The morning call., 1890-06-09
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From the Pacific Coast
States md Territories.

Brief Notes From the Pacific Coast
states and Territories.
The Reno Gazette says more than IL, 900
acres of land in Mason Valley are under
water.
A $4,000 gold brick from the Alamo mines
Lower California, was sent to San Diego on
Friday.
Great damage is done to young vineyards
in Fresno aud Tulare counties by jack
rabbits.
An assessment of S25 a share has been
levied ON the stock of the Pomona Hotel
Company.
The Gamers on the Columbia River have
shut down. They cannot afford to pay 81
each for salmon.
Work has begun on a fiume to bring lum-
Der from the Wild Creek District to Fresno.
1t will be y miles long
The Nogales Herald has started a sub
scription paper to raise money enough to
fence in the town graveyard.
A petition, with 11.000 names, has been
presented to the Los Angeles City Council
in favor OF closing every saloon on Sunday.
A son of Mr.. Benson of Payson, Utah,
was burned to death last Thursday, while
playing with a can of coal Oil and a hot
stove.
Boys who disturb church meetings in
fense. The town treasury is getting rich
in fines.
Moynet Monkel was convicted of man.
slaughter in Napa on Friday. He killed
Joseph Won Weyl at Rutherford Station on
April 9th last.
Says the Visalia Delta: The printers on
the Merced papers are suffering from lock-
jaw incident to putting in type the names
Of the recent emgrauts from Holland.
An immense deposit of crude bOrax has
been discovered few miles distant fro NJ
the proposed extension of the Carson and
TRInraho RailroaH IDvn In Mnjaya
j. Ansher of Santa Barbara County runs
bee ranch with 80 stands. He will take
out twelve tons of choice honey this season
if nothing interferes with the busy workers.
The TuIare Register says: Enough Tu-
lare money will be spent on the coast tins
summer to make a good start on the build
ing of a railroad to some of our mountain
resorts
Henry Pometil drunken sheep-herder.
went to Chico ON Friday and got into fight
with John johnson, farm laborer. The
former was dangerously stabbed with
bOwle-knIfe.
The Cheyenne Leader thinks that Hart
Vile iron Will prove TO be the bonanza OF
that city, and says that Pueblo millmen
pronounce the Bessemer ore to.be of very
superior quality.
Salt Lake City people intend to celebrate
the next Fourth of July in great style.
Thirty-one pieces of elaborate fireworks
Will p6 touched on from Ensign Peak.
They will cost Sl5,S00.
A Colusa County fruit inspector re-
Gently made an official report tn his supe-
rior that he visited thirty-fve orchards
and found thirty-four orchards were in-
tested with San Jose scale.
The editor of the Nogae5 Herald has been
| appointed Special Census Agent for taking
statistics of live stock for the southern half
| OF Arizona. lie Will be busy three months
and will be paid So day. with travelling
| expenses.
The Eagle Rock Gdaho) Register says
| More cattle perish by falling into the river
| during the winter season in this valley
than by cold and hunger To avoid this
way of losing cattle is a question for the
cattlemen Of this section.
Says the Homer Index of recent date: :
| The creek is full of fish and Indians spear
| them on the rifles while they are full of
| spawn. This must be stopped, even if it be
necessary to kill few bucks; but save the
squaws, as they are getting scarce.
William Black of Porterville, TuIare
| County, was thrown from his wagon last
Sunday. In falling he struck wire fence
and his right leg was so badly mangled that
| 1t had to be amputated in few hours. The
shock was fatal to Mr.. Black, who never
rallied from the operation.
A Boise City squaw sold her five-months-
| ola pappooSe to Il Chinese woman last Sum-
day for SIS. Her liege lord, named Whisky
Dick, was away from home, and when he
| got back there was trouble in camp. He
| finally went to Sheriff Miller, repeyined
the child and repaid the SIS.
! The Santa Barbara Independent saws:
| One of the handsomeSt Spanish bayonets
ever seen in the county is now in bloom on
the County Hospital grounds. 1t is thir-
teen and a half feet high. For the last two
weeks 1t has grown at the rate of ten inches
per day. 1t has four feet of solid bloom on
| the stalk.
The Santa Ana Free Press says: 1t is
now stated that the young boy Marion, who
was bitten by a rattesnake at West Ana
| helm last week and who subsequently died.
was not killed by the bite OF the snake
Rumor has it that the first physician who
| was called in to attend him gave him large
dose of morphine and that he was thrown
into deep sleep from which he never
| awoke, despite the efforts of other doctors
to counteract the effects of the morphine.
While the Indians of Eagle Valley, New.
| were at a fandango last week they left in
camp an aged buck named Teekaboo and
his squaw. Teekaboo was quite infirm. so
his spouse dug hole in the ground, put
| him in uD to the neck and filed in the dirt
solid. She then left for the fandango. first
| placing cup of water near the buried
| buck. He was rescued by some sheepmen
after sixty-fve hours confinement The
squaw had not been found at last accounts.