Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-01-08
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

p. J. Hopper has transferred the
Folsom Telegraph to John F. Howe.
1t is twenty-seven years since the
discovery Of gold at COloma, FL Dora
do county.
Wheat is four inches high in some
portions of Monterey county.
The rain fall at Colusa nearly equals
the entire fall of a year ago.
The House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds were in San
Jose last Wednesday to examine the
State Normal School.
Two men driving cattle near Camp
Mcdowell, Arizona, on the 18th ult-
imO, We're attacked by Indians, and
one of the men killed.
The creeks along the coast are lively
with salmon. One was caught near
the powder works Santa Cruz, which
was three feet in length.
Mckinney, late editor of the Vir-
GINA Euening Chronicle, has resigned
his position on the paper, for the pur-
pose of engaging in business in eastern
Nevada.
The day-beacon recently placed upon
Fauntleroy Rock, in Crescent Bay,
went down under the heavy sea De-
.ember Odd. 1t cost the Government
5000 to plant this beacon.
Santa Cruz county claims the honor
of having the oldest inhabitant on the
earth. His name Justinano Roxas,
and he is said to be III years old.
The citizens Of Olympia are subscrib-
ing liberal sums to pay the expenses of
a survey, report and estimates of the
Olympia and Tenino railroad.
Two hundred barrels of -four are
daily turned out by the grist mill of
the Los GatOs company, Santa Clara
county.
The filling with water of the great
reservoir OF the Virginia and Gold
Hill Water Company was finished on
Friday night.
Albert H. Hart, private Secretary
to Governor Booth, will be q candidate
for the office Of State Librarian, in OPP
position to the present incumbent, II.
y. Cravens.
The Tobacco Company of Gilroy are
busily sowing seed for next crop Of
tobacco. Other companies and many
private individuals will also plant con-
siderably this season.
Prof Agassiz's son has been ap-
pointed to the Presidency Of the An
derson School on Natural History on
Penikese Island, and Is his fathers
successor.
Rose Wilson, d street woman of
Virginia City, was robbed of $4,000 in
coin Jan. I'd, shortly before daylight,
by three men, who, in addition to
capturing her pelf, gave her terrible
beating.
The rain gauge at the Office of the
South Yuba Canal Company, at Ne
vada City, showed the amount of rain
that has fallen for the twenty-four
hours, ending Thursday at five O'Clock,
to be 2.08 inches. Total for the season,
26.28 inches.
The levee on the Nugent ranch,
near Wheatland, was cut on the night
of January 1st, from which much
damage to property resulted. Hugh
ROdden offers q reward Of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the party or
parties committing this outrage.
NJ. II. Tate, of Cafion City, Trinity
comfy, killed deer q short time ago,
which only had one leg, the other
three having been shot off, or other
wise amputated, below the knee. He
states that the ends of the short men,
bers were as hard as the natural hoof,
and that The deer could run well.
The monotony of life in the pretty
village Geyserville, Sonomn county,
was broken last week by the advent of
melancholy looking stranger who dis
posed of several bogus watches at prices
somewhat lower than genuine gold
time-keepers could be bought for. And
yet those Geyservillians who patron
lied him are not satisfied with their
purcases.