Southern California News Notes

E. C. Warren has been elected city recorder of Redlands.

The Covina people have begun taking subscriptions for a $10,000 hotel.

The carrier force at the San Diego postoffice has been increased to eleven.

Preparations are being made for the organization in Yuma of a lodge of Elks.

A celery company recently located at Arroyo Grande has begun preliminary work.

Street sweeping by hand is pronounced a great success at Santa Ana, financially and hygienically.

The women of Bakersfield have organized and will do battle for the cause of incorporation.

Hereafter bookkeeping and stenography will be taught free at the Arizona Territorial University.

The school trustees of National City have begun a crusade against the cigarette habit among their male pupils.

The Riverside Globe ceased to exist on Saturday. The property has been sold to M. R. Plaisted of the Enterprise.

There is not even a remote possibility that work on San Pedro harbor will begin before the next session of congress.

It is rumored that Spreckels Bros, have taken hold of the Yuma railroad scheme and intend to carry it to a finish.

The Alcatraz Asphalt company is investing $2,000,000 in improvements and development work in Santa Barbara county.

Colton is booming. Its marble quarries and lime kilns are running full blast and turning out many carloads of valuable products.

Bondholders of the Mt. Lowe road have secured a decree for the foreclosure and sale of the property from the Superior Court in Los Angeles.

Bishop J. H. Johnson, with his wife and son, has just returned to Pasadena from England.

Searchlight paced a mile in 2:05 4-5 at Santa Ana. This entitles him to be known as the fastest three-year-old in the world, the best previous record being 2:07.

A Los Angeles outfitting house has issued a printed list of supplies needed by one man for a year's sojourn in Alaska, and it includes only one gallon of whisky.

The telephone company at Redlands refuses to place more instruments until the council rescinds the ordinance prohibiting the cutting of trees in order to string wires.

The Santa Fe company has commenced preparations for putting in foundations for the new iron bridge over the Santa Ana river between Orange and Anaheim.

Judge Shaw gave J. Marion Brooks a judgment against Congressman Barlow for $170 without costs. Brooks sued for $2500 for political services and money advanced.

Anna Hollywell of Redlands, a student at Berkeley, died of morphine poisoning. Her parents are much mystified, but it is supposed to be the tragic end of a love affair.

The San Bernardino athletic club has received a well-assorted supply of gymnasium apparatus and the athletic cult will be in evidence among the young men during the winter.

Clerk Frank Newby, under the direction of the town council of Ventura, has completed a census of the town and finds 3067 bona fide inhabitants, an increase of 741 in seven years.

Judge York of Pasadena has been chosen to preside at a San Diego suit in which a Masonic lodge is one of the parties, he being the only superior judge south of Tehachepi who is not a Mason.

The Sunset Telephone company has inaugurated a bulletin news service for the convenience of patrons. Brief bulletins of events in the Southern California towns reached by the company are displayed as received.

Los Angeles has decided to call an election for December 7 to decide the question of issuing school bonds to the amount of $339,0[...]