The morning call., 1890-04-02
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific Coast States and
Territories.

Brtef Notes From Pacific Coast States and
Territories.
Epicures at Victoria, B. c., can eat as
paragus if they pay 40 cents pound.
There are 176 inmates at the Reno Insane
Asylum, the largest number ON record.
The Democrats of San Jose will meet for
nominating city officers next Friday even
ing.
The Cheyenne Indians on the Roseburg
Reservation, Montana, will raise 40,0
bushels of wheat this season.
The steamer City of Kingston on Puget
Sound ran 40 miles in hour and 20 minutes
on a trial trip last Thursday.
The first jury of colored men ever drawn
in Fresno tried a case last Saturday and
promptly acquitted the prisoner.
An infant girl of James Mcconnell fell
into tub OF water at Mount Pleasant, i.
c., last Thursday, and was drowned.
The Tuare Register takes no stock in the
new railroad from Stockton to Visalia until
the road-bed is graded and the rails laid.
II. +. Lockman was killed on b is farm
near Highland, San Bernardino County,
last Friday, by a kick from yiclou horse.
Within two weeks the corner occupied by
the Salt Lake Herald office was the scene of
a double murder, big fire and monkey
show.
The only sugar maple tree in Oregon is
owned by Captain j. G. Hustler of Astoria
1t was tapped last Wednesday. when the
sap flowed freely.
The Victoria (B. CT Customs Inspector
''cabbaged" some plans for new hotel that
came from San Francisco ana the builder
had to pay SO duty on them.
The fruit-growers of HaywardS, Alameda
County, have decided to organize COM
pany for building a fruit-drier large enough
to handle the whole of this years crops.
A cedar stump stands on w. S. Clay's
farm near Snohomish City, Oregon, that
mo twenty feat in niompfar phn-
tograph was taken OF it with thirty men
and five horses standing abreast.
The Denver News says: The Edmunds
law bearing upon pOlygamy and adultery is
being enforced in New Mexico. Four in
dictnents procured under this law are now
pending in the courts of Santa Ana County.
An pratOrical contest will take place at
Whittier on April 7th between representa-
tives from Downey, AItesia, Santa Fe
Springs, Norfolk and Whittier. The judges
will be Hon. r. +. Del Vale, Hon. Ii. L.
Hazard and Hon NJ. T. Owens
The San Benito Advance vouches for the
truth of the following: Thomas O'Connell's
fast-tTottipg mare "Nelle' treated him to
surprise at his Fairvew ranch Friday.
The animal gave birth to two colts, one of
which was mule, the other a natural born
| trotter.
The Angels Echo says there are two more
| bodies in sight in the Utica Mine, hanging
| in the mbers, but 1t Will take all of six
| weeks to reach them. Ii is believed that
| other bodies Will be found in the debris
| now being removed and several may be I'M
| covered in the wreckage that must neces-
sarily be removed before those in sight can
| be reached.
Frank Burke and George Davis tried TO
cross the ella River last week in skiff.
| They had S15,000 in bullion from the Har-
! qua Hala mines. When half way over the
| boat capsized. Davis held to the bullion
until he struck bottom and lodged the treas
ure behind big bowlder. The boat was
soon righted and the treasure safely re-
| covered.
Says the sprightly Historian of contem-
| porary: They must drink peculiar kind of
water over at the Columbian office, or else
| they have faculty for giving accurate news
| in a very Inaccurate manner Wednes-
| day they called the American ship Clar-
ence S. Bement British ship" yesterday
| they called her steamship" and by this
morning they are liable to call her loco
motive. Brace up, boys, and join the Res
| cue Club.
/ Ivan Petroff. who has gone to take the
| census OF Alaska, is Russian by birth and
was living In Alaska when it was bought by
| Uncle Samuel. The Victoria Colonist says:
| lie is now citizen of the United States
| under peculiar circumstances. His name
| appears officially In two or three of the Gov
| eminent books, in one of which he is reg
istered as "a citizen of the United States by
treaty and In the other as citizen "by
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