The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
rftories.
Twenty-Five men at the Vallejo terra Gotta
works turned out 5000 bricks last Satur-
day.
The new school-house at Newman, Stan
islaus County, now has fine bell that cost
5000
A shipment of $1,000 gallons OF wine was
made recently by one winery at Clayton.
Contra Custa County.
r. Fl. 0lmsted Of Santa Paula raised some
apples that average twenty nine and half
ounces each in weight.
Governor Waterman has bought the inter-
est of Thomas Daley in the Cuyamaca rail
road and now owns the whole line.
The Democrats of Napa County have NOM
mated Miss Anna Dixon for Superintendent
of Schools. She had no opposition.
The new schoOl-house at Antioch is al
most finished. 1t will cost $4,000, and is
the finest school building in Contra Costa
County.
John Owens, quarryman at one of the
Penryn Quarries, had one of his feet torn off
on Monday by rope breaking and letting a
snatch-block fly loose.
st. Paul's Episcopal Church at Sacra-
mentO was broken into by burglars last
Thursday night and the communion service
of silver was stolen.
The public S, hools of Walla Walla, Wash,
opened with 10 scholars last week. Many
children had to be sent home, as there was
no accommodation for them.
The people of Aberdeen, Wash, have
given the Chinese peremptory orders to
leave town on or before September 22d.
News has been received in Portland, Or,
OF the safe arrival ut Haiphong, Anam, of
the bark Kitty, with lumber. She was %
days on the voyage and was given upa lost.
The Vancouver d. c. World says: Three
Craaly Il ;ctri
took out 1874 in one day, and great rush of
miners has taken place to the new diggings.
An aged man named Richard Troustle
was found in the woods near st. Joe, Idaho,
last Saturday by some hunters. He was de-
mented and was almost dead from starva-
ton.
The San Jose News says there is -four
ishing Society of Friends in that city. They
maintain church, with membership of
100, large Sabbath-school and Society of
Christian Endeavor.
A switch-engne on the Montana Union
railroad jumped the track at Mouton Mill
on Monday, and smashed into the boiler
room. The smokestack fell upon the engine
and killed HnltoD, the engineer. The mill
will be shut down for two weeks to repair
damages.
The Sacramento Record Union says War
den Aull of Folsom has been notified by the
Chief of Police of Ogden, Utah, that
h'Hiei, DiuUleI, w liSOu anu GIerman, VINO
dug out from prison on August 18th, were
in custody. Officers were sent forward at
once to bring back the fugitives.
The Rio Vista News says: J. Ii. Gardiner
of Rio Vista attended the Admission day
celebration in San Francisco and took with
him bottle of wine which was presented
twenty-eight years ago to Mrs. Gardiner by
General Suffer. The General manufactured
the wine on the Hook Farm, near Marys-
Vile, in 1862 and Mr.. Gardiner will present
it to the Pioneers of California.
Says the Modesto News: 1t is said that a
young man who sold his ranch short time
ago came to Modesto and, during continued
spree, he fell into the hands of the Phillis-
tines. Within week, the story goes. he lost
about S17o0: In view of the fact that the
VICTIM was fve years proving up on the land
be sold, his experience at the gaming table
Will DOUBTLESS prove bitter lesson.
Says the Tucson Citizen A very i'm
pnrtant mining sale Will be consumated
about the end of this month. 1t is the Do
lOres group in Chihuahua. 1t will be sold to
an English syndicate for S750,OO0 The
group is paying one. five gold bricks hav-
ing been taken out in the last ninety days
The mines have been in charge of Professor
Strickland, who has had so much trouble
with Mexican miners that he has replaced
them with American miners, whom ne keeps
fully armed.
AT tie opening session of the Press As
ISOLATION OF Central and Northern Califor-
mia, in Sacramento, last Monday, letter
was read from Senator Stanford. Among
other things he said; 81, myself, once camo
near being newspaperman. In fact was
appointed editor OF paper; but this was in
the East, before the time Of railroad COM
munication, and when all intercourse with
the West was substantially closed with the
closing Of navigation on the lakes. The
association backing the paper in question
failed to purchase press which they sup
posed they could obtain near at hand, the
project was in consequence abandoned, aud
failed to become member of your honora-
Bile fraternity. l have often thought since
filled one of the most responsible positions
in life"