The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-31
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
Number Of Miscellaneous JOttinxs
Brisay ahd Ourtly Told In This

Congressman James Hamilton Levi
has forwarded mail sack full Of gar
den seeds to the city treasurer Of Cen
! tralia, Wash, to be distributed.
Lat week Hoquiam, Wash, hat
feet Of IL vessels loading at he
docks. The combined lumber capa
city of the feet is over O 1000. 900 fee
of lumber.
ID. B. Reasoner recently shippe'
three tons Of dried potatoes to Puge
Sound. and is we'll Satisfied with til,
returns received. His drier will rui
steadily for two months more.
Professor @. W. Shaw, of the Ore
gon agricultural college, expects in q
few days to visit Jackson county &c
study the conditions of the county with
reference to growing sugar beets.
s August Rossi, Of Beaverton, in
Washington county. Or. says that last
year he raised 9400 sacks Of onions.
which he sold at $3.50 sack. He
sold most Of his crop to Carrollton
dryer.
ist J. A. Ingram, postmaster at Quini-
ault lake, in Chehalis county, Wash.
!, says that the forest reserve order has
discouraged the settlers of his section
and that many of them will abandon
their claims.
All signs point to activity in the de.
velopment of coal mines in Coos county
In the near future. New mines will
be opened, and the output Of the old
zones will be increased, says the Coos
Bay news.
The city council Of Centralia, Wash.
has organized a board OF health. and
an effort will be made to have the city
placed in good sanitary condition.
Mayor McNitt is president. Clerk
Crosby secretary, and Marshal Shields
health officer.
Petitions are being circulated in
Chehalis by the w. 9. t. u. ladieR,
asking the council to require the en-
forcement of the ordinances against
gambling, against minors frequerting
saloons, and against saloons being open
all night and on Sundays. The petit
tions will probably be presented at the
next council meeting.
J. w. Green, fruit-tree inspector for
Asotin county. Wash. who has been
making an inspection of the orchards,
states that the present season seems far
in advance of previous years since he
has been in this country. The mild
weather is rapidly developing the buds,
the apricots and peach being almost
ready to burst into blossoms.
County Commissioner Frank M.
FILTER, Of Gillian county, Or, WIN
lives near Condor, is making pre-.
partitions to sell his stock ranches
and $500 head of sheep. He has been
successful in the sheep business, and
can clean up sec, 900 by the sale of his
sheep and other property. His term
as county commissioner will not expire
until June, 1900.
John H. Howell, the mailoarrier at
the statehouse in Salem. Or, presented
to Treasurer q. L. Brown, Of Marion
county, county warrant for $50, issued
September 4, 1862. The warrant is
the property Of Assistant #. X. Hodg.
kin, but, OF course. County Treasurer
Brown refused to pay the same, as its
payment has long since been outlawed.
The limit for the payment of county
NsA4a;st in Oregon is seven years.
Tbs sale of the Belcher group of
mines, situated in Quartz gulch, or
hobinsonvilIe district, took place in
Baker City, Or. recently. Joseph Bar.
Ton, Grant Geddes and H. q. Snyder
disposing Of their interests to L. H.
beason, representing Salt Lake City
and Eastern capitalists. Mr.. Beason
Is secretary Of the Copper Mountain
Mining q Milling Company, with
mines in the Beaver district. Utah.
W. o. Miner, breeder of fine stock
IN Morrow county. Or. last week re.
oeived from North Bend, Neb., the
nnest specimen of Poland China sow
that could be obtained in the United
states. The sow will not be one year
old until May 3, but already weighs
nearly 300 pounds. Her mother sold for
Soii last November, and she is closely
related to Tecumseh and Klover Model
nogs which sold for $3.50 and $500.
respectively.
Unless some unforeseen incident on.
ours. the acreage that will be seeded
in wheat in Asotin county. Wash. this
spring will be greater than in any pre-.
vious year. But little ground will be
summer.fallowed. Fall-sown grain
10 IN fine shape. and present prospects
are Tor big yield. On the upper mart
OF Asotin prairie the soil is little too
wet for spring work, but a few DAYS
more OF warm, bright sunshine will
put 1t in shape SO that farmers can
start blowing.
Governor Budd has oommuted the
life sentence Of William Edwards sent
up from Placer county about fourteen
years ago for murder in the second de-.
gree. The communication will make
Edwards freedman in about month.
IL was made upon two reoommsnds-
tions BY the State Prison Directors.
Edwards health has been failing him
rapidly. The computation Of the
Governor reads TO eighteen years and
six months' imprisonment but the
credits earned by the prisoner will
secure bis release very shortly.
Eight years ago the United States
Fish Commission planted lobsters in
Monterey Bay. but the experiment was
considered failure since there was
,ot only no increase in the Holsters,
'ut they absolutely disappeared. Last
seek, however, some Monterey fisher