Holbrook argus., 1901-01-05
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 About California
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 The new steel railroad bridge over the Tuba river at Marysville is fin ished.
 Many California newspapers cele- brated Christmas by suspending publi- cation.
 Mumps and measles prevail to some extent among the school children in Sacramento.
 Supervisor Benigston of Santa Bar bara county would raise the liquor license from $100 to $3OO.
 A San Francisco girl has sued baker for $5000 for kissing her. Ob- viously the girl is after the bakers dough.
 Mrs. Phoebe Hearst gave $200 worth of Christmas presents to the children of the West Berkeley College settle ment.
 A Stockton man writes a letter to the Mail asserting that hoodIumism is developing in the public schools ot that city.
 The Sheriff of Santa Clara county offers a reward of $100 for the arrest  embezzlement.
 The nickel-in-the-slot gambling ma chimes are doing big business in Pet luna, while the Trustees are talking about having them thrown out. William G. Oldham, searcher Of records of Santa Rosa, attempted to kill his wife while in a crazed con dition. Both are deaf and dumb.
 Because he cried ''hor air" to a watchman in the West Oakland rail- road yards, Bud Airy, IA years old, was arrested for disturbing the peace.
 The squirrels around Lompoc have been quite generally eXterrinated throughout the farming section west of the mountains by the distribution of poison.
 l The members of the prune growers combination are quarreiing among themselves. This is not the way to conduct a successful trust.-Grass | Valley Union.
 The lawlands around San Jose are over-run with frog-catchers, who are ooing a thriving business. Frogs are quoted at $4 a dozen in the San Fran cisco market.
 | The iron bridge spanning San Ma .eo Creek broke while band of horses were crossing, and thirty-ive of them were precipitated to the creek bed. Eight of the animals were killed.
 Morosco's Burbank Theatre, Los Angeles. A positive triumph, The Op- cratic Success of the Year! Every body unanimous in their praise of the New Jules Grau Opera Company in the greatest of all comic opera successes ''The Isle of Champagne"
 While an eight-year-old Oakland boy was sliding down a cellar dool that had splinters in it, long silver ran into his leg and broke off. It wa:
 removed at the hospital and the small boy says all attractions fol sliding down our cellar door" have gone glimmering.
 The census of the religion of ever! adult person in Los Angeles is to b' taken this month. There is, perhaps a goodly proportion of people in tha city, as elewhere, who would be gla( to find out what their religious belle really is.-Pasadena News.
 Roscoe A. Goodcell, a former Sal 6SrudIQlEO DOy, WAO he1o OOOh oP pointed principal of school in Shang hai, China, has received complimen from the school authorities there They desire two more instructors, anC asked for men "as nearly like Rosco A. Goodcelr as possible.
 Monday was a great day for mino accidents at Oakland. Joe Whit punctured his hand, William Spie cut the end of a thumb, Frank Ebren pfort ran splinter three inches lon; into his leg, Fitz Linderman cut ot the end of a finger and J. Kane raj g nail into his foot.
 The verdict for the San Francisc Call in the $250,00 libel suit brough against the paper by Baron vol Schroeder is an emphatic triumpl for good morals and a vlndication o . fearless independence in the discharg of editorial unctions.-Oakland Fri tune.
 Matt Buchanan, an Alameda bar keeper, received a grewsome Christ mas present from the east. It was package containing his sisters ashe; Buchanan supposed the package con tained a present from his sister, bu was sadly surprised. She died som time ago and he had not been ir formed.