The herald., 1898-03-02
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOTES
Summerland shipped sixty carloads OF

Summerland shipped sixty carloads OF
oil last month.
Superior Judge b. T. Williams Of Ven
tura announced in Santa Barbara yester-
day that he was candidate for place
on the supreme court bench.
The San Gabriel Electric company Is put
ting up it's poles at Alhambra. All the
stores and several residences Will be sup
piled with the electric power
The Santa Ana board of supervisors yes
terday adopted a motion that n road poll
tax be levied on all male persons over 21
and under 80 years of age, as provided by
law.
Mrs. Edmund Blaine, daughter-in-law of
the late James G.. Blaine, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, at the
latter's home in Montecito, near Santa
Barbara.
The Santa Ana Standard, one of the old
est papers in Orange county. has been sold
by d. NJ. Baker to Messrs. r. A. Dague OF
Santa Paula and Frank Honeywell, late of
Wichita, Kan.
The fees of the recorders office of River
side county for the month of February
amounted to $463.65, as against S4l1.S0 in
the previous month. In December the re-
ceipts of the office We're $4l2
City Marshal Wilson of Riverside yes
terday sold the property upon which the
taxes of the past year We're not PAID. Ine
whole amount was small and most of the
property was bid in by owners or agents.
At a regular meeting of the Riverside city
trustees, held Monday, 1t was voted to at
once improve Ninth street with curbing
and cement sidewalks, from the City park
to the line of the Santa Fe road, distance
of nine blocks
A mass meeting of the citizens of Orange
will be held in Music hall on Saturday
| evening March 5th, at 1880 o'clock. for the
purpose of organizing city Improvement
| club to work for the best interests of the
| town. Officers will be elected and organ
ization perfected.
| At a regular meeting of Company NJ OF
Riverside, held Monday evening, vote of
| the members of the company was taken to
| determine how the boys stood on the ques-
ton of coming out If called upon in case of
war with Spain, and the result was that
| every one voted yes, except two.
The board of trade at Santa Barbara is
making an effort to revive interest in the
| charter proposition, and the common coun-
| ell will be asked to name freehodefs tc
| frame a new charter The charter submit
| ted a year or so ago by a board of free
| holders was overwhelmingly defeated.
| OF course, it "just happens to be at this
| time that the Santa Barbara (SiXth) divis-
| ion of the naval reserve, n. u. u, Will bt
given some practical instruction and drill
| at sea. The Pinta, bound from San Fran
cisco to San Diego, will stop al Santa Bar
| bara and take the company there aboard
| for practice. Ensign Delaney will accom-
| pany the Pinta from San Francisco to San
| Diego.
| An operation which will make the people
| of San Bernardino hot in more senses than
| one is the ice combine, by which the price
| of the cooling article has been doubled for
| the coming season. This has been accom-
plished by the old company's buying of
| the opposition. This leaves an excellent
| chance for a new company to come In ana
make money. When it costs only % cents
per ton to manufacture ice, and it sells at
| 500 per ton. there is possibility of profit
even at slight drop in price.
| During the month of February the ship
ments of produce from the Orange depot
| of the Santa Fe have been: Oranges, 1,5O4,-
| 634 pounds: raisins, 1920 pounds; dried
fruits, $50 pounds; potatoes, 22So pounds
walnuts, 116O pounds; lemons, 760 pounds
peanuts, 1880 pounds; olives, $40 pounds;
| benzopheno, 165 pounds; handy, 100 pounds
unclassified freight, II ,695 pounds. There
were 29o cases of eggs shipped by freight
alone to say nothing of those shipped by
| express or hauled to Los Angeles by team.