Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-04-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS
Funny Sacramento Boys Fool Railroad
Operator
Stage Drivers Must Deliver Mathew
Prisoners in Riverside Jail-Robber
Hit on the Jaw


Vandals are desecrating the River
side cemetery.
San Francisco is to have direct
steamer service with Manila.
1t will cost $4,000 to place San Fran
cisco's Chinatown in sanitary con-
dition.
Sebastopols brass band has footed
itself to death. No other deaths re-
ported.
Petaluma sheep men are arranging
for a b. r0~-'. aunt in the Sonoma
hills next mUH,A.
An organized gang of sharpers has
been fleeing prominent business men
in San Francisco.
There are between seventy and
eighty saloons in Kern county, fifty
of which are in Bakersfield.
A post office has been established at
Pioneer, Kern county, California, with
Frank P. Francis. postmaster.
The Healdsbug cannery is being
thoroughly renovated. A new method
of packing is to be established.
Oakland has begun testing the voting
machines which are to be used in
place of the Australian ballot system
The melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the year; those musty, dus-
ty, spring house-cleaning days are
drawing near.
A colored editor has been arrested
at San Francisco upon a charge OF
criminal libel. Even a colored editor
has his dark days.
A Rialto fruit grower has twenty
five carloads of oranges hanging upon
his trees because he believes it will
not pay him to ship them.
Henrietta Gehrkins of San Francis
co, has been granted divorce from
George Gehrkins. She alleges that
George kept her continually in a
pickle.
Now it appears that the sausages
sold by San Francisco butchers are
made from horse flesh. Can anything
be wurst than this? Neigh, neigh,
Pauline!
San Francisco ladies are to be per-
mitted to see twenty-five athletes
wrestle at the Olympia Clubs tourna-
ment. No betting, ladies. Leave peck
et-books at home.
Riverside rejoices because there are
but three prisoners in the county jail.
HOBBS say the Jail refreshments are
not as good as at San Bernardino, and
pass on to the latter town.
A practical demonstrator is going to
Riverside to show the ladies of the
town how to make good bread, and a
glad, joyous smile Eliminates the
faces of the married men.
A San Francisco minister stated in a
sermon last Sunday that man makes
his own hell. Not always. Some wo-
men can make bigger one for him
than he could possibly hope to erect.
A man up near Oakland recently
moved a church twenty-five miles in
a single night with one horse and a
wagon. 1t was a case of elopement
and the girls name was Mabel Church.
L. A. Times.
A Fresno saloonist says in an adver-
tisement, 'if you want to live 100 years
more drink Fresno beer" What q
walking brewery man would become
after he had drunk Fresno booze for
hundred years!
A Teachers and Parents Club" has
been formed in Fresno, the object be-
ing cooperation. The small boy has
decided that he can no more forsake
the path of virtue and Righteousness
without fear of a sound thraShing.
Drivers of stages in and around Pet
aluma must stop at farm houses along
their routes and deliver mail. This is
a new postal law which has just gone
into effect. The system will be a great
benefit to mountain sections.
A man who was robbed in San
Francisco captured his assailant, and
then was compelled to pay a boy q
cents to hunt up policeman while he
held the prisoner San FranciSco's
force must be a delightfully."- active one
when a person has to pay messen-
ser boy to find an officer.
Throw up your hands!" commanded
an Oakland footpad to w. H. Smith
as the later was walking along dark
street. Smith complied. He threw
them up so hard that one landed OF
the jaw of the would-be robber ant
completely paralyzed him. Would
there were more Smiths of this nervy
stamp.
Some funny Sacramento boys tied {
dummy to a rear coach of a San Fran
cisco-bound train. The operator at the
first station saw what he took to bt
evidences of a terrible tragedy wheI
the train swept by his station, anC
hastily telegraphed ahead to have {
coroner and undertaken at the station
when the train pulled in. Needless tt
say their services were not required.
Killed in a Runaway
San Diego.-Miss Mime Taylor, whC
has made her home in this city fol