The morning call., 1890-07-21
COAST ITEMS.

ritories.
The cannery at Cotton gives employment to
800 wOrkmen.
The people OF Hanf0rd are happy al owning
new railroad de oil.
The strike of the coal miners at Gallup, N
Mex, has been settled by arbitration.
Thomas Wellmoutb, logger. was killed at
joys Mill, near Headsburg, on FRIDAY.
Red Bluff seems 10 be narboring tire-bugs, as
two fires were started IN one day recently.
Genoa, New, is now supplied with wood and
water by new V hume, three miles long.
George Reeves OF Lemoore SOLD nine carloads
OF pears last week TO Boston fIuit-dealer.
Washoe County, New, Is the only one that has
gained III population since the census OF 1880.
Owing to the high price of quicksilver. some of
the old mines In Napa County are TO be reopened.
The Oregonlan says one result OF he failure Of
the rice crop in Japan has been TO call for heavy
shipments OF Oregon Hour.
TN ee year.old girl named Watt fell into a
tub of scaldlng hot water al Salem Oregon, last
Wednesday and was Killed.
james Doherty, a prominent contractor OF
Phoenix, AriZ., was shot dead by his son Will
lam on Friday. While gambling.
Miner McLain went hunting near olympia,
Wash, on Friday morning. In few hours h g
shot Two latge cougars and Captured lively cub
Chief Homiy of the Umalilla Reservation
traded off seven cayuSe ponies recently Tor new
wife. Homilys harem now CONTAINS three
" klootebmen."
The S attic Morning Journal has been sold by
Painter Jingle 10 some newspaper men OF st:
VIII be independent in politics.
The people of Snohomish Wash, have 4
policeman that they brag of. He stands 7 feet in
lie air. weighs $50 pounds III his stockings, and
Can do 100 yards In / $4 seconds.
People in Crook County, Oregon. who eat fruit
must have far bank accounts, as peaches sell fer
20 ceuts pound and cherries are stllf AZ 20
cents pound, Or three cherries for nickel
SAYS the Phoebe Record; The Italians who
have coal cont acts on hand ind II difficult To
get men 10 do The necessary work. Efforts 10
. htFfN man fFnn far Had
TO be had there.
The piles that support the Northern Pacific
Railroads coabunkers at various ports of Puget
Sound are so badly eaten into by tefedos that
they VIII have to be taken out aud replaced with
solid foundations.
The Comstock Tunnel Company has sued the
Grown Point Mining Contrary at Virginia CITY,
New. 10 recover S92 IA Is, claimed 10 he due
on royalty on ore extracted under contracts with
the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Jesse ID. Carr has been robbed recently of $50
head OF horses from his range Ia klamath
County, Oregon. The stockmen are thoroughly
aroused ami the first thief Caught Will be gwen
but short time TO say his prayers.
For some weeks the stocksen OF Cherry Creek,
Klamath County, Oregon, have been troubled
with losing cattle and horses by panther. Rob
eft Dodson struck Its trail last Monday and soon
had tile " varmints" scalp rs a trophy.
jerry" the pioneer horse of Santa Cruz,
dropped dead last Friday at the brewery. He
crossed the plains in 1916, and since 1S49 was
well-known character OF The Surf City. jerry
stale beer.
Only Two barrels Of lime could be bought in
Salem, Oregon. last Wednesday,. ana things
look ed sQuaily for contractors on buildings. \
small steamer arrived that night with enough to
kee at work until further supply could be
ordered by telegraph.
The famous bridge case at Glen Ellen, sonoma
County, has been settled by decision Of Judge
DOugheriy that the Supervisors had power TO
contract for The bridge without advertising for
bids. The bill ordered paid and the CON
ssi Af no
city to the county
Says the Cotton Chronicle: II you can miss
the rattlesnakes, the led ants tie lizards, ETC.,
the mountain canyons Will repay visit. The
foliage is most abundant, rendering the always
picturesque scenery much more pleasing and the
air Is declOusly cool. But look cut for lie draw
backs above enumerated.
County Surveyor Mcmahon, OF Martinez went
TO Torney's ranch last Tuesday to run some
lines. He was arranging his the0dolite when
young COW charged him. Mcmahon SIX pped for
fence and managed o clear IT before The cows
horns caught him. She then attacked the theod-
ollie, stamped 1t ought OF shape and lodged the
wreck in the branch es of a small oak.
The San Diego Sun says: During the absence
of L. NJ. Holt IN Europe the San Berna:dino
Times Index Company got together and Issued
the 1900 shares OF stock remaining within their
limit, thus putting MIR. Holt In a minority and
enabling the company to elect new President
and editor In his place. MI Holt, who has just
arrived out, has not been heard from, but on Ills
return 1t seems likely that some novel law points
will be raised.
The Los Angeles Express says: Owing to the
difficulty OF drying tile large crop OF aprlcots now
ripening in the moist climate of Ventura County
the growers there have arranged to have tie
fruit picked and hauled In carload lots to New
hall, where hundreds OF the Ventura people are
engaged in cutting aud drying the fruit, camping
out meanwhile with their families Acres OF ths
ground near the Newhall station are covered
with The trays filled with the drying fruit.
The Porteivle Tidings says Louis FIory's
orchard on The Fine di eli. opposite Jacob HAYES
place, about six miles below rortervlle, Is dying
from white scale Mr.. Z. Sway says that the
scale from dying and dead trees seem TO dlffuse
themselves through the atmosphere to other or
chards. II would seem as though our County
Board Of Inspectors should give such cases
speedy attention, and probably they will when
the facts are presented to them by the parties in-
terested.
r. Olcott tells the East Oregonian that four
fine gray horses, three of which belonged to him
and one to George O,cott, were killed by light
ming Ia recent electric storm on Stanley Creek
The band, twenty-five in number had evidently
been buddled together when the bolt descended
and the four were laid low. They were found
lying side by side, so that they could have been
covered by blanket, and an evidence of the
queer pranks played by lightning, all four had
been dlsembowed In the same place, the entralls
being scattered about near the scene.