Southern California Highlights From The South
A compact roundup of notable events in Southern California featuring civic updates, cultural notes, and community happenings. Readers gain quick access to major local developments and upcoming events shaping the region.
Assorted News From Southern California In August
A roundup notes 110 deaths in Los Angeles in August, Santa Monica school funding approved, J W Fletcher appointed Tehachepi postmaster, and City leaders tout new streetcar and water projects. Other items report mine activity near San Diego, Leo Carrillo swimming title, tax levies, brewery wage raises, irrigation stock changes, and railroad expansion including Flagstaff Grand Canyon line plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
J. W. Fletcher
Tehachepi
Senator White
Pasadena
Oakland Bank of Savings
Riverside
Julian Mountain
San Diego
Leo Carrillo
San Bernardino County
Redlands Preserving Company
Merlin-Jones
Episcopal Church
la Monica
Crystal Lake Irrigation and Power Company
Glendora
Kern City
San Diego County
Ventura
R. E. Ford
Minneapolis High School
Throop Polytechnic Institute
H. E. Huntington
W. M. Hood
Southern Pacific Road
Santa Ana
Newport Road
Newport
San Pedro
Southern California Power Company
Washington
Robert Louis Stevenson
J. H. Vandergrift
Flagstaff
Grand Caision
Colorado
United States
Ellinwood
New York
Global unrest and political shifts across continents
A crowded dispatch notes the assassination of the German New Guinea governor, rumors of Mrs Langtry's marriage, famine warnings in Ireland, and China selling Tung-yung-kow to Germany for coal and naval use. It cites yellow fever in Havana, education plans in Russia, and anti anarchist moves in Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
German New Guinea
Russia
Barril
Barcelona
Mount
Mayon
Philippine Islands
Pope Leo
Cardinal Satolli
Propaganda
Cardinal Ledochowski
Lord Salisbury
Thessaly
City of Mexico
New York Exchange
von Bulow
Berlin
Bransart Schellendorf
City of
Mexico
Jose Ventre
Spain
Various Sierra Nevada Developments and Ventures
A roundup of late Western events notes the Morgan hotel fire in Grass Valley with $2,500 loss, Fresno packing houses gearing for rain season, a Coalinga oil strike at 110 barrels daily, and a 60,000 dollar asylum expansion in Ukiah. Other items include san francisco engineers planning a San Leandro harbor canal, a Klondike rush cooling period, and Aurora of mining schemes in Trinity and Riverside counties with large scale plans and new rail links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan
Grass Valley
Cal
Sacramento
Yosemite Valley
J. J. O’brien & Co
San Francisco
Port Townsend
Washington
Kahne Beveridge
California
New York
Klondyke
Fresno
Marrietta
Wheeling
Mare Island
Honolulu
Coalinga
Fresno County
Mendocino Asylum For the Insane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Australia
John W. Mackey
Mexico
Capt
Thomas
Pilot Connell
Sierra Pacific
National Association of Letter Carriers
Crater Lake
Alaska
Catherine Sudren
Cer
Mary J. Stevens
Rebecca Johnson
W. H. Yaw
J.J. Whitney
Board of Five
Underwriters of the Pacific
Buffalo
Wyo
Big Horn
Knapp
Toronto
Canada
Atlantic
George Goodwin
National League For the Propagation of Christian Socialism
Paul Tyner
Denver
Civic Church
William H. Morland
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
John M. Reynolds
J. E. Scott
The
Social Economist
James Andrews
W. D. Bliss
Boston
Mme. Fraser
Benson
Ill
Rhode Island
Owensboro
Scott
Reuben Gary
Bardwell
J. H. Borden
Borden
Gary Brothers
Cygnet
Grant
Sam Barber
Allen Farris
John Thompson
Charles Bartel
Henry Landsdale
Grand River
Keenotah Society
Here
