The morning call., 1890-10-24
COAST ITEMS.


Mr.. Gallup of Visalia took the prize at the
late fair with pig that scaled 700 pounds.
A Tacoma undertaken recently filled an
order for coffin for woman feet, inches
tall.
The MERGED Express figures the tourist
trade to Yosemite for this season at 800
visitors.
Providence Hospital at Seattle now con-
tains 165 patients who are suffering from
typhoid fever.
James Crosby, a carpenter. fell from a
building at Los Guilicos last Wednesday and
was dangerously hurt.
In spite of the late severe .'rain-storms,
Walker Lake, New, is receding, says the
Walker Lake Bulletin
Jewish synagogue is to be built at
Seattle, Wash, by the Congregation Ohaveth
Sholum at cost of $4,000.
The new reservoir of the Santa Cruz
Water Works was filled with water for the
first time last Thursday afternoon.
The Salt Lake Herald denies tile report
that diphtheria is raging in Nephi There
was one case, but it was not fatal.
The copper mine of the Seven Devils Dis
trict in Idaho are claimed to be equal to
those in the Lake Superior region.
The average yield OF sugar beets on 1900
acres OF the Mojo C0ro ranch, near Watson
vile, was seventeen tons to the acre.
Jesse Wood. one of the editors of tine
SuiCp Shi UdS Dctu appointed
of "A NJ. E. Church South at Stockton.
Hiram TAFT, aged IA, has been missing
since October 9th at Benicia. He was sent
to school that day, but never returned.
Farmer Wilbur of Orange raised sweet
potato the other day that weighed 27b
pounds. He calls it The Markham -
James Simpson of Fresno shothis divorced
wife last Saturday as she was standing IN her
chicken-yard. Her wounds may prove fatal
a,,-i.b irI, I,J
last Monday afternoon near Port Town
send, and all were drowned. Three were
women.
Tue Oregon Statesman says the Oregon
Railroad line from Salem to Lebanon is all
ready to be changed from narrow to STAN
dard gauge.
The Anaheim Gazette says S42G0 was
realized this season for a crop of onions
raised ON 16 acres near Norwalk, Los An
geleS County.
Tom Pearson, ianitor of the railroad
station at Los Angeles, was attacked by a
savage dog last Tuesday night and was
badly mangled.
Mary Gempler tried to start a fire with
coai oil at Salt Lake City last Saturday.
She and brother were covered with blazing
oil ana died soon alter.
The Los Angeles Herald says the pay
menls OF city taxes are coming in very
slowly. Only S65,000 has been paid out of
s295, 923 - due this month.
Lumber vessels in plying between Eureka
ana San Diego ballast with watermelons
and pumpkins Oh the northern trip. A large
trade has been established.
The tweve-year-old daughter of W.
Hughes Was instantly killed near Ellens-
burg, Wash, last Saturday, by falling frum
wagon that passed over her body.
William b. Scanlon was found guilty of
stealing coal from the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company at Helena, Mont, and was
sent to the penitentary for one year.
Two prospectOrs, named Smith and Dona-
hue, got lost last week in the Cascade Range,
Oregon. While wandering in the woods
they killed Iour goats, which kept them
from starving.
The Riverside Enterprise says: The pea
nut crop OF Orange County averages 500
per acre. This even beats raising wheat and
selling 1t for 81 % per hundred and only
raising about ton to the acre.
The Victoria Colonis: SAYS: The shin
kennebec arrived at San Diego the other
day from Nauaimo, Il. C., with $3.50 tons of
coal. She drew twenty-sIX feet of water and
went into the harbor without trouble.
c. G. Gather of Hanford went to his mill
the other morning and found his pet cat en-
gagged III battle with a big RATHER. The cat
was too much for the snake, which meas
ured feet III length by inches round the
waist. MIR. Gather says 500 will not buy
the feline.
Hon. John Leary of Seattle has determ-
lned 10 erect an orphans home in that city,
III memory OF Mrs. Leary, whose death &C..
CURED recently. This lady was foremost in
deeds Of charity and acts Of kindness. She
was the President of the Orphans Home
Society at the time of her death, and her
husband now proposes to devote 100000 to
the erection OF building for the home of or
phans, which shall be a memorial Of his de-
parted wife.
The Bodie Miner. a Democratic paper.
says: Some Nevada Organs assert that
r. X. COlcord, the Republican candidate for
Governor OF that State, is lUw-Wages man.
Inls doesn't go, gentlemen. We know that
K h. COicord interposed lis influence to
prevent a reduction Of miners wages in
Bodle. *. h. CoIcord is a Republican; we
are Democrat; possibly we are both gen
tlenen. We have 10 cross the line to vote
against Mr.. COicord in order to defeat him.
but we want Theodore and his friends to de-
feat Mr. Colcord On the square.
Says the Gridley Herald If what we
hear from participants be correct the en-
campment OF the Eighth Battalion at Chico
last week was neither more nor less than a
regular social loot among the boys, in
which there was more liquid than solid
nourishment consumed. However, we have
heard of no deaths from apopleXy, heart
failure or bayOnet thruSts in the neck.
hence we apprehend that the recreation was
Of no PARTICULAR harm to the brave bows and
may result in making them more daring and
courageous when wars wild alarm calls
patriots to duty.
The Astoria Columbian says that J. Lund-
quist, fisherman, upon pulling up his net
the other morning. found salmon with a
silver watch in its mouth. and rolled chain
attached to the ticker. The watch had evil
IDENTIFY laid in the water for years. as the
steel portions crumbled to dust when touched.
Its presence in the salmon's mouth is ac-
counted for by the fact that salmon at this
season of the year will eagerly bite at anv
bright object, and the watch and chain had
been caught by the net dragging on the bot
tom. As 1t was hauled in II attracted the
attention OF the salmon, and he took it in.
and in turn was taken in himself The
works in the watch were Waltham.
and the case coin silver. The salmon was
Pauglr inst Off Shnrp abreast Of tho Snncido