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A summary of Late Events That Are Boiled Down to Suit our Busy Readers Lompoc is about to bore for oil. The lone highwayman is still terror izing. San Francisco: The Sacramento City Auditor reports a shortage in the general fund of about $8000. A ‘stock company is' being formed at Portland, Oregon, for the erection of a crematory. The Sacramento Board of Education has just created a new office, that of music instructor. The X-ray has just been, for the second time, successfully used in sur gery in Stockton. For the first time in many years a Chinaman was brought up for drunk enness in Stockton, on Monday. The San Francisco ordinance mak ing it a misdemeanor to sell pools on horse races or coursing matches has been passed to print. Eight placer claims in the Bonanza district, near Nome, were last week disposed of in Seattle to an Australian syndicate for $40,000. The Hanford Journal states that cattle are now being driven from Santa Barbara county into the San Joaquin Valley for grazing. Plans of the Oakland public library are on exhibition today in that city. They show a building modeled after the Boston public library, but to be of brick with terra cotta ornamenta tion. Hop growers are to meet 9% Sac ramento to consider the decline in the Profits of the industry during recent years, and plan a course of action to bring about an improvement of con ditions. The citizens of Olympia, Washington are planning the establishment of a large university , which will have a special “department of travel,’ or ganized to combine observation with textbook work. The Merced Sun states that M. D. Wood, grain buyer for Balfour, Guth rie Co., has purchased 9000 bags of rye on a basis of 95 cents. Port Costa delivery—said to be all the rye crop of 1899 in warehouses south of Stock ton. Prof. Harlan C. Cozine, director of music at the Puget Sound University, Tacoma, is to have entire charge of the musical programme of the coming national Methodist conference for the month of its meeting at Chicago, be ginning May 2. The Homestead Improvement Club of Stockton is considering the question of erecting a plant for the manufac ture of jute bags. The committee ap pointed to investigate the feasibility and desirability of the plan has sub mitted a favorable report. According to the statement of the Southern Pacific freight agent at Port land, as published in the Oregonian, there were shipped to California dur ing 1899, from Kansas and Nebraska, 224 carloads of poultry, at a cost of $3.50 per car, or $1.75 per 100 pounds. The San Francisco police are work ing hard to capture the lone highway man who has been holling up people in the city. A number of detectives disguised as women and accompanied by escorts were sent out to the dis trict in which the man has been oper ating. ‘A novel organization, “The Belgian Hare Emporium of Fresno,” was in corporated at that city recently. It is an organization of society women, with but one male member. The lat ter is to be in charge of a Belgian hare exchange, which will be established by the corporation. Seattle correspondence of the San Francisco Bulletin relates that Nell Pickerell, a handsome 17-year-old girl, is on the road to the latter place in the hope that there the police will not interfere with her penchant for male attire as they do in Seattle. She put off skirts three years ago: the automobile ordered by the Man ford Automobile Transportation Comp pany will be a twelve seated machine, with twelve-seated trailer. ‘The order g at the manufacturing company by telegraph is to ship in two weeks, and the time from shipment to arrival ‘is expected to be but a fortnight. According to the Chronicle’s corre spondent, M. Lowry, an Oakland ex pressman who went to the reciving hospital recently for treatment of the ear, which was causing him great pain was found to have a sprouting grain of wild oats buried far in his head. It had grown three-fourths of an inch. On the subject of possible overpro duction of oil, Charles Canfield, of the firm of Chansler Canfield, one of the greatest producers in the La Joa quin Valley oil territory, is reported recently to have said: “If I had six times the oil product I have at present I could place it,all inside of six hours.” The United States Marine Inspect ors at Seattle are determined that reg ulations, providing suitable air space for’ passengers leaving that’ port for Alaska, shall be complied with. They report, however, that transportation companies do not, , 80 ° ‘far, appear 4in ined. ta. crowd’. thelz. pandetigers, ‘al though travel on the . lines is. heavy. The Commercial Chib of St.Paul has asked the ‘Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’ to ‘pass ‘resolutions similar to those offered by that organization asking Congress to appropriate $250,000 for irrigation surveys and maps of irrigable public lands, with plans and estimates, with costs of reservoirs. ES yuate i