The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-20
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


William Amer had his left hand torn off
by thrashing machine near M0dena last
week.
The Republicans of Los Angeles will hold
their county convention on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 1st
A syndicate has bought 100 acres near
Corvallis, Oregon, which will be planted to
prune trees
The Bank of San Luis Obspo has Just
paid. dividend of S6666 662s a SHARE says
the Tribune.
Major III. G. Baxter. a prominent hotel
man of Boston and Seattle, died at the latter
city on Sunday.
Manuel Acunba fell down shaft in the
Phoenix mine, Arizona, last Thursday, and
was instantly killed.
f. 5. Becchnr of Linden, San Joaquin
County, has raised three-year-old Holstein
bull named Stockton that weighs 1850
pounds.
Two Pomona boys were foolng with their
fathers pruning shears the other day, when
one of them lost the index finger from his
right hand.
SXty-four carloads of raisins, dried fruit
and grapes were shipped East by rail from
Fresno last week. This shipment was three
times larger than that for the same time last
year.
The Irrigation Convention at Tulare fin
ished its business on Saturday and adjourned.
Several matters of great importance were
discussed and the whole session was very
profitable.
Mrs. Elliott of Lebanon, Oregon, was
picking hops near Scio last Thursday
While going by campfire her dress caught
and she was so badly burned that her life
was despaired Of.
Says the Reno Gazette: The Republicans
are having the closing sentence of Hon. w.
Ii. A. Pixies ground-swell speech in the
Dam .ip Stotp ('nnvpDtiOn framed. 90 M
Irish need apply"
Jack BOden, a miner committed suicide
last Thursday by jumping into the reservoir
at Eureka Lake, Plumas County. He was
in poor health for long time and frequently
threatened to take his life.
In 1850 number of log-cabins were put
up by the Britsh-American Boundary Com
missioners near the tnwn-site of Marcos,
Wash. They are still standing in good
state OF preservation
A pretended deaf and dumb man made
begging trip to Eureka some weeks ago and
then left for other parts of Humboldt County.
At Blue Lake he got into row and attacked
a clerk in a store with knife. On being
searched he had nearly $500 in coin.
The Hueneme Herald says: Small white
and pink beans are being thraShed, but it is
found that The hot weather did some dam
age and they are not turning out 50 well as
was expected few weeks back AS to
lJlilIt5 CdI-iOuu WILL De Ieauy IOE
shipment in few days.
The Pomona Times says: The Salvation
Army has given Pasadena up as bad job
and disbanded Shake, Pasadena, we con-
graduate you. They abandoned Pomona
some weeks ago, and prosperity has been
crowding us closely ever since. As fail
ure the Salvation Army is blooming sue
cess.
The Humboldt Standard says: The Alder
Point bridge will be the longest combination
truss bridge in the State. Its length is 357
feet, main span, and the south approach is
12S feet long and the north approach is &C
feet. 1t will be supported by four iron and
concrete piers five feet in diameter, and the
main span will be 70 feet above low-water
mark.
The Boise City Sun says: Some fiend of
Democrat has walked off with the ice-water
tank at the Capitol building; but his scheme
to make the Republicans there drink any
thing stronger wont work. In the absence
Of the tank they will drink from the hose in
the yard, before they will go downtown to
irrigate. Can't catch the Republicans that
way, old boy.
Says the Grass valley Telegraph: The old
Allison Ranch nine stands out gloomy and
unworked, with splendid history and with
millions In the ledge that is not very deep
under the ground. The Allison Ranch mine
ought to join the splendid procession of Grass
Valley Old mines that are being reworked.
But the Allison ranch mine is owned by men
who have all the money they want.
The Victoria Times says: In little house
built of wreckage and old tin near the outer
wharf resides a family of Indians who, like
the rest OF their nation. are slowly but surely
getting into the ways OF the paleface The
latest show IN this respect of the above fam
lily is the display OF Canadian flag over the
entrance to their rickety little home. The
Indians are evidently beginning to know
under whose flag they are living.
The Telegraph says: Out at the Folsom
Prison there is horse that has developed
singular characteristic, which consists in an
earnest desire to eat all the red and green
peppers he can get hold of. The animal be-
HAYES just like any other horse. except in
the particular matter above. He is GOOD
worker and tame and manageable How he
acquired the love for peppers is a matter of
conjecture.
The Carson Appeal says: John McKinuy.
Lake Tahoe, says that the coming winter is
liable TO be as heavy as the last, and per-
tions. on the fact that the pine cones grow in
the tops OF the trees, also the prevailing
winds OF this summer at the lake. Mac saws
he has won every bet be ever made on the
weather at the lake. and hasn't had to buy
hat for twenty years.
Samuel Halter and Charles Simmons. who
had been running shingle-mill at Newau-
KUN, WASH, skipped out last Monday. with
out payin the men or any creditor. The
wages OF the men amount to 5000. while
other creditors are out $780, The Chehalis
Bee says: They left in such haste that
forgot package OF letters from his CORE,
spondents in Kalama. Portland and Penn
sylvania. These were divided up among
the boys as the only available assets.
While working in his saw-mill at Pleas
ant Hill, Lane County, Oregon, last Wednes-
day, II. NJ. Kelley's left hand was caught in
a machine and was chopped to pieces His
men bound his arm tightly below The sboul.
der and sent Tor DOCTOR 1t was seven hours
before one came, and by this time the arm
was terribly swollen from being too tightly
bound. The arm was amputated at the
wrist, but no circulation could be restored,
poisoned and when carried into the system
Friday.