The morning call., 1890-08-25
COAST ITEMS.
Brier Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

BRIEF Notes From Pacific states and Ter
rItories.
The newsboys of Salt Lake City have or
ganiZed union.
A cannery at Healdsburg is offering SO a
ton for muscat grapes.
Fort Mojave, Ariz., has been finally
abandoned by the United States troops.
Some miscreant poisoned forty hogs that
belonged to Martin Simovich of Poplar,
Fresno County, recently.
Mrs. John Edwards of Visalia plucked
two pippins from one of her trees last
Thursday that weighed forty-six ounces.
Another colony of HOllandeIs will leave
Rotterdam for MERGED on September 18th.
One week later a second lot will take pas
sage.
The San Pete County Register says Tas-
colt, who murdered Smell, the Chicago
banker, has been captured at Ephraim,
Utah.
The steamer Wilmington ran on sand
| spit in San Diego Harbor last Saturday.
She was foated off at high tide without
| damage.
| land eolonists sold his wheat crop last week
| for 500. 1t was raised on forty acres.
| This pays him 10 per cent on his purchase
money for the first season.
Farmer Cross of Santa Rosa turned val
| liable mare into field last Thursday in
which was pastured Durham bull The
| animals got into fight and the mare was
| killed. She was worth $500.
Heavy transforms last week in New Mex
| leo caused serious damage to the Atlantic
| aud Pacific Railroad tracks. Three pas
senger trains for California were delayed
| until the tracks could be replaced
The MADEIRA Mercury says: Fresno County
viOeyardists ought 20 grow wealthy this
year. The grape crop is large and prospec-
tive raisins are in demand at from ~ to 6
| cents per pound in the sweatbox.
The Democratic County Convention at
Whatcom, Wash. has instructed its
delegates to insist upon the exclusion of
Chinese and to elect the President and SEN
ators by direct votes OF the people.
Andrew Androyich has been arrested by
Sheriff Thorn of Calaveras County on sus-
picion of being the person who blew up a
miners cabin at Angels recently with dyna-
mite Several persons we're in the cabin,
and one was badly injured.
The Point Arena Record says: The
steam schooner Albion of San Francisco is
now and has been for the past week en-
gagged in dredging for the boilers and other
irons of the ship Fidelter which was
wrecked off the rocks just above the wharf
at Cuffeys Cove about fifteen years ago.
The Stanislaus News says: On Tuesday
last petition containing 120 signatures of
taxnayers and voters of the Turlock irriga-
ton district was presented to the Board of
directors requesting that in all contracts to
he let hereafter that they insert clause
against the employment of Chinese by the
contractors.
Over in Lassen County the Directors of
the Fair have neglected to offer prize for
the best ice-cream, and the Lassen Advo-
cate comes to the front and offers prize of
e. for the best half-gallon of ice-cream
brought to the office between the 1st of
August and the 30th of September. The
printers in the Office are to be the judges.
Saws the Inyo Index: Whisky soaked In
dams are again the cause of alarm at
Eishop. and the citizens, despairing OF pro-
teetion by the law, give notice that they
have taken the matter into their own hands.
These periodical bluffs do little good, but a
whipping post and tar-and- feathers might
accomplish something in the right direction.