The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-25
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
important Information Gathered
Around the c. asst.
TENS OF GE,EaAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Es@nt- That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Stockton pays in salaries to its Off
cials about $50. 900.
There is prospect of fish canning
plant being put mp at Red0ndo.
q. Hunziker of Sonoma county, has
invented new process for sundrying
fruit
The farmers of Contra Costa county
have been offered good inducements to
raise sugar beets.
Randsburg's mining laws. as amend
ed, are almost identical with those of
Cripple Creek, Colorado.
A colony of negroes is to be located
in Kern county. II is not said where
the colonists are to come from.
Ten thousand dollars has been offered
to Stanislaus county man for the
patent for a combination burglar
proof window and door lock
A petition to the San Francisco
supervisors praying for reduced rates
for gas. water. and electric light. now
has 600 names, and is ego feet long.
The E. E. Thomas Fruit Company's
drier at San Jose has been totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, but is fully covered by in
surance.
A new process flour mill is soon to
be erected at Templeton. The inven-
ton is that of an Eastern house Much
labor and expense will be saved, it is
said, by this new method.
The bill introduced by Shanahan,
extending the time for the redemption
of property under foreclosure to eigh.
teen months, has received the Govern.
or's signature and is now law.
The seminary building at Escondido,
built as a part of the system of the
University of Southern California, is
to be transferred to the high school
district for high school purposes.
A plan is ON foot to organize a
Southern California baseball league,
composed of clubs from San Bernar.
dino, Redlands, Riverside, Santa Ana,
Corona, Pomona, Ontario, Pasadena
and possibly Los Angeles.
The steamer City of Kingston arrived
at Port Townsend March 18th with
fifteen Chinese from Victoria without
certificates of health. They were re.
fused landing, and the Kingston was
forced to return them to Victoria.
The Piedmont and Mountain View
Electric Railway has let a contract
the first on the coast, for railwelding,
and in few weeks the work of join.
ing the rails of that road into solid. !
bands of steel will be commenced.
Owing to seizure by Treasury
agents at San Francisco of eontraband
opium valued at $500, GOO, and further
seizure worth 100000 few days ago,
the price of opium advanced So
pound. All of the opium in that city
is now held at $15 pound, and is
expected to advance to $40.
The Evening Post of San Francisco
says n number of commission mer-
chants in that city with others in Chi.
cago and New York, have effected a
corner in Lima beans, which have
already gone up 30 per cent. in conse.
quence and further advances are pre-
dicted. The corner will benefit the
bean growers Of this State.
Chief of Police L. W. Robertson of
Portland, Oregon, one of Pennoyer's
appointments, has sent in his resigna.
ton to the Police Commissioners.
Portland, during his brief tenure of
office, dating from last October. has
been overrun with thieves, burglars and
footpads. 1t is said, that H. D. Nc
Guire. State Fish and Game Warden.
is slated for the position.
The Governor has approved ASSEM-.
bly, bill BIG, increasing the salaries of
certain officers of the San Francisco
Fire Department. He has also an.
proved Simpsons two bills-Senate
bill 1877, an Act relating to the dispo.
sltlon of life estates, and Senate bill
1879. an Act relating to conveyance of
real property by married women;
Braunhart's Senate bill 32, relating to
the assessment of property of persons
neglecting or refusing to make the As
SCISSOR statement of their property
and Simpsons Senate bill 1872, relat.
ing to transfers of real estate.
The Tariff Committee of the Orange
Growers Association, Los Angeles have
agreed upon the following schedule: A
duty of cents per pound to be fixed
ON the finished products of candied
orange and lemon peel and preserved |
citron, duty of cents per pound to /,
be fixed ON citron of commerce in
pickle or brine; on essential oils of
orange or lemons at 70 cents per
pound; ON citric acid I5 cents per
pound and ON concentrated lemon Juice |
In proportion to the amount of citric |
acid it contains at the rate of 10
cents per pound.
Important electrical enterprises are
on foot in the vicinity of San Bernar.
dino. A corporation to be known as
the Southern California Power Com
pany has been organized with capital
stock of $1,000,000. The principal
stockholders are Henry Fisher of Pitts
burg, Pa. and 81. H. Sinclair, presi.
dent and manager of the Redlands
Electric Light and Power Company.
The principal place of business of the
corporation is Redlands. The purpose
u the company is to develop power
rom the Santa Ana river by taking ,
he water out at the junction of Bear ,
'reek and Santa Ana river. carrying it
n cement ditch and tunnels about
our miles, thus securing fall of
900 to 100 feet, and then running
he water again to the stream. The !,
'ower will be transmitted by pole 1