The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-27
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down 20 Suit our Busy
Readers.

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county.
Los Angeles is making elaborate
preparations to celebrate CALIFORNIA;
golden jubilee.
Captain Ball, the Superintendent of
the Leroi mine at Roseland, Washing
ton. was killed in an accident.
The Moline plow works Of Moline,
III. b b establish q Pacific Coast dis
tributing agency at Stockton.
The pack of salmon on this coast in
1897. is estimated at 2,929, 200 cases,
against about 1890, 900 cases in 1896.
Henry Marvin of San Jose beat his
roommate, A. 4. Brown over the head
with a pistol the other night and then
robbed him of $500.
Chester Bethel, an aged pioneer,
died recently in Santa Rosa. He was
a prominent Odd Fellow. and at one
time resid ID at San Jose.
Two avalanches recently swept
down Chilcoot Pass, Alaska, buIying
newly-constructed tramway and many
tons Of provisions and miners supplies. |
The South Pacific and the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Companies
have decided TO advance passenger
rates by rail and water between San
Francisco and Portland.
d. d. Brooks of San Jose has sued
the Southern Pacific Com pany for $2O..
$50 damages. He was struck by box
car while crossing the company's track
and seriously injured.
The Board of Supervisors of San
Francisco have decided to refuse to
interfere with the quality Of illuminst-
ing gas that is furnished to the rate
payers Of San Francisco.
William ]. Preston, aged II years.
who had his right shoulder terribly
mangled by the accidental discharge
OF gun while hunting, died few I
days ago at his home in Santa Clara.
A new railroad from Kramer on the
Atlantic and Pacific into the Rands-
burg mining district, has been opened.
The connecting railroads have Joined
In the granting of through freight
tariff n
Two fifty-ton, eight-wheel, fast. 9,
freight engines have arrived for the = :,
San Francisco and San joaquin Valley
railroad, and will be used to handle
the increased freight traffic of the N
road. N
The new board Of directors of the N
San Diego chamber Of commerce has =
organized by electing r. A. Thomas =
president; X. V. Dodge, vice president: y
George w. Marston. second vice. pres. Of
ident.
A whole family by the name Of tr
Menke were poisoned near Sacramento II
BY eating potatoes that had been m
touched by preparation used for kill. th
ng rats. Mrs. Menke will probably tn
lie from its effects. Of
A workman named Louis Sieeel. la
While working in the elevator shaft of in
he new Sprcekels building in San
francisco, was caught by the descend. te
ng cage OF the elevator and had his on
light leg crushed. is,
ID. K. Coleman, the former librarian pc
! the Mercantile Library, in San ab
Francisco. who has been displaced in tn
Avor OF Miss Ina d. Cooltrith has Gu
that he is about $4,000 To-
hort in his accounts. to
The big Austrian twin screw steamer
'urma, which recently arrived in the
An Francisco harbor, has been secured Ia
John Rosenfeld's Sons, and will
sreafter be used as collier between ~ ~
aniamo, B. c., and that city. ~, w'
Ore assaying s5,e7s in gold and 500 Tn
silver to the ton has been discovered kr,
70 miles from Adams Springs. in ord
axe county, and the whole district is of
lidiy excited. The discovery was Flu
ade by Martin Stearns while digging Bal
well on ais Government claim. ,
nenry Craemer has been sentenced of
seattle, WASH, to be hanged March sid,
IN Tor the murder of Mrs. Phillip A. Rer
niier and child. This is the third Cor
me that sentence Of death has beep II
sseu Old Craemer. Craemer's only pre-,
pc now liss in Governor Rogers. cha
A hre broke Gus in the upper gallery are
the Columbia Theater building in ZION
n Francisco a few p,gb,s s;noa reoc
fore the time for the curtain 70 rise eral
alarm was given quietly and the G
oiehoe Med out without disorder. ara |
70 total damage was about $50, 900. yers
Nevada county's exhibit of mining ing
oducts at the Golden Jubilee EAR Stat
DC held at San Francisco. will in. area
iue at least one hundred and fifty shsl
's OF goid-bearing ores and gravel pose
auuition TO several hundred pounds prop
agnt OF nuggets, crystals and petr,. the
,tions. fe'. anne
As soon as fifty more boys are an. - I,
'ed. the training ship Mobican win ioni
re from the port of San Francisco
cruise around the world. Ono !.
ndred and fifty boys are the peoes. a
' number. They are paid 40 slIe
nth at the start and receive an ont. sins
valued at s45. witt
!. Il. milford, northwestern manager ande
he Manhattan Life Insurance Com. also
OF New York, died recently in nant
tiand, Oregon, of apoplexy, aged Of S,
'ears. Mr.. milford was one Of the arre'
known insurance men in the gait,
invest. he was cousin of Henry expe
stokes. President Of the company. IN,
here seems to be disagreement issue
% ishermen on Eel river as to the /
.lknss ana privileges, some claim Kiov
'u1s .ney nave right TO wade in reser
stream and haul their boats MP years
=, sseu % walking at the waters lands
ios she same purpose, while those Oklal