The morning call., 1890-08-23
COAST ITEMS.

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| ritOries,
| The total assessment of Astoria's taX-roll
| for 1890 is 81, 81 POP.
Orange County will hold its first fair be-
| tween October 18th and 10th.
| Several horses in Sacramento are afflicted
! with CHAMBERS, says the Bee.
Ten Farmers Alliance clubs have been
| organized in Tulare County.
Asa Ellis late Collector of Internal Rev.
| enue al San Francisco, died at Fresno last
| Wednesday.
| Tie census returns for New Mexico foot
| up 1j0,159, gain OF % per cent over the
| showing of 1880.
A band of fifty-fonr Yuma Indians have
| gone to Los Angeles under contract to pick
| fruit for the season.
w. II. Robinson of Stockton plucked a
| bunch Of grapes from his vines last Tues
day that weighed six pounds.
A deposit Of petroleum was struck near
| Willows, COluSa County, recently by j. L.
| Rathbun. who was prospecting for gold.
At noon Of August 18th thermometer
suspended over shaded spring at La Tor
Station, Ventura County, marked 1909.
John LOngwOrth, a Farmland at Ire
mont Landing, Yolo County, fell from
wagon-load last Tuesday and broke his
neck
Three irrigation canals in San Diego
County, San Luis Rey, San JacintO and
them.
A new bank will be started at Bakers
field, Kern County, by J. z. Mack and other
San Francisco capitalists, who will put in
100000.
W. G. Chance of Tillamook, Oregon, tied
his horse to picket fence the other day.
1t took fright, jumped upon the piekets. and
was killed.
The Santa Ana Herald and the Blade fa
vOr the issuing of the water-wOrks bonds,
the Standard is neutral, and the Free Press
is against the issue.
Edward Seeber, Walla Walla man, is
kept busy these days i'll taking charge OF
band of $1,000 sheep that belong to him and
all old trapper named Wilson.
A splendid four-mast schooner was
launched recently at Port Blakeley, Wash;
She was named King Cyrus, and will load
with lumber for San Francisco.
Bryant Howard Of San Diego is Offering
substantial aid to Mrs. Richard Proctor in
| her project of establishing an astronomical
| observatory on San Miguel Mountain.
The Scio Oregon Press says the owner
| of hOp-feld of seventy acres near town
| will exchange them for Sd, 900 gold coin.
The yield will be fully 1900 pounds to the
| acre.
A party of surveyors will be set to work
early in September TO run lines for a canal
| from Owens River to Salt Wells Valley,
IDyo County. The proposed route is eighty
| miles
The old Dominion Hotel in Victoria,
| B. c., will be torn down at once. to be re-
| placed by new building. 1t was started
in 1850 and is one Of the Oldest landmarks
Of that city.
A large dairy farm has been started in
| Yuba County by Sacramento capitalist.
| He goes in for all modern improvements
| and has given orders to build silO, the first
| in the State.
1t costs the parents of Pasadena boys 81
| each to pay for breaking lamps in front of
a church. One man intends to 60 to law
and has hired prominent Los Angeles
attorney to defend his boy.
| Says the Nevada State Journal: With
the Nevada Republicans the question is,
| (which of the candidates will we NOM
| inate?" With the Democrats it is, "Where
can we find candidate who is willing to
| run?"
As a pointer to the unruly pupils of the
Tuscarora School the Times-Review Incl
| dentally remarks that the new principals
| teaching weight is about 225 pounds aynir-
| dupOis, which, under certain condit ons,
might be made to approximate ton.
A Tangent correspondent of the Albany
| Herald saw woman running a binder on
| Sunday last south of here in wheat field,
| apparently successfully, which is seeming
| ly an innovation in harvesting The man
| was industriOusly shocking up the grain
| after the machine.
The Grass Valley Tidings of Tuesday
| says: l. j. Rolfe was in town this morn
| ing. Asked for an item, he said that near
Noelps he met a wagon drawing a three
| wheeled wagonette owned by Henry Lane
| behind it. Another wagon containing the
| missing fourth wheel of the Wagonette fol-
| lowed, two of Lanes horses tied behind.
In the rear, in buggy, was Lane person.
ally.
The San Bernardino Courier says: DR..
| HaZlett has fine ranch at Eliwanda
loaded with fine fruit, which has been the
| scene of much pifering of late. Last
| Wednesday night the thieves entered the
orchard and hound belonging to the
| doctor attacked them. The result was sew
| eral shots from 22-caliber rifle which
! killed the dog. There is only one rifle of
this kind in the neghborhood, whose owner
is known, and the doctor will make it
warm for the villain who stole his fruit and
| shot his dog.
The Grays Harbor Times has the follow
| ing: j. ID. Lowry, who has just returned
| from Quinaiult Reservation, brings an sc-
count oil the capture of a large whale off the
Qulnaluit River last week. The Indian at
tlat place engage in whaie-ishing as
regular vocation, using their canoes and
otuue appliances Tor ensnaring the monsters
81 ihe deep with great skill. This par
ticular whale, torty-five feet in length. thew
were three days and nights in subduine
and bringing to shore. 1t is a coast whale
its value to the Indians being about 500.
The Grass Valley Tidings says: NJ. Petit
jean has a little bonanza in the heap of
sulphurets refuse" that has accumulated
at his COLONIZATION works during the last
twenty years. He has about 1900 tons, and
is receiving 81 per ton for it from a COM
pany engaged in smelling Colorado ores.
BY this company's process sufficient gold
and silver ore are obtained from the refuse
to pay for its transportation, and the fiux
from the iron pyrites, which is a scarce
article and very valuable in the treatment
of Colorado ores, is thus secured free of
cost.
The Victoria Colonst of August 18th
says; The Hastings Mill is now shipping
three. pieces of square timber, each of which
Is 20 teet long by feet square. Each stick
contains 64S0 feet. board measure and will
weigh from twelve to thirteen tons. The
lhree pieces are being loaded on two fiat
cars coupled together, the sticks lying on
iour ooisters, two ON each car-those on
the extreme end being fixed Sn a swivel
and the center ones sliding, so that there will
be no trouble in going round sharp curves.
Inc tlmbers are consigned to Montreal,
where they will be utilized as anchors for
large dredge, Az ?"