Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-12
Pacific Coast Items.


The locust-trees with which Yreka
abounds are literally loaded down
with blossoms.
Two hundred and ninety-one per-
sons have passed through MERGED for
Yosemite this season.
The hridoessson the upper MERGED
river were all washed away last week,
with indications of a great rise.
1t is rumored at Vallejo that Adj
miral Rogers will soon be relieved of
the command of the Mare Island
Navy Yard.
The total vote in Siskiyou county
on the question of the annexation of
klamath was ], 1923; the majority for
annexation, Al.
At the Napa District Court, on
Monday, Edward Day was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for the muir
der of John Coon.
The-work of putting concrete into
the bottom of the dock at the Mare
Island Navy Yard has been going on
for the past two weeks.
On account of the high water in the
San Joaquin river the ferries are unap-
proachable. There is no crossing with
teams at the pres ent time.
The Colusa school district assess
ment foots up as follows: real estate,
S3l2, O9l; improvements, 1926, 600; per-
sonal property, $53l $50. Total assess
ment, $l,l70,244.
The Sanitary Committee of Knights
Landing report that there have been
but two cases of smallpox in that
town-both fatal, and six cases of va
rioloid-none severe.
The first ten-stamp mill for the re-
duction of silver ore ever constructed
in the Coast Range of California is
now in full progress of construction al
most within sound of Calistoga.
On Monday, at Sacramento, Down.
ing Estrada, found guilty of the Kruse
murder, and the jury having failed to
prescribe imprisonment for life, was
sentenced to be hanged on June 22d.
Joseph Bassford, of Pleasant Valley,
Solano county, shipped Monday morn
ing the last of his cherry crop. His
shipments of this fruit for the season
amount to 1000 boxes; 700 boxes more
than he has shipped at any previous
season.
According to the Sacramento Bee
there is farmer living within five
miles of that city who has been stone
deaf for thirty years, yet he transacts
all his business without the aid of
slate Just by watching the lips of the
speaker, and he seldom makes q mis-
take.
The Yreka Journal speaks thus of
the crop prospects in Siskiyou county:
"All reports concur in prognosticat-
ing unusually large crops in this
county the present season. Farmers
will do well if they can only find a
market for their supplies of grain and
hay at good prices"
The following. is the result Of the
Local Option elections in San Joa-
quin county on Saturday: Wood
bridge, 20 majority against license,
and Lodi for license, making the ma
jority in the township against license,
%. No license had one majority in
+. Tulare township. Douglass township
is reported to have gone against IL
cense.
Last week, says the Suffer Banner,
Joseph Ream found half dozen fish,
six or seven inches long, in a little
water-hole on the high land in the
Live Oaks, where there was no con-
nection whatever with any creek or
other water. Last Fall the place was
as dry as a powder-house. How the
fish came there is a query with the
people of that section.
The Grass Valley Union says that
Bonner Lake is higher now than it
was ever known to be before and is
rapidly rising. A vast amount of
water is pouring into the lake from
the melting snow from the mountain
amptheater partially surrounding it.
The outlet, through Bonner Creek, is
very narrow, which is the cause of
the rise.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says: GAS
the case stands, it is very doubtful if
there is any Local Option law in Santa
Cruz for the authorities to enfore. The
Board of Supervisors have not deter
mined the result within the ten days
required by statutory enactment.
They have only declared the result, as
their minutes plainly show. The
Board refuses to exercise the judicial
power thrust upon them, and fatal
defect is the result.n
On Wednesday last South Fork and
Canyon City Townships, in Trinity
county, held elections under the Local
Option law. In South Fork Township
the vote in Georges precinct gave six
majority against license, while in
Ruch's precinct the majority forlicense
was eleven--there being thirteen votes
polled, only one of which was against
license. In Canyon City Township
the vote stood: For license, SO;
against license, 15-majority for IL
cense, Is.