The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-12
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some important happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS.
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred in our siidst That Cannot
T..i to Interest.

Redlands officers raided poker
game and arrested dealers and players.
Santa Barbaraites are preparing to
90 to Alaska. The northward rush
continues.
The estimated barley crop about
Hueneme this year is SO. 900 sacks and
100. 900 sacks Of wheat.
The Westminster creamery, OF Santa
Ana, is reported to be separating 2O,-
900 pounds of milk daily.
During the last year 260 patients
were received and 1877 discharged from
the State hospital at San Bernardino.
DR.. w. II. Pendleton. pastor Of the
Baptist church of Rivera, is dead.
He was pioneer pulpit orator of Cali
fornia
The First Methodist church of Pasa-
dena is to erect fine new edifce, and
will also separate its congregation into
2 parts.
A. NJ. Decker, farmer living near
Santa Monica, sold drove of 81 hogs,
of the average weight of 232 pounds,
for 1888.
A plan is afoot to build broad
boulevard from Los Angeles down
through thu San Gabriel Valley to
Pasadena.
The cost of the receivership of the
Mt. Lowe road, including attorney s
fees, for the first year is estimated Mt
$1,000.
= Bears are reported in the Ojai range
of mountains, in Ventura county and
valuable rams and sheep are being
killed by them.
Ventura county is well supplied
with schools, there being two High
Schools, forty-two grammar grade and
nine primary.
Col" L. Upper is sentenced to
FIVE years in the penitentiary for try
ing to rescue kid" Thompson from
the Los Angeles county Jail.
Redondo is a paradise for hunters as
we'll as anglers. The dove and rabbit
shooting in the sand dunes adjacent is
said to be excellent just now.
G. p. Tafts, an Orange orohardist,
says that loquats are the equal of
oranges for profit. He has taken IS. so
worth of fruit from 1 tree.
1t is estimated that the beet sugar
factories at Chino and Alamitos will
consume 100, 600 barrels of oil as fuel,
during the next four months.
A sea captain of San Bernardino is
to secure cotton steamer and equip it
for the Alaskan gold fields. He will
sail from San Pedro in the spring.
Wallace Hardison, famous through
his discovery of rich mines in Peru.
is we'll known in Pasadena, and at one
time owned considerable realty there.
The hull of the wrecked Yaquina is
still firmly imbedded in the sand by
the Hueneme wharf, although the
upper deck has been entirely carried
away.
The Grapeland Irrigation district is
again dragged into the courts of San
Bernardiuo county. An injunction is
asked to prevent the transfer of certain
lands.
The San Pedro American vigorously
opposes the proposition to include
Catalina Island in the territory to be
incorporated and known as the city of
Long Beach.
A monster specimen of a sunfish
weighing more than one thousand
pounds, was olptured recently near
Terminal Island, and is now on exhi.
bition on the beach.
The Third Regiment. Uniform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, is encamped
in 1875 tents at Santa Monica. Lieu
tenant Colonel H. r. Arndt of San
Diego is in command.
Three of the trustees of the public
library of Santa Ana have been asked
to resign by the taxpayers, because
they voted for Miss Garnett, nom
resident, as librarian.
The fact already has been announced
that there is to be a creamery in Chino
in the near future, and that the beet.
growers are thinking of entering quite
extensively into the dairy business.
An ordinance has been passed by the
city council of los Angeles and is now
in force, which prohibits the public
exhibition of pictures of glove con.
tests by vitascope or other similar de-
vice.
1t is reported that San Diego county
will chin 6ftv de 90 Lo.o.- A..
present season. Several prospectors
will start ont from San Bernardino
soon to try their fortunes in the new
gold fields of Alaska.
San Diego Branch, No. /, State Di-
vision League, has elected officers as
follows: President, S. H. Olmstead;
Secretary, v. E. McConoughey; Treas
urer, Scion Bryan. There are now
members enrolled.
Bob Searls of Santa Ana swallowed
a plate of false teeth recently while
RECALLING himslf with dish of oysters.
The aid Of two physicians and a
stomach pump were called into service
and the teeth removed.
IL IL sthteu tnat SU3, $50 mead or
cattle were shipped out of Arizona in
1896, and 24,097 killed at home for
homo consumption during che same
period. The value of the cattle ship.
ments of 1896 is placed at $2,520, 900.
San Diego surgeons have achieved
another triumph. They recently bored
a hole through the walls Of patients
skull, after determining the location of
nm ahseees IN the brain drained the