The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-04
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
W. II. Kelley now has sole charge OF the
Willows Journal.
Del Norte County's State School Fund
only amounts to 1894.
George Carson and wife, of Grass Valley,
celebrated their golden wedding last Satur
day.
May Fuller of Seattle, Wash, was the
first woman to reach the summit OF Mount
Rainier.
Superintendent Of Schools in Trinity
County.
Tie Victoria Times of August 2Sth denies
the report that the coal mines at Wellington
were on fire.
A Michigan lumber firm has bought thirty
acres at Stevenson, Il. c., where an immense
mill is TO be put up.
Henry Grieves fell from wagon-load of
hay near ComoX, L. c., recently, and re-
ceiyed fatal injuries.
MIR. Harding Of Lulu Island. B. c., has
raised f0rty-three tons of wheat from
twenty-three acres this season.
Says the Napa Journal: The following
unique sign is displayed by local dealer !:
''Only Cash Business don hear"
Theodore Zwengle, miner in the Ken
nedy mine. near. Amador, was fatally hurt
Forty Chinese from New York CITY left
Vancouver, b. c., for their native country
last week. They were all well fixed finan-
cially.
A cold-storage company. with capital of
100000. has been organized AT South Bend,
WASH, to develop the oyster-beds at Shoal-
water Bay.
Frank Young fell into hole in a sidewalk
at Port Townsend recently and was laid up
for two weeks. He has sued the CITY for
$4,000 damages.
About 400 acres have been planted to po-
tatoes at North Cucamonga this year. The
average yield per acre Is about 100 sacks of
100 pounds each.
John Erickson, bartender. committed
suicide at Salt Lake City last Monday by
using pistol. lie left a family of small
children and an insane widow.
The employees of Dolbee & Carson, lum-
ber-dealers of Eureka, Humboldt, were
notified last Monday that their days work
will be reduced from eleven and a half
hours to ten hours. Their pay will not be
disturbed.
Nelly Thorpe of Santa Maria Valley is an
expert with the rifle. She brought down a
large eagle recently that was lowering over
her chicken-yard, and her latest trophy is
the pelt of huge wildcat that was sneak
ing on the same plan for a chicken salad
The Progress says: 1t is somewhat anus
luS W KNOW tnab tDTee OF f0nl0na S Staunch-
est defenders and most thorough believers
in faith cures and Christian science schemes
are so very i'll in bed that the very physi-
clans whom they have ridiculed and abused
have been called into attendance.
Manuel Mediros, a sheepherder for ]. a.
Ford, was handling shotgun at his cabin
at ANTELOPE Valley, Nsv, last Saturday.
charge struck him in the breast Although
terribly lacerated Medires walked to Eureka.
forty miles distant, to get medical assist.
ance.
The Ventura Republican says: Last Sat-
urday small boy, living on Ash street, be-
lot and stood upon his head. This is as nat
ural position for small boy to assume as
any other, but in this instance. unfnrt,i-
nately, the lad was not sufficiently carafnl
in choosing his ground, for in putting down
his head he placed IL directly upon the body
Of a large gopher snake that CHANGED 10 be
taking sun-bath just there. small bow is
very heavy sometimes, and the snake was
irrltated Quick as a dash it slid ont from
under the boys head, and turning Bit him
directly upon the lower lip. The wound was
painful. although not at all dangerous.
The Vancouver News-Advertiser, last
Thursday, says: II. L.. Davis, Familiarity
known to ''old timers as ssTwelye- foot
Davis" arrived in the city yesterday. MT.
Davis has been continuously engaged in
mining since 1889. and has during that time
prospected on every creek in Cariboo. al
Big Bend and Cassiar, and has lately bean
in the Peace River country. The name of
''Twelve-foot Davis was given him from
the fact that during the early days of Carl
boo, when a number of claims were Yield
Ing enormous returns. Mr.. Davis discovered
that two OF them. lying side by SIDE had
between them twelve feet more than the law
allowed. He secured the twelve feet aud
took cut Of it over $1,000 for every foot.