The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-29
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
A Number Of Miscellaneous JOttings
RrIeay and Curtiy Told In This
Column.


S. ]. Ruddell, city surveyor of San
Francisco, will resign his office, owing
to i'll health.
The second annual session Of the
Pacific Coast Dental Congress was
held in San Francisco recently.
Los Angeles, on the strength of Its
census of 1903, 900, has been promoted
to a mail carrier city of the first-class.
DR.. c. q. Baldwin. president of Po-
mona Congregational College. re-
signed. owing to the financial condi-
tion of that. institution.
Sigmund l.. Braverman the we'll
known diamond broker of San Fran
cisco, recently fatally shot Antoine
Burgle Iestaurateur, in that city.
The cause was trouble over money
matters.
With the exception of the school
text book department, the State print
ing office is now closed. The different
counties will now be put to heavy ex-
pense for necessary printing which has
heretofore been done by the State
Prof. Ross of Stanford University
declares that economic changes are
putting new strains on public men;
and that the cure for present evils in
cleansing the primaries, getting the
strongest men to take Office and then
valiantly supporting them.
The eight survivors of the pioneers
who came to California in lS49 ON the
brig North Bend and the pilot boat
Hackstaff, the first from New York,
and the other from Boston, had re.
union .at San Francisco recently.
Many of the defendants attended.
As result of the personal investi-
cations of prominent representative
of one of the wealthiest corporations
of London it is promised that an OPP
position line of steamers will be estab-
lished between the port of San Fran
cisco and Central and South American
ports.
The school census returns, as just
completed by the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, shows the total
number of school children in the State
to be $40, 1888, net gain of ,0l7 over
last year. Los Angeles county has the
largest gain, it being 3,04S; San Fran
cisco comes next with 3,01S.
A heavy field fire started east of
Drytown recently burning over 1000
acres of feed and timber, including
the Seaton Mining Company's hosting
plant, belonging to Alvinzs Hayward
81 Co. The heroic work of the miners
saved the plants at the Cover, Poca-
hontas and California mines on the
mother lode.
About forty acres of wheat and a
harvester have been destroyed by fire
on Deputy County Assessor James
Skiff's ranch, near Stockton. Mr..
Skiff had just left the threshing outfit
and returned to the farmhouse, when
it was discovered on fire. The har-
vester was completely consumed in a
few moments, and the whole field was
afire.
A special meeting of the Board Eof
Health was held recently in San Fran
cisco to discuss the recent conflict of
authority between the Federal and
local quarantine officers. A commit
tee was appointed to confer with a
committee Of the State Board Of
Health and these will bring the mat
ter to the attention of the Governor
and perhaps carry it into court.
The Superior Court at San Bernar-
dino has overruled the demurrer to the
complaint in the case of the county of
San BeInardino VS.. Southern Pacific
Railroad Company. The county has
brought suit to collect four years taxes
against the railroad amounting to
about $l5, 900 to pay the school bonded
Indebtedness of Needles School District
The railroad company refuses to pay
the taxes and will appeal the case if
it goes against them.
In 1890, while living in Duluth,
Julius Swanson, shoe dealer of Eau
Claire, Wis, purchased $50 shares in
mine near Colorado Springs, paying
10 cents share. A few years later
he offeredssthe lot for $3.50 but his
friends laughed at him. Colorado
people now have offered Swanson
$37 900 for his so shares. He has
left for Colorado Springs. He says
$37 900 for $50 is good enough for
him and he will sell.
At meeting of the Board of Man.
ayers, at Stockton, Of the State Hospi-
tai for the Insane recommendations
were formulated to be sent to the State
Commissioner. A number of salaries
are lowered, but those of attendants
and physicians remain the same. The
board will recommend that all en-
ployes of the asylum be given vaca.
ton of two weeks each year on pay i,
and if sick they be allowed ten DAYS,
unless injured at the asylum, when
the time would be made longer.
Vice-President Watt, Director Paw.
son and Chief Engineer Storey have
returned to San Francisco from a trim
OF inspection over the San JOAQUIN
Valley Railroad. They went to a
point twenty miles south of Hanford,
known as Jacobs Well. They say that
owing to temporary shortage in the
supply of ties there will be cessation
of track lying on that branch for q
while. Visalia will be reached in the
middle of next month, when, or pos
sibly before that date, the laying Of
rails beyond Jacobs Well will b,
resumed.
The Library of the State University
has just been enriched by valuable
and particularly appropriate gift.