printing shall be $4,000. He may APP
point deputy superintendent of State
printing, who shall be a civil executive
officer and who shall receive salary
of $4,000 per annum'
E. Miohelbacher. Riverside mer-
chant, thinks that he has been finn
fianmed out of SIS by a man represent
ing himself as salesman for the Royal
Baking Powder Company. The man S
name is Stafford, and Michelbaoher en-
dorsed draft for the above amount
for the fellow, which was cashed at
the First National bank. When for
wared. for collection TO Chicago it was
sent back with instructions to draw on
New York. Matters look crooked.
The derrick and machinery which
were employed in the San Timoteo
canyon some months ago in boring
for oil have been taken down and will
be removed to Los Angeles. This. is
the last trace of considerable excite
ment in Redlands, San Bernadino and
other towns of this section about a
year ago, when supposed indications of
oil were discovered in the San Timoteo
hills near the Moreno road. A COM
pany of sixteen leading capitalists was
formed. each uf whom contributed $lu0
MS starter toward the expense of sill. X.
ing we'll, i'll order to determil.e
whether any quantity of oil could lie
secured. The well was sunk severa
hundred feet and developed flow Of
water. but no oil worth mentioning.
On account OF fielaent accidents t.
the driving machinery, which were
rather expensive, the attempt wa,
finally abandoned before the first deptl
planned for was reached.
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