The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-08
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
The Tulare wheat fields are troubled
with smut.
One Fresno wine-grower calls his product
light salvation claret"
The Sonoma County W. c. T. u. will meet
in Petaluma next Wednesday.
Some of the largest sinelters of Helena,
Mont, have been closed down.
The Republican primary election in
Fresno will be held on August 9th.
A turtle was captured in Santa Ana last
Thursday that weighed 175 pounds.
A cOlored boy Of Spadra. Los Angeles
County. is named Simon Suckeggs
The yacht Aggie was seized at San Pedro
last Monday TO secure debt of S13, 700.
The Clear Lake Press says no fish that
swims can excel the perch Tor the table.
f'ifty-two non-uuion carpenters arrived
at Portland on Saturday from Spokane
Falls.
Julia Evans has been appointed Postmis-
tress of new office at SoOzos, 0kanogan
County, Wash.
Spani shtown, San Mateo County, now has
news paper, the Coast Advocate, edited by
Roma L. Jackson.
Fred Higgins of Middletown. Lake Coun-
ty, was badly injured last Monday by being
kicked by vicious horse.
Edward Hendricks fell down shaft In
the Eagle Bird mine at Nevada on Saturday
oHo tSSOAhCt lAbal
Within two years 100000 is to be spent
in San Bernardlno on water works, Hall
OF Records and the Insane Asylum.
A railroad bridge twelve miles east of
Dalles, Oregon, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday, aud all traffic is suspended.
The total assessment of property in San
Diego City for 1890 is S15, 532. 219 The rate
OF taxation will be fixed on Tuesday.
a boy named Bennerscheidt of Auaheim
knows how to handle bees. He now has
eleven hives that he has captured this
season.
While Mrs. Barnes Of Haywards was try
Ing to smoke out caterpillars from her cherry
orchard recently she set her clothing ON fire
and was badly injured.
Every buck-scraper used in digging the
big canal at Coiusa Will be drawn by trac-
lion engine, as no horses or mules can be
spared by the farmers.
Charles Freeman, the condemned muir
derer OF Frank Feeny at Sacramento, has
refused food for two DAYS. and saws he in
tends to cheat the gallows by starvation.
The Sonoma Index-Tribune saws all the
rolling stock formerly used on the narrow
gauge line between Iiburon and that town
will be shipped to the Hawaiian Islands.
A new industry has been started at Los
Angeles, that of cOunterfeiting lottery tick
cts. One victim invested $3.50 in a prize
number and failed TO get his money at the
head Office
Farmer Baker OF Fine Gold Fresno Coun-
", lost a fine horse one day last week, He
had an autopsy held, which showed that
death was caused by large catfish in the
horses throat
An organized band of horse-thieyes stole
500 head from the Idaho ranges last winter.
The animals were run into Oregon and
Washington by way OF private ferries on
the Snake River.
I. l.. Hunter, doorkeeper of a Chinese
theater at Fresno, was dangerously wOunded
on Saturday night by Monaghan desper-
ado, who refused to pay his entrance fee.
lie split Hunters face with an iron bar and
then fired pistol at him and made his es-
cape.
The estimated revenue of the city of Vic
torla, b. c., for 1890 is S309, 295 80 and thu
estimated expenditures 1901, 145 49, In the
nfSs- named account is forfeiture deposit
OF S1OoO that was put up by company that
wanted to build smelter. There ia no
sentiment in that City Council Biz is biz
every time.
The police authorities Of Davisville. Yolo
County, caught thief the other day with a
valuable goid watch he stole in Woodland
Ii e promised to give up the watch If thew
would let him off with light sentence.
They still hold the watch while the thief
got fifteen days. The owner of the watch
is trying to lind out how to recover his
property.
Gay tue NeNhua herald: In 1855 Lee az
MarshalPs circus performed at this cirv.
AT the conclusion Of the entertainment one
OF the performers was taken i'll and soon
after died at the hotel. His friends Ieft
$500 with parties here to bury him and fit
up his grave. The body was inferred in the
old Broad-street Cemetery. A few rocks
were piled around it. and 1t remains that
way to-day.
pitiful case has been made known nv
the Mayheld Palo Alto. In that town lose
lgnacio Anreque has been confined to his
bed for thirty-ive years. He was Injured
by an accident in a mine, and has not been
able to put his feet to the ground since
His only attendant is an adopted son who
has devoted his time and means to the SIM.
port OF the aged invalid. A good woman
OF Menlo Park has contributed Sc n month
from her private purse for the past twenty
years.
-Four cargoes of wool will be shipned from
San Diego to the woolen-mills Mt Ense-
NADIA. The Sun says: The peculiar feature
OF this wool shipment is thai the wool crew
upon the backs of American sheep, foi on
San Diego County pasture, that thew were
driven across the line ana sheared unon
Mexlcan' soil, that the wool was than
shipped through the United States. hack
to Mexico, where, after being manufactured
into blankets and cloth, It will he AGAIN
shipped through the United States, entar-
ing this port, and sent east to Mexico tn ha
sold to merchants. w