The morning call., 1890-05-03
In the Thfrtr-ninth.
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter.


Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
George Heston fell from stable loft in
Santa Rosa ON Tuesday and sustained fatal
injuries.
The Long Beach Journal of Los Angeles
County viii change its name soon to the
Breaker
Surveyors left ChehaIis, Wash, lately to
run line of railroad from that place to
Shoalwater Bay.
Some rich discoveries of gold quartz
lodges have recently been made in Nevada
and Fresno counties
A rancher named Hosner, of Santa Clara
County, was swindled out OF $1,000 recently
by two sharpers, who escaped.
President Van Scoy Of the Willamette
University says that Institution win NOT be
moved from Salem to Portland.
The Sierre Valley Leader says the snow
was tWentF-six feet deep last week not
@eFs than two miles from town.
The Wood River Presbytery, of Idaho,
will build college at Caldwell on land
given by the people OF that town.
a schoolmaster of Fresno County named
Steele has been made crazy by religious
studies and will be sent to an asylum.
The people of Spokane Falls intend to
raise money enough TO build a mineral
palace similar to the one in Pueblo, Colo.
A new bell for ST. GATHERINGS Church at
Martinez has been received from st. Louis.
1t weighs 1915 pounds and IS the largest in
the county.
At the Democratic primary elections held
IN Colusa County last Saturday there was a
large vote polled and Willows led every
precinct with 405.
BY the last registration roll Tacoma has
1877 women in its four wards. The to al
Ter last year was 27S2, thus showing a sub
stantlal increase Of 104 per cent.
An insane Indian namad Jobn NJo;o-o
was shot to death by members of the tribe
on the Klamath Agency last Sunday. He
had killed an Indian and shot at another.
The Democrats of Benton County, Oregon.
have nominated Netty Spencer for School
superintendent. She is native daughter
and has taught in Portland for three wears.
Mrs. Munson of Ellensburgh, Wash.
stepped on a nail about two weeks ago.
For few days she felt no trouble. but
lock-jaw soon followed and she died last
Thursday.
Some sheep-men tried to drive band of
10000 through the streets of Pomona last
Monday, but they were stopped by the
authorities until $500 was deposited with
the town treasurer.
The young bl0ods of Woodland have a
new racket. They get very drunk and then
invade Chinatown and cut off queues from
their victims. This kind of business will
end in tirst-class funeral
last Saturday and cleared the streets of
weeds. The women prepared a capital
dinner, and when the men quit work thew
were taken to the tables and waited upon
by the women.
John r. Berry and Andrew Pollock, of
the San Diego Union, have been arrested
by order OF the three Judges of the Su-
perior Court for making comments on the
trial OF Judge Aitken, who is charged with
classifying court records.
Union fishermen on the Columbia River
tried to drive off some non-union men on
Monday, but the latter were we'll armed
and they killed three men off-hand and
dangerously wounded several others. The
union men fired the first shots.
A boy IN the Fnllejo public school struck
his teacher the other day and then boosted
that no other boy had sand" enough to
repeat the outrage. He was taken before
Justice Demmon, who promptly Inflicted a
fine Of SO for his parents to pay. In de-
fault the boy was sent to Jail for seventy
five days.
The papers Of Flagstaff, Ariz, are full of
stories about the wonderful discoveries in
the Grand Canyon OF the Colorado Some
lodges 120 feet wide can be traced for one
mile from the surface to the bottom of the
canyon, while hedges from 10 to So feet
wide and the same depth are as thick as
blackberries
The Grass Valley Telegraph says: Grass
DOppeTs are very numerous on THIS slope OF
the Sierra Nevada. In the edge of the
snow line the grasShoppers come forth in
great numbers. AS the edge OF the snow
goes slowly up the mountain side the grass
hoppers arise out of the yet moist ground.
Curious insect is the grasshopper.
Some time ago the teacher of a Riyersi ed
school instructed her class how to act in
case of emergencies such as drowning, gun
shot accidents, etc. A day or SO after the
lesson lad named Haight went home and
found his baby sister given up for dead
after being picked out of canal. There
was no doctor to be had, and young Haight
went to work to apply his lesson and In a
lew minutes the baby was restored to life.
woman of Clifton, Oregon, wanted
some pin money the other day, but her hus-
band, fisherman on the Columbia River.
refused to work, though the water was
alive with fat fish. She got angry and took
boat and went fishing on her own account,
In few hours the plucky woman had fifty
TOUR salmon that she sold to the first buyer
Tor S3S 80. Sue took the coin and spent it
all in Astoria on an outfit Her husband
she pointed to the river and said nay,
Says tile Pomona Times: A Riverside
orange-grUwer was informed by a neighbor
few days ago, that the saw he was using
would do better work II IL were filed. He
went to the house few minutes after, put
on his Sunday clothes, wrapped his saw up
carefully, went to the depot and took the
train for the county-seat. Arriving there,
he went at once to the Recorders Office to
have his saw filed according to the code,
We VIII not attempt to describe what fol-
lowed when he made known his erraud.