The morning call., 1890-08-13
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
The Colusa Herald was FIVE years old last
Friday.
The letter-carriers of Fresno make their
rounds on bicycles.
A street-car line will soon be running
from Paso Robes to the mud baths.
A hammerhead shark, that weighed $50
pounds, was caught at Red0ndo Beach the
other day.
W. f. Camp, an old miner, fell into
shaft at Silver City, Idaho, last Friday, and
was drowned.
The Humboldt Mail has been changed
from a weekly to daily. Eureka now has
three daily newspapers.
G. w. Craig, editor of the 1nyo Index,
has been appointed register of the Land
Office at Independence.
The raisin crop of San Diego County is
estimated at 100000 boxes, Of which CajOn
Valley will furnish 200, 000
A stock company has been formed at
Fresno to build wagon road to Pine
Ridge. 1t will cost $4,000.
Only seven pieces of real estate were sold
in Stockton this year for non-payment Of
taxes. This is the smallest number on
record.
A deed was filed for record at Fresno re-
veyed land to San Francisco capitalists for
$4,000.
The Hanford Sentinel says the Chinese
laborers have formed a union, and refuse 10
work short of 81 90 day in orchards or
vineyards.
The 13-inch telescope that has been used
at Mount Wilson for several months has
been taken down by orders from Harvard
University, and will be shipped TO South
America.
Chinese farmers along the Feather River
in Butte County have shipped $4,000
pounds Of potatoes to Portland, Oregon,
and Chicago, Ills, recently, says the Grid
ley Herald.
a boy named Clark was robbing vine
yard near Willows on Friday night when
he was peppered with buckshot by the son
of w. ID. Davis, who rents the property.
Clark was dangerously wounded.
The Gridley Herald says: Congressman
Biggs has decided to have the competitive
examination of applicants for appointment
to the cadetship at West Point held in
Stockton on Wednesday, September 24th.
Some months ago lumberman named
Thomas Ryan had leg Injured by an ac-
cident in the woods near Greenwood, Men
doein0 County. Amputation was neces-
sary at once, and on July 4th the unfortu-
nate man was submitted to third opera
ton.
A. j. Raglan. at Nevada City, catches liz
ards with a hook baited with flies. He
throws his line on the rocks and the little
reptiles eagerly spring for the fly He pre-
sents the lizards thus captured, the Herald
says. to ''city girls who have never seen q
lizard"
The bridge builders on the Pajaro Valley
Railroad had deal Of trouble with slough
near WatsOnyille They could not find bot
tom with 60-foot piles so they were forced
to splice piles OF eighty feet When solid
ground was reached it was fifty-seyen feet
below sea-level.
A jam of logs on the Dungeness River,
Washington, has backed up body of water
= miles long by 2 miles wide. The people
living miles below the boom are in great
danger OF being swept away and their prop
erty ruined. When the break does come
they say it will be another youngstown affair.
Mrs. Polly Downey lives at Thermal,
Fresno County. Although 10 years of age,
she is good worker, says the Republican.
She acts as postmaster, has cut and piled
forty-one cords OF st0vewood, cut the wood
and tended a coal-pit that paid her $500, has
crocheted three bed-spreads, niilks daily
two cows, feeds a lot Of poultry and takes
care of seyenty-five hogs.
: 1t seems to be a popularity of the State
of Washington" says the Aberdeen Her
aid, THAT as soon as land begins to grow
valuable the school sections in the vicinity
begin to grow rich in mineral resources.
Plainly, it looks as if the filings were an
attempt to defraud the State and the filers
of mineral claims should be closely watched
by all who have the interest of the school
fund at heart"
G. W. Giffen of Truckee makes the fol-
lowing unique political announcement: Il
am Dependent candidate for the office of
Road Overseer in and for District No. o.
dependent upon the voters of said district.
| am prominently sound upon all the lead
ing questions, from the tariff all the way
down to who struck Billy Patterson
and if elected will do my duty, and if de-
feated will submit without kicking"
girdled 400 seven-year-old pear trees ON the
ranch OF Charles Rogers this season. This
attack discloses new enemy. The ground,
however, had not been plowed, which ac-
counts for the attack of the pests. Heroic
efforts will be made to save the trees by
applying grating wax over the girdled part
with the hope that the circulation will be
restored and a new bark grow.
The King City Settler says: p. ThOmp-
son of Pine Canyon cut bee tree last
week. In taking out the honey he found
several hawks eggs Incorporated in diff
built around the eggs in such a manner as
to leave them in the center. Evidently
there had been contest as to the right of
possession between bird and insect, and the
latter had settled the case without recourse
to the courts
Says the Grass Valley Tidings: Ayoung
man who Is engaged In river mining in the
Yuba, working with u rocker, has averaged
Sc So in gold per day. A expert Indian,
also with rocker, has taken out as high as
SIG day. Next summer will see very
active work in TINS line, and some big
clean-ups will be heard of. The amount of
gold in the Yuba and its tributaries, washed
down from the hydraulic mines, cannot be
estimated, but it is known to be very large,
A ranchman living on the Satsop missed
three head OF cattle last week, says the
Elma Chronicle. and noticing a congrega-
ton of buzzards short distance away
proceeded TO make an investigation and
found all three of the animals lying dead,
their bones all broken, their horns Knocked
off, scarcely any hair left on them and the
ground around them all torn up with elk
tracks. Apparently band of elk had
come up and attacked them in an opening
and hooked and butted them down and
paved and stamped them to death.
Hia Pnrenfs Want Him,