The morning call., 1890-12-09
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| Brief Notes From Pacific states aud Ter
| ritOrfes.
The Placer Argus has been changed from
| weekly to a daily paper.
The land surveyors of Victoria, b. o.,
| have organized for self-proiection.
F6otpads are too numerous in Monterey
| for the good name of this pretty village.
The exports of cold, silver and fruit from
| San Berdoon amounts to $780, 900 year.
Mr.. Hanson Of the Chino Rancho has set
| out $1,000 Italian chestnut trees this season.
A Ventura boy shot big buck the other
day i'll Also Canyon. 1t weighed 126
| pounds, dressed.
c. Lupriani was sentenced to jail at
Nanamo, b. C., for fourteen years for kill
ing j. Marshall
A Fresno physician sports a beard of
twelve years growth. Itmeasures ~ inches
in length.
An asbestos mine on Goodyear Greek,
Sierra County, has been bonded to Eastern
parties for $4,000.
Santa Ana boasts of pepper tree 81 years
old that measures ii feet inches round
four feet above the ground.
The Grass Valley Telegraph says the
scarcest coins TO get in that place are 81 so
gold pieces and quarter dollars.
The Riverside Press says San Bernardin0
County has three we'll defined mineral belts
that need prospecting thoroughly.
Joseph Mason. NJ. p. for Cariboo District.
British Columbia, died suddenly with heart
disease at Baskerville last Friday.
Iu noting the collapse Of the Los Angeles
Tribune the other papers say it sunk $780,
600 in money during the four years it was
published.
The Hueneme Herald man complains OF
the poor telegraph service OF that village.
He says messages all have moss upon them
when delivered.
Wy
murdered j. Il. White iii Inyo County some
years ago, viii begin at Bakersfield. Kern
County, next Tuesday.
According To the last census returns,
Utah is ahead of nine States and Territories
In the matter Of population. Nevada is at
the foot of the list with A, 237.
The people of Angels Camp, Calaveras
County, subscribed money enough last week
to build calaboose Tor holding tue tough
characters that visit that town.
Some new diggings were discovered on
Toms Creek, Omineca District, British Co.
lamba, last spring. Sixteen white miners
have taken out $4,000, says the Victoria
Colonlst.
When the steamer Costa Rica was pat in
the dry-dock at Victoria, b. C., after the
vessel arrived ii was found that SO feet of
her bow was crushed by the rocks. She
will be kept in the dock for two months.
A daughter OF John DOwd, who lives near
SOuIlyy was ttIIlDlY
burned one day last week. She was in the
woods watching her brothers burn brush
when her clothes took fire. 1t is doubtful if
she will recorer.
Some months since man in Amador
County went on big spree, which he lin
ished up by shooting his wife in the head
and then shooting himself dead The
woman recovered, aud last week gave orders
to have line monument put upon the grave
of her husband.
o. H.. Dilwood was convicted at Fresno
on Saturday of grand larceny for stealing a
calf last January. }. E. Dejon was tried
and convicted of stealing the same animal
some months since and was sent to State
Prison for three years.
The Cinnamon save great deal of money
in Flagstaff. AriZ., by going along the rail-
road track with gunny-saek or u ba, ket
and picking up chunks of coal that drop
from the engines going along the road.
They manage to get enough fuel in this
way to keep their washing establishments
going.
The Homer Index says: Myriads of but
terfiles invaded the canyon Oh Thanksgiving
DAY, which Is evidence that our climate, just
at THIS time, Is not.very arctic. But wait q
bit. When old Boreas starts out in earnest
cast-ir0n eagle will have to hug the rocks
closely 10 keep his wings fIom being blown
| out by the roots.
A second attempt was made recently, says
tiIO lCSs, " DuEn the House
Santa Barbara The floors of the sample
| rooms, dluing-ro0ms and under the stairway
| we're found saturated with kerosene and
| lighted. Luckily, however, the fire had
burned slowly, and to this alone is due the
| saving of the building,
The Dixon Tribune says: A few years
| ago flock OF turkeys belonging to q farmer
| in the foothills west OF town strayed into
| the brush and became wild. Every sue
| ceeding year finds them wilder and more
numerous, and il they could be protected
for few more years they would afford rare
| sport for the valley hunters.
The Dixon Tribune says A few DAYS
| ago daughter Of Charles Schirmer found a
nugget OF gold three-auarters of an inch
long by 0ne-quarter OF an inch wide by one
eighth of an inch thick in the craw of a
| chicken that she was dressing for dinner.
| The gold is pure and fine and was probably
| picked up by said chicken from gravel
hauled from the bed of Putah Greek.
Says the Imprint: Petaluma, with pop
ulation OF 1000 souls, has eight churches,
and all of them are kept in good running
order. We point to this fact with some
| satisfaction, believing that there is not an
| other town in the county that could make as
| good showing. We know there are few
| Bob lngersoll wolves looking after our
lambs, but we keep close watch upon
| them.
The Los Angeles Express says: Thurs
uhy ODo VI tile DISEcSt CdlllOfIlId ilOnS ever
seen was killed at the Reilly Brothers ranch
near Ventura. 1t measured feet inches
in length and 4 in height. Henry Arellanes
discovered the lion in the act of killing
some hogs and shot it with 44-caliber
Winchester. 1t at once made desperate
fight. and Mr.. Arelanes was only saved
from injury himself by assistance rendered
by W. lamar. who arrived on the spot at
the time the fight was progressing.
The Oregon Statesman SAYS: After the
wreck at Lake Labish the Coroner removed
from the pockets of the dead engineer and
fireman all Of their personal effects. Among
them were knives, letters, watches, pocket
books and many other things. Among the
rest was small Bible in one of the buckets
of the heroic engineer. The book was we'll
worn and when taken in hand the little vol
ume opens of itself, displaying to view the
words as written in the second book Of
Moses, being Exodus, at Chapter 20, where
the ten commandments are given.
BERTELING has the only reliable methods to
iii defective sight. AIT Kearny street.