The Newtown bee., 1893-05-19
NUMBER 20

sweet voice and face told his religious experience. I was quite surprised at their intelligence. One boy repeated the Apostles creed and Ten command ments in English. Another the first Psalm and parts of the Gospels.
 4 COLLECTION WAS TAKEN at the close of the meeting and $50 was received to carry on the work for the next year.
 took charming ride a few days since behind a span, down Magnolia avenue, which is in the residence part of the town, three miles below the business section, where it stretches on for nine beautiful miles. I went to the La Sierra tract of 10000 acres which New York and English capital is soon to place on the market in lots for settlement. Now it is virgin soil, fed over by
 THOUSANDS OF SHEEP. At this season it is mostly green. but this will burn out with summer heat. How sweet the air as the wheels crushed the sage brush I never saw so many meadow larks and so fat. There were flocks of smaller birds, with hundreds in flock. Above, the solemn buzzards slowly sail- ed about, looking for their duty as scavangers. They are black, as large as hawks, and are so much thought of that there is a fine for shooting them- i low range of hills, green on one side and
 ROCKY THE OTHER, cuts the tract almost in half, and beauti- full valleys lie along either base of the hills gently dipping down to the level plain that stretches miles away. It seemed like dream to me for I saw out of what Southern California has been builded. The plan is to lay out streets, bring wa ter from II miles away, and run an elec- tric line to connect the tract with River side. If one had knowledge of tie f~f"rn or made lucky venture there are many localities here ~t-~-a hundreds could be turned into thousands in a short time.
 MONEY HERE Is ALMOST wholly gold and silver. There are few bills and those mainly of larger denomi- nations. The dollars here are all silver. Pennies are not taken except at the post office and a few stores. Every thing that is quarter for two is 15 cents for one. Milk is 10 cents for single quart but l5 cents for two quarts. You can't buy less than cents worth of anything We noticed it at first, but are getting used to it. They tell here of bits (25c) bits [50c)6 bits [75c). Riverside has been granted county division by the com mittees of both the Senate and Assembly and there seems a likelihood that it will pass both branches of the California Legislature.
 IF COUNTY DIVISION is successful Riverside will have a busy if not permanently prosperous future. (The bill making Riverside county has since passed the Legislature). There is much reason for it's discontent with its present place in San Bernardino county. It is the richest town in the county, pay ing taxes on SC, GOO ,000 while San Benar- dino pays taxes on about S4,000,000. Although Riverside twice voted down a proposition to build new court house
 SAN BERNARDINo CONTROLLED three of the five county supervisors and got them to order new court house in face of the popular vote, as everything, assessment of property, collection of taxes and local government is done county wise. Riverside has no refuge and is now paying most of the cost of | court honse which the county twice voted not to build. San Bernardino is rum town, too, and Riverside is a temperance town.
 THE NEW COUNTY
 would take in the north part of San Diego county, the south part of San Bernardino county. The west part of it would be mountains and desert the wealth, population, and cultivated acreage lying il the eastern part about Riverside and San Jacinto. San Jacinto was where Rev MT Delzell was once located. The county would run east to the Colorado river and reach to within so miles of the Pacific ocean and would contain 725S square miles. |
 l Rev MT Delzell will hold a service in the school house at Dodgingtown, next Sunday afternoon.
 The ladies of the Congregational church will give one of their famous To- cent suppers in the parlor of the church on Friday evening, May 26.
 J. NJ. Otis of Bridgeport was the guest of his father, NJ. s. Otis, over Sunday.
 Mrs II. Helin and son, c. +. Helin, from Danbury, spent Sunday with Charles Jonas.
 Hon D. N. Morgan, United States treasurer-elect, of Bridgeport, with his