The morning call., 1890-06-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States an
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Good Indian ponies can be bought for SO a
head at Ellensburg. Wash.
An ink factory has been started In San Diego
by TWO experienced men from England.
Three nests made by wood rats were found In
one hour at Pasadena last week.
The Salt Lake Iapers say that city will have a
population OF 1000 by the close OF this year.
Ensenada people have been eating ripe water
melons for The past week, says the San Diego
Sun.
Charles Bell, who tried to murder his wife a,
COlma last Saturday, was arrested in few hours
aud lodged in jail.
A Chinese, afflicted with the worst kind of lep-
rosy, was found wandering about tile streets OF
Astoria last Friday.
The new fog bell at the entrance 10 San Diego
Harb0r Is now ready for use.. 1t weighs 1000
pounds and is run by machinery.
James ID. Kearny, an old resident OF Santa
YneZ. Santa Barbara County, was fatally hurt
last Friday by kick for vicious horse.
The Elko Free Press says Potts and his wife,
who were hanged last Friday, lett written con-
fession with their attorney, j. A. Plummer.
Three hundred thousand pounds OF wool was
bought in Los Angeles County last week for the
woolen-mills al Ensenada, Lower California.
j. p. McCoombs, ex-Secretary OF the Seattle
Relief Committee, has been sent 10 the Walla
Walla PenlTentiary for tive years for stealing the
funds OF that body.
The Albany (Oregon) Herald says a contract
for delivering forty tons of cascade bark al that
place has just been filed Ii all goes to a San
Francisco nlnl who pays S65 ton to the col
lectors.
a contract was let last week for rebuilding the
round-house at Ellensburg, Wash, that was
burned down recently. Ii will cost $50. 900, and
the contractors agree 10 have II finished by Oc-
tober LIST.
Six years ago W. C. Kmbal of National City,
San Diego County, st out grove OF eucalyptus
trees. He has now hired some men to chop them
into trewood. The treas average sixty feet high
by one foot through.
Major w. W. Wood, U. s. A., while stationed
at Fort Walla Walla put In his spare time study
ing Volapuk. Alter Compiling grammar aud
dictionary, lie tried his hand ON the Constitution
OF The United States.
Tie schooner q. II. Chance returned TO Port
land last Friday from cruise OF eleven DAYS TO
the banks of Cape Flstlery. She brought thirty
three tons OF baibut and rock salmon for The
Cold Storage Works.
Two grangers went 10 Whatcom recently and
INDUCED in quiet game with the Tiger. OF
course they got scJlped aud then they caused the
gamblers 20 be arrested. jury promptly ac-
quilted the defendants and The CHANGERS had to
walk home.
sloOp managed by Japanese smuggler was
captured OF San Juan Island few nights ago
by revenue officers and taken TO Port Townsend
He was fined $1,000 for entering and leaving
American ofts without giving notice, While his
slOOp VIII lie sold.
Tie purser OF the Stark-street ferry at Port
land, Oregon. was offered 3o-cent ticket for a
double team, which was dated January l. 1860
and was cOunlerslgned by James Is. stevens,
who then owned the ferry. 1t was accepted
without protest, and now graces the gallery OF
curios OF the company as the oldest ticket on
record
Instead OF finding fault with the census emu
meIatoIS, the leople OF Seattle help them by
every means i'll their power. They are hustlers,
and intend to have every man, woman and child
in that city counted. The Tacoma papers charge
the Seattle folks with counting The crews OF
every steamer that touches at Seattle, though
many OF them have homes elsewhere.
Nine years ago II. II. Holt located hOmeste ad
on an island IN the Columbia River near kalama
He built a house and gathered crops for several
years, but now the island has gone out OF sight
and The mighty Columbia runs over the Holt
ranch. His friends advise MN to demand an.
other homestead OF tile Government unless it can
tell him where his island has gone to.
The Julian Sentinel man Is Democrat dyed
u-the-wO0l and tatooed-in-the. flesh, but he seems
to have rather poor opinion OF his local party
I'VE attended the organization OF the IrOquois
braves" he writes, land we will wager a years
subscription 10 the Sentinel that we could get
mp larger crowd IN Julian In less than five mn-
utes by giving vent TO a couple of regular Dem.
ocratic whoops." He diagnoses the case as
one OF political paralysis"