The morning call., 1890-05-01
COAST ITEMS.

nave ecu up 1Ol tio scaSOu.
Joe Sullivan of the Oakland Fire Depart
ment stands feet II inches in his stock
ings.
A creamery at Goleta, Santa Barbara
County, now turns out 200 rolls of butter on
each day.
The miners of Cotton are anxious to have
some capitalist put up reduction works at
that place.
Esbanks. the condemned murderer Of Los
Gatos, has quit chewing tobacco in favor OF
chewing gum.
The Yuma Sentinel says the Colorado
RIVER Is higher than at any time in the past
twenty years.
Two quicksilver mines in Mcleod dis
trlct, Salinas County, have been sold TO
Eastern capitalists.
Since October l, 1889, the expenses OF
Baker City. Oregon, have been S2S13 20
more than the receipts.
at the last counting Of coin in the Nevada
state Treasury there was found SOL, 343 81,
besides $4,000 in bonds.
The Winlock Pilot (Wash.) says six
thousand million feet of fir and cedar can
be cut within five miles of town.
The old bell that has been used for more
than thirty years at Santa Clara College
mas been replaced by larger one.
Within the past two years eighteen news
papers in San Diego County have been
started and buried, says the Informant.
The large hotel at Sierra Madre, Los An
geles County, was closed by Deputy
Sheriffs attachment last Saturday night.
+. G. Farmar of the San Francisco Bulle-
| tin has been selected as Official reporter for
the annual session n. S. q. w. at Chico.
Sheep men of Anaheim have contracted
with Eastern firms to ship twenty-three
carloads at once. They will get $14, $50 for
| the lot.
Christorh=r Beckmann. a wealthy farmer
| OF WooG ;ge. San Joaquin County, died
| suddenly GA Sunday Of heart disease. He
lived there since 1852
w. J. Helger of McMinnville, Oregon,
was killed last Saturday while saving wood
with bnZZ-Saw. \ stick flew off and
| struck him in the chest
The Victoria Colonst of April 23d says
the sealing fleet at Neah Bay has met with
poor success so far. The total catch at last
reports was only 191 skins.
The farmers of Union County, Oregon,
nave agreed to call convention to NOM
| mate il full set OF officers. No politician
viii be allowed in the rooms.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the farmers
| IN mat part oil the country are followed by
large numbers of sea gulls that get rich
picking out OF the fresh turned burrows.
The gold placers on the Colorado River
above Fort una are proving rich, but the
| owner OF claims have to scrape OFF fifteen
| feet OF white sand before reaching gravel.
Omar Hoskins was tried recently in Park
County, Montana, for alleged horse-steal-
| ing. he was acquitted, but the taxpayers
| Will have to foot bills amounting to $4,000.
John A. Davis of New York CITY has
| been appointed administrator of the estate
| OF the late Andrew j. Davis of Butte,
Mont, who left property worth 100000.
I, P. McGolly, miller at the Victor Mills,
HOLSTER, was badly hurt on Monday while
| pouring babbitt metal into journal bear
ing that was moist. He is likely to lose
both eyes.
Three canneres are running on the
| Columbia River with fish supplied by nom
union men. They are principally farmers
| along the river who are satisfied to get 5
| cents pound
| A prospector named George Ross was
fatally wounded near Gallup, n. Mex, re-
| Gently by party of Zunis. Ross managed
| to drive them off with his revolver and got
| to Fort Wingate.
A decree of distribution of the estate OF
| Hubbard was made in Stockton last Satur-
day. Mrs Hubbard takes all the property,
worth S42S, 600 and is to deed her two
| daughters 100000 each.
The Boulder Ratchet moved into new
| office last Saturday. 1t is 20x40 feet with
| all modern convenienees. The editors desk
! is marvel of strength and utility. He
made 1t out of an old dry-goods case.
4 band of 5000 cattle, owned by Monk
| Bros, were started from San Simon Ariz
last week. When forty miles away from
their range the whole band stampeded, and
| it will take a long time to collect them for
the next drive toward Kansas.
| Henry Mansfield, City Marshal of Chico.
is heavyweight -2S5 pounds = but he
| takes a back seat alongside OF H. S. Nor
ton, Treasurer of the Native Sons, says the
| Chico Recorder. When he reached the CITY
| OF Roses there was but one wagon strong
enough to carry him to the hotel.
Says the Placer Herald The Chinese
hrN 20 g., %I.aTl +.
| PenryD, but to defeat their purpose the
| Trustees of the Baptist Church bought the
| property the heatheDs were after, and are
| converting II into parsonage. Encouraged
| by this public spirit, Mrs. Isaac Hall has
donated an adjoining lot on which to erect
! church.
Says the Walla Walla Journal: Like a
! sheep is brought to slaughter pen, so we
| walk up to the pools and vote ourselves to
be strangulated with taxation. The anti
dote or restoratives usually come after the
| mischief is done. People love 10 be drained
and humbngged, and to educate them diff
ferently is like squeezing blood out of a
| turnip.
The Astorian says: The Cinnamon are
amusing themselves with huge top made
out OF an empty twenty-five pound white
lead keg. A square opening is cut in
the side, and it takes three men to SD in it,
one TO mold the top and two to pull the
| string with stick which sets it in motion.
| Whlie spinning 1t sounds like the whistle of
steamer, and can be heard three blocks
away.
Last Monday w. Blake, who lives near
Daunt, Tulare County, was aroused early
| by visit from California lioness and her
three cubs They appropriated young colt
and line porker, when Mr.. Blake turned
loose three hounds, while he went for his
| gun. The dogs killed one of the cubs, but
| they were all killed by the lioness, who re-
treated in good order before Blake was
able to fire shot.
Judge Willis Sweet. in the District Court
| of Mount Idaho, Idaho, has decided that
| chinese have no rights whatever on mining
lands In the United States, and that lease
| OF mining ground to them is invalid. and
amounts to an abandonment of a claim
| Measures will now be taken, if an appeal is
| not allowed. to GUST all Chinese miners in
the Territory. The decision is far-reaching
ana VIII lead to the abandonment Of much
| ground possessed by the Chinese.
DEPRIVED OF THEIR SUPPoRr-L. F. Haus-
sler, a cabinet-maker, died IN this city in June