The morning call., 1890-06-08
COAST ITEMS.

CUAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The caDuery at Petaluma is at work with forty
hands.
The bank OF Woodland paid sec, $50 dividends
last year.
The cannery at Los Gatos is running full time
on cherries.
A band OF stock-rhieyes has been operating In
Custer County, Mont.
Nearly Twelve miles OF pipe for the new water
works of Santa Cruz has been laid.
Miss Monte Waterman has been elected IL
brarian Of the pubic library OF Santa Cruz.
L. A. Richards, laborer OF Yincent's ranch,
near Fresno, blew his. brains out on Wednesday.
An Italian gardener of Reno lost $500 worth
OF strawberries by The heavy frost last Monday
night.
The SOnoma Tribune says buyers are In town
trying TO contract for the entire peach crop al
$40 a ton.
John Chedrow died at Oak Bar, Siskiyou
County, last Saturday. He had mined In that
place since 1850.
The people of Salinas City intend TO have a
blow out on July 4tl, ana nave collected S110O
in coin as a starter.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers can be seen
on the plains At Silver Greek. Idaho. The ranch
ers are discouraged.
j. W. Reynolds VIII rebuild the Touring mill at
Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, that was burned
down some lime ago.
new warehouse. 10 cost $4,000, will be
erected al Wheatland, oregon, TO replace The one
washed away last winter.
The largest county in Washington is Okan.
ogan 5000 square miles, While Island is the
smallest, 176 square miles.
A round-house of the Tacoma Street Cable
Company collapsed suddenly on wednesday aud
one man, stranger. was killed.
James McLownd OF Monr0ni Utah. was killed
last Thursday by being thrown from his horse
over steep bank III Cottonwood Canyon.
James NJ. Heaion OF Latsh. WASH was thrown
from a buggy last sunday. He maDgled one of
his legs so badly as 10 require amputating.
By the last school census of Grass Valley that
town has lost Seventy-one chlldlen since 1889.
AT 50 head the loss 10 the school fund is S639.
The Trustees OF the Stockton Public library
have ordered all the files OF daily aud weekly
papers kept since January l, 1880, sold at any
pIlce.
AT the recent commencement exercises OF the
College OF Notre Dame of Santa Clara the pupils
presented Archbishop Riordan with beautiful
silver challce.
TWO attempts have been made recently TO burn
down the creamery at Newport Los Angeles
County. Both fires were started il the same
part Of the building.
The Burbank Times says the stockholders OF
the Laukershlm Ranch intend TO partition the
property so as 10 increase the chances OF selling
lands in small tracts
T. ID. Lilly a wellknown settler on the Still
lagnomsb, WASH, was Instantly killed few
days ago While telling tree. branch flew OH
and struck him on the head.
Dixon was lighted with electric lamps and
water was turned on for the first time on Nednes-
day. IL was a big day for The town and Tie peO-
pie celebrated II IN royal fashion.
barge loaded with $4,000 worth OF silver ore
went 10 tile bottom of tie river at Osbourne,
Idaho, last Monday. The barge was owned by
The Northern faclne Railroad Company.
The tetty tramway at the mouth OF the Columbia
River was extended 1892 feet during May. One
and third miles remain to be made. and the
huge brush mattresses Will be put IN this season
The Oregon Insane Asylum now contains 62o
patients and Is unable 10 give them enough
A net
that Will help 10 remedy the oVetciowded quar-
ters.
The steamers left Tillaniook last week for San
Francisco with $4,000 Ieet OF lumber for one
box factory. new mill has been contracted for
al this place, aud the machinery has been bought
at Salem.
boiling waller. The ranchers drive their hogs
for miles 10 the lake to be butchered To remove
the brlstes the animals ate thrown into The water
and hauled out clean.
The OIegonian says: The sand along the
banks OF the majestic Columbia River is an OBJ
staci- 10 railway traffic, almost as difficult to
overcome as the snow plockade5 during the WIN
ter. Nearly every Iain Is delayed on account of
the ever shifting sand-hlis covering the track.
