The morning call., 1892-02-22
NEWS OF THE COAST.
Nn1tharn California

northern california.
Woodland is to have new passenger
depot
San Jose wants a society for the proven
ton of cruelty to children.
Brentwood, Contra Costa County, is to
have a newspaper and new hotel.
Sacramento's new electric street railway
Is expected 10 be il operation in few DAYS
Calvin b. Mcdonald, the venerable sage
brush" poet, orator and writer, Is now living
quietly at Red Bluff.
Work has begun on the erection of large
brick kiln and terra Gotta works at Contra
Costa. 1t Is proposed to carry on large
business there.
Two carloads Of hogs were shipped to
San Francisco from Antioch few DAYS ago
They were kept penned up in the cars over
! night and ten of the tat porkers died.
George HOag of Davisvllle shot a white
meadow lark the other day. The bill, toes.
claws, head and wings were those of a
meadow lark, but the color is a curious
freak that surprised all who saw the bird.
The Standard mine at Bodie, CAL. has
paid two dividends Of $4,000 each during
the past year, and is now in condition to
ray stockholders something every month.
1t disbHrses about $4,000 monthly for
working expenses.
The Advance of HOLSTER declares it is
high time the authorities took soma stems
to end the boiSterOus conduct OF certain
hoOdlum WORTHLESS who are in the habit of
going on sprees every Sunday night and
making night hideOus with their yelIs and
loud talk.
The Yuba County Miners Association
has raised $40, and expects to make the
amount 5000 or 500, so that with the $500
appropriated by the Supervisors they VIII
have $1,000 TO help the State Association in
its effort to bring about the resumption of
hydraulicking.
The Contra Costa Gazette says: As soon
as the spring opens the California and Ne
Vada Railway Company will send q corps
Of surveyors into the field to permanently
locate its proposed line TO B0die. The De O.
pie OF Modesto are building great hopes on
this line, as they have been led to believe
that 1t viii pass through or near their
town.
The old Neptune Pavilion at Alameda has
been RACED to the ground, and the lumb Der,
Of which there are twenty ship-loads, is to
! be taken away The pavilion was rendered
useless by the law passed IN Alameda for
the suppression of baseball grounds, "gar-
dens" and other Sunday resorts to which
tOuEhs from adjoining cities were wont to
congregate.
Southern California.
Fifteen acres Of land near Riverside were
sold the other day for S20,00o.
Thieves are reported to be about as
iuliCAbHS tS AUuCob AnCu III 1ICo AuAEiGS.
just now.
san Luis Obispo is to have a public IL
braTy, to cost not less than 5000. $500
has aIrt ady been subscribed toward it,
The Southern California papers are all
expressing regret over the fact that the ship
meut East Of oranges damaged by this win
! tcT'S great storm has had an unfortunate
effect on the market.
The sale OF the famous Cooper olive
ranch BIDS fair TO cause a boom in olive
culture in Southern California. Extensive
planting Of olive groves is being done about
Pomona and Riverside this winter.
The asphalt deposit at La Patera, above
Santa Barbara. seems 10 be q remarkable
deposit. II has already been followed
down 100 feet 5eow the sea-leyel, and
! drilt1d 13T feet on level in one direction.
Horse thieves at Redlauds entered the
baru Of Chauncey Hayes a few nights ago
! and stole 4 handsome pair OF bay horses.
The animals were recently brought 60 Red
lands from Illinois and are valued a $500.
Tie father. the eldest son aud the daugh-
ter Of the family Of John McNeal Of the
San LUIS Ray Valley, San Diego County,
have recently died OF typhoid fever, which
was caused by drinking water that had been
contaminated by cattle
Santa Ana has three lines Of street ears
one TO Orange, one TO the Santa Fe depot,
and enc TO lUslin. 4 driver on the Tustin
line was heId up TIE other night by tram D
who demanded q dollar. You VIII want
some brains" replied the driver as he got
the drop on the fellow with a revolver. The
tramp suddenly had business in another di-
Tectdu
But enc county in the State-Alameda-
In proportion 10 It's size, produced more
barley in 1881 than Orange County. 4 con-
siderably larger acreage has been sOwR this
year Than ever before. On the San Joaquin
ranch alone 1000 or more acres have been
added TO the barley area, besides the add
tions on the mesa toward Newport and in
the northern portions Of the county above
Fullerton.