The morning call., 1890-08-04
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
A raisin vineyard company of Kern
County has levied an assessment of S2j a
share.
The prune crop near Santa Rosa will not
be ready for picking until the middle Of
August.
henry Schroeder, Farmland. was kicked
to death by his team OF horses near Chico
last Tuesday.
Six faro tables are running at Deer Lodge,
Mont, and the dealers are getting all the
money in town.
A bounty of $40 head will be paid by
the Supervisors of SiskiyOu County for
California lions.
The wool crop of New Mexico this year
will be 100000 pounds, says the San
Marcial Reporter
Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago is
visiting friends in Helena, Montana. His
daughter is with him.
A small girl of Spangle, Wash. ate three
nutmegs last Monday afternoon and then
slept twenty-siX hours.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company will
build two freight stations at Salt Lake City
which will cost $4,000.
The people of Ventura have voted unani-
mously in favor Of Issuing bonds for build
ing new high school.
Mayor Rucker of San Jose vetoed the
Gil passed it promptly over his head.
There are more than 100000 acres of
unsold land in the Carson Land District of
Nevada State, says the Reno Gazette.
William I. Wallace died at Wolf Creek,
Oregon, recently, at the age of II. He
went to that State in 1916 from Missouri.
An artesian well at the Salt Lake Peni-
Tertiary is down 500 feet, but has not
struck enough water to rise to the surface
c. D. Rand made the trip from London,
England, to Vancouver, B. c., recently in
fourteen days He stayed one day in New
York.
While working al fire in Santa Rosa
last Sunday morning W. h. GrissfD stepped
upon a nail and his condition is now dan
gerOus.
The first boat taken over the Sierra
Nevadas was a whale boat to use on Lake
Tahoe. 1t was imported by man named
Walton.
The damage sustained by the steamer
George w. Elder recently in collision near
Victoria, b. c., will cost the owners $1,000,
says the ColOnist.
One of the new Federal Judges appointed
for New Mexico is named Seeds. His
friends say he will put offenders through
a course of sprouts.
The Record-Union says the Jail of Sacra-
mento was without prisoner on Tuesday
night for the first time in the memory of
the oldest iDhabitant.
The managers of the San Luis Obispo
fair announce that to any couple who get
married during fair week they will give a
pipe organ worth $50.
The Santa Cruz Surf says the choice
plants and flowers in the grounds of the
Courthouse are going to ruin on account Of
neglect and want of water.
The Shasta Times says typhoid malaria
is raging with great virulence in ReddiDg
at present. One lady died last week, and
several persons are very i'll.
John Bidwell gave an order recently for
10000 boxes to pack the raisln crop of 1890.
This is one of the varied Industries of the
Rancho Chico, Butte County.
The Palouse City News says: A new
kind of worm has been doing great injury
to wheat in the vicinity OF Walla Walla. 1t
is found in the second joint of stalks and
gives the wheat the appearance of having
been burned
The Historian says the first salmon packed
on the Columbia River was by William
Hume, in 1864. The value of the Industry
for twenty-tour years 1866 1888, 1888. / "a
cases, was $50, l5S,O00. The gil.-net fisher
men we're paid II cents n fish in 1866. while
in 1889 they got ST. 25 fish.
The Santa Rosa Democrat says: The
additions which have been made this wear
at the Walden distiIery, at Geyservilie,
make that establishment the largest dis
tillery in the world. Its capacity is now
1900 gallons of brandy per day, and the
lowest estimate of the coming seasons
brandy-make is 100000 gallons.
The Nevada Transcript says: In Pleas
ant Valley there is man who once boldly
asserted, and even swore, that he would
never marry, because he hated children.
But be was mistaken in himself. He has
been married man for ten years, and has
had two wives. He is still vigorous, al
though he is the father of fourteen chill
dren.
One of the largest stones ever duarried in
the Stale, SAYS the Centralia News, was
taken from tie Van Tine Stone Company's
quarry at TeniuD the other day and shipped
70 Seattle. 1t forms part of the archway
over the main entrance of the Bailey Build
| ing The stone is IS feet inches in length.
3 feet inches high. and l foot 4 inches
thick
The Mend0cino Beacon says: A female
loaded too heavily with tangle-fo0t was put
| in the calsbopse at Fort Bragg to repent of
her waywardness but instead of repentng
| she set FIRE to the building, Tuesday morn
| ing, and had narrow escape Of being fired
| into the next world. The door was broken
| open, and the blaze ezungulshed before
much harm was done