The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-13
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The population of La Platte County, Colo,
increased 6l20 in the last decade.
From nine peach trees F. II. Gardiner of
Orange has recently picked 5l2S pounds.
An Idaho paper says the value of horses
stolen in the past five months is not less than
$50, 200.
George w. Dow of Los Angeles plucked a
snake cucumber the other day that measured
seven fe t.
One of the finest brick buildings in Eureka
is owned by the Humboldt County Pioneer
Association.
The new Library Building at Pasadena
that was opened to the public last Monday
cost $4,000.
George Began fell down mining shaft at
Pima, Ariz., last Monday, and received Seri-
Gus injuries.
August Waldo rg was killed in saloon
near Phoebe, Utah, last Wednesday, by j..
Ii. Mcdonald.
Some rich deposits of cinnabar have been
discovered in the Siskiyou Mountains. west
of Ashland and Wagner Buttes.
In the first six months OF the year there
were 500 buildings erected in Salt Lake City,
81 OF which were business blocks.
A cleanup of the Jefferson Bar placer
mine, Madison County, Mont, was made last
week, when $4,000 was realized.
An effort will be made at the next session
of the Washington Legislature to get an ap-
preparation of 100000 for the Worlds Fair
exhibit.
Local capitalists of San Diego are talking
OF starting large tannery, SO as to keep the
large number OF hides that are shipped from
that county every year.
A large raft used on the Frazer River, B.
c., to work the gold-bearing sand, collapsed
last Saturday and ali the machinery went to
IL
Fifteen harvesters are now at work on the
wheat-ields of the Excelsior farm, at Ala
mosa, Colo, and the owners expect to get
10000 bushels OF choice wheat
A notorious woman is defying the police
of Spokane, and says she will open resort
in the best portion of the city in spite of
the law or public Indignation.
A masked robber stood up the Butte and
Champion stage, sixteen miles from Butte,
Mont, last Wednesday, and two passengers
we're relieved Of watches and $50 in cola.
William Hanna, a farmer of Livermore
Valley, shot a laborer named Leeders on
Wednesday. The men had dispute about
settling bill and Leaders threatened
Hanna
small boy, named Streight, of Boise CITY,
found some powder last Thursday and pro-
ceeded tn touch it Off with match. He was
terribly burned about the face, and one OF his
eyes was ruined.
William Varker leased the Eagle Mine,
near Colvile, Wash. a month ago., and
bought him out. While the lease ran, Mr..
Varker took out $1,000.
The little Indian child of whose extended
sleep the Inyo Register recently gave an ac-
count has died. Its slumber lasted over
six weeks and was never broken. The
child passed quietly from sleep into death.
Judge w. Il. Calkins of Tacoma has for
rod fEa 81 81
Senator Squire. His chief manager is N.
II. Owings, a shrewd politician, while Sheriff
McGraw Of Seattle looks after Squire's in
terests.
The Silver State says that the temperature
has reached the freezing point on the low
lands along the river, and tomato, squash
and other tender vines are wilted. In the
canyons and uplands the frost has not been
so heavy.
Says the Carson Tribune: The score of
433 made by the Carson Guard team of ten
men at the Miners Union picnic on Satur-
day last with Springfield rifles has never
been equaled by military company in the
United States.
Says the Pasadena Star: The franchise
for the Mount Badly toll-road has been
granted. 1t only requires slight stretch of
the imagination to see a six-horSe stage team
swinging around the white face of that alti-
tudinous peak just below the l., O00-feet line
The Star says. Forty years ago. when
California was admitted into the Union,
Pasadena was not putting on many airs as
city. The coyotes and jackrabbts divided
sway here with the mission sheep and cat
tie, and Ordinance 125 had not been con-
cocted.
A Pineville (Oregon) man who weighs $50
pounds got drunk the other day and under
took to ride an unbroken cayuse. Result:
Broken ribs. fractured collar-b bone, dislo-
Gated shoulder-blade and some internal in
juries thrown In. The doctors say he will
pull through In a few weeks.
The Homer Index says: A streak OF
lightning, o few days ago, on Tuolumne