The morning call., 1891-06-25
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
Titories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
Titories.
Virginia, New, is infested with sneak
thieves.
A Whatcom County (Wash.) man claims
to have at last discovered the secret Of per-
petual motion.
The San Jose papers are making a vigor-
Gus fight against Heinlelnville, the local
Chinatown, with view to abollshing that
nuisance.
Capay Valley in the western part of Yolo
County claims the honor of having sent the
first MoOrpark apricots to the city market
this year.
Baker City (Oregon) is to be the shipping
point lot the ; ven Devils mining section.
1t is rumored that large smelter will be
erected there.
The police authorities Of Seattle are wag-
Ing vigorous warfare against Whltechapel,
the portion OF that city where feminine dis
repute holds sway.
II was Colonel John L. Sullivan" by
the time he reached San Jose, and Ia was
there regarded as a greater man than Baby
Mckee'S grandfather
It is estimated that the timber in ClatsOp
County, Oregon, consisting largely of spruce,
cedar, hemlOck and yellow fir, represents
value OF fully S2O,O0O,000
The retail clerks Of Salt Lake City have
Issued a plea to the people to do their trad
ing before o'clock in the evening. that the
clerks may have opportunity for some
recreation.
Mary Peasants, who was a conspicuous
figure In the notorious Sharon Hill mar
rage affair, is now the owner, by purchase,
Of the DTumm0nd estate near Glen Ellen,
SOn0ma County.
Mrs. Grinnell Of San Diego was sent to
Napa last week, having become insane
from too much meditation on the teachings
and theories of an alleged Christian healer
who visited that section during the winter
In the vicinity of Victoria, B. c., the re-
cent rains have done much damage among
the game birds. The young grouse, quail
and pheasantS are just ABOUT Matched and it
is predicted that many Of them will be
drowned in the nests.
The teredo, the dreaded marine insect
that bores into and makes useless so many
wooden structures built in water, is said to
be unknown in the Columbia River. Piles
driven IN the water at Astoria thirty years
ago are said still to be sound aud perfect.
Mrs FOng You, Los Angeles China
woman, committed suicide Saturday even
ing by taking opium, the reason Tor her
action being that her husband, VINO two
years ago had gone to China, promising to
return or send for her IN six months, had
failed to keep his WORD.
An unknown man was last Thursday
found dead In the hills, fifteen miles from
Greenylle, Plumas County. He had been
shot in the shoulder, but no clew has yet
been found to the murderer. Two hundred
and Twenty-Five dollars was found in the
possession of the dead man.
Henry c. WhppIe. an old resident of Inyo
and Mono counties, died very suddenly
! Thursday night at Independence. He had
been i'll but was better and was sitting up,
| laughing and chatting with his physician,
when he suddenly started up saying doc
tor, | am blind" and died immediately
An old avpamora tran ,af no. baar n 1on1
mark at East Los Angeles ever since white
men have known that section, was cut down
last week. The trunk was over six feet in
diameter, and experts say the tree was 1000
years old. II had become too old, however,
TO support the weight of its branches and TO
avoid accident II was removed.
Sacramento is becoming too conventional
and citited for anything. A city ordinance
has been framed there, and will undoubtedly
be passed, prohibiting any persons from al
lowing their horses, pigs, cows or other
stock from grazing in the streets of that
city except when securely tied or held Dy
ropes not 10 exceed ten feet in length, and in
front of their own premises"
a man named Weir, a section foreman in
the Los Angeles yard, has invented car
coupling that is spoken of by the railroad
men as being tue best ever produced: the
contrivance is such that while 1t operates
with common pin and link it is not alb
solutely necessary for the brakeman to get
in between the cars to do the coupling. An
effort is being made to have the Southern
Pacific adopt it.
The Elko Independent says, under date of
June 10Th, William Mitchell of Smith
Creek has just completed shearing over 1000
head of sheep, from which the clip will
amount to between %, 900 and &c, 900 pounds
about seven pounds to the head Mr..
Mitchell has the wool all baled and will
soon commence hauling it to this place for
shipment. He expects to have it ali in by
July 1st. From band of 23O0 ewes Mr..
Mitchell has marked the remarkably large
number of 2069 head of lambs.
The New Westminster (B. c. Ledger
says: Two cougars, evidently mother and
cub, were seen by two men on large cedar
tree on Lulu Island. some distance from the
bridge. The men at once set about the cap
ture of the animals. The tree was burned
down and when it fell the cougars came
with it. The mother was promptly shot
and the cub taken prisoner and brought to
the town. The young one is a vicious little
creature, savage and intractable to a degree,
but naturally is priced by its fortunate cap
tors. The old cougar measured good bit
over six feet from tail tip to muZZle.