The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-08
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific Coast States and
Territories.

Territories.
Timothy Lee is the new Chief of Police of
Sacramento.
The sales of State school books for March
were S2I07 IA.
The Grant City (Oregonl News has en-
tered on its twelfth volume
The grippe proved fatal to many Indians
on the north coast of Vancouver Island.
Hollister people must go without fires I'M
less they pay 81 cord for Stove-wood.
From and after April 26th tie San Diego
Informant will will be issued as a daily.
w. II. Murray stole a greyhound from a
Napa man, and was retired to the County
jail Tor SIX months.
The ne W hotel at Portland. Oregon. will
be opened next Monday. The land and
buildings cost SS00,000.
Five young women teachers of Helena.
Mont, VIII retire TO private life at the
end of the present school term.
Special Agent Rankin has been allotting
lands of the San Xavier Reservation, near
Tucson, among the Papago Indians.
The annual session of the Oregon Sun
day-Sch00l Association will be held at Nc
Minnville on April 18th, 10th and 18th.
81. ii. Nunnelly was fatally injured by
train at Anderson on Wednesday. He was
quite deaf and was walking on the track
Edward Tenyck was killed in the EIsi-
more Nine, near AlamoS, Lower California,
last Monday, by stick of timber falling
upon him.
The British barque Embleton left En-
gland for Tacoma, Wash, last fall and was
supposed to have been lost; but news has
been received that she put into the Falk-
land Islands for repairs.
f. II. Darrah, a wealthy citizen of San
Diego. went hunting deer in the mountains
fifty miles from Portland, Oregon on Tues
day last, when he was taken for deer by
j. c. Murray and was shot dead.
Jose Velasquez, a tough character of
Carlcarla, n. Mex, got into a fight with
Manuel Madrid, few days ago. The lat
ter carved his assailant to pieces, and was
promptly discharged by Coroner's Jury.
An artesian well on Charles Smiths
farm, near Anaheim, is constantly throw
ing out small fish. Smith has built q num-
Der of ponds that he will stock with the
fish supplied fresh from natures laboratory
Local capitalists of Los Angeles have
bonded large piece of land at the corner
of Alameda and Macy streets for S150 600
1t Will be offered to the Southern Pacific
and Santa Fe companies for union depot.
While raising her anchor at Astoria last
Monday the ship Coteswortb fOuled chain
and fiShed out fifty fathoms of fine cable at
tached to two-ton anchor. They were
lost some months ago by tie four-mast ship
Metropolis.
The late Conductor Gale who was killed
at Delta, Cal, on Wednesday morning was
OnC VI OLA OlOLlltIS. All Dub one were en-
ployed by the Southern Pacific Company as
conductors or engineers. The other, A. Y.
Gale, Is conductor on the Carson and Col
orado road.
A company with 100000 capital has
been organized in Portland. Oregon, to
build ship canal between the Straits of
Juan de Fuca and the waters of Puget
Sound. The eastern terminus will be in
the vicinity of the harbor of Juan de Fuca,
Island County, Wash, and the western
entrance near Point Partridge.
The Pennington Register tells of Ceur
d'Alene Indian named John Davenport
who seems to be an enterprising individual
He has built cabin on a choice piece of
meadow land In the part of the reservation
that Is to be opened for settlement, which
he will sell to the highest bidder on the
day before the land is thrown open.
The Portland Oregonian says: Nearly
| every able-bodied Indian woman of the
| Umatilla tribe has left her wigwam and
| gone on hunt for sheep-pelts, which they
remove from dead sheep. bring to town and
sell. The braves are compelled to lower
their dignity by cooking their own meals
and mourn the loss Of their better halves
A rumor that Governor Waterman intends
| to appoint fifty additional Notaries Public
for Los Angeles City set the old appointees
wild, says the Times of Wednesday. They
consulted lawyers, who Gained their ex-
cited clients by saying such an act would
be illegal. In spite of this the notares in
office here united for self protection. Ii
this scheme was carried through the Times
says it would mean that Waterman wants
to capture the Los Angeles delegation in
! the convention.
The Salem Statesman says: Quite an
amusing story is told on Supreme Judge
| ElmOn Scott. Coming down on the train
| he and chief Justice Anders were sitting in
the same seat, when Mr.. Scott got up to take
| little walk, leaving Judge Anders alone.
| Soon another gentleman came in and took
| Mr.. SCOTS position, and he returning and
| finding it occupied dropped into another
vacant seat near there. He sat there quite
while, very comfortably too, until he hap
1 pened to hear the rattle of handouts ON his
seat-mate. when he concluded he wanted to
walk again. The gentlemen who observed
| Judge SCOTS discontinue had hearty
laugh at his expense. 1t was quite con-
trast-a Supreme Judge and convict.