The morning call., 1890-08-19
COAST ITEMS.

San Diego puDllc ScnoOlS.
gold brick worth $4,000 was sent to
San Diego from the Alamo mines recently.
The Tacoma News says in 1900 the State
of Washington will have population OF
100000.
The thermometer at Oregon City regis
tered 1899 in the shade last Wednesday
afternoon.
Sneak-thieves resped rich harvest in
Marysvile one day last week during cir
Gus parade.
The farmers of Orange County made
money enough to wipe out S1S1, 600 IN mort
cages last year.
F. E. Stoneman of Traver plucked two
and-a- half-pound radish from his garden
patch last Friday.
Mr.. Barrett Of Six-mile Canyon. New,
owns a horse that catches chickens and
eats them for dessert.
Dixie Thompson of Santa Barbara
County has field of $500 acres Of beans to
look after these days.
l.. S. Hunt of Seattle has bought con-
trolling interest in the cable-lines from
Fred Sanders for 100000.
The woolen-mill at EDsenada, Lower
California, is kept running day and night
In filling orders in cassimeres.
Rev. Daniel Bayley and wife, OF Seattle,
celebrated their golden wedding on Friday.
They settled in Oregon in 1852.
The Orange County News advises its
readers TO plant beans. as they are more
profitable than corn or peanuts.
A halibut was caught in Juneau harbor,
Alaska, on August I'd, that weighed 921
pounds. 1t was seven feet long.
The places of the striking section-ha
on the Las Vegas Division Of the Santa Fe
road have been filed by new men.
A Tulare paper states that some of the
older portions OF the orchards i'll that re-
gion will pay this season at the rate VI
S124O 10 the acre net.
The man Mcneil, who chewed off one Of
the ears Of Marshal None of San Bernar.
dino, was sentenced to one years retire
ment AT San Quentin.
Says the Chloride Belt: An Eastern
gentleman writes us that he would like TO
know the principal productions of this place
are two thngs-sliyer and babies.
Mormons are looking towards Arizona as
the place Tor new stronghold. They have
10000 members already settled there and
several counties are controlled in politics
by their votes.
A baby was born On the steamer Walla
Walla last week while going to Victoria.
The new arrival was named after the cap
tain, Wallace Bradford, and the passengers
made up purse OF 500.
The Chico Chronicle says: Charles Bin
ney Of Marysville is said to be the oldest
railroad conductor in the United States.
He ran trains Tor more than thirty years,
and has passed his eightieth birthday.
A fine stream of water was struck in the
town Of SOnoma last week at depth Of 1S5
teet. The water rises sixteen feet above
the surface of the artesian pipe and dis
charges 100000 gallons in twenty-four
hours.
The steamer City Of Picking brought only
two tons of freight to Victoria, b. c., on her
first trip from China last week. She landed
100 Chinese who paid the British Govern
ment $50 each before stepping Oh the gang
plank.
A farmer on the Cerritos Grant in Los
Angeles County has a field of AZ acres in
corn. He wants to wager a pile of gold
coin that 10000 of the stalks stand % feet
tall. He says the yield OF this piece will be
$50 bushels to the acre.
All attempt was made last Monday to
consolidate the towns of Old and New
Whatcom, Wash, but the people of the
latter place voted solidly against the
measure and defeated it. Although the
greatest interest was manifested, there was
only one fight during the day.
The Los Angeles Express says: In boring
an artesian well in LompOc Valley log
was struck $50 feet below the surface. This
vindicates that the valley must have been
very deep lagoon. This log is now about
seventy feet below sea level. the mystery
is, at what period was this an arm of the
sea, sufficiently deep to float the largest
sized ships, eight miles back from the ocean.
The Humboldt Times says: Some curl
Gus finds were made at the graveyard while
exhuming the bones Of the Chinese buried
there for shipment on the Corona. The
most startling was the partially petrified
body OF Chinese woman. The flesh, by
some peculiar chemical action, HAD been
changed to substance closely resembling
chalk In point of hardness, grain and
weight, and the body had retained its natu-
raj shape and size.
The Portland Oregonian says: Pau
F. Mohr. who bought the wreck of the
Abercorn, says that there is little hope OF
utilizing the railroad iron with which the
vessel was loaded. When first brought tC
the surface the rails appear TO be sound and
good, but after few days they are coated
with rust nearly quarter of an inch thick
and the surface is eaten full of holes. The
iron also appears to have softened or be-
come rotten, and breaks easily.
The Spokane Fails Review says: Foolish
women who leave their husbands to &c
trailing after negro MINISTRIES have nc
cause Tor complaint when the Ministries
dodge their persistent attentions and move
on 10 pastures new. A Palouse woman is
threatening to follow up the dusky Adonis
who evaded her attentions and perforate
him with bullets. A better plan would be
to put the bullets where they will do the
most good and If she really insists on kill
Ing somebody to Kill herself.