The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-16
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
A Number of Miscellaneous Jottings
Briefly and Curtly Told In This
COlumn.D

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Santa Monica's $I5, 900 school bond
issue carried by a vote of 155 to 20.
Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county,
reports new oil prospects just discov'
cred.
. Riverside county expects to produce
1000, 900 sacks of wheat and barley
this year.
The Bakersfield Echo advocates the
establishment of a trout farm IN Kern
river, in a canyon not far from Bakers
field.
The Murphy Grant property, corner
of Bush and Sansome streets, San
Francisco, has been sold to the Luning
estate for $3.50, 600.
Lodi apricot growers are receiving
five and a half and six cents for their
crops, in sacks. Moorparks command
eight and nine cents.
Jacob Wilson. who came to Stock
ton, Cal, as a tramp, has just inherited
part of a $15, 600, 600 state left by his
father in New York.
The San Diego M. & NJ. will con.
slider the proposition of a lower coast
Mexican steamer line. Los Angeles is
at present working for the same end.
Fire has destroyed the Morgan House
on upper Main street, in Grass Valley.
Only a few pieces of furniture were
saved. The building was insured for
So, 500.
George T. Parr, representative Of G..
w. McNear of San Francisco, at De-
lano, purchased $50, 900 worth of
wheat at Delano during the month of
August.
The Rose Tournament Association at
Pasadena, in its annual report shows
total receipts of $1096. IS, and disburs-
ments of $1051.62. The tournament is
to be continued.
d. W. Swift of Clovis, Fresno
county, was convicted of practicing
medicine with out a license, and is
now serving twenty-five days in the
county Jail therefor.
The Delhi creamery near Santa Ana.
the third to be established in Orange
county, has been formally opened. 1t
has a separating capacity of 30, 900
pounds of milk an hour.
The Coburn sawmill on Upper Tule
river will close down, owing to the
low price at which lumber is selling at
Porterville and Lindsay, the points the
mill is expected to supply.
The State Bureau of Highways has
oddracoo1 tho RoorI IF Cnnorpicoro ON
the subject of a new boulevard to con-
meet San Mateo county with the ia
nous Balboa boulevard at San Fran
cisco.
Captain James E. Wright, master of
the schooner Nereid of San Diego. has
been found guilty of smuggling seven
coolies fRm Ensenada into the United
States and landing them at San Juan
Capistrano.
John Kelso, a sub-contractCr OH the
new Postotfice site at San Francisco,
has been arrested on a charge of vio-
lating the National Hour law.
Kelso will be prosecuted by the central
labor bodies.
James Elven, a deck hand on the
river steamer Ocean Wave. at Port
land, Oregon, while casting off the
tenders preparatory to the steamers
making a landing, fell into the river
and was drowned.
Wine grape growers about Pasadena
have pledged themselves not to sell
grapes for less than $13, pending the
Investigations of the committee which
is to report a rate on which it is hoped
that the growers of Southern Callifor-
MIA will unite.
There are no fish in Crater lake, Or,
the deepest fresh water lake in the
world, and the Government has de.
cided to stock it with trout. The ma
tives used to say that the lake wal
bottomless, but soundings have shown
its greatest depth to be 1000 feet.
Benjamin Zoeckler, of Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, one of the most extensive cattle
dealers in the Southwest, killed him.
self by a pistol shot back of the ear.
Business reverses had depressed Zoeck-
Ter for a month past, and his suicide is
attributed to dependency.
A cooperative fruit evaporation and
cannery in Azusa is one of the posi-.
bilities of the immediate future. A
small experimental evaporation has
been in use for two years and has
proved successful. A feature of the
work is the evaporation of vegetables.
Commander Booth Tucker of the
Salvation Army will arrive in San
Francisco shortly for the purpose of
viewing the land secured for colonial
tion purpose in Monterey county. In
the meantime the Citizens Commit
tee will endeavor to raise the $40, 900
necessary to secure the success of the
project.
Sigmund Morris. who is said to be
wanted by the Federal authorities in
Brooklyn, N. Y, for an alleged illegal
use of the mails in connection with a
fraudulently directory scheme,ss ap.
peared before Commissioner Heacock,
and waving preliminary examination,
vas held to answer, and will be taken
East Immediately.
The Supreme Court at San Francisco
has decided that the buildings and inn
provements on the Lincoln School lots
at Fifth and Market streets, in that
city, belong to the school department,
and not to individuals who erected
them. By the decision, which reverses
the Judgment of the Superior Court,
the city is enriched by 500. 600.
The Board OF Fire Underwriters of