The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter


ritories.
State Treasurer fluffy of Nevada is dam
gerously ill at Carson.
The therm ometer at Sonoma climbed to
9o1 IN the shade last Monday.
Bakersfield will have woolen-mll as
soon as her people raise $4,000.
The MADEIRA Mercury is now printed on a
new cylinder press with steam power.
The Santa Ana Herald will be sold at
auction on May 31st to close tie estate Of
A. Waite.
The Southern Pacific Company will move
their paint-shopS from Deniug, n. Mex, to
Los Angeles
George Gordon of Mariposa picked up
small chiSpa in his quartz claim last week.
1t is worth S1G6
The MERGED Express says the big four of
It's future prosperity will be raisinS, olives,
hgs and oranges.
The Otay Press says harvesting salt has
begun at the lower end of that valley by
Shaffer Brothers.
When twenty Holland colonies are settled
near MERGED, that thriving city will contain
10000 inhabitants.
The Territorial Enterprise says the men
OF Virginia City are slowly becoming tenn
perate In drinking.
Some of the thrifty farmers of Otay Val
ley have shipped their second crop of pota-
toes to San Francisco.
A fifteen-months-ol son of W. Howe OF
Glroy fell into a ditch on Saturday near
town and was drowned.
The Ukiah Dispatch and Democrat is
now printed by steam power. The engine
was imported from Boston.
The lawyers of Sonoma County have petit
toned the Superior Court for vacation
from July 1st to August 31st.
Editor Halle of the Greenville Bulletin
wants to 20 to the Assembly from the Sixth
District cOlnnnsp6 nf plumoc
counties. He is a stalwart Republican.
printed transcript on appeal of 1912
pages was filed in the Office Of the County
Clerk of Contra Costa last week by one of
the parties IN the great suit of Emerc VS..
Alvarado.
r. L. Gordon and J. L. Mckay of Rum
sey, olo County, went out quail shooting
last Saturday They found no birds, but
they did bag seventeen ratllesnakeS in one
field and then quit.
The V fiume from the mountains to
Sanger has now reached Kings River. 1t
Will he carried across the river 450 feet on a
suspension bridge, the towers OF which are
sixty feet above ground.
The town of Coolidge, n. Mex, was
wiped out by fire last Saturday. A
colony OF tramps had been infesting the
place and the people were making prepara-
lions to eXpel them. The fire was no doubt
started by the tramps.
Says the Pasadena Star: Los Angeles
County sends annually to foreign markets
fully $4,000 for butter and cheese. This is
disgracefully wrong. We can and should
produce every pound needed for home con-
sumption, but are too lazy to do it.
An exploring party sent out by the
Seattle Press to Alaska six months ago has
returned. They report having suffered ter
rbly during the winter from snow and
high water, but they found rich country
and evidence of Observation-Disclosures.
a monster crab was landed in net from
wharf in San Diego last Thursday by L..
Z. Bragg, The body measured Is inches
across, while the spread OF the nippers was
So inches. This giant crustacean was orna-
vented with barnacles of years growth.
The San BerdoOn Times-Index finds fault
with Governor Waterman for the cheap
manner in which the title deeds to the new
asylum were prepared. Four deeds were
sumptuously bound in gros-grained Turkey
leyant with gold trimmings, but the deeds
were written on paper instead of being ell
crossed on pure yellum. Some people are
hard to please.
The Astorian of May DIST saws: It is re-
| ported that belt of 10000 acres Of timber
land in the vicinity of Buck Lake, in the
southern part of the State and tributary to
the Klam ath River, has been sold to New
YORK syndicate at $3.50 per claim of 100
acres, and that the same syndicate had
| bonded 10000 acres of very choice land in
the same section for Sl2 per acre. A large
| portion OF this timber land was fled on by
| California parties. General Russell A.
Alger is one of this syndicate.
Says Brother Norvell of the MERGED Ex-
press; As city MERGED is a hog. We are
| willing to admit as much. We want the
| Oakdale road. We want the Yosemite
| road. We want all the roads that the portlv
huntington or anybody else will build the
mnchine-shops, r0und-houses and division
| headquarters OF the whole San Joaquin Val
! M n.sl-t
| true that we are hoggish in these matters.
but it is necessary to be that way in order
| to keep pace with the rest of the world.
| But the pleasant feature of the whole bust
ness is that we are going to get everything
| we have asked for.
Live local from the Anaheim Gazette .
| A reporter for a Santa Ana paper was de-
| tailed TO interview Charles Dudley Warner
| In his private car, which arrived at Santa
Ana with its distinguished freight one dav
last week The reporter had never seen
| Warner, and did not know tut that the col
ored porter who barred his entrance to the
| car was the man he was after So he inter
| viewed the sable gentleman, and printed
| the outcome of it, thinking all the time he
was interviewing Warner. The latter i'm
medlately stopped his paper" and the al
| legged reporter is now acting as porter in n
sausage factory Mt FL Modena.
a man in Eastern Oregon was convicted
OF horse-sleallng some year or so ago, and
was sent to the penitentiary. The officers
| OF Grant County solo some Of his horses to
| pay Tor costs OF his trial, etc. While he
went to Jail, his lawyers went to the Su-
preme Court and got new trial. The peo-
pie OF Grant County were in a Dad fix. but
they were equal to the occasion. Before
the second case could be tried a round up
OF STOCK disclosed several cases of his tam
perlng with their brands. A vigilance COM
mittee was organized, and Hunsaeker was
given the choice to skip or TO take the rome