Holbrook argus., 1900-09-01
ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

county to establish savings banks in
the schools.
Adgie, the lion tanner, has been in
Pasadena looking for location for a
ranch home.
Entries for the dog show at the
State Fair are being received from as
far north as Victoria, B. c.
1t has been estimated that the lemon
shipments made from San Diego
county during the past two months
have given cash returns averaging
$55 900 per month. The shipments aV-
eraged sixteen carloads per week.
A stage owner of MERGED has just
contracted with w. L. Elliott of San
Francisco for an automobile convey
ance capable of carrying dozen pas
sengers and 800 pounds of baggage.
The vehicle, when finished, will take
the place of two four-horse stages.
Portland Oregonians are raising a
purse for the rescue of Arthur Ven
vile, who was captured by the Fill
pinos at Baler, Luzon, April, 1899. 1t
is believed by relatives of the boy that
he is still alive, and the money con-
tributed will be offered as reward
for his delivery to the American
forces.
According to the Stockton Mail,
sensational complaint in a suit for
81, 1000, brought by a well-known and
formerly wealthy farmer against To-
cal banking institution, will be filed
next week. This amount is stated to
be a balance on $4,000 deposit with
regard to which no satisfactory ac-
counting has been given.
According to the Scientific American,
Oliver S. Hoover of Stanford Universe
ty and Morris T. Hoover of Mountain
View, Cal, have invented an apparatus
of a new sort for the collection of
prunes that heve fallen to the ground.
/ Tubes pneumatically worked pick up
/ the pruneS by means of suction and de-
posit them in receptacle.
The Tulare County Board of Super
visors at it's last session gave to I. N.
CIarkson of Goshen an order for
| $14679, and to Joe Doke, who resides
near Cottage, one for $S2.05, as bounty
on squirrel tails. Subsequent infor-
nation led to the belief that the squir-
rels had been killed outside the
county, and an injunction has been
! DlGu Ill IuO OupCllOl NOul ACoIl oAh
ing payment of the orders until an
investigation can be made.
The San Francisco Chronicle of Au-
gust 20 contains an account of the
brutal whipping of man in L.aguritas
Canon last Friday night. The man, an
Italian, Pedro Bonnetti by name, was
pulled from his bed by a crowd and
dashed into a state of insensibility. For
several weeks previous he had been the
recipient of threatening letters signed
1.-THE Order" He claims to have recog-
nized nine of the men who beat him.
The company which is interested in
bringing the jute mills from Oakland
to Stockton, intends, according to the
Mail, to manufacture its own brick
as it can make the common article
even for a single job, at 81 thou
sand, and a first-class quality of fire
brick for 81 a thousand; whereas, the
combine charges $1,000 a thousand
The Mail says that, in case smeltel
is put up in the city, as is expected
the jute mill people may open up &
brick yard for the general market.
The five-year-old son of ]. w. Par
dee, of Sacramento, came near being
killed last Saturday, by a savage dos
kept chained in the yard. The dog
attempted to snatch from his hand {
piece of bread that he had, and, fail
ing in this, attacked him viciously
He tore the child's arm badly, anC
then attacked the latter about the alb
domen, but the boy managed to ge
beyond reach of the dogs chain will
only a slight wound in this part of hi
body. A policeman shot the dog.
The San Jose Mercury says: Mis-
Mary Morss of Oakland is anxious TO
the officials of Agnews Asylum t.
bring suit against her to recover So
for the care of her father, who wa
: recently boiled to death in that in
stitution. She has refused to pay tn
bill and courts a suit in order tina
, she may publicly expose what sh
, claims is the gross encouragement o
! the affairs of the asylum. Miss Mors
is a clerk in the Office of the Super
+ intendent of Streets of Alameda, an
was her fathers guardian
A heroic act was performed las
week by George Harold lessen, an at
tache of the United States Medica
Supply Depot, 655 Mission street, Sal
Francisco. He three times rushed int
a burning building in the vicinity, Il
t search of Bernard Kane, a nine-year
:. old boy said by neighbors to be in tn
E house, and finally stumbled over tn
q boys unconscious form just in time t
, save him and escape destruction him
self The Call says that another fiv
seconds in the flames would hav
meant death to both.
The Biggs Argus says: "a.
Stoudt has demonstrated that it pay
to grow wheat and fax together an
by so doing produce a double GRO
on the same ground. Year before las
;, Mr. Stoudt harvested a crop of fla
and last fall, just before the rains, h
sowed the same ground to wheat afte
S disking the ground, followed by haI
= rowing. In time the crop sproutet
!, but instead of wheat alone, both whea
i and fax grew, a full crop of eac
n matured, and on that six acres of Ian
: he harvested last week 2700 pounds c
= flax and 1886 pounds of wheat L
other words, after threshing the GRO
y he had twenty sacks of flax and TWEEN
: ty-one sacks of wheat. Both crop
s were threshed at the same time, tn
l. wheat being sacked from the whea
=, opd DoccinO throne