Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-06
NEWS ITEMS.

quaKeS.
The Cuban patriot force is reported
to number $4,000 men.
All Cling, Chinese desperate, is
cavorting around San Jose.
The Alaska Herald wants Sitka and
Wrangell made free ports of entry.
The wild geese are about to destroy
the growing grain in Colusa county.
The police of Sacramento made 1873
arrests during the month of February.
Another of the Sun printers has
sued De Young for false imprison-
ment.
There are two tobacco factories at
Gilroy, which give employment to 125
persons.
A shipment of 1,4OO Bibles and Tes-
taments was received in Olympia, w.
IT,, last week.
The Mint will be employed all this
month in coming trade dollars at the
rate of $4,000 per day.
In the State charitable institutions
of Illinois it takes one officer to every
four persons cared for.
The question of admitting colOred
children to the public schools still agi-
tates the Sacramentans.
The temperance movement In Ohio
has reached over fifty towns, and
closed the saloons in many of them.
F'orty-seven carloads of barley and
seven of malt were sent East from
Sacramento last Saturday and Mon
day.
The Pacific Mail line is said to be
negotiating for the purchase Of the
Blue Mountain coal mine at Coos
Bay.
The business men of indianapolis
favor all increase of the currency, and
indorse Senator Morton's course on in
fation.
They had a cold snap up at Fort
Wrangell in Alaska during January
that froze the mercury in the Their
mometer.
August Munter, Justice of the
Peace in Stockton, has been removed
from office and fined $500 for charging
illegal fees.
The demand for trade dollars is much
larger than the supply. The steamer
Japan took 132,744 of them to Hong
kong on her last trip.
WOrkmen are engaged in clearing
the site of the new Palace Hotel in
San Francisco of the buildings and OBJ
structions on the ground.
The farmers on the tule lands of the
Sacramento employ Cinnamon instead
of horses to harrow in their grain
where the ground is soft.
DR.. Wooster of San Francisco has
been sued for $4,000 by John Walton.
Malpractice, in wrongly setting a
broken leg, is what is the matter.
The war steamer Kearsarge of Ala
bama fame has been ordered to join
the Asiatic squadron, and left San
Francisco on Wednesday for China.
Salinas City has subscribed 1920, 900
to aid in the construction of a railroad
to Monterey, and the Castroville argus
says that town will also take hand.
Up in the northern portion of the
State where great many sheep have
died from disease and bad weather,
they cook the bodies and feed them to
their hogs.
The Stockton Grange recommends
the appointment of Benjamin p.
Kooser as commissioner to represent
the oranges of this State at the Phila-
delphia Centennial.
A California lion measuring eight
feet from tip to tip, and weighing two
hundred pounds, was killed last week
near Summerville. They laid out a
bait for him, seasoned with strych-
nine.
Charles Calhoun of Dutch Flat shot
his wife, to whom he has only been
married two weeks, last Saturday.
The ball passed through her nose and
destroyed one eye, but she will re-
cover. He then shot and killed him.
self.
There were 951 prisoners in the State
Prison at San Quentin on the 1st day
Of February, and the same number on
the LIST day of March. Thirty-four
were received during the month ;
thirty-three were discharged and one
died.
There is in the State Treasury $780,
900 belonging to the State School
Land Fund, and $150,000 to the Uni
versity Endowment Fund, which, UNI
der the law, is to be devoted to the
purchase of State or United States
bonds.
Santa Barbara held an election for
Trustees on Monday, in which the
"Citizens ticket was successful by
an average majority of 100 votes. c..
A. Thompson was also elected Asses
sor, having majority of 2lO over r.
s. Stems.