Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
Califoruia News.

Wheat sowing has begun m San Be nitO county.
 The new schooner Halcyon was launch ed at Eureka last Saturday.
 Albert Kercheval. of Los Angeles, is preparing to publish a volume of poems.
 Threshing is now done at Hueneme, and blows started for the new crop. Over three hundred head of deer have | been killed thIs season in Ventura county.
 The Santa Ana Packing House slaugh- tered 1900 head of hogs last year, and sold 70 tons of bacon.
 The survey of the California Southern | railroad IS completed along the line of | the upper canal past Riverside.
 The annual fair for the benefit of the Sisters orphan asylum IS in progress at Los Angeles. Major TOler will this winter plant 30O,- OOO Mission grapevi1es on his ranch, SIX miles east of Fulton Wells.
 A movement is on foot to establish a Boys Mechanic Association and Indus trial School in Woodland.
 Petaluma's population IS four thous- and, and two hundred and seventeen San Francisco dailies are taken there.
 F. A. Weed, formerly of the Greenvilie Bulletin, is about to start paper in the interest of the Mussel Slough settlers.
 Several streams and ponds in Sonoma county are to be stocked with Eastern black bass.
 A military company, composed of twenty-One young ladies, has been organ ized in San Diego.
 The Odd Fellows of Sebastopol, Sono- ma county, will give ball and supper on Friday evening, November IS, 1881.
 The SOnoma and Marin Mutual Bene- ficial Association paid benefits to the amount of S33,2S1.45 during the past year.
 The Yosemite Committee has ordered the construction of a bridge across the Merced River between the iron bridge and the Cascades.
 The Moss Landing warehouses, near Castroville, contain 5S,SG0 centalS of barley, and the warehouse at COOper's Switch has l5,300 centals.
 Mrs. Perara, the wife of the tenant on a dairy ranch near Novato, captured deer with lariat. He came up with the COWS and went into the corral.
 Recent arrangements made by the Anaheim Irrigation Company promise much larger supply of water than ever before.
 There were about seventy-fve ex- cursionists from Los Angeles to San Bernardino on the occasion of the Fire mems reception at that place. lee formed in San Bernardino county last Saturday morning and tender plants were killed, but no material damage was done.
 Tuesday evening Tn Los Angeles, Miss Carusi, the harpist, received a compli- mentary concert, which was largely at- tended.
 A Carpinteria man received a check of S1S7 in payment for the bean crop of one and half acres of land in that fer tile valley.
 Charles Nordhoff, who has just com pleted trip to Southern California, IS reported as saying that he underdrew the picture in his first book.
 Last Saturday Brazelton & Kenniston of San Bernardino, sold their stallion Inca to Salisbury x O., Star route mail contractors, for S3OOO.
 Quartz operations are daily becoming more brisk in the neighborhOod of Mo hawk Valley, Plumas.
 The trial of W. R. Strange who shot Newt. Richen in Watsonville, is set for November at Santa Cruz.
 More than 10000 head of beef cattle have passed through Big Meadows, Plu- mas, this summer, bound for the lower country markets.
 The gross receipts of the Catholic church fair at Salinas, week before last, were $l066.S0; expenses, Sl96.70; net profit of the fair, SS7010.
 Foul air in Chinese claims at Moore's Flat, Nevada county, last week, killed three Chinaman and rendered thirty more for time insensible.
 In excavating for a dam on Spencer creek, east of Napa, to obtain water to supply the asylum, the idea of building large dam has been given up.
 The Board Of Supervisors of San Di- ego county have appointed three Horti- cultural Commissioners. They are: J. NJ. Asher, W. c. Kimball and o. $. Cha pin.
 Santa Rita Rancho, Santa Barbara county, Is to he partitiOned. There are about 12OO0 acres to be divided between three owners, Jesse Hill, John Wise and Mrs. Ramona Malo de Jones.
 A party of San Diego gentlemen are negotiating with the agent at that place or the Mexican government to open quarry of fine brownstOne which exists on the Coronados.
 At the oil wells in the neighborhood of Newhall the production of about twelve wells averages about fifty barrels a day each, or q daily total of six hun dred barrels. A pipe line IS being built to the Santa Clara river and tO tide wa ter.
 The United States Gauger has meas ured about five thousand gallons of brandy made by l.. J. Rose at Sunny Slope. MT. Rose has made from the present vintage, up to October 11th, 223.- 6OO gallons of wine, with a large part of the vintage yet to be crushed.
 At San Jose Wednesday afternoon, John M. Hogan, an American District Telegraph messenger, was shot and killed in the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, by Stephen Espi- nOZa, another messenger. The latter was handling a five-shooter, g calibre, and had, as he supposed, extracted all the cartridges. Young Hogan was stand