The morning call., 1890-04-03
COAST ITEMS.

NOTES racine States anu
Territories
Diphtheria has broken out at Virginia
City. New.
The Eel River Valley Advance was three
years Old last Thursday.
The first synagogue in Washington will
be erected at Seattle this year.
Jose Montoya shot Vicente Chaves fatally
at Los Padillos. N. Mex, on Sunday.
A hog was butchered in Grass Valley last
Friday that had five toes on its tore feet.
A lead refinery and shot tower are among
the future possibilities of Tacoma, Wash.
Four children of Reno, Nov, were
poisoned recently by eating wild parsnips.
At a recent session Of the Grant County
Court, Oregon, six divorces were signed by
the Judge.
The Fresno Republican says the coming
Jackrabblt crop in that county will be
immense
The primary election of Colusa County
will be held on April Goth, under the Craw-
ford plan.
A Gilroy man got divorce last Friday
because his spouse batted him with
button-hook.
In the great stock parade at Ellensburg.
Wash, last Saturday, were sixteen stations
worth $4,000
a furious hail-storm did much damage to
fruit trees at Wheatland and MarysYille on
Sunday night.
The sixtieth annual conference of the
Mormon saints will be held at Salt Lake
City ON April 4th.
The Democrats of Albuquerque, n. Mex,
have nominated full city ticket, with NJ.
Mandell for Mayor.
The City Council of Castle Rock, Colo,
has raised the saloon license from $3.50
year to $780, payable in advance.
a Mormon with two wives and fourteen
children we're found in Provo, Utah, re-
Gently, living in hut with one room.
Fruit-growers in and near Anaheim ara
buying water to drown out gophers. They
hnd 1t pays big interest On the outlay.
James Hodge of Rohnerville, Humboldt
County. plueked fourteen-pound radish
from his garden patch last Wednesday,
Steamboat men on the Fraser River 3. c..
have petitiOned the Colonial Legislature to
put up lighthouse at New Westminster.
The largest sugar-beet farm in the world
is the Moro Colo Ranch, near CastrovilIe,
where 1900 acres are devoted to their Gull
ture.
The people Of Boise City, Idaho, have
raised S166 90 to buy seed grass for the set
tiers on Camas Prairie and vicinity, in Al
turas County.
The British ship Selkirk made the run
from Hastings Mill, b. O.. to Callao, Peru.
with lumber in 81 days-one of the quickest
voyages on record.
Nate Cox shot wild boar last Wednes-
day ON the Santa Maria Range that scaled
700 pounds. Its tusks were inches long
and were as sharp as razors.
The last Grand Jury at Ellensburg
Wash, reported in favor of having a new
County Jail built, as the old one is too small
and Insecure for any purpose.
young fellow at Pendleton, Oregon,
tried TO disturb camp-meeting the other
day and the police magistrate promptly
sent him to Jail for sixty days.
A terrific sand-storm in New Mexico
stopped all railroad traffic on Monday for
lace was blown from the track.
l.. j. Morris of Santa Maria was out
hunting one day last week when his dog
started up huge panther that was eating a
calf. The yarmint measured II feet inches
long.
l.. c. Lanir, an assistant keeper at Tills-
NOOK Lighthouse, went crazy the other day
and tried TO kill every one in the building.
He was bound fast aud sent to Astoria on a
schooner
A little girl named Petit died at Sacra-
mento on Monday from the effect of slung-
shot wound received four years ago. She
was hit in one of her eyes and was never
well after.
Local capitalists of Salem, Oregon, are
talking of forming company to buy the
large brick flour-mills of the Scotch owners
for $4,000. The mill has been idle for
some months.
The big canal at Inyo, Owens Valley, was
finished last Wednesday. 1t is thirty miles
IN length and carries 1000 miners inches
Work was begun in June, 1887 and has
been pushed forward without delays.
A mail-carrier and his horse went over a
steep grade near Strong's Station, Hum
boldt County, last Wednesday. They fell
eighty feet, and the man sustained danger
Gus internal injuries. The horse was killed
instantly.
The people of Seattle will soon be called
on to vote for or against bonding their
property for 81, 100000. OF this sum S25O.0O0
VIII be Tor street Improvements, SIS. 600
Tor buying out water company, $4,000
Tor fire purposes and $4,000 for sewerage.
Sixteen years ago last Thursday the ship
Vermont was loaded for Europe at Astoria,
Oregon, being the first vessel that ever
took its entire cargo from that port There
was much interest In the affair and Captain
richardson was given a deed to town lot
by John Adair, prominent citizen Cap
tam Richardson has kept the property and
now lives IN San Diego. He wrote to son
OF Mr.. Adair last week to ask what the lot
was worth, and was told it would be cheap
at $500.
The Salt Lake Tribune of Thursday says:
There is one member of our staff whose
handwriting is a little too high for the
average compositOr He tried yes erdiy to
make note of the fact that Judge Zane
long ago investigated the charges against
Mr.. Mckay and found them baseless. OF
course the compositor got it Mrs. Mckay"
Now Judge Zane is lodging the neghbor-
hood where Mckay lives, the writer of the
lot IS lodging Judge Zane and the COM
positor is lodging the writer
Says the Ventura Free Press: A rose
bush Is growing in General Vandever's
yard on California street that for size is
probably not excelled in the State. The
main stem measures three feet in cireum-
fnr at,d -.
measures twenty-one inches in circumfer-
ence. 1t runs over n lattice-work, and al
though more than q wag0n-load Of bougns
have been removed, it covers space Of
about 700 square feet. 1t is Lamarque
and yields thousands of blooms. 1t was
planted by Mrs. NJ. Ii. Henderson during
the centennial year, consequently is IA
years old.