The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-06
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The brick-layers Of Fresno have gone on
q strike. =
The Fresno Expositor says there are 3d.
600 acres planted to vines in that county.
The receipts of the Oregon State Fair at
Salem last week amounted to S29,906 s..
Typhoid fever is reported to be very
prevalent among the railroad graders near
AnacorteS, Wash.
Eighteen horses had to been killed in
Monterey County recently to prevent the
spreading of CHAMBERS.
Some parties want to start distillery at
Baker City, Oregon, provided they are given
twenty-five acres of land
The Tacoma Smelling Company offers 81
a ton for old tin cans and the small boy Is
now reaping rich harvest.
The new pumping plant for the Portland
City Water Works lifts daily ten million
gallons into the reservoir at Palestine Hill.
Domenico Cecilia. the murderer OF jose
Debates at Port Townsend, has been SEN
fenced to death by hanging on December
10Th.
William Martin leased small fruit ranch
of fifteen acres near GeySeryllle, SonOma
County, last year, and has sold the peach
crop for S6000
injured on Tuesday by being kicked by
vicious horse. He lives at Green Valley,
Sonoma County.
The San Jose Times has passed into the
hands of syndicate comprising A. Il. FL
lis, G. A. Muirson, c. I. Early, c. A. Gage
and Z. b. Wishaar.
The sch ooner Minnie reached Victoria,
B. c., last Tuesday with cargo of 25Si
SealSkins, taken in BehriDg Sea. This is
the largest catch of the year.
A large warehouse near Alyiso. owned
by Robert MeCuffin, was burned down Fri-
day night. Loss on hay stored by farmers.
on the Murphy ranch was $4,000.
The Republicans of Idaho elected every
State officer and forty-three members of the
Legislature. The Statesman says this in
SureS the election of Dubois as United States
Senator.
John Anderson, brakeman, who was
shot at MADEIRA and narrowly ESCAPED death
at the hands of Percy Douglass. has just
married an Oakland girl worth S1C0.OO0.
The affair created quite sensation.
The Mendocino Dispatch and Democrat
says two months ago an expert and gang
OF lahorerS were sent to the west side of
Round Valley to explore for coal. They
sank two shafts and found fine deposit.
Oroylle "White Caps" have been sending
notice TO the bad little boys of the town to
keep off the streets after dark. III they are
caught out at night they will be threShed
home. The notices have been very effective.
William Matthews was nominated for Su-~
perior Judge of Santa Clara County by the
Democrats, but the gentleman has Declined
the honor, as he is not an elector of that
county. He said, however, that he was. ARK
iouS to accept the nomination.
The Porterville Enterprise says: H. c.
Tut, who farms fye-acre tract on the
northeast corner of Pepper street, has
Indian corn growing to the enormous helght
of eighteen feet, and unmatured pumpkins
when tip the scales at 200 pounds.
Seneca Jones, pastor of the NJ. E. Church +.
at Woodland, is practical mechanic. For
six years he has been at work building a
pipe-organ. which Will be put up IN his
church in few weeks. 1t cuyers Il floor
area of $50 square feet and Will contain 1000
pipes.
The WatsonYille Pajaronian says: The
Democracy of this county find it difficult
matter TO keep full ticket in the field w.
L. kearney, their latest nominee for School
Superintendent, declines the nomination,
and Tom Wright is on record as saying that
he would not run against L. ID. Perry tor
Surveyor.
Society item from the Cotton Chronicle:
Quite number of bewitchlng Yuma bellies
visited Cotton this week. Among them were
Fawu-footed Mamie, Colorado Kate and
Bette Spreadngtoes. They were escorted
by Eatemraw jim, Cowcatchem Aleck and
Shaeknasty Bill. They were very much adj
mired-at Il distance.
The Portland OregOnian says: Indians
cannot have whisky under the Jaw, even for
medicine. w. II. Mcbride, a druggist Of
Adams, Umatilla County, sold liquor to-
Indians ON prescription. The United
States District Attorney holds that the law
has been violated and Mr.. Mcbride will
accordingly pay visit to Judge Deadly.
The Historian tells this story: About a
quarter of century ago, when Charles NJ
Winant, now City Marshal of Newporti was
a small boy, he was sitting one day on his
fathers knee in their house at BRIDGEPORT,
Wash. John B. Rose, now under sentence
of death in Pacific County, WASH, had
grudge against Mr.. Jed Winant at that time
and fired through the window of the house
at Mr.. Winant and his son while they were
sitting as described above. Fortunately the
bullet missed its mark and neither the father
nor the son were injured, but the would-be-
murderer of a quarter of q century age. now ).
awaits the hangman's moose for his partlclpa-
ton In a crime, which was not merely an at
tempt, but resulted in the murder OF two in
offensive people.