The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From al
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED
Suegst Of Miscellaneous JottlngE
Briefy and Curtly Told in this
Column.

Another rate war is on between San
Francisco and Portland.
The San Francisco school board
wants -, 10000 for the ensuing year.
The First National Bank Of Salinas
has been organized with capital Of
$50. 900.
The new wharf and fiume of the
Temescal Water Company at Elsinore
is completed.
The Albion Mill Company at Ukiah
is reported to have discharged all the
Russian Films in its employ. I
Moro island, recently raised in Moro
boy, is slowly sinking back again.
The upheaval was caused by gas.
The annual report of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company shows de-
crease in gross earnings of $2s, 7ss.
The registry clerk in the Portland
postofiice, and five or six others, have
been arrested on a charge of conspiracy
to rob the postoffice.
The managers of all the San Fran.
cisco theaters have been notified that
they must provide water curtains for
the proscenium openings
In Stockton, jury has awarded
Harry Vizelich judgment for 81 900
against the Southern Pacific Railroad
for a leg lost in the local yards.
An old mill which had stood for
thirty years at Porterville has been
torn down. The new mill will be of
brick, four stories high, with all the
modern appliances.
The new depot of the Valley road
at Hanford is to be an imposing struc-
ture, costing $4,000. 1t will be of
brick, 300 feet long in all, divided
into passenger, freight and fruit rooms
The Board of Supervisors of San Jose
has directed the Finance Committee to
inspect the books of the Justices of
the county. No malfeasance is
charged, but thorough inspection is
desired.
About 6O00 acres of the old lake bot.
tom of Tulare lake has been irrigated
from artesian wells and from Tule
river and from present indications
should yield from ten to twenty sacks
to the acre.
The merchants of Riverside are up
in arms against the department store
here. They appeared before the city
trustees and urged that license be
levied ON each department business
by any merchant.
Thieves broke into the observatory of
he Oregon State University at Eugene
md stole large transit glass worth
$1,000. 1t is generally believed the
motive of the robbery was the hope of
getting reward for the return of the
ems.
While a gang of men was working
n cut on the Great Northern near
ndex, Snohomish county, Wash. a
mass of dirt and rocks came down upon
hem. Four of them were buried, but
we're rescued They are all badly
lurt.
The Land Owners in San Diego
ssociation of the Linda Vista district
dopted a resolution instructing the
directors of the district to accept the ,
roposition of William Osburn, of San '
francisco, for the purchase of $3.50 900
worth of the districts bonds at par.
The Chino sugar factory is about to /
ollow the example of the Southern
'acific Railroad Company in develop. ,
oil fnr 81 o.,
eople have leased 500 acres in the oil ,
istrict. and have commenced boring.
he oil will be piped to the factory in
Ime for fall work, and will result in
considerable saving to the company. !
After three days stay at Port
ownsend the United States battleship
regon left for the target field down c
no Straits of Fuca. There have been G
'rty assertions from the Oregon since I
er arrival ON Puget Sound two
lonths ago.
Celery shipments from Orange j
>unty are so large that there is talk |
running branch road to the peat
lnds for the special accommodation
celery shippers. Heretofore the I
anita Fe has had almost monopoly t
the business n
Flagstaff, Arizona, is to have now a :
alter works, and from this enterprise
i'll come another long needed one. v
DOL securing mill. A. T. Cronish "
rs secured capital in st. Louis to f,
ect such mill ON the completion of a
10 water works.
Ukiah has secured the encampment b
the First Regiment, National 81
uarG. Arrangements were perfected h
Gently, and local committees are now a
aklng preliminary preparations for
70 entertainment of about 500 militia. r,
en- i'll August. :,
Mrs. Catherine Hughes, who con- Il
lets vegetable garden three miles G
st of Ukiah, on Russian river, has
EN- left two gold mines and an in
me of $1,000 month by the death p
an uncle in Mexico. Mrs. Hughes :,
sband died year or so ago. and the =
1y has had u severe tussle with ad. :,
rsity. Is
The steamer Chittagong, from Port.
nd May 26, for Hongkong, took out a OF
'ge lot of machinery for an electric Ii
ant at Yokohama. Because of this to
light. she was obliged to leave much Sc
Ter freight for the next outgoing Ca
amer from that port. which will be :"
Monmouthshire. now 10 days out W
IN Hongkong. The Chittagong took er
100 bbls. of flour. LII
A number of people who have been
erviewed by representative of the
ulois in Paris on the subject of En-. Nj
'or William visiting Paris during st