The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-05
COAST ITEMS.

San Diego streets are now rolled smooth
by fOurteen-ton roller.
E. j. Hursh has sold his interest in the
Oregon Blade to f. P. Cronemiler.
Farmer Marriott of Lemoore has two sec
tions in wheat that stands six feet high.
p. Gomez will start Spanish paper at
DelanO, Kern County, called Ell Diableto.
David Mccoy of San Bernardino cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday last
Friday.
Charles Miller of Hueneme has made a
table of ornamental woods that contains
1850 pieces.
An oil well was struck recently in TORY
Canyon, Ventura County, that flows 200
barrels day.
The Colfax Gazette says the peach crop
on Snake River, Wash, will be fully 400
tons this year.
The Chico Record notes that eight one
armed men attended the recent session of
the n. 5. g. w.
A woman tramp in Nevada thinks moth
ing of hoofng it forty-tiye miles a day
along the railroad track.
Two gangs of thirty-five Indians each
have just finished sheartng 10000 sheep at
White River, Tulare County.
Stephen NJ. White of Los Angeles has
formally announced himself as a candidate
for the United States Senate.
Levi Scott, pioneer of Malheur County,
OltSOu, uiGu Oh y pTll ZOIH al the age OF
80. He settled in Oregon In 1913.
FOrty-five iron monuments have been set
in place on the boundary lines between
Los Angeles and Orange counties.
a Chlnese cook at San Vincent, San Diego
County, ate some poisonous fungi for musll-
rooms on Friday and died soon after.
A tree was felled recently at Tillamook,
Oregon, that was 40 feet long, while the
butt measured only one foot through.
The Portland 0reponian Saus tho aynorto
from Coos Bay for last March were $500
tons of coal and 5,254.00O feet of lumber.
Says the Fresno Republican: Fresno
must have n brewery, first-class, whop-
ping, big institution or retire from politics.
A fine race-track has been laid out on the
Biggs ranch near Gridley, Butte County,
and several fleet horses are in training
there.
The Templeton Advance says that by
this time next year there will be $4,000
olive trees planted in that part Of the
State
Plans have been accepted by the citv an
thorltles OF San Bernardino for new res
ervoir to hold 100000 gallons. Work Will
be begun at once.
The people of Astoria want to rush into
debt by issuing no end of bonds for munich
pal improvements, but their city charter
stands in the way.
Four years ago G. w. Dount of Porter
Il
stands eighteen feet high and measures fif-
teen inches one fuot above ground.
The Town Council of Vale, Malheur
County, Oregon, has notified all ranehers
in the surrounding country who are afflicted
with typhoid fever to keep clear of that
town.
When the late Charles E. Sitton of Port
land, Oregon, died suddenly a few weeks
since his estate was SAID to be worth $780,
OOO, put upon appralsement it was returned
at 1921, 210 81.
The Whittier Pointer says Ex-Governor
no Pieo Is not pauper by any means. He
owns his old homestead and fifty acres of
land one and half miles from town that is
worth considerable money.
Captain Jack, chief Of the Sooke Indians,
British Columbia, died at his home last
Sunday, aged 10 years. He was we'll fixed
financially and left by will $1,000 to his
friend, Louis Lozar of Victoria.
In digging we'll on Hydes ranch. near
Nlawest Tuiare County, buffalo horn was
found at the depth of thirty-seven feet.
How it got there is a puZzler. as no buffa
loes We're known to have been in this
county.
A swarm of bees in Anaheim settled on
the back of spirited horse that was
hitched in front of Herr Booksellers resi-
dence last Sunday morning, The horse ran
away, smashed the buggy into toothpicks
and the bees were never hved.
mule was taken to Clancys shop in
Grass Valley on Friday to be shod. The
beast kicked the shed to pieces and hoisted
the anvil through the roof. Clancy swore
he would shoe that mule and he did, but he
had to use bucket of choroform first.
William McCulley of Solano County died
recently, who left by will S25, 900 in property
TO his son, aged II, upon condition that he
paid 5000 to his only sister, aged 10, when
she comes of age. The boy says he will wait
until he is 81, when he will divide the
money equally.
Lake Chelan, Wash, never freezes, al
though in latitude forty-eight degrees north.
The reason given that it is so deep and the
warm water arises from the bottom to sup
plant the cold, which goes down to warm
itself. The indians fish in the lake at all
seasons and use salmon eggs for bait.
The Portland Oregonian says: Chickens
on the farm of Sam Crumbaker, some five
miles above Colfax, WASH, on the Palouse,
have several times within the past two
years been found with gold nuggets as large
as grains of wheat in their digestive aras-
tras. On Saturday, the 10Th a hack load of
prospectors from Garfield started to inyesti-
gate. They succeeded in raising COLOR
ON the river, a half-mile from Mr.. Crum-
bakers place, but the hens refused to reveal
the location of their dipyinps