The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-03
COAST ITEMS.

j. G. Ford & Co., of Eureka, New, have
sold their wool crop this year for S40,ooo,
The Colorado River at Needles is higher
than any time since 1884 and is still rlslhs'
The people Of Oleander refused to vote III
favor Of raising $500 for new school,
house.
L. p Hopp has sold the Union (Wash)
Tribune to a company managed by W. d.
Haines.
Five-pound catfish are taken in Sonoma
Creek in large numbers, says the lhueA-
Tribune.
The Corning Observer says John Boggs
of COusa recently sold one ranch loI
$4,000.
The County Grand Jury of Yuba recon- com
mends that liquor licenses be placed at sooo
quarter.
An organized gang of burglars has been
reapiDg rich harvestS in Porteryllle ana az
jacent towns.
NJ. E. Hersey of Ukiah runs chicken en-
ranch with an incubator that turns out ooo
chicks at once.
A Whittier man planted eight rows OF
potatoes on his town lot recently ana HAS
sold his crop for $12.
The people of Fresno are taking much III
terest in the proposed branch railroad from
that city TO Kings River.
Nine. Modjeska furnished several cos
tunes for performers of the cantata OF
Esther" at Santa Ana recently.
The Chinese laundrymen of San Lucas.
Monterey County, put in their spare tlue
in digging for gold along the railroau
grades.
William A. Paine was sent to San Quen-
tin for eight years by Judge Spencer OF oan
Jose. The accused was found guilty oil
manSlaughter.
A young woman of Butte City, Butte
County, has been running a moving
machine for some weeks on her father
ranch, as hired help was not to be mad.
The Oroville Register wants to know
why this great country should pay S5,OOO,-
coo year for imported basket willow when
1t can all be grown i'll the Sacramento ' al
ley.
The San Carlos Indian Agency. Ariz.. is
now supplied with pure fresh water: Inc
system was organized by Captain Bulls,
United States Infantry, who is also acting
agent.
A frospector named Wild sold claim
near Orc Blanco, ArZ., recently for 5000.
As soon as he had the money in bank he
went on prolonged spree and finally went
ravlng crazy.
A spark from locomotive set fire to
field Of grass near Deano last Tuesday ana
1t burned over strip two miles square be
fore it was Quenehed. Luckily no wheat
fields were Injured.
A lawsuit was settled in Woodland last
Wednesday that had been twenty-one years
Oh the dockets Of Y olo County, the Supreme
Court of California and the Supreme Court
OF the United States.
A boy named Ginochio of Ukiah shot at Il
squirrel last Saturday. The gun kicked
him in the face, eaved in the roof of his
mouth and loosened several teeth. The
| squirrel was not injured.
c. Redmond tried to use parachute in
| descending from balloon i'll Sn0hOmish.
| Or, last Friday. He fell into the top Of a
tree and was thrown to the ground 30 feet.
He was instantly killed.
The Orovilie Mercury of Saturday says:
An irate spouse yanked her hubby out of
an uptown ginl-mli last night at the hour
| when graveyardS yawn. She said she would
| show him who was boss and boxed his ears
Il. p. II. Whtelaw has begun to break up
| the wreck of the steamer Barnard Castle.
that sunk near Race Rock. 3. c., three
years ago on her way from Departure Bay
with coal. Dynamite will be used to break
! up the hull.
he san Diego Southwest says that not
few owners OF young citrus orchards who
| got their trees from Florida and had them
| thoroughly dipped are feeling blue over the
| fact that they are even yet infested with
the Florida blue scale.
a party of biologists left Santa Ana re-
Gently to survey the resources of Orange
| County. After their return one of the out
| slders told DR.. Bowers of the Standard that
| IHey discussed all the FOSSILS oil the ln!Ocele,
| pll0cene, kerosene and benZine periods.
Says the Selma Enterprise: q. I. Ives of
the Commercial fed the biggest man of the
| season Tuesday. His name was Under
wood and he weighed 305 pounds. He was
travelling in a buggy and did not seem to
mind the torrid heat Of the San Joaquin.
Miss Sullivan, the school-teacher at HUI
ron, Tulare County. had close call for her
| life last Wednesday. While she was ring
| ing the bell its frame collapsed and came
crashing to the floor below. Miss S. lodged
| the bell just in time to escape being pinned
| TO the floor
Personal item from the Willows Journal:
William c. has just recovered FROM the
caterpillar kiss he received on his left
| cheek while he was desecrating the Sab
! bath by picking black berries. lie Is going
out this coming Sunday to get chewed by
another fuzzy and angry worm.
A new city editor was recently engaged
by the Santa Ana Free Press. In welcom-
ing him the Standard says: The graceful
dignity with which he can pen an item,
| point moral or adorn tale is only eQualed
by the scientific dexterity with which he
can analyze the contents of q schooner OF
beer.
Says the Advocate: Traver is remarkable
for the intelligence of its female popula-
ton. We are told by one who is well in
formed on the subject that there is greater
proportion Of ey- schoolmarms TO the
square mile here IG2n in any other State.
People seeking homes in a cultured commu-
| nifty would do well to heed this item.
A petition. with $40 names, was recently
sent to the Supervisors of San Bernardino
asking them to call a special election to
change the county seat to Cotton. After
investigating the same it was found that
| M names were not on the Great Register.
| siXty-fiye names were reported twice and
| seventy-three names were struck off at
| previous meeting of the board.
The Ventura Democrat says: The species
| of grass known as fox-tail is getting to be a
nuisance in lawns and alfalfa fields in this
section. and In other parts of the State 1t
seems to be getting worse. The Tulare
Times says 1T has come so near taking the
| alfalfa in that section that many farmers
are talking of abandoning it altogether, say
ing that they can raise either barley or
wheat for hay with greater profit than they
| now raise alfalfa, and that there is hardly
| field of alfalfa that is not now being
| burned off for the purpose of getting rid OF
| fox-tail.
! The Nevada Herald says: A few days
ago, while grading site for new building
| for the G. " r. IL I. Co.'s works on the
| South Yuba, large stump was uprOoted
| The wood was partially decayed, aud bore
no signs Of anything unusual, but as soon
as darkness had settled down upon the
earth, the stump became thing Of beauty
Every particle of the fractured wood glowed
with phosphorescent light, and at a dis
| lance of three feet fine print could be read
| by this light Phosphorescent wood is not
uncommon, but it is not often that 1t is
| found to throw light any distance.
| Discharged From Custody.
Michael McCarty. formerly employed at
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