The morning call., 1890-09-23
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territnries.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Santa Cruz will soon have free postal de-
livery.
John Turner of Cloverdale dug a IL
pound sweet potato last Tuesday.
The vineyards of Kern County have been
damaged great deal by jackra6bits.
The MADEIRA Mercury says there is danger
of diPhthcria becoming epidemic at Tulare.
Two years ago the San Berdoon County
Jail held 10 prisoners. Now there are but
four
new La France steam fire-engine has
been added to the Stockton Fire Depart
ment.
mill tank at Sanger collapsed last
Wednesday and 10000 gallons of water went
to waste.
David Oliver of Sawmill Flat, Tuolumne,
County. struck ap0cket recently that panned
out $1,000.
The Oregon State Fair closed at Salem on
Saturday. The weeks events were very
satisfactory.
Israel Cook fell into a well on Smith,
Ranch. Tice Valley, Contra Costa Comfy,
last Thursday and was killed.
The Phoenix Herald says 5000 acres will
be planted to oranges in the Salt River and
ella valleys this fail and winter.
The Cotton Chronicle suggests that the
| next organization of cranks be called the
National Belly-ache Association.
The nominee of the Prohibition party for
Recorder of San Bernard no County is A.
c. GoodykoontZ. He comes from Riverside
The cook of the leading club at Spokane
Falls was employed as chef by President
Cleveland while lie was in the White House.
a French prune orchard near Selma is
turning off immensely this year. The
| owner thinks it will yield him $500 per
acre.
The Ventura Free Press has standing
ad. for the delivery at its office of from one
to twelve rattesnakes. They must be in
good condition.
Farmer Cogswell of Pomona has waged a
successful warfare against coyotes recently.
He uses steel traps ana has captlred forty
full grown animals.
A man named Holman disappeared from
Durham recently. His dead body was
| found near the banks of the Sacramento
Riveron Saturday morning by some hunters.
The Santa Paula Chronicle says the bean
| crop of Ventura is very light this year, not
| One-half as good as that of last season. The
price, however, Is good, cents a pound
for delivery.
The MADEIRA Mercury says that Colusa
man named Reid has bought 1900 acres of
| land from the Nevada Bank six miles west
of Berenda, which will be cut up into
| small farms.
One hill of Egyptian corn was pulled re-
Gently near Chico that had five stalks u feet
| high. They were planted three months ago
| and received no water or cultivation, says
| the Champion.
One of the tents used by the United States
| Geological Survey party took fire on the
| night of September 10th at Nampa, Idaho,
| and was destroyed, with $500 worth of in
| struments and supplies.
Says the Lassen Advocate: Susanville is
| about the only town of any Importance in
the country in which the star-spangled ban
ner does not wave above the school-house.
A little more patriotism, please.
! An Internal machine was sent in the
mailbag from Truckee to Texas. While
| the clerks were taking lunch at Humboldt,
New, on Saturday, it exploded and de-
| stroyed one package Of letters. No one was
| injured.
The ostrich farm at Oceauside was raided
recently by California lion. He got into
the pen where sixteen ostriches were kept
| ana scattered them right and left The men
in charge secured the country and secured
all but one, which is still at large. The
| oStrlches were valued at $1,000 each.
The Santa Barbara Press says: The first
carload of the new bean crop was shipped
from Satlcoy few days ago. and some
beans have been shipped from Carpinteria
Wharf to Redond0. The crop this year
Will probably aggregate 1900 carloads, and
prices have ranged from x to cents per
pound.
An attempt to rob a chcken-house at
Fresno was made the other night by tramp,
but the owner, plucky woman, was On
hand with shotgun. She pulled the trigger
and the tramp had to be taken care of by a
doctor. BY the time he was through he ex-
tracted 156 shot from the back aud less Of
the intruder.
The MaripOsa Gazette notices the fact, dis
| covered in printing the great register, that
some Of the voters are dropping from five TO
ten years from their ages. 1t is a very shall
low device and has about the same force as
the hiding act OF the young quail. Sometimes
it is even carried to the painful extreme OF
| chseling it into the record OF monumental
ones are frequently shocked by this indelble
| preparation of a stale joke.
The Sonora Banner says: John Pereira
OF jamestown, as an experiment this season,
scattered rice over small piece of his land
| and as result now has, considering the
amount of ground put In go feet sauare),
| heavy crop of rice. The straw stands about
| five feet high topped with heads of large and
| well filed kernels. Mr. Pereira estimates
| land of several sacks. What is there that
| is good that the soil and climate of Tuol-
umne will not produce.
The Victoria (B. c. Times says: There
is great Indignation in Vancouver. A
| pamphlet was prepared which was in
| tended for general circulation abroad
in the interest of immigration. The PAM
| phlet protested to be an accurate description
| Of the province. and, strange TO say. the
| city OF Vancouver was not mentioned at
| all. excepting in the index-a fnger-po
affair is that the City Council OF Vancouver
| paid 5000 to assist In the publication.