Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-01-12
HILL Hung IHt CUASI
interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That VIII Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

An oil well near Hemet produces hot
sulphur water.
Hanford will sell 1000 of sewer
bonds in January.
Sacramento will burn oil for fuel at
its water works pumping station.
Three Slight STOCKS of earthquake
were felt at San Jose Sunday night.
The Bank of Berkeley, private in
stitution, has failed. Truck farmers
will lose $4,000.
A Stockton woman was Rugged into
insensibility by Jack the Hugger''
who is terrorizing that city.
J.B. Robinson owner of a stage line
between MERGED and Mariposa, will
supplant his stage with automobiles.
About one thousand acres of land
near Huron, which was overlooked by
the last rain, has been sown to grain.
Two hundred and eighty cars of
westbound freight came over the San
Ia Fe through Cajon Pass in one day
recently.
The people of San Mateo think they
they have volcano. From depression
in the ground smoke has been issuing
since last July.
An immense plant is to be erected on
the McCloud river, near Reading, to
furnish electric power for the Shasta
county mines. .
The Tulare County Bee Keepers AS
ISOLATION wants a bill passed to au-
thorize the Supervisors to appoint
bee inspector for the county.
An Armenian colony may be estaD-
lished in Tulare county soon by Bish-
Cd Saragian, chief representative of the
Armenian church in the United States.
The University of the Pacific is free
from debt Sixty thousand dollars mas
been subscribed, $3.50 coming from the
Chinese Six companies at San Fran
cisco.
Pico Bejarra an old vaquero on the
Tcpusuuet ranch, near Summerland, on
Friday, killed two large mountain lions
with the lariat. The lions were freed
by dogs.
Because Isabelle Mackinhon of Oak
land refused to yield to her fathers
demand not to marry John S.. de La
ney. she has been disowned by her
stern parent.
Inc Cl1n6 Ol ChC 11Oo ~hASSAO0
fiesta has been changed to the second
week in May, to correspond with the
date of President Mckinley S visit to
the Pacific Coast.
Read the newspaper accounts OF
storms, billiards. and death-deahng
weather in other sections of the world,
and then give thanks to God that you
reside in California.
That Vancouver goose whose crop
banned out $3.50 is coarse yellow
fakes was probably the bird which
has been laying golden eggs Tor SO
long.-Marysville Appeal.
Elmer Locke, the San Francisco boy
hero who lost a leg while trying to
save his pet dog from death beneath
an electric car, has received silver
medal fro mthe Humane Society.
abolish the tramp" says the Los
Angeles Herald. All right; we're Will
ing. When you've abolished your
available supply let us know and we IL
send you down some of ours.-Stockton
Record.
Liet. C. G. Calkins, U.S.N., who has
been living in Berkeley, has been or
dered to proceed to New York. He was
the navigating officer of the Olympia
under Dewey His family will remain
in Berkeley.
In the discussion of the reorgan1-
cation of the Democratic party that IS
filling so much newspaper space, MI.
Cleveland has one point Of vantage.
He speaks as two times winner against
a two times loser.-Riverside Indepen-
dent.
George Mueller, an eleven-year-old
San Francisco boy, has received a
personal letter from Dom Paul. kru-
ger, acknowledging a donation of 81
for the benefit of the Boer children.
The boy is an enthusiast in the cause
of the Beers.
A Haywards youth wears his face in
sling as the result of shooting a
pistol outside church where watch
service was held New Years eve. Two
men came out of the church and asked
him to desist He refused and was
pummelled on the jaw.
Invitations have been issued for the
ceremonies of the Electoral College of
California, during which tn ballots will
be cast for President and Vice-Pres-
idtent of the United States, in the
State Capitol at Sacramento, Monday
January IA, at p. m.
A Tulare paper is the authority for
the statement that man at Orosi, who
was bothered with mice, laid sticks
upon the watering trough in such a
manner that they would fall into the
water and carry the mice with them.
He claims to have drowned 5000 the
| first night.
The transfer of the los Angeles
Terminal railroad to the San Pedro,
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad
company indicates that there is some
thing more than wind at the back OF
of the new corporation, which pro-
poses to build 100 miles of road from
Salt Lake to Los Angeles.
Even with but seven congressman
and it does not seem that CALIFORNIA;
representation in the lower house is to
be increased, the sentiment seems to
be in favor of conceding- two members
to Southern California, instead of ex-
tending. the districts half way across
/ the state toward SacramentO-San