The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-19
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Te,

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
B. F. Howe, fruit-dealer of Tacoma,
blew his brains out on Tuesday.
The Indians of Nevada are getting rich
by catching trout in Pyramid Lake.
Company G, Washington National Guard,
at Spokane Falls. Will soon disband.
boy named Downer was killed by his
own shotgun at Spokane Falls on Tuesday.
Tacoma people are importing hay from
California, to keep their stock from starv-
ing.
Among the importadons to Los Angeles
this season were 10000 orange trees from
Cuba.
A human foot was picked up in the streets
of Chico on Tuesday, and caused intense
excitement.
a grasshopper plague is feared in the
Ashcroft and Cache Creek districts Of Brit
ish Columbia.
The woolen-mills at Ashland, Oregon
Will be started up soon, after being idle
since last fall
The Dante Benevolent Society of Con-
cord, Contra Costa County, expended 5000
IN charity last winter.
a young daughter of Mrs. Benny fell into
we'll at East Wellington b. c., last Thurs
day and was drowned
One Of the Carson City gardeners uses a
fork to pick his green onions, radishes and
iObtuIS piduto lOl maj htt
All the miners at the Roslyn coal mines,
Wash, have signed contracts for another
year at satisfactory rates.
Angus Mcintyre, miner of Cherokee,
Butte County, fell into the Feather River
last Tuesday aud was drowned.
Vallejo boy was arrested on Tuesday
for smuggling liquor on board the Marion.
he had sold ten bottles before his arrest.
Mrs Beckwith of Milton, Cal, was
thrown from her hnppv IN Tuasda,r ar5
received dangerous injury. Her infant was
killed.
Two large lumber-milIs at Anacortes,
Oregon, are kept running day and night to
NIL orders from the railroads for bridge
timber.
Milton Dow, of Chilli. N. NJ, went to
Albuquerque last Wednesday to collect cash
for twenty-une tons of pine nuts that he
sold to one firm.
The salaries of employees at the Nevada
State Insane Asylum have been reduced so
as to keep the concern from running behind
the appropriation.
The Sisson Lumber Mill has a steam
whistle fourteen inches in diameter. 1t
can be heard fifty miles when sounded with
100 pounds of steam.
The Salt Lake Herald says one marked
result of Mormon rule is that that city of
$4,000 had no debt, and the smallest tax rate
Of any city in the United States-5 mills q
year.
Philip Erich of Pomona has been granted
pension of SS a month, which with bacl,
pay amounts to S2l40. He was shot at
Gainesville ard still carries the bullet in
his shoulder.
James Mountner, of the OMAHA mine.
Grass Valley, was saving through log the
other day that was thirteen inches through,
In the center was large frog, that was cut
in two pieces.
The English bark Hannah Landles, that
went ashore on the beach near Point Will
son,. Puget Sound, last Saturday, was
worked off by her crew without trouble at
the next high tide.
Sangas, eighty miles, three counties are
trayersed - Santa Barbara, Ventura and
Los Angeles; but no tenderfoot can get any
idea of the size of those counties.
The Kitsap County Pioneer says: Two
lots in Sydney are now a legal tender.
They are SO plentiful that the citizens trade
them around, swap off few for steak,
and find them handy in making change.
The Virginia Chronicle says: A measure
ment of the water-fow of the Carson River
by United States engineer corps officers
shows volume OF 250S cubic feet equal to
$4,000 miners inches) at Rodenhaf's, and
$4,000 at Woodford's.
The Trustees of Pacific Grove, Monterey
County, found that peddlers were selling
whisky from their wagons, and raised the
Incense TO 500 quarter. Outside hack
men will have to keep away from the
Grove in future or pay $50 quarter.
George Graham, aged IL years, is acting
as first mate on the schooner Juno, that
trades between Scottsburgh. on the Umpoua
River, and Coos Bay. He is a frst-class
navigator, and will have charge of a full
rugged ship some day. The Oregon States
man says George is the youngest mate in
the country.
Last Sunday morning two elephants of
circus were being driven on board a steamer
at Seattle, Wash, for trip to Ferndale,
when they refused to step on the gang
plank, and both made break up street.
The largest, named Queen, was pursued by