The morning call., 1890-09-29
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Psc fio States and Te
ritories.

BrIef Notes From Fac nc states and Ter
ritories.
James O'Rourke was sent to State Prison
for two years for breaking open a safe in
MERGED.
Bakersfield has a new paper, the Kern
Valley Democrat, managed by E. A.
Tueschel.
There are $50 school children on the rolls
at Grants Pass, Oregon, and another school
building is needed badly
An agent of lumber syndicate bought
1000 acres Of good timber land in Astoria,
Oregon, last Monday, for Sal ,000.
A formidable gang of burglars was broken
up III Seattle last week by the arrest of five
operators with their entire outfits.
A large bed of coal at Mountaindale,
Nehalem County, Oregon, took fire last
Tuesday, and all efforts to put it cut have
been futile.
Editor Clarke of the Vancouver (B. c.
Telegram was run over by a street-car last
Friday evening and lost one of the toes of
his right foot
The schools in the raisin districts OF San
Diego County have been closed for six
weeks, so as to permit the children TO pick
the grape crops.
At special election in Port Townsend,
Wash. last Saturday to bond the city for
buidin school-hOnses, fifteen women voted
in favor OF the bonds.
A banana tree In Charles Noack's garden,
Sacramento, has large cluster of ripe fruit
The tree was unprotected last winter and
stands now 10 feet high.
A large whale was sporting in the Column
bia River, off Astoria, last Sunday. Tie
Historian says that it is the first time whale
was seen SO far up the river.
The farmers of Browns Valley, Yuba
County, have subscribed $4,000 to build an
irrigatlng ditch sixteen miles long. Water
will be taken from the Feather River.
Some miners near Yakima, Wash, threw
lot of dynamite into field near their
cabin recently. Some cows brOwSed in the
same place. and fifteen died suddenly.
man named Newman disappeared from
Chico in 1889 with $1,000 in his possession.
Last week man named BARTON was
arrested in Orovllle on suspicion Of being
the murderer
A Mexican boy at Ell Cajon, San Diego
County, was bitten on both hands by
rattlesnake while picking grapes the other
day. Prompt attention by physician
saved his life.
A company of surveyors started from
Fresno on Wednesday to lay out new
tlume forty-three miles long that will bring
down lumber from the mountains as well as
water tor irrigatlng purposes.
The owners of the First Thought mine,
Okanogan District, Wash, have just let
contract for driving 650-fooJ DRIFT that will
tap their ledge 800 feet below the surface.
1t will require nine months time to COM
plete the job.
The Stockton Independent says: Gala
veras County has been experiencing quite q
boom in crime recently. Within the past
four weeks a man named Gallagher killed
his wife and himself; Lewis, the proprietor
of the Valley Spring Hotel, was murdered,
an attempt was made to blow up a miners
cabin with dynamite; two stage robberies
have been committed and the Holmes case
is now added 10 the list. Sheriff Thorn is
having busy time.
The Ontario Observer SAYS: J. 3. Ben
son is genius. He is arranging to have
lot paved with bitumeD, after which he will
bore holes through the sheet Of bitumen, in
which he will insert the seeds and plants of
vegetables lie is DESTROYS of growing. By
TINS scheme he says one irrigation will keep
the ground moist all the year. and there will
be no dlrt to contend with. He says it will
be the cleanest garden ever invented, and
one that needs no cultivation
The Portland Oregonian says: Well
borerS near Albany, while driving a well
last week, met with some curious forlna-
tons. Only muddy soil was met fer con-
siderable of distance down and the water
was good for nothing. At fifty-five feet
formation Of wood was struck and pierced,
a peculiar thing for that location. AT sixty
five feet splendid flow of cool water was
found, rising with force to within seventeen
feet OF the top, when it stopped.