The herald., 1898-02-23
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOTES

The Plaindealer is the name of the new
paper in Anaheim which succeeds the In
dependent.
Prof Baldwin of Pomona proposes to fur
nish power for pumping water by electric
| ity for San Jacinto, besides furnishing
| electric lights.
After an idleness of several weeks the
orange packing houses of Pomona have
resumed operations and shipments are
being made daily.
An effort is being made TO establish a
sugar beet factory in the neighborhood OF
Anaheim. There is ample room for 1t and
it will come in time.
| There has been only one new case of
scarlet fever at Pomona reported this last
week and all cases are improving. The
scare is rapidly subsiding.
| A Klondike party will leave Ventura next
Tuesday for Dyea consisting of j. w.
Schillington, Carrolton Crane, Bloomer
Crane and Thomas Faylor
The dryness of the season has retarded
beet planting and except in the neighbor-
hood of the factory at Los Alamitos, where
the land is damp, very little seed has been
planted.
The supervisors of Orange county have
revised the indigents list and fifty-five are
now being aided by the county. The largest
amount paid any one person Is $lS.15 and
the smallest $3.50.
The case of the Southern Pacific railroad
VS.. ]. L. Churchman has been decided at
Ventura, the jury returning verdict
granting the defendant. ]. L. Churchman,
costs of the suit and $3.50 damages.
The Los Angeles County Christian En-
deavor convention, which will be in session
on Friday and Saturday of this week at
Whittier will be attended by delegates
ha rinlc SnCietiqS in Pomona
Fully five hundred Riversiders went to
Redlands on the early morning trains yes
terday to assist in the celebration there
Among them was company NJ, fifty strong
the Uniform Rank knights of Pythias,
twenty-five strong, and the boys cadet
company, twenty-five strong.
The residence of A. P. johnson on Mag
nolia avenue, Riverside, was entered by
burglars Sunday night while the family
were out calling and quite large amount
of valuable clothes were stolen. The thieves
gained entrance by the use of false key
which was used on a rear door,
A rainfall of two inches is all that is
needed to fill the fields with beet planters
and If it comes 1000 acres will be harvested
for the Los Alamitos and Chino factories.
John Hunter, roadmaster for the Fuller
ton district, is busy sinking artesian wells
for the purpose of sprinkling the road be-
tween AHdHleIH anu ullcTlOu.
The Orange County Plaindealer says:
Notwithstanding that the surface water
has not been so low down for years it is
claimed by many beet raisers that two or
three inches of rain will be quite enough
to start the crop and the crop has this good
feature about it, 1t only needs to be started
and then it does the rest itself.
The concert given last Monday evening
by little Paloma Schram of Los Angeles at
the Loring opera house, Riverside, was
great success. both from an artistic and
business standpoint The house was well
crowded and every one Of the large audi
ence was more than we'll pleased with the
work of the wonderful little lady.
E The Commodore Hopkins Association of
Naval Veterans, post No. 35, Soldiers
home, at a regular meeting on Monday last
passed resolutions denouncing articles that
had appeared in the Los Angeles Record
and the Santa Monica Signal, which made
accusations against Governor Smith in the
management Of the home and indorsing
the governors administration.
The shipments of oranges from Riverside
have increased in the past couple of days
and something over twenty carloads were
sent out Monday night and the shipments
yesterday reached twenty-five carloads.
Inc orange shippers and growers are feel
ing In. little better humor the past couple
OF days for the reason that reports from
the eastern markets are to the effect that
prices show a tendency to stiffen
Rev. F. v. Fisher OF tho First M. E.
church, San Bernardino, preached SER
mon sunday evening ON the critical state
of national affairs, in which he pronhesied
the independence of Cuba as result of the
present troubles. He also spoke OF tl1e
rush to Alaska and of the annexation Of
Hawaii In favorable terms, az develop
ment Of the Importance Of tho Paoidc
ocean While he deplored war, he urged
tne young men 4 war should come, to be
past At some Of the other churcflsa the
Maine disaster was the subject for fhe