The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-01
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
AT Alamo, Lower California, potatoes
cannot be had short of 10 cents pound.
Salmon fishers are making from S25 to $40
day on the Fraser River, says the Victoria
Times.
The Buckeye Flour-mills at MarysvIlle
VIII soon have brick sm0ke-staek ninety
feet high.
The Cloyerdale Wine Company intend to
increase their winery this season so as to
MAKE $4,000 gallons
Ell Verano Whistle says the new home
Tor feeble-minded children Will be finished
by November 1, 1890.
Potatoes in Anderson, Shasta County, are
sold at cents each. They are more of a
luxury than oranges.
On May Sd a special election will be held
at Anderson TO decide whether bridge
bonds shall be issued or not.
The work Of building fruit cannery at
Anderson was begun last week. fhe stock
Is all taken and sales are made at quite
premium.
Burwell Spence, who lives in the Navajo
country, New Mexico, sports a beard seven
feet long. He generally has it braided 'Nsssa
cUiled inside his vest.
The Santa Rosa letter-carriers complain
that their letter-boXes are stuffed with
cigar stumps, sticks and every kind Of
refuse instead oil letters.
Tom Petrof, who took the census of
Alaska IN 1880, has been appointed 20 DO
the same work this year. He left Port
Townsend on the G. W. Elder last Monday.
The White brothers and T.. NJ. Thorpe of
Auburn went to work recently on an aban-
doned mine near town and have cleared
up $4,000. They have lots of rich ore in
sight.
All the cottonwood trees at Phoenix.
Ariz., are swarming with caterpillars and
the people are threatening to destroy every
tree if the town authorities do not take some
action.
A convict named Wilson had bis left hand
sliced of by Jute-miil at San Quentin on
Saturday. lie was cleaning his machine
while in motion, which was contrary to
orders.
The Prescott Courier SAYS: w X
Meade is, we believe, the first United States
Marshal of Arizona vino has gone forth
from office without charges of any kind he
ing tossed against him.
A mountaineer preacher down in Crook
County, Oregon, astonishe1 a part of his
audience by excaiming: MY friends. ALI
the world shouted for Joy when the good
news of Christ's birth flashed over the
wiresw
The Victoria Times saws: The Chinasa
tiremen employed on the Islander have
been discharged and white men employed
to fill the vacancies. The Mongolians could
not get enough steam up to keep the boat
up to her speed.
The Sonoma County Tribune says: It is
reported that the Cloverdale and Geyser
count of the bad state of the hiphwav
Travel to the Geysers will likely 60 hence.
forth by way of Healdsburg.
The Newman Tribune says: The early
ssown grain on the West Side never Looked
better than this season, while the late-sown
gram Is doing fairly we'll. With the ex-
pectant spring rains the largest cron Of
cereals ever raised on the West Side will be
harvested the coming season.
A boy named James Cook was fatally
shot in Also Canyon, near Santa Ana. last
Wednesday. lie killed a rabbit that was
under large cactus plant and in trying to
pull the animal out with his n the trigger
caught and he was shot aouth. The
unfortunate boy g~ for several
hours afte