The morning call., 1890-04-14

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Boise City, Idaho, is enjoying a real
estate boom.
Every rancher in Nevada is now busy
sowing grain.
=, ANTIOCH is to have new grain warehouse
that VIII cost $25, 600.
Peggy Barnes, colored woman at Peta-
luna, Is 1o5 years old.
A. L: Hatch of Sonoma County says the
almond crop this year will be very light
Captain G. E. Clancy, Superintendent of
the Union Pacific Sound steamers, has re-
signed.
An assessment of $40 share has been
levied by the San Joaquin Land and Water
Company.
David Davis was thrown from his horse
at Blgeiow, Oregon, last Friday, and he was
fatally injured.
Farmer Reid of Dayton, Oregon. sold 26-
5U4 pounds OF potatoes last week to dealer
Tor cents pound cash.
L. Powers was instantly killed at LathrOp
on wednesday evening while trying TO
switch an engine in the yard.
The towns of Whatcom and Sehomo,
wash, are to be joined in one corporation
with limits four miles square.
The Los Angeles Herald protests against
the importing OF orange trees from Florida
as they Will Introduce new fruit pests.
The wife of Jesus Martinez of Cotton pre-
sented him recently with twins. The boy
weighs pound and II ounces, while the
girl scales pounds and IA ounces.
That part of Tacoma known as "The
Gulch will be spanned by bridge $50 feet
long by sixteen feet wide. The highest
bent will be ia feet from the ground.
The lumbermen of Portland have organ
lied Lumbermen's Exchange, which in
ciudes eight mills there. three at Vancouver
ana SIX at other points on the Columbia
River.
George Agnew, a brakeman at Modesto,
While coupling cars on Wednesday morn
ing, had his right hand caught and mashed
so that every finger and the thumb had to
be amputated.
The Walla Walla Statesman has secured
the contract for printing 100000 folders de-
scriptiye Of Walla Wala and its advantages
They VIII be distributed at all points Oh the
transcontinental lines.
More claims viii be worked this year on
4uba River than for the past fifteen years,
says the Grass Valley Telegraph. The
greater part will be done by Chinese, who
have secured leases of the ground.
The total value of exports from Port
Townsend in March was S3,336, 46l. of
VIII which American vessels carried all but
S67,340 The value of imports was SS7O3,
and the duty collected was S6991 -
Louis B0ltz and friend went fishing at
Ahahelm Landing on Sunday. Their first
catch was man-eating shark, IS feet long,
that weighed 1000 pounds. followed by land
ing stingaree that sealed l25 pounds
Peter All Foo, alias "China Pete" died
In OroVllle last Wednesday,. He was a ma
tive son, and voted at every election since
he came of age. He knew the value Of his
vote, and picked up many So piece, says
the Mercury.
The sum of S55,0OO in gold coin was sent
from San Bernardino to Sa1 Francisco by
a az gun ac aaIa -.
at one cent an ounce. An insurance COM
pany took risk Oh the coin and the bank
saved $50 by using the mail
The Portland Oregonian says: Among
the most interesting counties in Washing
ton is that of Island County, which is com
posed Of WILDLY, one of the largest islands
in the Puget Sound, being about forty miles
long and one to ten miles wide, IL being ir-
regular in form. The area OF WILDLY
Island is 104, 1856 acres.
The sporting men of Pendleton, Or. love
dog-hght better than anything in the
world. They own prize bull pup that held
the Held against all comers until one day
last week 1t tackled q yellow dog that
strayed into town after its owner, a Chinese
vegetable pedder. He backed his dog
liberally and after brief fight the bull pup
was dead and the Chinese walked away with
pct of money.
The Rico (Colo.) News says: With cleo
trlc light, water works, bottliug-house, a
steam laundry, three-story hotel and two
shoemakers hard at it. we await the arrival
of railroad and Salvation Army to make
us eolspicuously metropolitan. Rico will
soon discard the plain attire of village
lass and snuggle into the becoming habit
ment OF the proud city belle. We are the
people.
" The Seattle Press, in speaking of the un-
necessary number of clerks employed by
the Legislature at Olympia, says that one
clerk drew $500 for attending three COM
mittee meetings; another has drawn nearly
5000 for no more work; several have drawn
S35 week throughout the session who
could not intelligently take notes Of the
proceedings of a committee or decently
write out report of the committees action.