The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

: april, 1880, there were IL failures
liabilities, SIS, 200. assets 500, 900.
There will be an immense crop o
all kinds Of fruit at Eagle Rock thi
season except prunes, which have beei
falling off to great extent. The crol
of onions now being gathered there i
bringing 5000 per acre, where the,
have received particular attention.
The salt making season has opened
at the La Punta salt works at tn,
head of San Diego bay. by the letting
in of the waters of the briny deep t,
overflow the sixty acres surface OF
evaporating watts, four acres of which
are used for the process of crystalliza
ton.
A water fight is about to open be.
tween the Helmet Water Company and
the San Jacinto and Pleasant Valley
irrigation district, Riverside county.
The Hemet company has filed on
certain water claimed by the irriga
ton district and the lawyers have an.
other pudding.
The Ancient Order of United Work
men of Tucson are undertaking the
erection Of most magnificent build
ing, which. when completed. will be
three stories high with 30 feet 'front.'
age. The entire cost will be sos, 900.
This will be the handsomest lodge
building in the territory.
Anaheim citizens are exercised over
the discovery of long ago grave
robbery. Virgil Smith was killed
twenty years ago by a falling horse
and buried at Downey. A few days
since when 1t was decided to remove
the remains to Downey. none could be
found, nor any trace of any.
The Los Angeles county superintend-
ent OF schools, Sturgeon V. Riley, and
his deputies. have inishd compiling
the yearly school census The number
OF school children in the county for
the past five years has been as follows:
1898, 27,49s; 1894, 0,43I; 1865, "a,
245; 1896, 1908; 1897. 40,257.
There is a movement by the people
of Southern California to send General
w. 5. Rosecrans to Washington as
special representative to lay the entire
harbor matter before President Nc.
klnley General Rosecrans is stanoh
supporter OF San Pedro and warm
personal friend of President McKin-
ley.
In Santa Barbara bean hoeing is
claiming the attention of farmers Just
now, and the entire floating popula-
tion Is or can be employed at the back
end OF a hoe handle for the next
month. Lima beans in the Carpinteria
and Goleta valleys never looked better
than at present. Fruit of all kinds
is maturing rapidly and the biggest
lemon crop produced in the county is
in sight.
Some time ago it was reported that
Black Jack, the notorious bandit and
the terror of Southeastern Arizona,
had been killed by peace officers near
Clifton. 1t is not known that Black
Jack and his band of eighteen despera.
does are still at work and are canned
IN Cochise county. The man killed
lear Clifton has been identified as
rom Ketchem. A posse under Deputy
United States Marshal Ezekiels is in
pursuit of Black Jack.
Nine. Modjesks is taking unusual
interest in dramatic entertainment
o be given by company of profess.
lonal and amateurs at Santa Ana to
pen new opera house. Among the
mateurs she is training for that event,
When Mary, Queen of Scots. will /,
70 presented, are some Los Angeles
'oung ladies who are accredited with
considerable talent. Others of the
upport will come from Santa Ana
nd Anaheim.
Mrs. Il. G. Wadleigh of the EXPRESS i
tan has been elected librarian OF the
,os Angeles City Library. Mrs. {
Vadleigh was formerly head assistant :
D DIR. William Rice of the Sprinp. I
cid, Mass, Public Libarry. She is
ecognized as one of the brightest
1omen in Southern California. She =
7as highly Recommended for the posi- {
ion by DR.. Rice and Arthur N. Brown. I
Ibrarian of the United States Naval {
cademy.
Two or three small parties of /
warthy skinned foreigners are begging
nd peddling in Los Angeles and G
lclnlty, passing themselves off as n
rmenlan refugees prosecuted by the |
urks' They are denounced as frauds, q
ut public sympathy being stirred up S
the news from the Orient the people O
re protiting by their tricks. One
arty exhibits letter from an Oak.
md clergyman testifying to the gen. :,
lneness oftheir claims. '
A thrifty and industrious Italian h
no is living here in Los Angeles has @
acre of ground around his home ii
mon is an object lesson to the ordi-
iry american farmer. In one corner
that little patch of ground he has .
lrlng the winter raised two crops y
barley, and now a crop of potatoes y
I'd beans is we'll under way. He has II
armed the wisdom of intensive culti. u
'tlon. Every inch of ground is nut To IL
count, and as soon as one crop is
me the land is Immediately turned d.
some other use. e,
Collector John I. Gsffey of the port b.
Los Angeles, who has made some CT
Irsuit of Chinese smuglgers, gives OF
opinon that the proposed increase hi
~ pound to the customs duty on la
ium VIII only serve to encourage VI
Juggling. AT present there is little
lum known to come into this port, la
II the duty is increased to IS a la
und it will be such an incentive to pl
Juggling that the revenue will 10 fr