The morning call., 1890-07-17
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOries.
The population OF Astoria is 1911.
Salt l. Ike City is troubled with garroters.
The Winlock Pilot was years old on July f.
1890.
Ogden is flooded with counterfeit coin, while
Provo, Utah, Is infested with sneak.thleyes.
Mr.. Richardson was elected principal OF the
San Bernardiuo schools for the seventh time last
week.
More than Sc, 900 sacks of wheat will be raised
this year by farmers Just over The line from San
Diego.
The Supervisors OF Santa Cruz County on
Monday ordered all payments to indigents
stopped.
Mr. Dyer. for some years receiver of the Nor
mon Church property al Salt Lake City, has re-
signed his trust
David Morrison, logger at weidlers Camp,
Oregon, was Instantly killed last Thursday by
The first Jewish OF the season was taken at
Catalina Island on Sunday by fisherman. II
weighed 23S pounds.
a strike of coal-miners at Gallup, N. Mex. has
been started by 200 miners at the Gallup and
Black Diamond mines.
The indianapolis Journal of recent date says
John Bidwel of Chico has more than 100000
acres under cultivation.
A Woodland woman is so fond OF 'cycltng that
she wears her husbands clothes TO take spin
round The streets at night.
The Chamber OF Commerce at Tacoma has
been incorporated, with a capital stock OF S24o,-
o00 divided into 300 shares.
The City Council of San Jose has reported the
ordinance that enabled them TO grant liquor
licenses in secret session.
The Liberals carried three out OF four pre-
cncts at Salt Lake City last Monday, which gives
them control OF the public schools.
The best wheat crops in Utah are raised on the
sand ridges near Utah without irrigation. They
call II dry farniDg and II pays we'll
A man in Phoenix, AriZ., was assessed for
$500 OIL some town lots by the local Assessor.
but The Board Of Equalization reduced the
The deeds filed for record at Salem Oregon,
for the past year cali for payments amounting to
81, $50. 432. This Is nearly double the amount
Of last years records.
Farmer Jones OF Huron, Tulare County, has
harvested 1850 sacks Of wheat from $50 acres.
His next neighbor, Frank Al Mcclellan, gathered
zoos sacks from 16O acres of volunteer.
A Chinese trader OF Lemoore paid $50 an acre
for the grapes from R0bnson's vineyard. Before
be gathered a single box he transferred his con.
tract to a brother Chinese at a profit OF $3.50.
In 1886 James Hervey was permanently In-
jured by an accident III The Alturas mine at Ell
more, Idaho. lie sued the company Tor $4,000
damages, and last week jury awarded him
$4,000.
A new wharf has Besh built at Port Crescent,
3. C., that is 1175 feet long. 1t has two ware
houses with patent slip, and ships drawing
twenty-five feet eau load and discharge carg0es
at any Stage Of tide.
h During the late fire at Delano, Kern County,
poor mule escaped from Cnauyin's barn and ran
half mile TO a ranch, where sparks from It's
DuTulUS ldlT duu UtS0 SET lire 10 Il nedulUb Oulul.
The mule was shot and the flames put out.
The Hanford Sentinel proves that one carload
OF aprcOlS Is worth eight carloads OF wheat
follows: a load OF twenty tons OF wheat at
81 10 per hundred pounds Is worth $40, while
twenty tons OF apricots at 1212 cents IA pound
foot up $4,000. AT these figures apricOls are
worth IL. Il times as much as wheat.
Says the Trlbuue: Two thousand copies OF
Mrs. Stenhouse's great work on Mormonism have
been sold In the last five years by one Salt Lake
firm alone. This means 10000 readers of these
same copies. Mrs. Stenhouse has got nicely even
with the church for all the trouble caused her by
Brother Brigham and the rest OF the gang.
A sad case OF restitution was found In Los
Angeles last Sunday evening. A man Iii with
rheumatism was holding young babe while the
mother was dead III the room. Several children
were wandering about The house aud the family
were very needy. Tie poor woman died early
in the day and no one knew OF the condition OF
the inmates for several hours
Freight by steamer between San Diego and En-.
senada, Lower California, has been raised 81 q
ton, and tie business men OF the latter place are
protesting. They can ship goods from Sau Fran
cisco once month by the Mexican steamers as
cheap rs by the local line, and unless a reduc.
ton is made to the old tariff, SO a ton. they Will
get all goods from San francisco.
About ons year ago Alderman Harrison of
Victoria. b. G., suggested 10 the city that 1t
would be good plan 10 sell the mud flats In
james Bay, or TO fill them In and then sell of the
lots. When he first proposed The plan Mr.. Har-
made many persons think he was wild. Last
Friday, however tie Council received an offer OF
S250,0o0 for the mud-fiats, and now people think
they are worth looN ing after.
District Organizer Cummings of the Inter.
national Union went to Butte, Mont, recently
10 investigate a strike in the office of the Butte
Miner. The printers union demanded that Fore.
man Gawley, Telegraph Editor Hail and Proof.
reader KlOwne be discharged. The proprietor
refused and shut down his paper. After hearing
The case Cummings sustained Mr. Clark, pro-
prletor of the paper, and ordered the priuters to
declare the strike OIL
The Latter-day Saints teach that Moropi
landed Oh the west coast of South America with
the golden plates from Jerusalem; that Joe
Smith, the Yankee peep-stone confidence man, is
a prophet OF Gahd'; that heaven Is made up OF
neutrality-suspicious. piled "Pelion-on- Ossa" like
reached; that the earth rests on the back OF a
sea turtle, and that the ebb and flow OF the tides
is the breathing OF the earth. which Is a living
creature Nice intellectual fodder TO bring chill.
dren up on, says the Salt Lake Tribune.