The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-30
ALONG THE COAST.
Interesting Occurrences From all
Over the Coast.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSED.
Number Of miscellaneous JOttinE'
Briefly and Ourtiy Told I'm This
Column.

The hay crop in this State IS re-
ported about 1900 tons short. and
high prices are expected to rule next
month.
The Sierra Nevada has cleared from
Puget Sound, Wash, for Europe with
cargo Of -four, first of the season
from that section, valued at $95, 900.
Several thousand dollars will be ex-
pended in Kings county this winter,
building levees TO protect overtiowed
lands along the borders of Tulare lake.
Edward 4. Reddy, manager Of thu
Chicago Clock Company, died recently
in Oakland from morphine. poisoning.
It IL supposed he took the drug while
trying to induce sleep.
Osea Brown, pensioner of the
War of 1912, died near Grants Pass,
Oregon, recently, aged 1915 years. Up
to the time of his death his health was
good and his memory remarkably
clear.
Through the representations Of Rev.
Sheldon jackson, educational agent for
Alaska, Secretary Alger has decided to
send relief trains up the Yukon River.
by reindeer, to the miners in the vari-
Gus Yukon gold fields.
Two informations for forgery have
been filed in Los Angeles against
Charles l.. Wilde, ex-secretary of the
American Fraternsl League, which has
its headquarters in that city. He is
charged with raising checks.
Mrs. J. A. Adams of Chicago
daughter of q. G. Bushman. master
mechanic of the Pullman Car Com
pany, died recently in Los Angeles
She was sufferer from consumption
and had been there two weeks.
At the Shell Mound Park rife range
recently Charles p. Dairs Of the Col
umbia Pistol and Rife Club made a
score of 29'points, Columbia target
count, at fifty yards. 1t is claimed
that this beats the worlds record.
The southbound San Rafael local
train ON the Notrh Pacific Coast Rail
road, was deraile1 recently by an open
switch at Ross Station. The engineer
and fireman were slightly injured, but
none Of the passengers were hurt.
The Cramps Shipbuilding Company,
Of Philadelphia, have decided to es-
tablish line of steamers between Pa
citic Coast points and the Alaska min
ing region, giving weekly service be-
tween Pacific ports and the Klondike.
The Berkeley High School threatens
to withdraw from the Academic Ath-
letic League. The students claim that
the suspension of their athlete Spencer
and the subsequent annulment of his
score in the league field day was I'M
just. ~
Two or three contracts have been let
for work on the San Joaquin river, be-
low Stockton. There are several cuts
to be made that will straighten the
stream, and wing dams will be put in
to SO confine the stream that il will do
its own securing.
The first installment of the taxes of
the Southern Pacific on the assessment
of its railroads operated in more than
one county by the State Board of
Equalization will be paid TO the State
Treasury in few days. The amount
is $500, 955.69.
|. w. Hellman, president of the
Nevada Bank of San Francisco, has
purchased from the Pacific Improve
ment Company 5000 shares of the stock
Of the Market-street Railway Company
of San Francisco. AS near as can be
ascertained the price paid was $225,
900.
Walter Preston, a seventeen-year-
old boy. residing In Santa Clara, was
probably fatally wounded while out
hunting in the Alviso marshes. He
was about to step into boat, when
tn, gun dropped and was dischared,
the load Of buckshot terribly mangling
his shoulders.
Masked robbers tortured Brigham
Young, u farmer of Kings Valley, Ore
gon, in an effort to compel him to tell
where hii money was hidden. AL
though he had only $1s he endured be-
ing held down upon hot stove rather
than lose the money. His screams
scared the robbers away.
Grand Secretary Nettleton of the
Good Templars, in his report to the
Grand Lodge recently in session ar
Pasadena, says the membership of the
order has fallen off 1898 since last re-
port. The sum of $1,000 has been an
propriated to awaken more interest in
the order.
Charles Lindley, employed in the
electrical shop of the Piedmont Rail.
way, in Alameda, touched the live
trolley wire with his hand, and as d
result OF the shock fell about twenty
five feet to the floor. He showed nc
effect fxom the electrical shock, but
died from injuries received from the
fall.
Eve missionaries of the Seventh
Day Adventist faith, bound for the
Pitcairn Islands, have sailed from Gan
Francisco for their island home ON the
British ship Hyderabad. The vessel
will 60 TO England, but will stop at
the islands long enough to permit the
missionaries and their effects to be
landed.
The sentence Of William Edwards,
who was sent 10 the penitentiary for
life for the killing Of John Connors in
Placer County eleven years ago, has
been COMMITTED by the San Quentin
Prison Directors to q twenty year
term. This, with credits gained, will
give him liberty in about fourteen
months.
Rnel Moore. member Of Company