The morning call., 1890-07-19
COAST ITEMS.


| Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritorfes.
twenty-five thrashing outfits are now at work
in Penis Valley. Zach employs Il gang OF fifteen
men.
gasoline stove exploded in a frame house at
Fresno on "Wednesday evening, aud The owher
lost $500.
At tile next election held in WalIa WaIIa three
Chinese viii he old enough 10 vote They were
DOru IN thai city.
Henry w. Lawrence succeeds F. fl. Dyer as
receiver OF the Mormon church property. His
bonds are 100000.
Sumner, Kern County, is infested with wild
dogs that run down horses and sheep with as
much Zest as coyotes.
Tie Homer IudeX says: Real good news
comes from CdIsOu-a sheepherder has been
found murdered. Speed the glorious work.
warehouse at Crowley, Oregon, owned by A.
q. Roberts, was burned down last Monday, to-
gelher Win 1000 SACKS of wheat and 5000 iute
bags.
The Chairman OF the Whitman County Repub-
licau Central Committee has been expelled from
his office by The committee for failure to account
for S4OO.
The school funds in San Luis Obispo County
are Kent III frstclass Older. says Ihe Tribune
The new year begins with $4,000 carried over
from last year.
Work has been started on the new sugar REIN
cry at Vancouver, British Columbia. The main
building Will be 94x1O7 feet Oh the ground aud
four stories high.
John Lldstone, clerk at Maxwell COlusa
County, was notified recently that by the death
Oh MS IAlbti III England fortune oil SOUOUOO
goes TO him and his brother.
Tie Suffer Cannery. al Marysyllle, will begin
work on peaches next Monday. The manager
expects TO keep 500 bands for Two mouths, aud
they Will put up 100000 cans.
The Napa Register says coyotes have killed
more than 600 lambs on The CoOmbes-COghlan
ranch in Gordon Valley since last fall. a bounty
Of 81 Is paid for each coyote scalp.
A schOol-teacher at Mott wrote a piece of SLAM
der which vas published III the North Star last
March. The writer and the publisher are now
defendants In d suit for $1,000 damages.
The Oroville Mercury says the mine owned by
W. w. STOW at Forbes own clears 5000
mouth. Another mine close by Ships sulphurets
to Denver that pay from $500 10 $500 4 ton.
Dr. johnson Of Pomona has one apricot tree
that gave enough fruit TO fill twenty boxes of
forty pounds each. Tie fruit sold Oh The ground
Tor l "a cents pound. Ills lice is six years
ola.
The Gold Beach Gazette says: valuable
horse belonging 10 Charles Strahan was Killed
at MI. SnOdgiass place last week By attempting
TO Jump ience ana failing ON tie sharp points
OF the ptekets.
Barney Goudng. an old resident of Victoria,
British Columbia, died recently. In looking over
his traps a clgdT-bOX was found that cOntaUed
gold watch and 5000 IN cOiu. IL is not known
whether Gouiding has any relatives.
Thomas Wallace was instantly killed by dyna-
mite exploding III tue Drum Lummon shaft,
MaTysylle, Mont, on Wednesday A compan-
ION named Gilbert was terribly injured, losing
both eyes, finger and being Otherwise bruised.
Some hay was cut at Medical Lake, Wash,
last week that was s0wn June /, 1889. The
lack of rain last summer caused II 10 lie dor
maDt Till The lale fall rams caused 1t TO sprout.
AT the lime Of cutting the yield was more than
TWO tons TO the acre.
After service OF twenty-five years with the
Dominion Express Company at Victoria b. g.,
Charles Raltray has resigned to 60 into business
for himself. lie UOlonist says In all this time
Mr.. Ratirdy never lost a package or one dollar
that came through his hands
The Board of Equalization of Nevada County
mas raised lie assessment on the Champion Mill
from $3.50 10 $50, 600; the Boea Brewing Com
pany from S23 900 10 s4s, 900; the Douner Lake
Company from $4,000 10 : rs 900. aud the Pacific
Lumber Company from $500 10 $4,000
Last Saturday morning j. I. Riley manager OF
the Plymouth Rock mine, near jenny Lind, Gala
Veras County, went toward The reservoir 10 re-
pair break when he killed rattlesnake that
was a terror II measured feet U inches long,
sporled 16 rattles aud weighed 40 pounds.
son OF Farmer Snattuck OF Josephine
County, OtegOn shot hog the other day. The
bullet went through the head, struck rock and,
glancIng, wounded young German who was
working on me place. a piece OF Inc bullet
condition was critical.
The sectionhands are at work between VIII
lows and Logandale says the Journal, taking up
tile old iron rails and replacing them With steel
ones. This road, from Davsville TO Tehama, is
all laid with steel rails, except IRON Willows to
Williams, and the company will now put down
steel rails between these points.
The physician who made post-mortem exam-
nation upon George Ball. who was murdered at
Marysyllle last Tuesday, said lie found seven
cause DIS death. He further stated that the
sassil, IN haste 10 cover up his crime. set fire to
the building while the victim was alive as the
lungs OF Ball had inhaled smoke and dust from
the burning straw. The Appeal thinks the deed
was done by Chinese highbnders.
Says the Astorian: IL Is somewhat remark.
able that In the county OF COwlitZ, Wash. a
county that has been settled forty years that
has 1000 Inhabitants, thirty miles of railroad
and has the second largest courthouse In the
State OF Washington, there should be a part OF
the field untrodden by the foot OF white man and
less known 10 civilization than is The heart OF
Africa. About fifteen townships within the
county are unsuryeyed portion OF The unsur.
veyed tract is occupied by white settlers, but
full bali OF II Is dense unprecedented wilderness.
The Portland 0iegonian says: Fred Olsen, a
boy Of 10 years, was burned 10 death last week
al the saw-mill al Potter, Coos County lie was
engaged in watching Tie furnace used for burn.
ing slabs nom The mill. He was missed. and
after a search 10 was found he had fallen from
the PLATFORM near the end of The slab conyeyor.
a distance OF about forty feet, and was lying
about six feet from tile fire. literally roasted by
the heat. No one saw him fall, but prObablli les
are that he made a misstep, and. falling was
stunned so that lie could not crawl away from