Says the Yreka Journal: One of the latest
freaks or pTauks OF the Central Pacific RaIlroad
engines Is, lbat last week at GaZelle, tne cow
catcher picked up mule owned Dy Mrs. Camp
bell, and flung II at a mare, owned by Mr.. John
Farreiy OF Shasta Valley, killing both mule and
mare.
On the morning after election day the Portland
OItg0nian thus summarized the knliug OF
Thompson, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor: The election WAS satuinaa OF private
revenge, faclional spite and personal ambition
all round Except so far az Herman is con :
cerned IL has little party significance.
j. II. O'Neil OF Portland lost two fine dray-
horses and their harness last Friday. He started
TO plow foundation for a school building al the
corner OF aud Fourteenth streets, when the
animals fell INTO an old cesspoo forty feet dsep
| and were killed. MIR. o Neirs loss was 5000 He
found three more pits on The ground tnat were
equally dangerous.
The Tombstone Pr0spector says: A. L. Cum
| ming IS has family OF wildcats III his yard that
| are getting along nicely under tile watchiu care
| OF domestic cat for a mother. They were
| captured III the Huacuca Mountains and brought
| In TO Colonel Hafoid. Mr.. Cummings had
mother ca; that had just lost Two kittens. and
| he three young wild kittens We're given 10 her.
| She lakes ibe best OF care OF Them.
The Virginia City Chronicle says: An Indian
| was run over by The oie-cars near Beeville last
| Saturday and had his right arm crushed 10 a
| pulp above The elbow. The medicine man OF the
| tribe sawed Tie ann off below the shoulder with
| dull kpile and put u pouilce of sand on the
| stump When asked if the patient would get
well the dusky surgeon replied, "Mebbe So"
The -Four Corners is a new weekly paper OF
| Day, Modoc County. The town is close 10 the
corners OF Slskiyou, Modoc, Lassen and shasta
| counties. w. w. Mcmillan Is publisher and II.
| Stanley editor. This Is the second paper in Cal.
| nufDia with the same name. The first was
| started at Wheatland some years since aud is
| still running at the corners OF Yuba, SuIter,
! Placer and Nevada counties.
| Says ibe San Diego Union: Strangers wbo
| remark the absence Of birds In Southern Cali.
| fornia should pass night in proximity TO a fig
| orchard or all orange grove and hear the musical
| twitter poured forth for hours before daybreak
| In GEAR orchard a trio OF nests are established
in the leafy tops Of three spleudld fig trees and
| occupied respectively by the young families OF a
| pair o! wild canarles, OF golden orioles aud of
| bee birds.
| large steam road wagon started for the Ka.
wean colony the olher day. When the engineer
| reached the South Fork bridge ne refused 10 90
| upon 1t Till IL was strengthened. Some heavy
plankS were laid OH the stringers and the machine
| was sent forward. Before the ceuter OF Ihe
| bridge was reached ii collapsed and the road
| wagon fell forty feet into the raging current
| The engineer escaped aud was hshed out q long
| distance below The bridge.
Timber land In Wnatcom County, WASH, saws
the Reveille. Will cut 10,o0o,00O feet TO Ihe
| quarter section-mostly fir, with a sprinklpr
OF cedar One hr tree was 300 feet high and Al
feet In circumference. IL was rs feet 10 the first
| limb, and at that point was 10 feet torougI
| Much OF the timber land OF this cOunfry viii
yield Il. 100000 feet to the 16O acres and there
| Is at a low estimate, an average of / 800. 600
feet OF lumber 10 the square mile throughout the
| country. WV
Speaking of life among the noble red man y
| the M0have Miner contains The following: Wal
lapa1 Indian society, ike the "Hicu," gels bady
demoralized at times, and this week II has been
al , torn up. Waiiapal Charley got drunk and
whole Indian camp to object. Big Water bjp
buck who loves the seductive fire-water added
another wlie to bis harem, 10 which his fayorts
seriously objected, and made II lively for both
| by driving the new wife away and bounding her
amorous lord unit! lie begged for mercy
The Tariff and Custom House,
| A hand book of the tariff on imports into
the United States, the free list and the bond
and warehouse system now in force with