The morning call., 1890-04-21
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter


rttories.
Mayor-elect Rucker OF San Jose is only
% years of age.
Tombstone. Ariz.. will vote on disincor-
poratiOn on April 30th.
There are sixteen prisoners getting fat
| and lazy IN the Napa County Jail,
A lock- out of carpenters was ordered in
Portland, Oregon, last Wednesday.
Three thousand acres of the Chino ranch
have been planted TO corn this season.
jeff Fruit of MERGED was thrown from
buggy on Wednesday and fractured his
skull.
A partial cleanup of the Gold Ball mine,
near 4reka, last week, gave bar worth
5000.
The Lompoc Record wants the gray linnet
exterminated as it is greater pest than the
English sparrow.
The Riverside Press prints at the head Of
its columns thirteen reasons why the State
shonld be divided.
William Liueburger hauled 119 dead cattle
out of CarlIn the other day and threw their
carcasses into the river.
Manager Daily of the Cuyamaca and East
ern Railroad, in San Diego County, has sold
the bonds in New York City.
Brown and McManus are working top dirt
on a placer claim in Spring Gulch, near
Ireka. 1t pays SIS day to each man.
The people CO Carson City Will soon vote
on Il proposition to raise $4,000 for building
one large school-hOuse TO replace four old
ones.
John Silva, a vaquero at Berryessa, Santa
Clara County, was dangerously hurt on
Wednesday by being kicked on the head by
a colt.
Mrs. Folsom died in the Napa insane asy-
lum on March Sth. She left an estate worth
$1,000, but the State will get it as she had
DO heirs.
The Pomona Times says the railroad
company has been notified to cease bringing
orange trees from Florida, as they are in-
tested with scale pest.
The Phoenix Herald says Mojave County
has lost $4,000 in six years, a large portion
of 1t by backing the AtchisOn and Topeka
Railroad Company on taxes.
The people of Scotia District. humboldt
County, maintained their public school
for nine months last year, record that few
districts Will be able to show.
The Cotton Chronicle says: There will be
two eclipses this year. A partial eclipse of
the sun in September and a total eclipse of
Governor Waterman in November
James NJ. Cole died in Benicia on Nednes-
California from Boston in l84S, and lived
most of the time in Solano County.
Mayor Hazard told the Los Angeles City
Council the other night that in eleven years
the city paid out ssh, ,975 9S more than it re-
ceived from its Zanja water system.
John McFadden was plowing field near
Ventura last Monday when he unearthed a
portion OF an ancient coat of mail. Al
though the lind was rusty it was easily seen
TO be the breaStplate of an armor.
The friends of Bishop Manogue of Sac
ramento have given him purse of $1,000 to
defray the expenses of trip To Rome. Dur
ing his absence the parish will be in charge
OF Vicar-General Lynch Of Virginia CITY.
During 1889 the Auditor of Montana
signed warrants for bounties to the amount
OF SoOJ9 The following is the roll of vic
TINS; 2S27 coyotes, 960 wolves. 10l wild
cats, mountain lions, II bears and 54
lynXes. Total, 1890 animals.
Says the Salt Lake Tribune: The Ogden
police put David Owens, an aged pauper
| paralytic, on the cars the other day with
Salt Lake ticket in his hat, and shipped
him off. He was found later near Fulsom's
| yards, where he had fallen over bank
and lay helpless. Owens is now at St.
Marks Hospital, on the town, helpless,
hopeless, harmless invalid.
Says the Redlands Citrograph: China
men are bringing In vegetables grown in
infected districts and pedding them all
over our city. Ladies come home from in
fected districts with q handsome bud or
bouquet. Fruit dealers get ripe fruit from
infected districts and sell to our people
All these are dangerous practices. That
Redlands is entirely free from seale-bugs is
due only to the utmost precaution.
The Reno Gazette says: Charles f. Pow
ell, former resident of Reno and con-
vert to buddhism, who was occurring in the
East Indies on that doctrine in the interest
OF the Theosonhical Society of that coun-
try last year. died at Madras last February
HIS remains were cremated and the ashes
are at the headquarters of the Theosophi-
cal Society in India. Deceased's father
was millionaire, vino for some reason left
his son only $40.
The Colusa Sun says: There must be
something specially attractive about the
Methodist Church for the bees. Only last
week two immense swarms were smoked
out OF the chlmneys. when to-day another
large swarm made directly for 1t aud began
pouring In living stream down the east
chimney. They were discovered and a
vigorous smoke stirred them out, but they
hung around in persistent flight. as il no
other place would suit them.