The morning call., 1890-06-05
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific Coast States
and Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific Coast states
and Territories
Los Angeles has 10,602 school-children
this year.
The houses in Olympia, WASH, are to be
numbered.
The frequent fires in Fresno seem 10 point
to the work Of tirebugs.
company has been organized at Wood
land to build 100000 hotel.
San Jose has 1859 school-children this
year, an increase of 314 over 1889.
All the soldiers at Fort Bidwell, New,
were sent to Arizona last Saturday.
Nine postofices have been established in
San Diego County since the first of the
year.
william Morgan of Spanish Fork. Utah,
was kicked to death on Tuesday by his run
away team.
An assessment Of mills share has been
levied by the Directors of one gravel mine
in Plumas County.
Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, will soon
have town hall. The contract was let
last week for $1,000.
Reno man sent a business letter to
Winnemuccs last November 1t reached its
destination last Friday.
Judge Hanford of Seattle has refused 20
dismiss the suits against eX-Speclal Customs
Agent Herbert Beecher.
Alexander Evans, farmer, was danger
ously hurt Oh Sunday while attempting to
stop his runaway horses.
A suit has been commenced in Sonora to
test the legality of the recent ordinance of
the Supervisors taxing sheep.
Work on the big canal in Colusa County
is going ahead rapidly. Already $1,000
cubic yards have been removed.
The Selma lrrigator says the money paid
yearly by Fresno fruit-g growers to Chinese
amounts to more than S1,000,000
The Whittier Pointer says Bernardino
Guirado has sold his 100 acre walnut
orchard to an Eastern capitalist for 100000.
The st. Helena Reflector says some of
the corn and grape crops around Howell
Mountain were injured by frost ON Sunday
night
Numerous frauds have been uuearthed in
Seattle regarding the Issuing of saloon
licenses. A number of arrests have been
made
The first shipment of barley this season
must be credited to Newman, StanlsiauS
County. 1t was two carloads of No. 1
brewing.
The people of Ellensburg, Oregon, have
voted in favor of raising 100000 for i'm
provements by bonds. The vote was 156
for against
Antonio Montoyo was bitten by rabid
coyote near Ell Sio, n. Mex, some days ago
while herding sheep. He died last Tuesday
of hydrOphobia.
The Supervisors of Sacramento have
been notified by City Attorney Bruner that
in future contracts eight hours must cOnSti-
tute days work.
There is 70 prospect of settlement of
the strike at the Wellington coal mines, b.
c., and the outlook Is gloomy for the strik-
ers and their families.
Seven carloads of machinery for the new
1louring-mill at Victoria, Il. e.. have ar
rived from Montreal. and work will be Wig
orously pushed forward.
The Tulare Register says the waters of
Kern River are flowing into Tulare Lake
lor the first time in many years. All the
lands in tine neighborhood are flooded, and
the loss to farmers is very heavy.
Says the Reporter: The crop of cherries
in Napa County is most abundant this
year, and owing to the extremely low price
paid for this fruit in San Francisco many
growers will not pick this years crop.
The result of the recent election in Ore
gou shows that the Prohibiti0nists, State
Grange and the labor union organization s
voted solid for Pennoyer. Binger Her.
| mann's majority for Congress will be clos
to 5000.
The small boys of Albuquerque travel in
gangs, and rob Chinese in the main streets.
The Morning Democrat says: 1t does seem
that the boys of this town have about
reached the limit of their deyilment. A re-
form school is needed in the Territory much
more than statehood is.
Arthur Kewley left his ranch at Love
locks, New, some ten days ago to hunt some
stock. Last Wednesday his horse was
| found near the lake in Big Meadows on a
narrow stretch of ground between two deep
sloughs. The animal was saddled and it is
| thought Kewley was swept off in trying to
| swim one of the creeks.
Says the San Bernardino Times-Index of
| Monday: Messrs. Nance u Knight OF Per-
| ris, who are the proprietors OF the Ferris
warehouse and rolling mills, to-day shipped
| five cars Of barley that was growing in the
| field forty-eight hours before shipping.
This barley was cut thrashed, and rolled
| and loaded on the cars, one carload being
| sent TO this city, one carload to Riverside,
| one carload to Pasadena, one carload to
| Barstow and cne carload to the Ladies'
| Annex, San Diego.