The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-12
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
A vein of coal six feet thick was discovered
near ChehalS. Wash, recently.
Lewis p. Berry has been appointed Dep
uy Collector at Tacoma, Wash.
Alfred Davis has sold the Kelso Courier,
| Wash, to J. T. Harsel for S1200.
Mrs. Walt of Salem. Oregon, has ripe
raspberries in her garden, the second crop
| this year.
The Yuma Times has changed its politics
| from independent in the field to StCaight-out
! Republican.
Rev. R. H. Ammon of Lompoc had to
| kill three horses recently, as they were Ill
with CHAMBERS.
The San Jose frutpaeking establish
menls find il hard wurk to get laborcrs 10
! handle the crops.
A recount OF the population of Salem, Or,
| has been taken, showing IL, 401 against oJO6
by the eensuS-takers.
y Demo ratio paper las been started at
Lancaster, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles
| County, by W. a. Morris.
| a burglar operated on the house OF J. w.
| Conant at Reddmg the other night, and got
| away with jewelry worth 5000.
Several fiue hunting dogs IN Colusa have
| been poisoned recently, and tie owners now
| keep shot guns loaded for the perpeta tors
| T. P. II. Whitelaw of San Francisco has
bought the steamer Alexander OF Victoria,
i. G., which will be fitted up for whaling In
| British waters.
| A liveryman at Helena, Mont, let three
men have a fine horse to drive last Sunday.
They filed up with liquor and drove the
poor animal to death.
George Terrill, a miner. fell into vat OF
boiling water at the Navajo Mil, near
| GreeaylllP, Plumas County, the Other day,
and Was badly Scaldet.
After de iberating twenty-five hours jury
at Fresno found Samuel Mays guilty Of
numbering Mary Foster and fixed the punish
| ment at life Imprisonment
Robert Hiliery, aged A. killed large
black bear one day last week with an Old
fashioned muZzle l0aning shotgun. He
| lives near Sn0hemSh, Wash.
While working at fire in Salem. Oregon,
| recently Treasurer SWaifUId was lit On Il
bridge Of the nose by piece of glass that
came near siicing if that member.
WGodburu, Oregon, where the Southern
Pacific and Huntington lines meet, is enjoy
ing a very Healthy growth. The latest i'm
provement is a fine brick bank building.
The body Of Captain w. p. Hay, who was
sailing the yacht Petrol, which was cap
sized III San Diego Bay. was recovered last
| Tuesday. Three bodies are still missing.
Jack Barry, a saloon keeper, OF Carter,
Mont, tried TO collect = bill vi 50 10 from a
miner named Patrick WEIGH last Saturday.
Failing to get the money lie bett his victim
to DEATH
The Postmaster at Garfield, WASH, re-
| ceived a postdl-card recently which read as
follows: pleas to bey 500 Cind as to four
ward My Male TO thtis Pint ana Oublge,"
Charles Newton of La Grande, Oregon,
was working young horse with scraper
| recently, hen the auimai baked. Newton
picked up a stone and hit the animal on the
head, causing instant death.
Christopher COnsleyin, sheep-herder for
| Thomas Wheeler, was found dead under a
tree near Milton, San Joaquin County, last
Sunday. An autopsy showed the cause was
enlargement of the heart.
The Eureka Sentinel significantly re-
marks: The odore Winters has sold his Stable
| for SS5,000, reserying Ell Rio Rey. Now, if
| Theodore will put up $50 600 of this S75, 900
he can be elected Governor Of Nevada.
The Lompoc Record says: Why can we
not offer Some substantial inducement to
some young lady TO open and maintain
kindergarten in our town? There are
scores of children under school age who
ought TO be i'll the kindergarten; their
mothers would be relieved of great bur
den, and the little ones Put in way to de-
veiop their minds, and bodies as we'll.
The Portland Oregonian says: singular
and almost fital accident occurred at Sno-
homish the other day. Arthur G. Knight
and Giles Hoyle went to the saugnter-houSe
to butcher a steer. Hoyle raised his rifle
and fred at the animal. The bah glanced
beam above. again glanced, going through
the rim If knights hat over the left eye.
ana ripping up two inches of his scalp. Had
he stood an iuch farther forward it would
have killed him.
The Santa Cruz Surf says: Extensive re-
pairs are about To be made on the narrow
gauge railroad bridge which SPANS the San
Leandro Bay. The teredo has eaten into
the piles and new ones to the number of 800
or 400 viii be substituted. But the most I'M
portant Improvement will be the cOnsiruc-
ton of a new draw. The present one was
repaired about year ago, but is badly out
OF gear and can be operated only with the
greatest difficulty. Timbers for the repairs
and the new draw are now on the ground
and work will be commenced this week.
The SpaDge Record says: Allen Weir,
the former editor of the Port Townsend
Argus, is a sort of Muldoon in the new State
OF Washington. He is Secretary Of stare.
Insurance Commissioner. member of the
State Land Commission, member Of COM
mission to select indemnity school lands,
member of the commission to select site
for normal school, seaer of weights and
measures, member of the State Board of
! Equalization of the valne of tide lands, has
| to audit the State printing BILL has super
vision over the Capitol Building Gro unds,
and is required to furnish supplies to the
State officers and library.