Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-18
PACIFIC COAST.
Overland Rate Cutting Sus'
pended.
THE CALIFORNIA VINTAGE.
Breezes From the Bay City-Chinest
Fruit Canners-The Powell
Murder Trial.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

ting of rates on overland tickets was to
day brought to close by an agreemen
mutually made by the representatives O.
the Iowa lines. 1t is stated that one agen
received orders from his general agen
at Chicago to sell tickets only at schedule
rates. These orders took him out of the
rate-cutting business, and without letting
his brother agents know Of it, he pro-
ceeded to argue the folly of cutting, ant
in few hours an iron-clad agreement
was signed.
WINE AND RAIsIN ESTIMATES.
Clarence Westmore, Secretary of the
Victiculture Commission, has submitted
the official reports received by him from
different growers in the several wine pro.
ducing counties, which are supposed to
give reliable data to base an estimate of
the yield upon for the year.
Damage from frost was confined to
Sonema county, where it ranged from
two to five per cent, the damage from
couture for exceeding it, and being as
high as twenty-five per cent in some
locations. The following is summary
of the yield by counties:
Napa, 3,500,000 gallons; Sonoma,
2,750,00 gallons; Alameda. 1,4OO, 900
Contra Costa, 25O, 900; Santa Clara, 2 500, :
900; Santa Cruz, OO,OOO; San Joaquin,
40O,OOO; Merced, 10000; Fresno, $780,
600; Los Angeles and the south, 8 $780,
600; Sacramento and the north, $780,.
20, 100000. OF this amount at
lion gallons will be distilled, leaving
from sixteen to seventeen million gallons
of sweet and dry wines. The total pro-
duction, as given, may be lessened con-
siderably if the present hot weather
keeps up.
Reports concerning raisin production
are not full, but what were received are
estimated at from 100000 to !, 1000
pounds.
BAY CITY BREEZES.
Congressman Morrow has formally no.
tilted the Republican State Central Com
mi!tee of his acceptance of the nomina-
ton for Congressman from the Fourth
District.
Winthrop, on the Santa Monica branch
of the Southern Pacific, will be opened
as freight station, August Goth, with G.
j. Shepherd agent.
Two large Pennsylvania line cars have
been secured in which to carry to Colum-
bus, Ohio, the exhibition of California
products to be displayed at the Grand
Army encampment. The products will
be shipped next week.
The Chinese have taken advantage of
the education in canning fruits which
they received while employed in the
fruit canneries during the past seasons.
Already one fruit cannery conducted by
Chinese has been started in this city,
and it is stated this will be followed by
others.
1t has been decided that the Mercan-
tile Library property is to be placed on
the market for 100000. The money
realized from the sale will be applied to
the purchase of lot in more desirable
locality of the city. If satisfactory sale
and purchase can be made, it is the in
tention to erect one of the most COM
modious and handsome library buildings
in the United States.
Wo Tai Ii, Chinese woman who came
here last year, claimed the right to land
on the ground that she was the wife of a
Chinese actor, and, therefore, did
not come within the prohibition
treaty, or the act of Congress for
bidding the coming into the
United States of Chinese laborers.
Her case was decided yesterday by
Judge Hoffman of the Federal Court,
who held that in order to land she must
have a certificate from the Chinese Gov
ernment, vised by the American consul,
stating that she was not of the prohibited
class