The morning call., 1890-09-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter

Brief Note. From ractfic States and Ter
rItori-s.
Seventy-eight brick buildings are going up
i'll SPOKANE Falls.
Ripe dates are now gathered in Yuma
gardens, says the Times.
The Fish Commissioners planted 10000
trout in the streams of FL Dorado County last
Friday.
An employe OF the Mexican Mill caught a
silver trout fu the Carson River last Sunday.
1t sealed pounds,
The Eureka Sentinel says the frosty
nights of last week killed nearly all the
vegetables in that vicinity.
Since the Bank of Tehama County was
started, sixteen years ago, there has not
been change in The officers.
The strike of the street-clr drivers at Salt
Lake City resulted i'll tizzle, as enough new
men were hired to take their places.
The beach at Crescent City has been COW
cred with swarmS of herring and smelt that
were driven ashore By strong tides. The
stencil Is unbeara6le.
The farmers Of L0mp0c, Santa Barbara
County, feel happy, with beans selling at
81 50 per 100 pounds and potatoes at cent
a pound at The landing.
Two men-Buck and Barber-plea1ed
guilty to horse-Stealng III Crescent City last
Wednesday, when judge Murphy promptly
sent them to Folsom for five years each.
Augustus Nyman. miner at the South
Galena mine, near Salt Lalle City, had one
of his hands blown off last Friday by the
premature explosion OF charge of dyna-
mite.
The first woman sent to the Penitentiary
at Salem, Oregon, was Charity Lamb, who
was given life sentence IN September Is,
1854, for murder. In 1867 she was sent TO
the Insane Asylum.
Charles Lockett was fatally shot by John
7 S1l- / Oh. ~, NJ
They had been on bad terms for several
days and the shooting was caused by Lock
EFT throwing stones at SnellsOn.
The agents of an English syndicate visited
independence last week to examine the
Eastside Canal aud adjacent properly in
1nyo County, with view to purchase The
Index says tie report viii be favorable.
a tug will take barge with 1000 tons of
bituminous rock from Port Harfnrt TO Ia
coma, Wash. as an EXPERIMENT. If the work
succeeds, a contract will be entered into de-
liver COCO tons more by the same means.
The county Jail at Crescent City, Del
Norte, last Monday week, held four prison.
ers-two for assault to murder and two
horse-thieves. The Record says this is the
largest number on hand since the county was
organized.
Captain Smith and young man left
Granite Creek, New, recently 10 scout for
horses. They lost their way in the desert,
and for two days and nights went without
food or water. When they struck the rail-
road. near Lovelocks, they were pretty we'll
used up.
a Chinese fisherman at Monterey caught
a small lobster last Saturday. He did not
know what it was. but Chico man saw it
and sent 1t by express to the curator of the
Normal School. Although small the lobster
was perfectly formed, showing that those
planted on the Coast some years ago are
growing.
George W. Carney left Chico last Saturday
fol deer-hunting trip. While walking
along the tume of the Sierra Lumber Com
pany he fell thirty feet and broke his left
thigh bone. He lay on the ground for twen-
ty-four hours before his friends found him,
and he was put on a box raft and foated
down the fume to Chico.
F. NJ. billiards best girl back in Texas re-
fused to come out here and share his lovely
home on Eureka Flat, after he had it all
nicely fixed up, says tie Walla Walla
Journal. Seeing that she wouldn't come to
his ranch to c. w. Painter for 5000, his
mules and wagon for $3.50, his wheat for 62
cents bushel, and now is on his way back
to Texas and to the girl he loves.
The Portland Oregnniau says: A big
council will be held by the Umatillas, as
soon as all the hunting parties now in the
mountains return, to talk ever the matter
of allotting their lands in Sveralty. A re-
port says that a mai 4 ty of the Indians are
dissatisfied with the" boundary lines Of the
diminished reserve, and claim that it was
not surveyed in accordance with their wishes.
They want to keep tile land lying near
Athena The opinion of the cniefs and head
men On the question will be expressed at
the pow-wow.
The Truckee Republican says: A Mr..
Bager, San Francisco gentleman of means.
was up here not long ago and took a great
fancy to Bonner Lake. He found out the
facts concerning the land. ard this week he
took possession of it and is now fencing it,
We have been told that it is his intention to
erect large and handsome hotel ON the site
next year.