The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
ALONG The COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CORD .NsED.
A Number of miscellaneous JottiDgs
Briefly and CurtIy Told In This
Columns,

The Grand Hotel at Redwood City
has been burned. 1t is total loss.
Insured for $4,000.
The average increase in fruit ship
ments over last year is about 40 per
cent at Sacramento.
Bloomfield, Sonoma county. is ex-
cited over the discovery of ledge OF
gold bearing rock.
The S.P. X. II. is.having its baggage
cars remodeled for greater convenience
in handling bicycles.
The report comes from Anaheim and
Ventura and Chino of a very low ton
mage Of beets this season.
Creditors of Fresno county will have
to wait until December next for their
money, as the County Treasurer is
empty.
Less than half the students who
attempted the entrance examination in
English at the California university
at Berkeley, passed.
San Perdo citizens are petitioning
the Terminal r. r. Co. to establish a
ferry between the San Pedro and Long
Beach sides of the channel.
Rough lumber is selling at $14 per
thousand at Visalia. At Lindsay the
price of mountain lumber is $l3 per
thousand. and at Porterville $14.
Rev. VIM. RAIDER of San Francisco
is in sympathy with the movement to-
ward the establishment of an inde-
pendent church in San Francisco. He
may be made pastor.
The City Council of Seattle has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the wearing
of high hats at theatrical performances.
The penalty is fine of not less than
50 nor more than $40.
The university regents of Berkeley
talk of advancing money to enable the
State printing office to start up and
run until its next appropriation can
be used to repay the loan.
A Central California Counties Asso-
citation has been organized &C the
Palace in San Francisco. Its object
is to promote the interests of the
middle section of the State.
Arrangements have been closed in
San Francisco for the colonization by
Germans of over 10000 acres Of beet
lands in Monterey county. Claus
Spreokels will take all the beets.
The San Francisco Furniture manu-.
featuring eompany's factory on Bryant
street has been destroyed by fire, to-
gether with its contents. The loss is
placed at $40, 900, with $4,000 insur-
anoe.
A petition is being circulated pray
ing the Board of Supervisors to pass al
ordinance prohibiting the shipment
of game from Santa Barbara county.
1t receives the sanction of the local
gun club.
The Santa Cruz City Council has de-
MED the petition of saloon-men for a
reduction from $3.50 to $500 per an
mum. By paying the present license
they are allowed to keep open after
midnight.
1t is announced ON what is said to
be the highest authority that the
Southern Pacific will extend branch
of their road to RandsbuIg. The At
lantic and Pacific is already building
to that point.
The San Francisco Board of Under
writers is in Oakland having a survey
of the annexed district made on which
to base rates. The Council will be
asked to provide better fire protection
for this district.
An arbitration committee will de-
termine the value of the water plant in
Los Angeles. The city and the water
company will each appoint member
of this committee. these appointees to
select the third.
The Valley road will not run it's
passenger trains Into Visalia before
September 9th. when the event will
be celebrated by the people of that city.
There will be barbecue. a bull fight,
bicycle parade, etc.
By an almost unanimous vote Au-
Oulh Adb uCCAuOu w C6bdUlIbIl uIXD
school. The old Sierra Normal College
building has been leased for term of
years. thus eliminating the usual waste
of time in the erection of necessary
building.
J. B. Webster of Stockton has COM
menced sixteen snits against the Valley
railroad. Webtser owns sixteen lots
which he claims were damaged by the
building of the Valley road in front
of them. The suits were brought in
justices court. .
E. SALISBURY, a prominent attorney
and well.known citizen of Santa
Cruz, is dead. He was native of
New York, and was aged SO. He
served during the war as captain of a
New York company. He resided in
Santa Cruz for the past twenty years.
Stockton has a peculiar bicycle erdi-
nance. 1t is unlawful TO ride on side
walks between the hours of seven
o'clock in the evening and six o'clock
in the morning, but at other hours the
sidewalk may be used, though the
wheelmen must dismount on meeting
a pedestrian.
Suit was commenced at Los Angeles
by Wells. Fargo 81 Co.. against the
John F. Cutting Company of San
Francisco to recover various sums of
money alleged to have been loaned the
defendant company aggregating about
$4,000. The suit is brought to bring
about the sale of property pledges to
settle the debt.
Louis Rebordora, a prospector who