The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-07
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
A $4,000 jOss-house was dedica ed in San
Jose Chinatown on Sunday.
Lots of people in and around Gait are
shaken up with chills and fever.
Three rustlers of Moscow, Idaho, sold
$4,000 worth of town lots last week.
The Wheatand Water Company has
levied its seventh assessment of So share
Morrill, Wilton, well-known citizen of
Dutch Flat, dropped dead on Sunday morn-
ing.
Tom Barry of Montana sold 10000 sheep
last week to an Eastern buyer for $4,000
cash.
W. d. Young has started new Demo-
cratic paper at HOLSTER called tho Hes
perlon.
A rock breaker was hauled to the Amador
Mine last week from Stockton. 1t weighed
seven tons.
Mrs. Amanda Branhorn died at San Jose
on Sunday, aged 76 years. She had lived
there since 1876.
The population of Seattle, Wash, is 49,
$40, according to the final returns Of four
teen census enumeratOrs.
The average consumption of coal day on
the Canadian Pacific steamers to and from
Japan is only tifty-six tons.
Seattle girl fell from the third-stOry
window to the sidewalk last Monday morn
ing, and she went to dance the same even
ing.
A Wheatland man sued another for St
last week, and when the trial was over he
was defeated and had bill for $50 costs to
pay.
Clyde Richardson, aged IL, was thrown
from wagon near Santa Rosa a few DAYS
age. Lockjaw set sin and he was buried
last Friday.
a mortgage for $4,000 was filed for record
at Eureka, Humboldt, last Thursday. 1t
was fOr three with intaraSt af
cent a month.
The Coast Advocate says the beach at
Halfmoon Bay Is equal to that at Coro-
nado. II is clean, wide and hard anu af-
lords fine drive of six miles
The Vallejo Chronicle says: The home
bound pennant of the Marion that floats
from the masthead is 40 feet long 1t is
made of silk that was paid for by the crew.
Frederick Hoyt and George Stowe have
been convicted of murder in Tacoma,
Their victim was George Crosby, who was
waylaid and shot in the street in October.
1889
The rise and fall Of the tides at the head
OF the Gulf Of California is fourteen feet,
according to measurements taken by En-
glneer Stanton Of the Denver and Colorado
Canyon Railroad Company.
The annual meeting Of the Canadian Pa
c ec, haIiroad Company Will be held at Mem
treal on May 14th Among other impor-
tant measures to be proposed will be one
ior purchasing ocean steamships.
The Gait Gazette says: The poultry
raisers in the vicinity of Clay are having
good luck SO far this season with their
young turkeys, and thousands of the little
ones are being Matched out daily
A number OF good people in the Garden
City have been swindled recently by ag.n
teel-iookin2 Engllshman. He was arreste
In Dan FRANCISCO Saturday ana taken back
TO confront long line of victims
for fha mir Esl.
River got their setback from the non-union
crews. they went to see Governor Pennoyer
to get him to call out the militia. Hs re-
fused to treat with the union men.
C. s. Finlas0n of Victoria, b. c.. has re-
signed from the Customs Service after
of Sir Allen McNabs party who routed the
rebels Of the Mackenzie Rebellion near 10.
ronto, Canada, in 1887.
A Government Inspector Of Light houses
has just returned to Victoria, b. G. He
says the Indians at Housat have secured
lot Oh lumber and wreckage from the bark
Nelly May and are building village with
the lumber. They report finding no trocas
Of any of the Inflated crew. 'i"'''
The Wheatland Four Corners sounds tho
following warning: If there be any cred
itors Of the retiring Board of Town TTustaes
and they have an eye to business thav s vili
be present when the gentlemen are paid off
ana attach their salaries. Thar nav
amounts to the enormous sum of 81.
Two savage bulls owned by Mr. Varnev
and Mrs. Cassidy OF Truckee got into a
fight last Saturday morning in the Cassidv
yard. While they were Struggling with
locked horns, they stepped on The cevering
OF an old we'll, aud both fell into the water
1t took hours to haul them out. when Var
ney's pet was K, but Mrs Cassidv's hast
was dead. oo"''
The Vancouver News Advertiser of Anri,
oOth says: a new mining company. com
posed Of English and American canItaIists
and several residents of Vanconver has
made arrangements to mine on Siwash
Creek. They have purchased from the 81.
wash Bedrock Flume Company the right
to mine for six miles along the creek An
experienced engineer made a careful ex-
animation of the ground and found that II
was very rich. ~
In surveying the Grand Canyon of thu FOL.
orado for railroad Engineer Stanton and
party ran a line across a natural bench of
white marble that extends twenty miles
down the canyon. 1t is wide enough for a
four-track road. and is at the average height
Of eighty feet above the river. Mr. Stanton
says there is gold enough In the placers to
more than pay for building the road fro m
Denver to the Pacific Ocean, while in the
Gunnison region there is more good anthra-
cite coal than there is in the whole State of
Pennsylvania.