The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-30
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

Tie o1ncIdi COUNT VI StUCklOE gives d pOp-
ulatiOn OF l4,oio.
An unknown insect pest is blighting the
gIape-yineS at Mojave.
Work has been resumed on the jetties at
the Columbia River bar.
The honey crop of San Diego County 1or
1880 Will be !, 10000 pounds.
Several dangerous cases Of scarlet lever
are reported at Walla Walla, Wash.
A new fIeproof hotel was thrown open to
the public at Reno, New, last Wednesday.
The first peaches brought into PIineville,
Ore, sold for 50 a bushel, says the News.
For a small place Santa Ana i, we'll sup
piled with newspapers. 1t has three daily
journals.
A valuable deposit of phosphate OF lime
has been found in Fresno COuE y. 1t Is used
for fertiliZing.
James Moore was instantly killed near
Point Arena last Wcdnesd y by beng
thrown from his wagon.
A band of $500 sheep passed through Col
| fax last Tuesday. They started from Oregon
and were bound for Texas.
| A reduction of fifty cents on every thou
| sand feet OF gas will be made after Novem-
Der 1st by the San Jose Company.
Rafael Solaris, the last of the Mission
! Indians of Santa lnez, Los Angeles County.
| died recently at the age of IS years.
| a Visalia man was caught stealing wheat
/
! sent to the County Jail for six months.
Antonio MichaeliS went to sleep along the
railroad track near Truckee the other day
| and was run over. He is likely to die.
| Everett Frazier Of Chula Vista, San Diego
! County, shot himself last Wednesday while
! hunting and one Of his legs had to be ampu-
lated.
An aged Chinese leper was found in tent
near Fresno the other day. He was aban-
doned by his race and he begged that his
legs be amputated.
The body unearthed in the Utica NINE
CalayeTaS County, last week is supposed to
be that of Joseph Carnow. the seventh vic
tim of the terrible accident of one year ago.
Patrick Medium was thrown from his
wagon against a barbed-wire fence near
LoomiS last Saturday afternoon, and was so
seriously injured that he died in a few
hours.
The Republican says: There is new
rotary pillow at the round-hOuSe, Just ar
rived from the East This makes three
TotaTies now on hand. One Of them Will be
kept at Truckee.
Some opals were found recently on Mis-
souri, Flat, i've miles from Pullman, Wash,
and 2OO claims have been staked out. The
gems are found in Il deposit Of gravel TWEEN
Iy-siX feet below the surface.
The Kittitas Localizer says that heavy
frost has I'M uIed the tobacco crop of the
Mckee Company so that, with the exception
Of five acres which had already been cut and
stored, the crop Is an entire loss.
A rOck-dTi ling contest at Butte Montana,
took place last Saturday betH een John
Ahern Of Leadville, Colo, and William Page
Of Montana for a purse of $1,000 and the
championship. The former won.
Says the san Diego Union: Kentucky
whisky is holding lis own in the lair Of mes
cal and pulque, au Ensenada firm having
ordered ten barrels of the yellow stuff from
TpuisNllln which arr daily in
HOp-grOweTs are diSpOsing of their Indian
help, says tue Seattle journal, and employ
ing white men, as some of the vines are so
infested with vermin that they are unfit to
use. The Indians cannot be trusted 10 skip
such vines.
a forged mortgage for $1,000 was aeknowl-
edged before notary in Los Ang eleS on De
cember 81, 1889, by which Mrs. Maria Keefer
had a cloud put upon one of her pieces of
real property. She has sued the notary to
recover the money
The Territorial Enterprise says: George
L. Mills. Neyada'S Fish Commissioner, is up
at lruckee in battle array. lie is trying to
find the man VINO put sawdust in the river.
1t is like trying to find the man who soaped
the camp-neeting horn.
The Los Angeles Times says a San Fran
cisco architect has been paid SIS, $50 fol
drawing plans and supervising the work
on the new Court house in less than two
NCdASs LIZ ans Gool = JDVs NAl4c lIlt Su-
peTViSiOn cost $50 a day.
Says the Pajarouian: The owners of the
PaJarO Valley Railroad are so we'll satisfied
with the business to d ate that they are con-
fident OF extending their road TO Salinas next
year ANA perhaps further AMI tI-eS may
even run ii to Corralltos.
The hop lice are making change of base,
says the Kent journal. If you examine the
plum trees in the neighborhood Of hop-yards
you Will observe thousands Of small winged
insects lowering about them. These are the
hop lice which have reached the winged
state.
Four mules were operating a scraper on
the county road near Modesto last Friday
when they went too near the bank of the
San joaquin River. The scIaper With the
load dragged the poor animals into the
stream, where they d!owned il ten feet of
water
All Sing, who has been cook for several
years in the employ Of II. a. Biodget, cashier
Of the Kern Valley Bank, Bakersfield,
dressed himself In his best suit OF clothes
last Thursday about noon aud shot himself
with revolver III the breast. He died in
stantly.
The following editorial note from the Ana
cOrtes Progress is self-explanatory: We
want fog-beli on the Ocean Dock, so that
the steamboats, will have a chance to locate
themselves i'll dense fog. The longer the
wharf goes without one the more unpopular
the city will become with tue captains and
pilots.
The San Berdoon Courier wanted TO say
something nice of one OF its friends who
was nominated for a small county Office, and
this is one of lis flashes: Born among us,
raised among us, Mr.. -- Is all our owns
supersaturated with the mobility of native
CalifornlalSm, and, voters, there is Just such
nobility.
Says the Pointer: There is in the yard of
Samuel Owens at Whittier an acacia tree
hat
has grown from seed planted two years ago
last april, and is thiTty-two feet high. Its
trunk a foot above the ground is twelve
inches in diameter, while the branches are
sixteen feet III diameter.
The lone Valley Echo says: There has
been within the last threemonths an aver
age of two tons Of fruit, fresh and dried,
shipped from lone daily, Sundays excepted.
This makes an aggregate of aboat 156 tons
and still there Is more TO follow. Imagine
what 1t might have Ieen had This been a
good fruit year instead of a bad one.
Gus H. Byron. editor of the Nehalem
Journal, of Nernonia, Oregon, was married
this week, and as a natural consequence he
feels kindly disposed toward all humanity
In the last issue Of the Journal he offered a
years subscription to every one who Will
say that he likes the paper bat is not able to
pay for it. Advertisers will note the fact
that the Journals circulation is likely ~ be
largely increased,
The Portland Oregonian says: Both
diphtheria and mumpS are raging in the
Nehaem Valley. There is hardly house
in the vicinity of Jewell where one or the
other OF the diseases is not found. County
Assessor LindePs nine-year-old son, Aaron
Alfred, died on the 17ih inst from dphthe-
ria, and little girl named Annie Nelson
died on the 10Th from the same disease.
Many others are dangerously i'll.
Says the Mariposa Gazette; We have a
COW strayed off somewhere in the wds Of
Mariposa. II is no: the one-horned COW be-
loved by the courthouse officials and all of
our nel-hDors, but a pretty little red one,
with small horns. She is branded VR., and
has ear-marks of some sort, but whether it
is over crop and under BIT, or ears cut off al
together, we can't be positive. All we know
Is, she is gone, and reward will be paid for
her return.
The proposition to move the State Uni
yerslty IRON Salem, Ore, to any other city
has received its death-blow. The Statesman