Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-01-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Heavy snow-storms continue in
Shasta County.
Humboldt farmers are holding their
potatoes for raise.
1t is reported that Mrs Laura d.
Fair has realized $4,000, from Ophir
stock.
s. NJ. Hutchings calls his lecture "a
trip to Yosemite and back in two
Hours"
In Santa Cruz, during 1878, eighty
four couples were married and eleven
divorced.
The motto of the Santa Cruz Grange
is "Go slow and keep in the middle of
the road"
Flowing is going ahead rapidly in
Livermore valley and other portions of
Alameda county.
The total cost of fences in California
is 500, 100000 Annual cost of same,
including repairs and interest, S.
100000.
About 1000 head of cattle were killed
by the settlers down about the lakes
of Kern county during the past season,
in defense of their crops.
Captain Thomas D. Hebron has been
appointed agent of the P. NJ. S. S. Co.,
in Acapulco. He will leave San Fran
cisco for his post on the 18th of jan
uary.
The Stockton Soap Factory has, du-
ring the year 1873, produced 1S4,578
pounds of hard soap and S,871 pounds
of soft soap, the total value of which
is 81, 296 As.
1t will be unlawful to kill deer after
the LIST of January, unless the deer is
about to bite the hunter.
The people of Tacoma are sanguine
that line of steamers will soon be
put on the route between that place
and San Francisco.
Grand Island Farmers contemplate
forming a joint stock company to carry
on merchandising, blacksmithing,
storing grain, etc.
In Oakland proposition is favored
of building a sewer from Lake Merit
to the bay, distance of 5000 feet, at a
cost of about STA, 900.
There are five hundred men at work
in the quicksilver mines near the
Geysers.
Santa Cruz boasts of citizen named
Justiniano Roxas who is 121 years old,
and whom its journals claim to be the
oldest inhabitant of the world.
Three tons of California dried fruit
were recently sent by rail to Iowa.
Among the lot were figs, peaches, pears,
apricots and plums.
The Lucas farm, near Santa Rosa,
containing 400 acres, has been subdi-
vide and sold during this month. The
whole tract will net Sal 500, which is
| the largest and the best sale of land
ever made In the vicinity of Santa
Rosa.
1t has been proposed that all Pioneer
Associations of the State meet togeth-
er at some central place on September
| 9th, 1874, there to celebrate the twen-
ty-fifth year Of their residence in
California.
The administrator of the estate of
Livingstone c. Blair, who was killed
in jacksonville some months since by
the explosion of defective Maxim
gas machine, has brought suit against
the Maxim Gas Company, laying the
damages at 100000.
1t will be unlawful to kill deer after
the first day of January next, which
is Thursday. Still, says the Grass
Valley Union, hunter can shoot one
in self-defense when the deer is about
to bite him.
The Suffer Creek Independent learns
that there is an excellent ledge of
good-paying rock in the Alpine mine,
at Plymouth, and that the mill, which
started up a short time ago, can now
be kept running continuously.
An Indian named Justiniano Roxas,
now in the Santa Cruz hospital, is re-
ported to be one hundred and twenty
one years old. He was baptised at
Santa Cruz by Friar Salazar, March
4th, 1892. He was then forty years of
age.
We are sorry to learn, says the Car
son appeal of Dec, oath, that ex- Lieu
tenant Governor Slingerland, who has
been confined to his home for month
past with an attack of sickness, is now
so farfrom well that he is not expected
to be on his feet again for week.