The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-03
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
An eight-year-old girl at Salem. Oregon,
weighs $50 pounds.
The assessment of property in Montana
this year foots Up SIG, 1924
The average attendance at the Tulare
City public schools is $40 day.
Only one divorce suit has been tried in
Crook County, Oregon, this year.
Paul Wegert was crushed to death by
log near Westport, Oregon, last Friday.
1t absorbed S90T5 of the taxpayers
money to publish the new charter of Tacoma.
White Caps are committing outrages. in
San Miguel and Santa Fe counties, n.
Mex.
The value of the wheat and hop crop Of
Washington this year is not less than Sl9,-
100000.
The people of Baker City, Oregon, have
school building.
The wife of Stilman, who murdered j. ID.
F'iske at Fresno, died in the County Hospit-
al last Friday In destitute condition.
The Riverside Press says carload of
$1,000 pounds of dried peaches left that
town for the East recently that was worth
SI4l0.
The only debt of the people of North
Yakima, WASH, amounts 10 $4,000, which
was incurred in building two fine school
houses.
Joseph Lewis left ranch in New Mexico
the other day with the wife of j. K. Ptkin.
The latter pursued the couple and shot
Lewis dead.
A luminous fish was found on the beach
near Little River, Humboldt County, the
other day. 1t was 20 inches long by -
inches broad, and belongs to the genius
lampris.
The owner of Browns Island, that is Just
S,Ia hos I,
have it surveyed for selling in small farms.
1t contains 700 acres of the best kind of
land for small fruits.
A big whale came into Grays Harbor last
Wednesday aud amused itself by scraping
off barnacles ut the end of the steamship
wharf. A dozen men with rifles tried to
pump lead into the monster, but to no avail.
1t stayed there for half an hour.
Snowfall in the midst of harvest says the
Spokane Review is very unusual thing Ill
this county; in fact the memory OF tie
oldest inhabitant can recall nothing like 1t
in years gone by. Last week, however, the
farmers In the vicinity Of Garfield, who have
not yet finished cutting their grain, were
warned by few big. wet heavy flakes that
nature is ready to prepare the soil Tor an
other harvest, and that haste on their part
would prove advisable.
The Lyon County Times says: The pun
Der of registered voters in Dayton Precinct
this year is larger than it has been for the
past sixteen years. there being 90 names ON
the list. Mason Valley shows more of an
increase over two years ago than does Day
ton, and has 242 registered voters this year.
Silver City has 1876 on the list; Smith Val
ley, Sc; Mound House, 40; Sutro, AZ;
Wabuska, 81; Churchill, IL. This makes
total of 1893 registered voters in the county,
or gain of nearly 100 over two years ago.
A farmer near Sprague, WASH, fell into
the hands Of two confidence men, who III
duced him TO buy $40 watch for $50, and
get chance to draw S75 more from one OF
three boxes. OF course he did not get the
right box and lost his money. Then the
farmer went home, ostensibly for more
money, but really to get Winchester, with
which he compelled the sharps to give up,
and then to get down on their knees and
beg for their lives, which he finally, although
apparently somewhat reluctantly, granted
them.