The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-09
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
4 Nunber of Miscellaneous JottinEs
Brisay and ourtIy Told In This
Column.

The President has appointed george
w. Lovie Postmaster at Redwood, Cal.
The twenty-five million fortune to
have been inherited by Miss Elliott, of
San Francisco, proves myth.
A State convention of the Califor-
MIA Teachers association will be held
in San Francisco December 2S.
The main winery on K. Il. Good
rich's Elquito farm at san Jose has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $l5, 900.
Ladybirds introduced into the Ala
media county orchards have caused Il
great improvement in scale-infested
trees.
Norwegian steamer Peter Jebsen
has been sold to John Rosenfelds Co.,
San Francisco and will be used as
collier.
The Arizona improvement Company,
the leading irrigating corporation III
Salt River Valley, Arizona, is being
forced into the hands of receiver.
Mining and commercial societies of
California are preparing to celebrate
the jubilee of the discovery of gold in
that State, in January of next year
The Realty Syndicate has purchases
the Piedmont and Mountain View
Railroad and the syndicate also pro-
poses purchasing all the electric lines
of Oakland.
!. Bishop Charles 9. McCabe, of the
NJ. E. Church, Philadelphia, has sent
a missionary to the Klondike at his
own expense, borrowing $400 for the
purpose.
The Mariposa brings 81 1900, 900 in
English sovereigns from Australia to
San Francisco, the first shipment in
four months, with total aggregate of
10000, 900.
1t is believed that the control of the
Baldwin and California theaters in
San Francisco, to be relinquished by
Al Hayman will pass into the hinds
of Friedlander, Gotlob q Co.
U. S. Grant, Jr., who is residing at
San Diego, Cal. has been prominent
ly mentioned" throughout Southern
California as candidate for the
United States Senate.
The State Board of Health is inyes-
tigating the report that splenetic fever
exists among cattle in Kern county,
with a view to having the U. S. quar-
antine laws removed.
At San Francisco plans have been
perfected for fighting the sugar trust,
January /, when the tive-year contract
Of the Hawaiian planters with the
Western Sugar Refinery will expire.
A petition for the Incorporation of |
the city of Bakersfield will be pre-
sented at the next meeting of the |
county supervisors in December. The |
territory embraced is two miles square. |
The experiment of shipping apples
to Honolulu on sailing vessel from |
Port Townsend, Wash, is being tried. |
Eight hundred boxes have been for
warded on the schooner Robert Lew
ers, lumber laden for that port
Stockton is to have large beer
brewery of the proper equipment to
manufacture the best article. Eastern
capitalists. will build 1T at cost of
about $l50,000. Satisfactory tests
of Stockton water have been made.
President Cooper of the fruit grow
ers' convention at Sacramento, has
appointed committee to raise $780,
900 to send an exhibit of fruit to
Europe. R. H. Hewitt, G. j. Griffith
and Frank Virgins are the Los An
geles members.
The cause of the failure of the bank
at Delta, CAL, is said to be poor coll
lections, and the fact that some of its
money was tied up in the Bank of
Montrese, which failed recently. AS
sets are slated at $4,000 and liabili-
ties, $4,000.
The first shipment of this season s
orange crop is now going forward. 1t
is calculated that the California crop
for export will amount to 5000 car
loads. Some place the quantity as
high as 10000 carloads. The quality ,
promises to be exceptionally fine. ,
The Board of Education met in San
Francisco few days ago to begin its
investigation of the charges that GEL
tain of its members in connection with [
Superintendent of School Buildings q
Axtell have been levying assessments |
on teachers, principals and ianitors.
Young Walter Kermeen, who at
tended school at Shasta and who tried 9
to set fire to schoclhouse in Nevada
about year ago, has be en- accused of |
other attempts at Carson. 1t is sup :
posed that the boy has mania for '
such work, and his defense is on that
line.
Three families of Norwegians ar
rived in Coquille, Or, recently adding
to the population somewhat. One !
family brought nine children with
them, while the two others reported
twenty -four children-the grand total
for the three families being thirty. !
three children.
Miss Maud Mathewon of Visalia, !
who was severity burned some weeks /
lgo, underwent surgical operation |
Over thirty pieces of skin |
we're grated on her body where she
vas SO badly burned, and the flesh will |
ROW all right The grated skin was {
aiken from the body of her sister. /
A numerously signed petition has @
'een presented to the City Council of p
los Angeles requesting that body to 81
all an election for the purpose of b.
citing upon the proposition of issuing re
onds for the establishment of mum. it