Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-03-02
I'LL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information About
California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest
to Both Old and Young.

Cotton and San Bernardino may be
connected by an electric line.
Chicken thieves stole fifty fowls
from a Fresno man in one night.
Orange county now has a colonial
ton agent stationed in Los Angeles.
Business at San Diego wharves was
never before 80 .,l~.V- as it is now.
The cost of the proposed tunnel
through Telegraph Hill, San Francis
co, is estimated at $253, sos.
Within three months losses to the
grain fleet on the Pacific have run well
up toward a million dollars.
Ventura county farmers are rejoic-
ing because hordes of gophers were
drowned by the recent heavy rain.
Why not set fashion of our own in
prunes and educate the trade and con-
sumers up to it?-San Jose Herald.
Santa Fe Railroad brass works,
moved from Albuquerque. N. M, to
San Bernardino, started up February
16.
Randsburg is excited over the dis
covery of oil forty miles to the east
of that town: Gold mines will now go
a-glimmering.
A cinnamon bear is reported to have
been seen a few days since near Lake
Elsinore. The man who saw it was
not hunting bear.
San Jose is trying to interest the
government in the building of ship
canal from San Francisco bay up
slough to that city.
An Alameda minister received val
entine in the shape OF check for
$1,000 He will blow it in on a four
months European tour.
Women in San Jose are organizing
a prayer crusade against saloons, sim
liar to that from which the w. G. T.
U. sprung a quarter of century ago.
Mendocino county has the oil craze
so badly that every man, woman and
child in the town is ready to buy oil
stock without asking any questions.
1t is becoming the fashion for the
San Bernardino county justices of the
peace to sentence hobos to from sixty
to ninety days on the county rock
pile.
At the end of the last big storm
snow is from seven to nine feet deep
around Bear Valley irrigation reser-
voir, on the San Bernardino noun
tains
Arroyo Grande stockmen are provid-
ing large dipping vat, filled with an
insecticide liquid, through which cat
tie will be driven to rid them of Tex
as fever ticks.
Last months pay roll of the Santa
Fe railroad for employees at San
Bernardino amounted to $4,000, the
largest months payment there in the
history of the road.
The senate having voted the widow
of General Lawton the generous pen
sion of $50 per month, other brave offi-
GERS will doubtless feel a fresh incen-
tive to sacrifice themselves upon the
altar of atriotiSm.-Marysville APP
peal
Assistant Astronomer c. D. Perrine
of the Lick observatory, and an as
sistant have sailed for the island of
Sumatra to observe the total eclipse
of the sun of May II next. The ex-
penses of the trip are borne by Will
liam H. Croker.
The governor of Oregon objects to
having a residence purchased for him.
he says ne Cdu " Iul IL
Such objection would not hold good in
the State of California. The state
would purchase the furniture also
Grass Valley Union.
On Wednesday evening four or five
hobos escaped from the Cotton jail.
This is not to be wondered at on &C
count of the poor condition of the
Jail, simply board structure, and not
very well put together. The city has
now hired some one to repair the jail
so that no more tramps may escape.
1t was ever thus-the profits must
go away from home for honor. Now,
while the California law makers are
trying to muzzle the newspapers, and
are more than suspected of a desire
to do worse, the Arizona legislature
adjourns in honor of the press asso-
citation from this state, and all attend
banquet rendered them.-Pasadena
News.
R. B. Marshall, with a crew of sur
veyors under the United States Geo
logical survey, have been at work on
the Chino ranch for about four weeks,
and last week ran lines through town.
They are taking elevations, etc, and
will make a complete typographical
and geological survey, and from which
maps will be made which will be of
great value for reference.