Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-28
Pacific Coast Items,

NeuIF lOUs vi SOEGNDtlll olAlfN az NSt'+
Francisco daily.
Mrs. NJ. L. Wilson has been appointed post
mistress Of Santa Cruz.
Rattlesnake bar. Placer county, has ripe figs
of this years growth.
The blind preacher, Wilburn, is the sensation
in San Francisco at present.
The Sacramento reporters, who attended the
Chinese weddug objected to kissing the bride.
Arrangements are being made for building a
bridge across the Willamette river at Portland.
The value of the wool spring clip shipped
through Los Angeles this season is over $780,
600.
a case of small pox has occurred in San Fran
cisco, and was removed at once to the small pox
hospital,
The value of real and personal property in
Tulare county this year is five million in excess
over 1869.
A couple of miners on Indian creek, Del Norte
county, took out Il nugget Of gold lately weigh
ing twelve ounces.
general advance has taken place tn the
price Of flour throughout Oregon, Of fifty cents
to one dollar per barrel.
The carpenters and mechanics of Oakland
have abandoned the eight hour system of labor,
and now work ten hours.
a starch factory has been started in San Jose,
and turns ont one ton Of that Indispensable
household article per day.
Hon. E. Steele has sold the Steamboat mining
claim on McAdams creek, Siskiyou county, to
Murry Henry for $4,000
The Common Council of Los Angeles has for
one of its members a survivor of the Fannin
massacre at Goliad, Texas, in 1896.
The opposition to the registration of colored
voters has died out and County Clerks are per-
| for,,fnCr thair Jutiap aS .hpv Shoul1
John Sims of Marin county, has been awarded
the contract FOR furnishing the State prison With
beef for one year, at eight cents per pound.
A Boston Chicago party, filling eight Pullman
cars, " constructed especially for the occasion,
as the announcement states, soon leave Boston
for California.
yonng girl in San Francisco shot herself
| through the arm the other day, while attempt
! ing to commit suicide. Cause, afraid her sister
would steal her lover
a mirage on the 10Th inst. gave persons cross
| ing the bay of San Francisco a distinct view of
the background of Oakland. The picture is
described as being very fine,
An order was received per last steamer from
China to A p. Smith, of Sacramento, to ship
fifty cases of apples and pears by every steamer
departing from San Francisco for China.
a mysterious order, called the supreme coun-
Gil of the o. f. O., says the Sacramento Rec0rd
seems to have an organization in Sacramento
Its objects are principally pointed against the
Chinese.
The Cinnamon of San Jose have engaged the
| services of Chinese lawyer, who was educated
at law school in England, and who will de-
fend their interests in all cases which they may
! be concerned.
Two coored men summoned to serve as
trial jurors at Santa Cruz on the 9th inst. one
/ hf.;r, In lict tbp nj hay po
made up his mind to the guilt of the prisoner,
| they were excused.
Preparations are being made to erect salt
works in front of the Reed ranch, San Rafael
! county. An effort made about two years
ago, but was abandoned account of the un-
favorable lease Of the marsh ground.
Davis, a noted fruit dealer of Chicago is in
California eudeavoring to make arrangements
with the railroad company for the shipment of
fruit East. lie will ship largely if railroad
freights put at figure that will leave him a
margin.
The Red Bluff Independent soys that Captain
| Sam. Jaynes, of that place, entertained the cit-
zens of Red Bluff with Il moonlight dance on the
! leVce, last week. The leyee was carefully
cleaed and canvas spread under foot. We
should say this was quite a novelty.
The large tract of land some 1900 acres,
known as Knights ranch, between ueuldsburg
and Calistoga, has changed hands. The buyers
are some Eastern capitalists. 1T is their inten-
tion to cut the property up into small farms and
sell them at reasonable figures to actual settlers.
The Messrs. Conner, four miles above the
town of Truckee, have gone into trout-breeding
on large scale. They have constructed ponds,
hatching- g-houses, tanks and get an abundant
supply from the Truckec river They have one
hundred thousand spawn in their hatching-
| houses.
A small vein of silver ore has been discovered
at Silver City, Nevada, which is Of peculiar
and promising character. 1t only seven
| inches wide at the surface but has widened out
to nearly four feet in sinking upon it.. 1t is
hard clay or cement, and yields $40 per ton by
mill process.
George W. Move, Insurance Commissioner,
has required the Oriental Fire and Marine insur-
ance company to discontinue the issuing of any
new policies. and the renewal OF any previously
issued, and has notified the company to repair
their capital within thirty days, or prepare to
wind up business.
Two hundred Cinnamon have been hired at
San Francisco within the last week by the
owner of sea island cotton plantation in Geor-
gia, who will take them all East Immediately
Several other co;ton-plarterS are on the way or
about to start for this State TO secure Chinese
hands for their plantations.
The ravagcs by grasshoppers In the Coco
mongo vineyards, near Los Angeles, are said to
be quite severe. 1t Is estimated that the crop
will be damaged one-tourth The young ones
are creeping, and ditch two feet wide has been
made in San Jose township to stop their pro-
gress they number countless millions. The
damage in Los Angeles is light and they are
disappearing along the foothills.
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