The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-18
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number of Miscellaneous Jottings
Brieny and Ourtly Told In THE
Column.

The public school at MADEIRA mas
been closed temporarily on account Of
a diphtheria epidemic there.
The electric light plant at Visalia is
to be run day and night supplying
power for running machinery during
the day time.
J. S. Guide, who shot and killed
Walter Russell in Chico, has been
sentenced at Oroville to prison for life.
GUIDE is 20 years old.
II is estimated that between July LIST
and August Stb, 10, coo people left the
Pacific Coast for the gold fields of
Alaska and the Kondike region.
San Diego fishermen are now find.
ing a market for their fish as far east
as Texas and Kansas, and there Is a
demand greater than the present sup
ply.
Stockton of an attempt to wreck
train on the Southern Pacific, has been
sentenced to life term in the State
prison.
Ontario is again agitating the ques-
ton of incorporation. The incorpora
ton now includes only 100 acres, and
it is desired to make the 80 square
miles.
Judge Terrence of San Diego has
given judgment in the sum of $1,000
to Mrs. Sarah Mclean in her suit
against Mrs. Martha Mckenzie for
SANDER.
James Woods, blacksmith and a
member of the Sacramento fire depart
ment, is under arrest accused Of set
ting fire to ten or twelve buildings re-
Gently.
A stable boy named Houstler was
fatally injured at..San Francisco on the
Ingleside race track through u collis-
ion between the race horses Thyme and
Corriente.
An English syndicate has invested
half a million dollars in group of
gold mines, seven miles southeast of
Placerville. The property consists of
10 acres of land.
1t is reported that mysterious dis
ease has broken out at Dawson City,
which the physicians are unable to
check, and is carrying off an average
of five men daily.
:, The Santa Fe Company has 60, 900
barrels of oil in storage and five wells
producing oil at Fullerton, and claims
to be practically independent of the
Los Angeles oil producers.
Two hunderd and twenty dogs which
are to be used in hauling provisions
into the Yukon gold fields have arrived
at Seattle, Wash, from Chicago over
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Miss Rose Kell, twenty four years
old, killed herself with oarbolic acid in
San Jose, at the residence of Richard
Delmonley, where she was stopping.
The cause of suicide is unknown.
w. ]. Lee, who mysteriously disap-
peared from Pasadena for several days
and was found at Elsinore, claims to
have no recollection of his wanderings
until regaining his senses where found /
The Woodbridge canal in San .Ioa.
quin county has been sold at foreclos.
ure sale. There was game of freeze
out attempted among the owners of
the canal, and everybody now comes
out loser.
The Sierra Railway Company of Cal
ifornia has finished laying track to
jamestown. The work of construc.
ton was started in June at Oakdale.
The road is torty-four miles long and
jamestown is the terminus
Two disastrous fires have been
caused by an incendiary in Sequel
within the last few days. A large
packing.house near Capitola was
burned and thu packing house of D.
Mogone has also been destroyed.
The Alamos Sugar Company of Los
Angeles county has made a contract
for the enlarl ement OF the capacity of |
their factory, and has also purchased
thirteen square miles of additional
lands, to ba cultivated to beets.
The steam schooner Caspar, of San
Francisco, Captain Amfindsen, struck
on reef near Point Arena, California,
at midnight recently, and became a
total wreck. Eleven of her crew of
fifteen men are known 20 have per.
ished
George ID. Meiklejohn, Assistant
Secretary of War, has arrived at Seat.
tie, Wash, on his tour of inspection
OF western army posts. He visited the
Magnolia Bluff Reservation and ex-
prssed himself as we'll pleased with its
location.
The Monterey Whaling Company
has captured two more large whales.
one sixty-three feet long and the other
forty.one feet. The seasons catch
thus far is eight whales. The two
above mentioned will yield about ITO
barrels of oil.
The steamship Al-ki has arrived
in Seattle. Wash. from Skaguay, hay.
ing on board ninety -one passengers, of |
whom a majority were disappointed
prospectors who had failed in their
efforts to get into the promised land of
the Klondike.
Over two hundred oil wells, which
have been closed down for two weeks.
will resume pumping. Over 80, 900
barrels have been taken from the tanks
during the shut down. The producers
believe that the rate of 81 per barrel
desired can now be maintained.
Within an hours time four fires :
were started in Fresno, three of which /
are believed to have been incendiary. 8
All the fires were put ont without 1