The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-16
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
TerritOrles.


Territories.
The farmers around Norwalk, Los An
geles County, get $1,000 mouth from sales
of milk.
A syndicate of wealthy cattlemen have
invested S24, 800 in Albuquerque real estate
recently.
lnyo County will hold its annual agricul-
tural fair at Bishop from September Esd to
the 26th, inclusive.
The School Directors of Walla Walla,
Wash. have decided to establish high
school with three years course.
There are no vacant houses in Vancouver.
B. c., and many families have to live in
hotels while their buildings are going uD.
Antioch people are much excited over re-
ports of their town becoming railroad CEN
ter and by the large investments in that
locality.
The Bishop Register wants an Indian
school established in Owens Valley. The
Putes have one school supported well al
Big Pine.
Mrs Tormey of Martinez has sold 6S6
acres of land near the California Powder
Works to the Union Stock-yard Company
for S102, 922 40.
The Monrovia Messenger says Scipio
Loring will leave Redlands for Los Angeles,
where he will take charge of n new horti-
cultural paper.
Some rich deposits of sulphurets have
wood Creek. Siskiy0u County. They assay
as high as S5S3 ton.
The Homer Index says: Indians are
again exhibiting specimens Of the rich &C.
ment with which they have for thirty years
tantalized prospectors.
The next meetings of the Editorial Asso-
citation of Southern California will be held
in Santa Barbara from July Sth to 18th. 4
large attendance Is looked Tor.
Fierce field fires have swept over the Ca
jon Valley, in San Diego County. causing
great destruction TO rabbits and quail
Every rancher has had to work day and
night to prevent the flames from eating up
his house aud barns.
A big tree was brought down the Satsop
Railroad recently, says the Shelton Journal.
The tree was marked: This tree is s
feet at stump, scaling over 10000 feet, three
cuts" Another on same train was los feet
long and at the butt
A diver was working ut the foundation of
one Of the piers Of the railroad bridge near
Boise City last Friday, when lie gave sig
nal to be hoisted quickly. When he got to
the surface he held fast a sixty-fye- pound
salmon that he had caught by the gills.
Local item from the Cotton Chronicle:
A number of prominent red citizens Of
una were IN town this week. The men
all wore pants. dirty faces and demoai-
acal grin, while she females were radiant in
red calico. skinny ankles and spreading toes.
Frank Doten, well-known teamster OF
Carson City, was dangerously injured the
other day near Bridgeport, Mono County.
lie was driving fourteen horses, when the
wheel horse he was riding slipped on n
steep grade and the loaded wagon passed
over Doten's body.
Jim Yerington has sent the Carson Ap-
peal bunch of grass grown without iTri-
CATION at Hawthorne Park. 1t consists OF
alfalfa, barley, espercet and native grasses
about four feet high which grew in the
park this year without irrigation. The es-
percet was three feet high and very sturdy.
The lone Echo says: A large saw-mill Is
being put up about thirty-tive miles east Of
Plymouth, near old Dogtown, FL Dorado
County, by San Francisco parties who have
been buying timber land in that section for
some time. The mill will be principally
run on sugar-pine, which, we are informed,
will be shipped to Australia.
The Portland Oresonian says: The fire
at Baker City in 1885 destroyed portion Of
the county records, and left them ''in the
soup" regarding abstracts of titles to lands;
but private company was not so left, and
now they propose 10 sell their abstracts
to the new land company recently formed,
and only ask the small sum Of S25, 600 for
their books.
The San Bernardinn Index says: The
late norther has played sad havoc with the.
honey crop in this section, and the bee men
estimate that unless something turns up the
crop will be lighter this year than last. Dill
ferent bee men state that at present the bees
are doing nothing. being unable to find any
honey, the late norther drying up the bloom
of the sage.
Says the Kern County Echo: S. w.
While has contracted his peach crop on
two-year-old trees at figure that viii net
him $500 per acre. Is not such a piece of
property as that worth couple of years of
hard rustling? The first year the trees were
set out Chinaman paid him 81 90 IN acre
for the use OF the land between the rows
for potato patch.
The Bodie Miner says: II. NJ. Folger of
the Bridgeport Chronicle trained a number
of attractive young ladies as compOstors,
aud in the first year he had married three OF
them. to the District Judge, the County
Judge, and the Sheriff, respectively. The
following year the County Clerk succumbed
and in consequence Mr. Folger has mo-
nopoly of the official printing. 1t is easy
enough to run newspaper when it is I'M
derstood.
The Red Bluff Peoples Cause says: 1t
has been discovered that the malarial and
typhoid fevers that have prevailed about
Mott and Sisson were caused by impure
water. The water used there has been
analysed and found to contain sufficient
organic matter to render it impure and con-
tains elements which produce malaria and
typhoid. Last summer at one time there
were forty cases of fever under the doctors
charge.
Some days since a prominent physician of
st. Helena received from the East soms
new medicine that was intended for pa
tient. In order to test its strength the doc
tor injected little Of it into his own arm.
The effect was sudden and startling. His
arm began TO swell to large proportions and
other alarming symptoms appeared Of the
worst kind of blood-posoning. He called
in his brother physicians, and they in turn
sent to San Francisco for third. and for
some days and nights they stood watch over
the unfortunate patient. At present he Is
out Of danger, but 1t will be weeks before
he can leave the room,