The morning call., 1890-10-13
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOrios.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Smallpox has appeared at Ration, n. Mex.
The Grass Valley Telegraph will soon
move into larger building.
The Lemoore Leader has been enlarged,
and is now printed on new power-press.
Dog poisoning is all the rage now in Ma
rySviile, and the man who wants to keep his
animals has to be with them every hour.
A telephone wire now connects the office
of Moore & Smith, at Sanger, with their
lumber mills, fifty-two miles distant in the
mountains.
Bookkeeping is so profitable in the Salt
River Valley, AriZ.. that an ASSOCIATION has
been formed in MaricOpa County for extend
ing the industry.
The Supervisors of Monterey County has
fixed the lax levy for next year at 81 10 on
the 800, an increase of % cents over the
rate of last year.
A woman of PERKS, San Diego County,
has Just been assessed $1,000 by the County
Judge for utteIing slanderouS statements
about a neighb0r.
For the quarter ending September 80,
1880, the exports from NanaimO, B. c., were
valued at S392, 920 40, while those from Vic
toria only footed up S219, 446 50.
The Petaluma Imprint says the politicians
are working like beavers in that town and
the sack is open, but where it is or who ma
nipulates the machine is profound secret.
Six hundred horses have been stolen in
one county OF New Mexico within the past
six weeks. 1t Is 10 wonder that the new
constitution was defeated in that Territory.
A machine for stemming, grading and
cleaning raisinS by steam power is now
operating in Ell Caj0n Valley, San Diego
County, where 250 tons OF fruit are ready for
packing.
The Town Marshal of Cotton has killed
eighteen dogs recently for noE-payment of a
tax. This drastic measure caused thirty-two
owners OF animals to step up to the captains
office and settle.
Some Indians of the Puget Sound region
took small schooner to the Behring Sea a
few months ago. They have returned with
a catch of seventeen sea otter and $50 seal
skins. Two of the crew died on the cruise.
Captain James Andersen, head light
keeper at Fort Candy, Oregon, mailed q
letter to brother in Sweden from the As
storia Postoffice on April 4, 1863. 1t went
to the dead-letter office, and was returned to
the writer on May %, 1890.
sturgeon weighing 207 pounds was
caught in the Iaquna River the other day
ana the Oregon papers are going into spasmS
over the capture OF a sea monster, as they
call it. In this State sturgeon that only
weighs 207 pounds is not thought of.
Patrick MuldoOn, an old resident of
Placer County, died on the 18th of Septem-
her from injuries received by an accident.
He was bachelor and was known TO have
taken out $4,000 from mining claim, but
no one has been able to find any traces of
the money since his death.
Says the Oroville Register: On Butte
Creek, a few miles this side of Chico. a
farmer has some trained cats that catch
gophers. These cats live almost exclusively
in the fields, aud make their living from
catching the gophers. The latter are very
1astructiyp tn, roots of the alfalfa SO
that each cat that is a good gopher-catcher
is estimated to be worth $50 to the farmer.
They are proving so valuable to him that he
has recently purchased number OF addi-
tional cats in Chico and says this is the
cheapest and most effective way of Kidding
his fields OF this pest.
Mr.. William Stenhouse of Nanaimo, SAYS
the Free Press, IL training number of
Belgian carrier pigeons 10 fly between Vic
toria and Nanaimo. Already he has them
trained to come from Shawnigan TO their
cote at Nanaimo. Shawnigan is forty-fye
miles distant from Nanaimo, and the birds
made the last trip in sixty-hve minutes. Mr..
Stenhouse says that as soon as the birds do
the distance from Shawnigan 20 Nanaimo in
fifty-live minutes. almost a mile minute,
then he will start them from Victoria. The
pigeons are sent down by passengers on the
train, and on arriving at ShawnIgan are lot
loose.
George G. Phinney was nominated re-
Gently, by the Democrats of Seattle, WASH,
for State Senator from the Twenty-eighth
Senatorial District, but he declined to run
for the following eosent reasons: My rep.
utation now is fair. and every one who
knows me says that &c. w. Phinney is a
pretty good fellow; the more we know of
him the better we like him." But before
the campaign was ended, if carried on az
was the last disgraceful city campa gn. the
Seattle papers would declare my old father
was horse thief and that my grandfather
was hanged for murder. There would be
six dead Seattle editors and | would be in