Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-03
Pacific Coast Items.

Governor Booth, Thursday, COM
missioned ]. X. Doak a Director of the
State Asylum for the Insane.
Crop prospects are reported very
fiattering in the nelghborhood of
Woodbridge, San Joaquin county.
The man drowned at Lagrange,
Stanislaus county, was William
Sharp, of Sacramento.
George Norris, of Woodland, fell
dead at the Capital Hotel, Sacrament
to, about o'clock Friday afternoon.
Overmeyer's stages are now making
regular trips between Ukiah and Men,
docino, making the through trip in
one day.
Farmers in the immediate vicinity
of Oakdale, iStanisIaus county, are
jubilant over the prospects of an I'M
precedented harvest. a-kh.t
a good many parties from Lakeport
and vicinity are prospecting for Gin
nabar in the mountain ranges which
run through Lake county.
About forty men have been en-
ployed on the telegraph line from CO.
lusa to Bartlett Springs, and it is ex-
pected that the work will be completed
this week.
Last week A. A. Richie, of Guenco,
Lake county, sold his entire band of
high-grade Spanish Merino bucks to a
leading wool-grower from the South
ern coast. #.5
Pay-Inspector James Fulton has
been ordered to duty as inspector of
provisions and clothing at Mare Island
Navy Yard, relieving Pay-Director E.
c. Doran, who is placed on waiting
orders.
There are at present between seven
and eight hundred members of the
Mormon Church in California, sup
porters of the original faith, who re-
pudiate the Salt Lake faction of idol
ators and polygamists.
The contract for building the road
from Healdsburg to Pine Flat has been
awarded to B. B. Robinson q Son, of
Napa county, their bid-$S, 494-being
the lowest. The work is to be COM
pleted within ninety days.
Articles of Incorporation of the Red
wood City and Pescadero Stage Com
PAM were filed in the office of the
Secretary of the State, Friday. Cap
ital stock, $4,000, in shares of 500
each.
The weather during the past week
in Stanislaus county has been remark
ably cool, with the wind steadily
blowing from the northwest. Crop
experts declare the rain, weather, and
general condition favorable for the
growing grain.
Dooner Lake is said to be higher now
than it has ever been known to be be-
fore, and it is still rapidly rising. A
vast amount of water is pouring into
the lake from the melting snow from
the mountain amphitheatre partially
surrounding it.
The Napa county Bee says: at
would be great convenience to the
people of Lake and Mendocino coun-
ties if the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railroad ran an afternoon pas
senger-train from Cloverdale, as the
Napa Valley Railroad does from Calls
toga.
Says the Lake county Bee of the
the 2Sth ult.: 1.-THE prospects of the
growing crops in Lake county are ex-
cellent up to the present writing. 1t
is anticipated that the products of cul-
tivated farms will be more abundant
and better than those of last year."
Says the MEDICINE County Star:
'ThOs. Curry's wife presented him
with pair of twin daughters on the
18th ult. This is the fifth pair of
twins Mr. Curry and wife have had
born to them since their marriage, five
years and seven months ago."
A 5000 currency tight paid eight
dollars fine in the San Jose Police
Court Thursday, and then mounted
his horse and rode away like an Arab,
having first passed resolution of
thanks to the Police Department for
acting rs his banker over night, and
accounting for his money in the morn
ing.
The following are the dimensions Of
the tug-boat which is to be built at
Kimballs ways, Vallejo: Length,
60 feet; beam, Is feet; hold feet.
Eight men will be employed in the
construction, which will probably be
completed in less than ninety days.
The machinery will come from
Stockton, and the vessel is destined
for service upon the San Joaquin in
towing grain barges and such bus
mess,