Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-04
California News.
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 The new Santa Ana Bank opens for business this week.
 Japanese pcrsimmous are irulty this year in most of tbe interior counties.
 Last week the Chinese Mission build ing, in Santa Barbara, was destroyed by fire.
 At Lompoc, Saturday, Joshua Bar ker'5 little girl vus fatally burned m a stubble fire.
 \ fire on Henderson Browns ranch, San Benito county, last week, destroyed roo acres of pasture, valued at Sl,o0o.
 The Monterey wnaler5 captured eight whales last month and have declared a dividend of 54aN to each member of the Company.
 During a recent vInd-storm on the Mojaye Desert, lumber was blown from the open cars ol the S0uthcr Paclnc and sent sailing through the air.
 The school-house in the Montgomery School District, located about fifteen miles south of Tehama, was burned to ground last week.
 The Gridley Herald says: A couple of young men near Honecut, while digging a well last week, at tine depth Of twenty eight feet, in a stratum of course gravel, found human skulL
 At Sacramento Monday George <. Roth. am eighteen-yCar-old son Of simon Roth. committed suicide by taking strvcLuiue. The causes were dissOlpte habits and an incurab!e disease.
 At Bakersfield. James Carren, arrested for beating Joseph Marie at Long Tom, was Monday held by Justice Stouten- burgh to answer a charge of assault, with intent to do bodily harm.
 At CastroviIle, Constable Pomber, while returning home Sunday morning about one o'clock, was fired upon by John Bowerv, an old resident B0wery was arrested and taken to Salinas.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad Con- pany Monday purchased from E. r. Reed a larger tract of land m the neigh borhood of their present depot at San Jose. The company contemplate large improvements.
 The railroad track from Newark to Centeryille has been gravelled and will soon be iu condition for use. The Bay and Coast Telegraph Company will shortly put up their wire connecting the two towns and establish an office at the latter place.
 Last Saturday afternoon Jula, ten yoar-Cid daughter or J. r. Bose, a farmer residing near Berryossa, set fire to 8 stubble field during herfatler's absence, and her clothing catching fire, she sus- taiued injuries which resulted in her death Sunday evening.
 It is rumored that the San Vicente rancho. upo1 which the beautiful little seaside town of Santa Monica is located, is about to- pass into the hands Of e1- Governor Stanford, which means that the Southern Pacific Company might conclude to develop theWateEing place there.
 At Sacramento. iu the Gold Run De- bris case Monday, the witnesses were WI. Knox and A. Henley, who have lived there since i~ji; tieO. Little, who has lived m Folsom slrcr lo5i, and John B. Taylor, residing fourteen miles above Sacrameuto since l~+9. Their evidence was of a similar nature to that gwen heretofore.
 On -le 22l ulG, at the mil owned by George Hearst, near Eie.lras Blancas, San LEi- Obispo county, difficulty oc- cured between tu1 foreman Oi the ml.l. David Barker, and j. C. Stewart, one of the hired hands. which resulted in the shooting and almost instant killing of Stewart by Barker. The iury's verdict was " iustiiajie homicide
 Says the Washington Corners Report er of November 36ll: Wednesday morn ing ur last week. Mrs. Louisa Rodriguez, wife o5 Manuel EolTiguez, wL2 Ee q, nere t! Ai.S5gra@aa ..a an T7.tsn on t6r I,' cbee. hv spider. The spot continued to swell and enlarge its area until the head, neck and adjacent parts were ln- volveI, and resulted iu death last Mon- day.
 Messrs. Ha-ein S Carr have just been making au importation ol fine stock for the purpose 0l advancing the stock ln- teres.s lf Kern county. These animals, which are the finest .f tAeir kind, consist 1r a cluIe7Jiale mare from Scotland, one lack and two ienuie- from France, and one hundred and seventeen French Me ~ipO bucks and one hundred and thirty FI.. ,t.- ri....- ,f.-. .-, i,ir4t.t,.'l Diu,s v flock iu Alamcda county.
 Says tae Hayward Journal: We learn ufthe faul--iuu or a Committee Of Safe u- by tue ,i-.zals of Stony Brook and vicinity, caused h. 5he malicious killing of stock and the occurrence of incend- ialy fires in tha hills. The last great fire of a few weeks ago was started Tor the purpose or dang iuIUry tD those in the neighborhoui, and some idea of its ex- tent may be understood when We state that upward or l2otl acres of land, from Suuol t9 Niles were burned over.
 San EeruarIao county has a great va- riatv cf climates. The mountains are covered with snov. and ice has formed frequently iu tae town of San Bernardo no. while at old San BeruardiuO there has been Do frost, and for a mile OF two up the San Timoteo Canyon the orange groves flourish beautifully. Three mil, S rom IT Clscg Station, at an elevation 0 poo feet. the mercury has been down t1 2l degrees twice. It the ranch of Dr. Edgar. in the San Gorgogio Pass, with au elevation o- 1#l feet, there has been no frost mp ta this date.
 Charles G.0cker has advanced large sums of money Co Don Jum Forster and F. J Baldwin on the securities, respect ivelv. 0f the Santa IaT-arita Rancho, in San Diego county, and the Puentc Ran chO in Los Angeles Couuty. The amount of money borrowed noon the Santa Mar Earita Rancho is ~ZoG@t. The San Diego Union says, This splendid ranch of l3nuuJ acres I- worth double the amount oi the mortgage. even # sold as a whole. Butif Forster will inaugUrate a sheme for its subdivision he can real ize much higher figures. The land Is no longer is0latoiaF formerly. In a few months tHc California Southern Railroad will cross it for distance of some thir-