Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21
Pacific Coast Items.

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600, is to be erected at Eureka, Ne
vada.
Large quantities of wool are daily
arriving at Marysville for shipment to
the East.
The car-house and machine shops at
Donahue will be completed and put in
operation in two weeks.
1t is estimated that the late rains in
Alameda county will increase the har-
vest of grain fully ten per cent.
The Farmers Bank of Colusa has
begun business. w. X Estill is Pres
ident, and Stewart Harris Cashier.
AT Mountain View, May 10th, the
local option election passed off quietly.
The prohibitionists were beaten by Il
large majority.
The new telegraph company to Lake
county have some fifty miles of posts
set, and will have ten offices open to
Bartlett's within ten days.
A large bed of loadstone has been
discovered in Tulare county. 1t has
been found of great efficacy for rheu-
matism, by simply applying it to the
affected parts.
AT Lodi latelya young man named
Mathew Couzzens received wound in
the head by pistol ball. The condi-
ton of the wounded man is pronounced
hopeless.
The San Jose Patriot says that Nor
gan Miles has white birch tree grow
ing OH the Reed street school lot. He
intends it for the use of the teachers
and pupils.
G. w. Douglas of Chico showed on
Monday a singular freak of nature,
consisting of perfect calfs body with
sleeps head, having no under jaw,
and the ear growing out of the neck.
Dan de guile accounts for the hairs
in Washoe butter by referring to the
fact that the cows feed on white sage,
the material from which a famous hair
restorative is manufactured.
The total rainfall at Nevada City for
the past Winter was 62.37 inches. In
consequence of the hard condition of
the snow, water will last longer and
be more plentiful than any year for
the past ten years.
AT Colusa lately Wares little son
George WAS seriously injured by a
vicious COW. The little fellow had
climed into the corral while his elder
brother was busy, and the COW hooked
him in the side.
A post-mortem examination made
on valuable COW which died at the
Hester Place, San Jose, on Friday last
revealed the fact that the animal had
been dieting on nails. Fourteen nails
of assorted sizes were found in her
second stomach.
At Eureka, the case Of Louis Schnn-
feldt, charged with having received
stolen goods from Strauss Il Sibley,
was tried before the County Court,
May 18th, Judge Caldwell presiding
The case was one of considerable i'm
portance, and the Court room was
crowded with listeners. He was ac-
quilted.
At Santa Clara, May 10th, an cleo
ton under the Local Option law was
held. The vote was the heaviest ever
polled there, and resulted in the defeat
of the "no license party" by fifty-seven
votes. The election has been the alb
sorbing topic for some time, and the
greatest interest was felt by all par
ties.
The contest of the election held in
in Visalia, May 4th, on the Local OPP
ton question came up before the Board
of Supervisors on Tuesday last. Sixty
illegal votes were found to have been
cast, but not sufficient evidence was
produced to induce the Board Of SUI
pervisOrs to declare the election void,
and the vote was declared in favor Oh
license.
William Doran, one of the men
wounded in the recent shooting scrape
Mt Belmont, New, died on May 9th.
He was shot through the thigh, and
amputation being found necessary,
that operation was performed by DIR.
Moore, but the patient died soon after
wards. Sutherland, the other man
shot, is said to be in a critical condi-
ton.
Recently, Andrew Myers, of Grand
Island, Colusa county, was at work re-
pairing an old barn, when portion
of the roof fell, striking him on the
head and knocking him senseless. The
most serious injury was the cracking
of the knee joint, from which it is pos
sible he may have a stiff leg. He is
vet confined to his room.
Tucker, who lately arrived at Susan
Vile from the East, was severely
burned on Thursday of last week. Ii
pouring turpentine from can he acct.
dentally spilled some of it on his hand:
and few drops falling on the hot
stove, Immediately blazed up, the
flames reaching the oil on his hands
hurninv him very hadly about the face