The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-10
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.


FresDo's board Of Supervisors have
decided to purchase the Pine Ridge
tollroad valued at $1,000.
The North Pacific lumber company
Of Portland, Oregon, will soon put on
line Of steamers to Alaska.
The Japanese cruiser Chitose CON-
structed ut the Union Iron Works, San
Francisco, was successfully launched
there few days since.
Scarcity of rain is causing the farm.
ers Of the Salinas valley to demand So
ton of Spreokels as a condition to
putting in crop of beets.
Mrs. L. C. Pope sues the Farmers
Union and Milling Company of Stock
ton, for $4,000, claimed for wheat
burned in the company's elevator.
Harry Winters, of Redwood City,
convicted for the murder Of @. A. An
drews, has been sentenced to pay the
death penalty ON April sth.
The partially completed two-story
building on the Salvation Army
Colony, at Soledad, to be used for a
store and barracks, was wrecked by
the wind few days since.
Federal and state courts at Tacoma,
WASH, decide that seven British SAIL
ors who attempted to leave the bark
Marion Fisher, can neither recover
wages due or desert the ship.
The Pioo Heights school house of
Los Angeles has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is between $4,000 and &c.
600. Three cottages were also burned
before the fire was under control.
A boat with two Italian fishermen
of San Francisco, was capsized off the
Cliff House and Antoine Londeir, one
OF the men, drowned. The other one,
his brother, swan over mile to the
beach.
Bispo. who assassinated General
Bittencourt, the Minister of War in
Rio Janeiro. last November, at the
time of the attempt upon the life Of |
President Moraes, has committed sui
eide in prison.
California Copper Company has in
corporated at Phoenix with 81 900, 900
capital. Incorporators are: w. P.
Woodward, j. M. Becky. Z. Voulten,
w. b. Jones, Albert Smith, J. +. Hall
and Walter Ross
Young Jessie Cave Of ClarksburQ.
Yolo county, who killed his brother.
in-law. Louis lsham, during an alter.
cation, was discharged at his prelimin-
airy examination. Testimony showed
that he fired in self defense.
George Rowe and Charles Kelley,
two San Francisco youths convicted
OF robbery, have been sentenced TO
imprisonment by Judge Wallace.
Rowe. who is is, goes fourteen years
and Kelley, who is 10, goes seven.
The Alamitos Sugar Compsny is at
present installing new machinery.
which will enable it to double its former
output. During the coming season the
company will be in position to re-
duce $4,000 tons Of beets into sugar.
The Pacific Coast railway has sent I
gang of surveyors to Santa Maria to
lay out the route for branch line to {
the beet-sugar factory, which is to be
erected on the shores of Guada. 4
loupe Lake by the Union Beet Sugar !
Company. :
A communication received by Post /
master Thrift of Stockton from the {
Postoffice authorities, indicates that {
the three additional carriers recently
appointed will be dispensed with, g
throwing the service back to it's :
former condition.
Joseph Hubert, convicted of the muir |
der of his wife, whom he shot and r
killed at Poverty bar, in Calaveras Q
county. on Friday, April 10, 1895, has |
been resentenced by Judge Rust of r
Amador to be hanged at Fols om Pepi.
Tertiary on April 10Th next. Y
In San Bernardino few DAYS ago p
some High school boys undertook to o
haze member of a rival class. They v
proposed to kidnsp him, and had q
thrown him down in the street, but he IL
drew pistol and fred at them, lucki. t.
~ without injuring anyone. il
E. H. Seaver of Santa Cruz il con. =
lined in the San Francisco Receiving
Hospital on charge of being insane,
A month ago he was secretly married d
10 Siskiyou county and the thought of L
keeping the affair secret from his c
mother Is said to have driven him in. a
sane. n,
The Southern Pacific Company has y
bought piece of land in San Jose and D.
IL Is reported that the repair shops Of m
the narrow gauge line will be removed is
from Newark to San Jose and that d
when the coast line is completed ex. Al
tensive machine shops will be con.
structed.
William A. Clark. section boss !.
IN the Southern Pacific, was killed in = =
g. helena, the assassin being his =
brother. The killing took place { an r r
'arly hour in the morning in the =,
Kitchen Of the house in which the :. =
Jiarks lived. The deceased man was :,
hot through the head. :.
j. W. Little. a clerk in the general DC
assenger Office of tho Southen Pacific th
company. was found in semi con. pr
cious condition in doorway on Turk it.
rect, San Francisco. he had taken va
olson and when relieved of it he pc
lated that he attempted suicide be- an
suse bis wife had deserted him. sh
Word has been received at Los An. on
sles that John Denair. Superintend-
1t Of the Arizona Division Of the
lnta Re Railway, was badly injured in