Sausalito News, Volume 13, Number 16, 22 May 1897 — PACIFIC COAST NEWS [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

Important Information Gathered Around the Coast. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Summary of Late Events That Are Boiled Down to Suit our Busy Readers. Riverside is to have a new paper called the Globe. The delinquent taxes in San Francisco amount to $151,639. Stockton's school census shows that that city has 3569 school children. Large masses of gold quartz have been found on the Nisquilly river, Washington. The school census of Santa Monica school district for 1897 gives the population at 732. Large deposits of solid sulphur have been found twelve miles east of Buckly, Washington. A starch factory to use 10,000 pounds of flour a day is soon to be established at Martinez. A new state society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has been started in San Francisco. The Bay City market property in San Francisco has been sold to Mayor Phelan for $200,000 cash. The orange shipping season is nearing a close. It is estimated that not more than 150 carloads remain. The orange shipping season is nearing a close. It is estimated that not more than 150 carloads remain. The business men of Santa Monica have declared war upon the summer street peddler and street kitchens. The Southern Pacific engineers continue boring in the ocean's floor at Santa Monica and shipping the results east. A Untied States civil service examination for postal clerks and mail carriers will be held in San Bernardino June 5. The English residents of Fallbrook have decided to join with Oceanside in celebrating the Queen's diamond jubilee. Pasadena business men are trying to get an ordinance licensing all outside delivery wagons coming into that city from Los Angeles. A branch of the Broom-makers' International Union has been organized at San Francisco, and will fight the encroachments of the Chinese in that trade. Sacramento is again discussing her water supply. The trustees propose to continue using the river water, but to put in filters. The filtering plant will cost $25,000. By the improved traffic facilities arranged by the Southern Pacific, the fruit trains this year are expected to reach their Eastern destination one day earlier than hitherto. A Santa Rosa grower has introduced a new variety of strawberries from British Columbia, and thinks the sort is so great an improvement that he will go largely into its cultivation. Last year 4,000 cars of deciduous fruits left California over the Southern Pacific, and the company is not without hope that this year's shipments will double those of the year before. The Southern Pacific Company has issued a schdule of rates on deciduous fruits, to apply on all carload shipments during the season. By freight train to Denver and other Colorado towns, $1.25. A Tacoma dispatch says the new government dry dock at Port Orchard, on Puget Sound, may be abandoned as useless upon the receipt of a report now on the way to Secretary of the Navy Long. The Sutro Railroad Company of San Francisco has filed a statement with the Board of Supervisors showing that its gross receipts for the year ending January 3, 1897, were $54,900.55. San Francisco's share, at 2 per cent, is $1098. To offset the combination between the Valley Road and the California Navigation Company, the Southern Pacific Company has combined with the Union Navigation Company and is making through rates by water and rail from San Francisco to Fresno. The absence of song birds, which are usually thick near Redding, at this season of the year, is exciting considerable comment. Where there used to be hundreds, there are not now dozens. Some claim that sulphur smoke from the Keswick smelter has driven them away. The Board of Trade of Tulare has undertaken to obtain rights of way for the Valley railroad for a distance of seventeen miles, and twelve miles of this distance has been already provided for. The twelve miles cost only $600, and fifty-three lots in the town cost but $900. The new road is setting its right ot way cheap. The Shasta Lumber Company, which was sold under foreclosure of mortgage at San Jose, recently, for $87,000, includes 35,000 acres of fine timber land in the Sierra, a thirty-mile flume that cost $150,000, twenty-two miles of railroad connecting with the Southern Pacific, sawmills, etc. It was locally estimated to be worth $1,000,000. A special to the Stockton Mail from Oakdale says: Countless numbers of worms are spreading over the country between Oakdale and the Orange Blossom Colony at the bridge over the Stanislaus River four or five miles from Oakdale. The worms are from an inch in length to six or seven inches. They were green, mottled with black, and are supposed to be army worms. They were first discovered on the place of L. Leadbetter, near the bridge, and are now crossing the roads in large numbers. There is considerable excitement among the farmers over it. An official clash between the Los Angeles city veterinary and the city health officer discloses the fact that hog cholera is epidemic in thst section. When the city health office undertook to establish a quarantine on the afflicted hogs the veterinary thought his prerogatives were being invaded,

and the matter of the cholera itself is being overshadowed by the wrangle between officials for their alleged rights. The cholera is making inroads on hog droves in that section. The value of a colored child's foot is to be determined by a Los Angeles court in a suit brought by D. Cunningham against the Los Angeles Railway Company for $5000 damages. The little child of the plaintiff suffered the loss of a foot, which was crushed by a car. This is the second trial of the case. In the first a verdict of $3000 was rendered, but the Supreme Court reversed the decision and ordered a new trial. The little boy was playing on the street, and in attempting to cross in front of a car was caught under the wheels. The competition among the steamer lines of the San Joaquin River between San Francisco and Stockton is becoming very brisk indeed. The cause of it all is the traffic arrangement between the California Navigation Company and the Valley railroad. The Union Transportation Company and the Southern Pacific road have combined to meet the rate of the opposition lines between there and Fresno by way of Stockton. The first tickets of the new combine were sold a few days ago and now the passenger may take his choice of two routes for $3.75. This rate, of course, is good both ways, and a corresponding rate is given to intermediate points.