Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-07
Pacific Coast Items.

A bitter feud has broken out among the Chi
nese of Los Angeles.
AT Los Banoe creek, near the coast range, a
valuable coal vein has been discovered.
Oranges and lemons for shipment to San Fran
cisco are coming into Los Angeles about 10000
daily.
In the Price murder trial at Carson two We
nires have already been exhausted in trying to
obtain jury.
The tooth of a mastodon was recently found
in Alameda creek firmly imbedded in a mass of
conglomerate rock.
Trout breeding in Washoe valley has failed,
owing to the smallness of the pond or alkaline
nature of the water used.
The Japanese tea culture at Calistoga will
prove a success. Three hundred thousand
plants are growing finely.
Just before reaching Washington, on Friday,
| the Vallejo train into band of cattle and
killed ten or twelve head.
The mines of the Mariposa estate yielded
$52 SCI since January lst. 1t is thought $50,
600 will be taken out this month.
Work on the Sutro tunnel is progressing rap
tidy the face of the tunnel is 900 feet The
ground is very favorable for blasting.
Two parties are nominating legislative tick
cts throughout Oregon. The Republicans unan-
imously favor the election of Senator Williams.
A jealous Chinaman exploded a pot of Greek
fire in a Sacramento house of bad repute, day
or two ago. There was hurryng to and fro in
consequence.
Some 5000 school children met at a picnic
near Woodland, Yolo county, on Saturday.
They came from Marysville, Sacramento, and
towns in Yolo.
A test case of negro registration under the
fifteenth amendment, by mandamus, comes up
for hoe rnu hnfora the Countv .IudUa Of ToS
Angeles county.
Sacramento had house haunted by ghost.
After protracted search, it was discovered to
be poodle dog under the floor. People are
willing to rent the place
The colored men of Portland, Oregon, have
organized themselves iuto a club, under the
name OF the Fifteenth Amendment club. A
president and other officers were chosen
A beautiful specimen of petrifed oats four
feet in length and weighing eighty-two pounds,
has been taken ont of the ground, sixty feet be-
low the surface, at Chalk bluff, Nevada county.
Pile-driving commenced on the Rutte creek
bridge of the California and Oregon railroad to-
day. Five hundred graders are at work, and
three-fourths of mile of iron is laid every other
day.
| A teu-ton rock slid down the mountain side
through the snow-sheds, on the track of the
Central Pacific, about two miles this side OF
Cisco, and bad to be blasted before it could be
| removed.
Judge Lake, of the county court in San Fran
cisco, has sentenced two persons to the State
prison for seven years, who were found guilty
of burning their property which had been in.
sured to Il large amount
Reliable advices from the west side of the Sar
joaquin river represents the crops almost a
total failure The grass is insufficient for graz
ing purposes, and settlers leaving with
their stock for the Sierra Nevadas
They had big blowout at Sucker fat, Yuba
county, on the 26th ult Eight hundred kegs Of
powder, or fourteen thousand pounds, were eX
ploded in the old Peterson claim. The blast
made more noise than the Blossom rock charge
and was as successful.
The Colusa Sun states that Joseph Fryer, on
the way from Cortinez to Colusa, lost his watch
and spent "A long time in fruitless search for it.
A sheep-herders dog found the watch on the
prairie, and brought it home to his master who
returned it to the owner.
The "Board of Underwriters" familiarly
! known as the insuance combination of San Fran
cisco, has broken up without the interpositon
of Thomas Mooney. All the insurance compa-
nies by this become rivals and there will proba-
bly, be II lively competition for risks.
The Sutter Banner published in Yuba City
Suttcr county, after working off its regular edi
ton last week, inserted Democratic leader and
placed the name of Democratic Standard at its
head. Judge Keyser of the Tenth Judicial dis
trict has designated this nondescrpt the litgant
paper for Yuba county.
There was a large mass meeting of the mi
ners and other citizens of Shasta county ON
April 30th, to protest against the report of the
| Deputy United States Surveyor in relation TO
the mineral lands of that county, he having re-
turned the same as agricultural. Considerable
excitement prevailed and resolutions and pro-
tests against the said report were adopted, the
same to be sent to United States Surveyor Day,
and United States Land Commissioner Wilson,
and our Representatives in Congress.