Holbrook argus., 1900-08-04
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San Francisco merchants are contri- outing generously to the funds for semi-centennial celebration.
 The sugar-beet blight has greatly affected the crop of San Joaquin county, and according to the northern papers, farmers of that section will probably not plant so heavily next year, in con- sequence.
 Alameda County Horticultural Com missioner Barry has reporetd to the Supervisors that the Moorpark apricot trees in Washington township have been attacked by a dry rot which will cause a loss of one-quarteF of the crops in the affected district.
 1 A movement has been started at Red Bluff, Tehama County, for the erection of monument over the grave of Belle l Mckenzie, the young woman who saved the lives of a number of guests in the l fire at Tuscan Springs Hotel, about year ago and died in attempting to as- sist some one to escape from the bur 1 ing building.
 San Francisco.-At her home Mrs. Mary Maloney shot and seriously wounded John Dillon in the presence of her husband. At the city prison, i Mrs Maloney said she shot Dillon to escape his persecution. She accuses him of insultinhg her in her own house. Dillon says he went to the place to collect a bill.
 Joseph Larkin of Palo Alto, who had petitioned the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors for license to sell liquor in connection with hotel to be erected by a stock company of which some Stan ford University alumni are members, has withdrawn his petition on account of opposition from the university fac ulty and citizens of the town.
 Correspondence of the San Francisco Bulletin reports grasshoppers in clouds in the vicinity of Lowdens' ranch, Trinity county. A large garden from which nearly all the surrounding coun- completely ruined by the countless in- sects. The correspondent says that these cannot spread far, however, as the country is rough and mountainous.
 The Tulare Advance contains the fol lowing item: "A crowd of Hanford boys visited a Chinese watermelon patch Sunday. They left their wheels outside the fence and made raid on the patch, and in the meantime the Chinamen loaded the wheels into a wagon and drove into town and turned them over to an officer. It cost the boys dollar apiece to get them back. The Chinaman was in on the fun that time also"
 The California Packers Association of San Jose has about one thousand hands at work on pears and apricots. The Golden Gate Packing Company of the same city has 400 hands employed and expects to pack about one hundred cases of fruit this season. The J. H. Flickinger Compny has about four hun dred and fifty hands at work, the L.. D. Costa has about two hundred and the driers have large forces in addition to these.
 The Santa Cruz Surf says: "J. J. Skinner, superintendent of Rancho del Encinal, near Templeton, has con- structed and had in operation at the ranch a machine for thrashing beans Ii will thrash any and all kinds of beans without cracking them. It will also successfully hull green peas.
 It is constructed of heavy rattan brushes, no metal being used to come in contact with the grain. It is light and cheaply built machine-just the thing for small ranches-requiring very small power to operate it. The San Francisco Bulletin reports case in which an Oakland street-car conductor may cost woman her life. The latter is the wife of Rev. Edward Earle of Red Bluff, whc was appointed to fill an Oakland pulpit during the absence of the regular clergyman. Ar irving in the city day later than hei husband, Mrs. Earle was put down al the wrong church by the conductor, and walked so far in trying to find the right one, carrying her baby and sat. chel, that she became temporarily de. ranged from the strain, and must un- dergo an operation that may cost hel her life.