Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
Pacific Coast Items.

Santa Cruz is excited over local op-
ton.
Point Arena is afflicted with quick
silver mania.
The Local Optionists are stirring in
Nevada county.
The creeks about Santa Cruz are
filled with fine fish.
The Legislature passed six and the
Governor signed five whisky bills.
A fire company has been organized
at Menlo Park, San Mateo county.
The Santa Barbara Press admits
itself defeated at the late town cleo
ton.
The Bank of HOLSTER has been or
gained, with capital stock of $780,
GOO.
Stockton people are moving to secure
the building of the Stockton and lone
Railroad
The Russian River Flag gives a
glowing account of crops in that Sec
ton of the State.
The San Francisco press thinks local
option good thing for country towns,
but the city will have none of it.
A regatta will take place on Lake
Tahoe as soon as the weather permits.
Nine boats have already been entered.
The Indians on the Pyramid Lake
Reservation, Nevada, are busy plow-
ing, seeding, etc., and expect large
harvest.
One hundred and ninety-seven thou
sand dollars were disbursed for labor
in the several mines at Gold Hill on
Friday.
There are LOO quartz mines record
ed in the Grass Valley District, of
which only dozen or fifteen are being
worked.
A Mexican was stopped by four high
waymen near Hill's Ferry on Wednes-
day last, and robbed of his horse and
$l20 in coin.
Twelve thousand pounds of chicory
were shipped from Sacramento to San
Francisco on Thursday. An item for
coffee drinkers.
The Cloverdale Postmaster, whose
duty it is to distribute mail for five
different routes, receives salary of
but 5000 per year.
The Nevada State Superintendent of
Public Instruction is taking steps for
the better enforcement of the Compul-
sorry Education act.
The Chinese residents of Nevada
City subscribed four hundred dollars
to the Colfax, Grass Valley and Neva-
da City Railroad fund.
The Crown Point mine has just re-
ceived steel wire cable weighing H.
$50 pounds. This is an immense weight
to hoist every time carload of ore is
raised.
1t is reported that an Eastern firm
is about to contract for all the cigars
that the Consolidated Tobacco Com
pany of Gilroy can manufacture this
season.
Ever since the election returns were
declared in favorof Fresnoas the shire
town of the county, Fresno has been
extremely lively. All appear anxious
to secure as many lots as possible.
An exchange says Senator Laine of
Santa Clara was a great nuisance In
the Senate. 1t will be happy day to
the State when Lame is the only Sen
ator to which this remark will apply.
The temperance people of Santa
Rosa are getting up petition to the
Board of Supervisors, asking an oppor-
tunity to vote upon the question OF
liquor license.
A petition is being circulated in
Healdsburg for an election under the
Local Option law, and the Russian
River Flag says it supposes that such
petitions are being circulated through
out the county.
In Oakland candidates for some Of
the city offices are beginning to show
themselves. There will probably be
several lady candidates for the Board
of Education, and perhaps for School
Superintendent.
The Vallejo gas and water compan-
ies are in contention as to their respec-
tive products, one claiming that the
escaping water rots the gas pipes and
the ether that the escaping gas rots
the water pipes.
The preliminary survey of the Mon
terey and Salinas Narrow-gauge Rail
road has been commenced, and the
report of the engineers is highly favor
able. The road will be about eighteen
miles long, and there will be but little
heavy grading and few deep cuts to be
made.