The morning call., 1890-11-01
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territori g.

Territori 8.
The Kern County Echo is now issued
twice week.
The Great Register of Napa County con-
tains 4357 names.
A fine deposit of anthony has been found
in Green Creek District, New.
The output of the two fruit cannerips at
Santa Rosa this season was 100000 cans.
The Directors of the Reedly Bank have
decided to have plans drawn for new build
ing.
Last Saturday Salem hop-buyers bought
seventy tons, for which they paid $4,000 to
the farmers.
Petaluma Creek is full of salmon trout,
says the Imprint, which affords local sports
men lois of fun.
Juan Soto was fatally stabbed in dance
house at Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday
night His assailant escaped.
The strike of smelters at Great Falls,
Mont, has collapsed. 1t was a political
move and resulted in total failure.
The Sacramento Bee say w. C. Castro of
Yolo County intends to plant 1000 acres of
his river ranch in cotton this season.
The Traver Advocate was four years old
last Friday. 1t has done good work for the
interests of everybody in the rs Colony.
disguised offce-seeker in Reno quit
business last Sunday and went fishing. He
had the good luck to hook and land a IA u
pound trout.
One Colusa County man drove IS. 900 sheep
across the lands of Il neighb0r the Gtner day,
and now he has been sued for $3.50 damages
by trespassing.
On November LIST there viii be an election
in the DeIano Irrigation ID strict to provide
tor raising 500, 600 on bonds. The engineers
estimate for the main canal and three
branches was S62l. 000
John Stonebreaker, a sEeep-herder, was
found in the woods near Alba, Umatlla
County. Oregon. wandering about in half
starved state. He was found to be hope
lessly insane, and was sent to the asylum.
The Arroyo Grande Herald editor has
taken a two weeks vacation to fish and hunt
in the mountains. 1t don't look as if he
cared anything about politics to desert his
desk at this time, or else he has a big staff.
The Santa Rosa Republican says: Fol-
lowing the three cheers Mr.. Pond received
when lie alishted at the Grand Hotel came
three more from the prisoners in the County
Jail. This is rather remarkable popularity.
Work was begun recently at Cello. Ore
gon, on stoiage-house for IcP-dealers. 1t
will cover piece of ground 800 feet square,
will require 400 600 feet of lumber t. frame,
and when finished will store 12,G00 TO is OF
ice.
The Reno Journal says: The regist cred
vote OF Carson is S72, and of Empire 165,
making the total 1887 for Ormsby County
Reno alone has 1176 registered voters. and
yet Carson got away with us on the census.
!, How can such things be.
The Homer Index says: A well-eQuipped
party is in the hills south of us, ostep ,ibly
on n prospecting expedition. There are five
men, fourteen jacks and eight horses in
cluded in the outfit, which is undoubtedly
engaged in railroad survey scheme.
The Vallejo Chronicle says: Gum leaves
make good fuel for threshing engines; those
owning machines in the vicinity of vallejo
ORC In oil Loo, Il
branches that are now being stripped fIom
the trees, SO don't bum them, they viii be
called for.
The Homer Index contains the following
"nOtls" at the head OF its editorial column:
Though wood appears hard to get, there IS
any quantity close at hand, and it brings Sc
per cord. We warn midnight providers to
keep their petty-larceny paws off our pile.
Every stick has about four fingers of powder
in Height fingers ali told.
The Helena Journal says: In making
out the tax rolls County Clerk Tooker fiuds
that the list OF names commencing with The
letter III contains more wealth than those
commencing with the other letters of the
alphabet. Tie list includes such men as the
HerShfields,. Hoback, Hauser. Horskey,
Hale ard others, whose wealth foOts up 10
about S3.500,000.
The volcanoes of this part of Washington
have been in action more or less the past
year, says the Sumas News, and it is q
question whether Baker, Rainier and otheiS
are to be classed as extinct or active vol
canoes. Around Okanogan and Lake Che
Ian, east of the Cascades, is a region of
changing level and almost continuous earth
quake trembling. so we are informed.
A crew of seventeen surveyors arrived in
q scOw at a point on Coal Creek, says the
Kalama Bulletin, near its entrance into the
Columbia Slough, four miles above Stella,
and commenced surveying westward, evil
IDENTIFY seeking route down the north side
OF the Columbia to its mouth. The only in-
formation that our informant could obtain
as to who they are working for was that
they are working for money.
Says the Leblanc Express: The Circuit
Court docket for the October term, which
conyenes Monday next, contains an even 100
cases, of which number forty two are for the
recovery OF money, thirteen are suits for
divorce, and f0rty-ive are for various other
causes. The great numbrr OF divorce suits
and the ease with which divorces are OBJ
tanned in this State will ere long give-rise to
the railroad cry: Albany, Oregon, VReAty
minutes for divorced
The Victoria Colonist of Saturday saws:
A party of five men living on San Juan
Island are reported to have been drowned
some time within the last ten days. Their
names arc Charles +. Sturgess, Charles
Cousins, Michael Deregan, Covington and
the laitr's son. Only meager particulars
can be obtained at this time. Sturgess was
at his brothers house, near Eureka, on OctO-
Der 10th, and left there with four others
boat. Since then their boat, oars and other
things have been picked up near Limestone
Point where they were washed ashore.
Several persons are now searching for the