The morning call., 1890-04-06
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific Coast States and


Brief Notes From Pacific Coast States and
Territories.
There are several cases of scarlet fever
in San Bernardino.
The Nevada State Journal was sixteen
years old on March 3lst.
In the third quarter of this year Los An
geles City gets S7S.67S OF the State school
money.
A Grass Valley Justice of the Peace fines
Chinese only $40 for selling liquor to
minors.
The population of Portland, East Port
land and Albina is set down at 5000 by a
new directory.
A steamer left juneau. Alaska. on March
14th, with a party of gold-miners bound for
the Yukon River
The Puget Sound boat companies have
put up freightS and passenger rates 80 per
cent from April LIST.
Owing to the rapidly melting SHOWS the
surface of Lake Tahoe is now thirty inches
above the average level.
While moving a house in Los Angeles
last Tuesday George Bradford received in
iures that may prove fatal.
Michael Kelley, a well-known stable =
keeper of Sonora, Tuolumne County, COM
mitted suicide last Tuesday.
A number of officers Of the Southern Pa
clfc Railroad made personal inspection of
the Cuyamaca road on Tuesday.
J. b. Eddy, who started the Pendleton
Oregon Tribune and sold it, has again be-
come the sole proprietor and editor.
No one in Ontario can call himself
''huster" in these times unless he can sell
from $4,000 to $4,000 worth of land each
day.
James ]. Charlton, graduate of Albany
College, Oregon, has been chosen Valedic-
torian of the Princeton University, New
| Jersey.
A piece of wild land of eighty-three
acres was cleared of brush and made ready
! for planting to oranges in twenty DAYS by n
| Pomona rustler.
A fire block of granite was placed in po-
sition recently over the entrance to a bank
| in Spokane Falls, Washington. 1t weighed
dressed 5000 pounds.
a man named Barnes INDUCED in fight
| at Wallula, Wash, and lost his left eve.
| lie was placed in a hospital at Walla Walla
and 1t Is now probable that his right eye
Will be blind.
A trust deed was filed at Los Angeles
| last Saturday by the lighting company Of
| that city to the California Safe Deposit and
Trust Company of San Francisco for a con-
sideration Of S1,250.0O0.
Says the Los Angeles Express: There's
many man in Southern California who is
kicking himself because he delayed buying
his orange trees until prices on them have
advanced 10 and 20 per cent.
Captain Cass of Cayucos, San Luis Obispo
| County, has way of treating piles that
knocks the teredo silly. Some piles he put
down hiteen years ago were examined
last week and were found in perfect condi-
ton. The Captain coats the piles with a
solution of tar, potash and arsenic
The steamers Olympian and CITY Of
Kingston had race on Tuesday from Ia
coma to Seattle. 1t was for blood and to
| sound. The Olympian show ed a clear pair
Of heels to the new boat and cached Seattle
| thirty minutes ahead. The distance is
twenty-eight miles.
Says the Rohnerville Herald: On the
18th inst. deed from the Humboldt Red
wood Company of Edinburgh, Scotland.
| to the American Company of Illinois. for
something over 5000 acres of land near the
| upper coast OF humboldt County. was filed
for record with Recorder Kellogg. The
| consideration is stated at S455, 600.
The Idaho Avalanche says: Forty tons
| OIL nay nave lodged on an island in Snake
| River, near the mouth of Sinker Creek he
| longing to the Snake River Ditch COMPANY.
| having been swept away at the Time the
dam went out Of the Bruneau. The entire
stack is together Just as it was when it left
| the banks OF the Bruneau, some forty miles
distant.
There is movement on foot in Wasco
| County, Oregon, says the Times Mountain
eer Tor the erection of steam watts for the
stripping OF wool from pelts. Bv this
| process eacn individual owner can save
from 90 to 70 cents on each pelt. and this
Will be a great increase from the price paid
at points on the railroad. This new process
is under the management of some Austria
lians, who have tested it in their own coun-
try.
The Alaska Free Press of March 18th
reports the finding by Indians of the bodies
Of William Bennett and a man named
Mitchell on the beach Of Admiralty Island.
They were known to he whisky-smnpglers.
and had considerable money when thew
left Douglass Island. A short time before
they left Frank Muzz and John Ackerson
left Douglass Island on the same kind of
business. Their boat was found on the
beach near where the frst-named bodies
were. and it is certain the four men were
capsized and drowned.