Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-23
CALIFORNIA.

A new hook snd ladder truck has been
added to the Stockton FIRE department.
The Santa Ana citrus fair Is announced
as of. The citizens did not enthuse suf6.
GENTLY.
The recent rainstorm did considerable
| damage In Los Angeles, several stores and
cellars being flooded, and sewers being
caved.
A San joaquin county farmer has i'm.
ported o steam pillow from England which,
It Is claimed, will turn over from fifty to
one hundred acres per day.
The marshal at Chico Is, pursuant to an
ordinance. engaged in having the oak trees
that lined the streets feiled, and the local
papers are very indignant.
Sheriff Cunningham, Of San Joaquin
county, has imported three dogs from
Texas to assist him in running down crimi.
nails. The animals are O cross bet ween
f~oxhounds and bloodhounds and the trie
cost $2OC.
Eigh. miles from Stockton, in o little
town called Waterloo, o man named John
E. Moore has entered into O pedestrian
contest with q horse for 500 q side. The
terms are q seventy.two hours walk, the
animal to cover two miles to the mans one.
Farmers in the vicinity of Stockton are
complaining Of o pest Of small birds that
are doing great damage to growing grain.
The birds, which are reported as scarcely
larger thsn o mans thumb, swoop down on
q grain field In swarms half o mile long
and occupy two or thre acres at o time.
They attack the grain when It is. just
shooting out Of the ground.
Seventy Chinese laborers left Saera.
manto Thursday to work on the grading
of o railroad from Berenda to the Yose,
mite valley, the constr Iction Of which was
commenced this week. Other laborers will
be sent there, as the road IL to be com.
pleted to Fresno Flats, near Yosemite, by
summer.
A divorce case is being tried at Nevada
City, the testimony 10 which, the local
papers say, Is too filthy for publication,
The case Is sensational, owing to tbs promi.
nence Of the parties, the plaintiff being q
convert Of Brother Newton and . disciple
OF the Salvation Army, while the defen.
dant Il . church member.
A Chinese domestic at Forest Hill plum.
dared . bureau drawer In the honse OF
George Lawrence Of $126 h coin last
week. He Wa detected and the citizens
procured ropes and were going to hang
him, when ths loser OF the money pre-.
vailed upon them to let the Law take its
course and tho pagan escaped sammary
punishment.
The Gilroy Times says: Two proprietors
Of the Orc Yino saloon, Italisns, were
taken TO San Jose for treatment Of pecu.
liar disease. They were found In bed un.
able to rise. They complained Of weak.
ness, dizziness and inability TO stand
That they should both be affected thu
same way at the same time withork any
apparent cause 10 somewhat remarkable.
UTAH.
Tho Horn Silver dividend paid last weel
brought the total up to {, ZOO. 00O.
Utah will exhibit ct the Amsterdam
worlds expositioD . full lins Of csseAls
silk, wooden goods and other manufac
turtles.
The gas company OF Salt Lake CITY hsv,
made . reduction Of go per lamp tor stree
lamps, making tho cost $40 per lamp pc
year.
Eastern. southeastern and southwestern
Utah. which are comparatively ~unexplered
p~rospectors this spring.
The business men Of Salt L IKE think thu
the Affairs Of Ferry Brothers, In Utah
have been ably and honorably managed
The G miles are working for Ferry's cleo
tion to the senate.
Since the snow.shdes In American For
canyon over the Silver Bell property, th
ground has been cleared around the nout
Of the tunnel, and work resumed. Thi
tunnel u now In about 800 feet,
The Utah Central purpose . change
time In the departure Of their passengs
train, which goes TO Ogden In the morninl
The present time of departure Is 7 o'cloci
which Is IN early hour for people to leav
their homes. BY starting ut 7:4e q. m
the train will reach Ogden In ample tim,
and the change to that hour will he mad
aqout February Goth.