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Georgia
Woodmen of America
Fulton
Jenkins
Board of Directors
Milwaukee
Hazelton
Latimer
Harleigh
National Museum
John H. Duncan
Gen. Porter
France
Duncan
Ex Congressmen Flagler Hanback and More Obituaries
Eastern news items report the deaths of former congressmen T T Flagler of Rochester New York aged 66 and Lewis Hanback of Armourdale Kansas aged 58. Other items include Joseph W Shannon famed actor aged 61 and ex champion J J Corbett weighing a $20000 offer to box Fitzsimmons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. T. Flagler
Rochester
N. Y
Lewis Hanback
Armourdale
Kan
Kansas City
Joseph W. Shannon
New York
United States
W. A. Harris
Washington
Sub
Committee On Pacific Railroads
Harris
Union Pacific
J. J. Corbett
Chicago
Tulane
New Orleans
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Associated Press
Mining Boom Around Perris and Jerome Promises Profit
The article notes active mining expansion around Perris in Riverside County with stamp mills and deeper shafts. It cites T. J. Kelly returning from the Yukon with 14700 dollars, claiming gold runs in streaks. At Jerome Arizona the smelter expands, output reportedly 40000 dollars daily, with rock assays up to 300 dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bunyan
Ratsburg
Saugus
Bunyan
Newhall
Riverside County
Los Angeles
Needles
Barstow
The
Santa Fe
Murphy
Monahan & Murphy
Perris
T. J. Kelly
San Jose
Yukon
Jerome
Arizona
Trinity
Redding Free Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southern
Lower California Development Company
San Benito
Salt River
Southern Pacific
J. Victor Jessee
San Bernardino
San Gabriel Toler Forest
San Bernardino Mountains
Jessee
N. M
Board of Trade
Victoria
Prescott
Ariz
C. F. Hoff
Sunset
Big Bug
Sundance
Hot Springs
Phoenix
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company
Vulture Siding
Hot Springs Junction
Holland
New York World
Venezuela
Minranda Guaraca
Quebec
America
Montreal
Pacific Coast News
W. .J Arkell
Chauncey M. Depew
Mr. Arkell
Joseph Ladue
Dawson City
Yokohama
Japan
Johannesburg
Kramer
Santa Fe Company
San Joaquin
Charles D
Supreme Court of Colorado
Secretary of State
Supreme Bench
Oregon
D. R. Murphy
Seward Webb
Yellowstone Lake
Jackson Hole
Coppinger
Rose Price
London
LtCol
Lyman Bridges
Oakland Board of Trade
San Leandro
Corral Hollow
Spiritualists’ Association
C. H. Wadsworth
Thomas Ellis, Jr
John Kock
Benjamin F. Small
M. S. Norton
Richard Young
William Ryder
H. 8. Brown
J. A. Spen
International Christian Endeavor Convention
Christian Endeavor Societies
Epworth League
Alameda County Union
Citizens’ Committee
Merchants’ Exchange
Board of Trade of
Oakland
Contra Costa County
Kennedy Tunnel
Nustaumer
Seth Mann
Alameda
T. J. Field
Monterey
J. L Maude
E. M. Welsh
C. Sharp
A. B. Nye
E. B. Jerome
J. H. Watkins
J. A. Fischer
Placer
W. H. Mills
C. A. Adams
F.I. Vassault
F. Orie
8. Henderson
A. P. Stanton
J. A. Linscott
Santa Cruz
E.S. Gray
A. B. Lemmon
Sonoma
Ben Kurtz
Rush
Stanford
Coffee Creek
Graves Bros
Trinity River
Blue Jay
W. B. Broadwell
Garlock
Goler
Lancaster Gazette
Gold Cliff
Commonwealth
Soe H. Fitts
Tombstone
L. J. McAfee
Spokane
Copper River
Riverside Press
E. M. Sheffield
Sheffield
Trinity County
Trinity Journal
Bisbee
R. Harris
San Jacinto
Sierra Madre
Desert
Pala
Bonanza
Eastern College
Silver City
Nev
George Wheatley
D. K. Allen
New Jersey
Stephen W. Dorsey
Picacho
Mr. Allen
Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Atchison Railroad
Edward Bellamy
St. Louis
W. J. Bryan
Concordia Park
R. R. Eckert
Moberly
Colon
Panama Canal
Africa
Mines and Mining
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