The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-08
ALONG THE COAST.
interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number Of miscellaneous Jottfngs
Briefly and CURLY Told In This
Column.

All sprinKling carts at San Diego
are to be provided with l0-inch tires.
Seattle wheelmen have decided to
construct cycle path sixty miles in
length.
/ The University of California has re-
ceived fifty-six new scholarships and
seven postgraduate scholarships.
A bill has passed both houses of Ari-
IONA exempting from taxation for
fifteen years all railroads which shall
commence operations within six
months.
Supervisor Rottanzi, of San Fran
cisco, has introduced an ordinance at
the meeting of the board of supervisors
prohibiting the wearing of bonnets and
hats at the theaters.
Among the new enterprises contem.
plated for Salinas is the building of a
commodious bathhouse. There will be
three tanks, and it will be built after
the model of the Del Monte.
The first cigars made from San Diego
grown tobacco were placed on the
market recently. Three crops can be
produced each year, while the quality
of the leaf is said to be equal to the
best imported
There are on the way to Puget Sound
from foreign ports and to load for
foreign twenty zone vessels, with a.
$40 aggregate tonnage. being one-third
greater than last years tonnage at the
same time.
The Senate has passed the first con-
stitutional amendment providing for
home rule for counties. 1t will now
come up in the lower House for action.
The amendment provides that coun-
ties may adopt charters for their gov.
eminent in which salaries may be fixed
and under which elections may be
held.
The Placer Republican reports that
the fruit cannery recently established
at Lincoln is complete success in
every way. The cost of the plant as
it now stands was about $4,000. The
amount spent for labor last year was
about $4,000 or $4,000 per month while
running. The amount paid for fruit
was nearly $1,000.
San Miguel, the western-most island
of the Santa Barbara group, is to be
turned into a gigantic hog ranch by
the new company, of which +. X.
Rule, treasurer of the Terminal rail-
road. is president. The island COM
prises some $4,000 acres, quite pro.
portion of which will raise good bar.
ley and alfalfa crops.
The Defiance mining district has
been organized by the miners in the
San Mateo canyon, in the extreme
northwestern corner of San Diego
county. The new district contains
about thirty-six square miles of terri.
tory. and is expected to become good
camp. Some of the most promising
claims are now having great deal of
work put on them.
The State Farmers Institute. under
the auspices of the State University,
convened at Sacramento few DAYS
ago. r. @. Irvine was selected chair.
man. The address Of welcome was de.
livered by E. d. McCabe, Governor
Budd's private secretary, and the re.
Spouse was made by J. A. Woodson.
Addresses were made by E. f. Adams,
Professor Z. W. Hilgard of the State
University and G. Il. Mack.
The smaller colleges of the State are
feeling severely the competition of the
two great universities in Berkeley and
Palo Alto; education. like everything
else, is being concentrated in few
centers. One of the latest institutions
reported to be in distress is the oan
joaquin Valley College at Woodbridge.
which used to have hundred students
and now has but twenty. 1t is re-
ported that it will close.
In Riverside county considerable
mining interest is developing. Some
fine specimens of gold bearing rock
have lately been brought into that CITY
from the Temescal tin mine section.
Some of this ore runs $25 80 to the ton.
AT the Ellis mine in the Menifee dis.
trict ledge six feet wide assayine $25
and $50 to the ton, has lately been mn.
covered, and a fine quantity of ore is
in sight.
The students of the College of Phar.
macy in San Francisco, a branch of
the University of California, were ON
a strike few days ago. They fatty
refused to attend any lectures deliv-
cred by John Calvert, professor in
pharmacy. Further than this, both
the senior and Junior classes Of the col.
iege presented petition to the Board
OF Trustees and the faculty requesting
the dismissal of Professor Calvert. He
has resigned. but has been appointed
to the honorary position of Professor
Of Pharmacy.
In the Assembly Guy of San Diego
haS introduced concurrent resolution
Governor Budd to leave
me State for period of six months.
pom the call of the roll it was discov-
sred that no quorum was present, and
ne House was declared adjourned.
{ is given out from the Governors
'fiice that it is his intention. under in
tructions from his physician, to take
sea voyage in search of health.
Jeter wall take
Ip his official residence in Sacramento
Turing Budd's absence.
The ambition of Captain R. p.
'homas, the Berkeley capitalist, to
uild a railway near his home in the
Ills will not down. He has now de-
ermined to run scenic railroad from
is home. La Iona Park, in North
'erkeley, to Grizzly peak. the highest
ONT in the surrounding territory. ,
ne scheme oontemplates also n mark