The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-21
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GET ERAL INTEREST.
A summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

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The Santa Fe is pushing its station
improvements at Riverside.
Ventura's teachers institute has
ended. Ii was very successful.
The San Pedro harbor improvement
will be proceeded with at once.
The training ship Adams is ON her
way from San Francisco to Honolulu.
E. G. Brown has been held at Ven
tura charged with selling mortgaged
property.
Mrs. U. S. Grant will return to San
Diego soon to make that city her per-
manent home.
During the present month nearly five
million dollars worth of grain has left
the Pacific Coast for Europe.
The Supervisors of MERGED have APP
propriated $1,000 toward assisting in
an agricultural fair, soon to be held
at MERGED.
The Cutting Fruit Packing Company
of Fresno has reduced the price OF
packing raisins one-quart ter of cent
off each form.
W. w. Stousland of Visalia has
leased the Hotel Jeffrey at Salinas,
Monterey county, and will assume pos
session in few days.
One man was fatally burned and six
other persons injured by the explosion
of a gasoline stove on West Adams
street in Seattle, Wash.
Land owners in Tulare county are
raising the rent of their lands, and
now want one-third of the crop, in
stead of one-fifth. as heretofore.
Major Simpson has retired from the
management of the Depot hotel at
Fresno, and will 60 to San Mateo.
Simpson is succeeded by Peter Sikels.
L. S. Holden, director of the Lick
Observatory has sent letter of resig-
nation to the Board Of University Re-
gents, the resignation to take effect
January LIST.
The Whatoom, Wash. teachers have
entered into contract to sell their
warrants at 90 cents. This is good
deal better than last year, as most of
them received only SO cents.
The sealing schooner ]. Eppinger
has returned to San Francisco from
Behring Sea. bringing 443 sealskins
and eleven otter skins. She made the
voyage from Unalaska in fifteen days.
Three stage coaches were held up
and their occupants robbed near An
gels, Cal. The robbers killed two
horses and wounded several of the
passengers and then made their escape.
The prune shipments for last week
from San Jose broke the record. They
amounted to 5,216,980 pounds and
were over 200, 900 pounds in excess of
those of any previous week on record.
An explosion at the California pow.
der works near Santa Cruz, destroyed
the eight buildings of the company and
much valuable machinery. Fortunate
ly no one was at the mills, and there
was no loss of life.
The raisin growers of Fresno county
are standing united for minimum
price Of 3 = cents in the sweat box.
A mass. meeting of 200 growers was
held at Fresno. and the decision was
to stand for that price.
The Board of Supervisors at Santa
Rosa have elected Carl H. Nielsen
County Superintendent of Schools to
succeed E. w. Davis, resigned. Mel
sen has been member of the County
Board of Education some time.
Mrs. o. Cleveland has willed her
Orphans Home in South Pasadena to
the Salvation Army. They will have
to pay off mortgage of $4,000 on the
place. 1t will be converted into a
rescue home for fallen women.
In consequence of the passage of
bill by the legislature of Arizona, ex-
empting from all taxes for fifteen
years railroads ON which work was
begun within one year, notice of inten.
ton to build thirty-one roads, aggre-
eating 5000 miles. have been filed.
Word has been received that Ex-
Mayor Fred Cope of Seattle has been
drowned in a creek on the Skaguay
trail while fording it with a horse.
he clipped and was instantly washed
away. His body has not been recov-
cred.
Patrick Savage, tailor. of San Pc
dro, shot and probably fatally wound
ed William Roach. Savage claimed
Roach was indebted to him in the sum
of $40. and in discussing the debt he
shot Roach, who refused to pay the
amount.
Santa Monica is to build a new
school house. Bids were recently
offered for the school bonds and the
bonds were awarded to the Oakland
Bank of Savings, which offered SIG,
70l for the fifteen bonds of $1,000 each.
The last of the bonds is payable in ten
years.
Adolph Samuels, editor and proprie-
tor Of the Daily Abend Post, of San
Francisco, is dead aged 20 years. He
was veteran newspaper ban, we'll
known throughout the coast. He leaves
wife and three children, one of
whom, Leon Samuels, is prominent
attorney of that city.
A gold quartz discovery is reported
from Thomas Creek, twelve miles from
Paskenta, near Red Bluff. The dis
covery was the result of years of
searching for the mother lode of a
quartz bowlder found some years ago
on Sonrd Flat. A shaft has been
sunk, and ore said to be valued at $40
a ton taken out.
Judgment for ever 100000 has