The morning call., 1890-08-22
COAST ITEMS.
Brisf Note. From Pacific States and Ter.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Pueblo County, Colo, now has popula-
ton Of 81, 329, gain OF 90 per cent in two
years.
The Valkyrien, Swedish paper at Salt
Lake City, has suspended for lack of pat
ronage.
The new Methodist Church at Ogden,
Utah, has a fine bell that weighs 5000
pounds.
The miners at the Sand Couee coal mines
at Great Falls, Montana, have gone out on
a strike.
The new Methodist Church at Ogden will
have steeple 1S1 feet high, the tallest in
the Territory.
Thomas Rockford, an old and respected
citizen of Petaluma, died on Monday. He
had been i'll for many months.
AT the great fire at Spokane Falls the
sufferers were loaned army tents. The
papers now say hardly one tent has been
saved.
The people of Spokane Falls are excited
by rumors of building two large Touring
mills by EasternrcapiIalists. The combined
output will be $500 barrels in twenty-fOur
hours.
The Oregon papers say that the Canadian
Pacific railroad will be paid $40, 600 a month
bonus by the Pacific Mail Company for
keeping their steamers away from San
Francisco.
The great suit of Clarke VS.. Hebron.
that involved title to "a, 600 acres in Fresno
and Tulare counties. has been compromised,
and the whole tract is to be cut up into
small farms.
The Salt Lake Times of Thursday says:
Seven companies of forty-hve men each
started from the tort on a march to Payson
ut O'Clock this morning. Colonel Blunt
led the way.
The Salem Oregon Statesman says:
Those men you see on the streets with 9x15
smiles on their faces, extending from ear to
ear, are the hop-growers of Marion and
Polk counties.
The new fre-boat for the Seattle depart
ment was launched last Saturday. She will
be provided with powerful steam pumps
that will throw four six-inch streams to a
distance OF 600 feet.
Henry Burris, aged II, of Traver, Tulare
County, was dangerously injured by his
own revolver last Monday. The bullet
shattered one OF his arms and went through
the jaw into his mouth
L. Robinson is demonstrating that the
Monterey cypress will flourish in indie
pendence. lnyo County, as well as in more
tropical climes He has number making
thrifty growth on his home place.
AS a reporter of the Salt Lake Times was
leaving the theater last Thursday evening
he was hit in the eye by paper dart made
out of programme. He fell as if shot,
and the doctor is in hopes to save the eye.
The Inyo Index says: 1t is estimated
that the rainfall of the past week here
abOutS was about as great as that Of
last winter, barring the twenty-four hours
downp0ur in the latter part of January.
A railroad convention will be held in San
Jose on September 10th, when nine dele
gates each VIII be sent from the following
counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa
Clara, San Benito, Fresno, Tulare and
MERGED.
The Seattle Daily Telegraph has APP
peared. 1t is controlled by a syndicate and
will support the principles of the Democratic
party. In fullDess of telegraphic service
and in Typographical appearance, the Tele-
graph makes a capital showing.
A colony of yellow jackets, says the
Shasta Courier, have constructed nest in
the side Of the bank on the railroad track
below Dunsmuir. and make things interest
ing for the occupants Of passing trains. All
trains pass the spot at a high IA te Of speed
fer fear the insects might sting the iron
horse on the c0wcather, thereby causing
him to run away.
The Concord Sun says: Charley Pacheco
is the happy p0ssesSor of chicken with
four legs. 1t was hatched few days ago
and creates intense excitement among the
other chickens, as it makes the most extra
ordinary somersaults. 1t has very intelli-
gent eye, and seems rather perplexed about
its extra pair oil pegs that, in time, will be
abe to scratch up double allowance Of
worms.
The Phoenix Herald says: Punctuation
has been carried to that degree of refine
ment back East that East Hartford, Conn.,,
can have no horse railroad this year be-
cause the Legislative Engrossing Clerk in
serted in the Enabling Act a semicolon,
where comma should have been. We be-
lieve our usually docile Washington street
railway mules would kick an exclamation
point or two into the volunteer author Of
such excessive punc;iliousness.