stern: _ A, Ban, Francisco thief, ‘armed with pale of pificers, ‘ ‘attempted to cut the diamond from a ring on the hand of Mrs. Laura Wilson, as she stood looking into a store window. Feeling a jerk on her hand and the contact of the cold steel, she turned, saw the man and screamed—whereupon he fled. A cut glass paper weight in the form of a prism, collected the sun’s rays and set fire to the desk of T. P. Strong an Oakland insurance agent. The other men in the office failed to notice owner of the desk was absent, and the fire unmit it had gained such head way that the desk and contents were destroyed and the building threatened. Supervisor McCarthy of San Fran cisco is preparing an ordinance licens ing every telephone, electric light and trolley, pole in the city, and taxing every mile of wire. If the law proves to be within the power of the board, it will be submitted. Such an ordi nance is in force in Philadelphia, and brings in a large revenue to the city. According to a report published in the San Francisco Chronicle, there are at present in Fresno, between 200 and 300 carloads of unsold raisins of last season’s packing, representing a sum of at least $250,000, of which about $85,000 is owned by the cooperatives. Growers have received their money for the fruit, and any loss falls on the packers. Mrs. E. A Hill of Calaveras county, aged 74, has departed for Cape Nome alone. Before sailing she bowgght in Stockton a new wagon, horses, ma chinery and tools for mining work, provisions, etc. She left without in forming anyone of her intended depar ture, although her family and friends knew she had been planning such a move and had endeavored to dissuade her. Correspondence from North Yakima to the Spokesman-Review reports the nearly perfected organization, by the Wool Growers’ Association, of a co- operative arrangement under which all the wool of central Washington will be shipped to the first-named city, and growers will hold regular conven tions there twice a month to meet agents and buyers. Special rates of shipment have been secured on the Northern Pacific. The San Francisco Board of Super visors is discussing subways and ele vated tracks as means of relieving congestion of traffic on the street car lines. The ordinance recently intro duced, which calls for half fare from passengers compelled to stand is ob jected to by the car companies on the ground that, if it were put in opera tion, people would make special effort to get into crowded cars in order to secure the half rate The Oakland Enquirer reports that a new side to the Belgian hare indus try is now engaiing the attention of local breeders, the large fur house of Liebes Co. of San Francisco having offered to use the fur in their business if they can be guaranteed not less than 1000 pelts a month. This number, they say, will be necessary to justify the expense of the new departure. The Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Association, finding itself nearly $20,000 in debt, and unable, under the law re lating to agricultural societies, , to mortgage its property, of which it had something like seventy thousand dol lars worth, has reorganized under the name of the San José Land and Ex hibit Association. Debts will be paid with the funds borrowed upon prop erty, and the association will begin a new career with an old time district fair at San José next fall. The steamer Mary D. Hume, which lately arrived at Tacoma, Washington, brought news of what are stated to be rich gold quartz discoveries at Al genik, thirty miles inland from Orca, Capt. Dorn of the Hume says the news was brought to Orca by miners who had wintered at Algenik. ‘'Twas told,” he said, “that the discoverer de clared the ore to be remarkably rich. They came to Orca not long ago for supplies and outfits and brought sam ples of ore along. These showed free gold and copper taken from the sur face croppings. They claimed that several ledges had been found, their width and length being yet undeter mined. There are many prospectors in that country, and valuable discover ies probably will be frequent this summer.” At the conference of officials of over- land railways and their steamship con nections, a committee submitted a re port recommending that a minimum rate of $1.25 per 100 pounds be charged for tea shipments from all oriental ports to all common points in this country, such as St. Paul, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland and New York. The present rate is 60 and 65 cents. A committee selected to report upon silk rates was not ready to make its recommendations. It will undoubtedly report in favor of an increased mini mum charge. Other rates will also be advanced. The committee on rates on outgoing cargoes was given ‘until next day to make its report. Several slight reductions ‘were recommended ‘Rates ‘on ‘the’ immense’ cotton ship ments from the south to Japan are not to be disturbed.
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