The morning call., 1890-06-18
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States ant
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
There is no truth in the report OF the failure OF
the bauK at Blaine, Wash.
Boise City is to have new paper, the Sun,
which I. N. Smith will edit.
MIR. Tack wants to be County Treasurer OF Del
NOrte for the next four years.
Tie City Trustees OF Sacramento have revoked
the licenses OF a number of dives.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says $1,000 is due the
city for licenses by whisky dealers.
Nineteen carloads OF beef cattle left Santa
Barbara for Portland, Oregon, last Friday.
Henry Bebee, a switchman at Fresno, fell
under train Of cars on Saturday night and was
Killed.
Sixteen canneries are at work on the lower
Columbia River and the. salmon are running
freely.
The Baptist Church Society at Phoenix, Arz,
raised 1910 recently and paid on tie debt on
their property.
A syndicate OF ST. Louis has given oruers TO
put w twenty stamp mill on their property at
Banner, San Diego County.
A fine nugget worth $500 was taken from
claim two miles east OF Shasta recently. Tho
diggiDgs are said TO be very rich.
Chief Justice Gooding OF Arizona will not nat
uraliZe any one who does not understand the
Constitution OF the United States
John West is visiting Fresno TO get points on
a system of irrigation for British Columbia. He
is sent by the Colonial Government.
For the first time In its history the Oregon
Medical Society In session at Portland has a
NOHldn 10 u lbCulUois pidCtlCto III Astoria.
r. H. Welburne, wealthy farmer OF MarpOSa
County, killed himself with laudanum last Sun
day. He was ~ years old aud had been Ill for
long time.
The business men of San Jose have decided to
contest the legality OF the sidewalk ordinance
that prohibits them from showing their goods and
wares on the Streets
The Tuscarora Times-Reyiew SAYS: The
breeZes In this valley just now are heavily laden
with the perfume of Wild flowers. except where
the perfume oil dead carcass proves too strong.
James PhaIr OF Goldstream, B. C., got tired of
losing bis sheep by Wild animals, so he took his
gun last Saturday and went on q hunt He was
rewarded III few hours by killing a panther
feet long.
rough on troops TO be transferred at this season
OF the year from the State OF Washington TO
Arizona. 1t is something like walking out OF
refrigerator into an oven.
A fierce fire started In a grain field four miles
southeast OF MERGED on Monday afternoon and
swept over $4,000 acres of grain and grass land
before IL could be checked at the railroad tank
near Athlone. The loss was S25, 900.
The AbuQuei que Democrat SAYS: Eighteen
indictments under The Edmunds law Is a portion
of the work Of the Grand Jury. The lightning
Is alleged 10 have struck IN places outside OF the
unhOly precincts OF Garcia'S acre Of hell.
Work on the ella Bend Canal, Arizona, is going
forward with all possible dispatch. The ditch will
be seventy miles long by forty feet wide and
twelve feet deep. When full OF water il will ir-
rigate 10000 acres OF superior fruit land.
Elko County cattlemen returning from rodeos
report ll1dt where IN former years 400 calves
would have been branded only about fifty were
found. Stockmen hope that there will be
better showing on the ranges further south.
William j. Cook, engineer of the Montana
Union Railroad, was Instantly killed near Silver
Bow junction by the breaking OF a connecting
ROD. piece crashed through the cab and
struck tue unfortunate man. His body was
thrown 100 feet from the engine.
Albert Moran has been charged with the MUIR
der OF Fred BIumbardt by Coroner's jury The
deed was committed In the woods of Santa Cruz
last Sunday IN a wood choppers camp. At first
accounts the victim was shot, but it now seems
lie was beaten to death with a club Or some blunt
Instrument
llneman who recently completed tour OF
inspection Of the telegraph wires between here
and Austin, says the Virginia Chronicle reports
that In low place where the water settles In
pools through the winter along the route he
noticed six telegraph poles that had evidently
taken root, as they were covered with foliage.
The poles are cottonwood, aud were planted with
bark on them.
The Mott Starr learns from good authority thai
the firm Of Sisson e. Crocker have entered into A
contract with The railroad company by which
they VIII mOnopolZe all the wood contracts al
reduced prices for three years, and the company
are bound by the contract not to receive any
wood from other contractors on the line OF the
railroad between Dunsmutr aud Edgewo0d. The
above named firm must employ Chinese cleap
labor TO carry out their contract