The morning call., 1891-05-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacihc states and
Territories.
A miner named Tenby was badly crushed
by falling cage in mine near Grass Val
ley Wednesday.
A forest fire is raging in the woods south
of Puyallup, Wash. and doing considerable
damage to the timber.
\. II. Wood of Cat Canyon, near Santa
Maria, has a ii Id of well-tiled wheat Oh his
place which stands six feet high.
A kite-shaped race-track is 10 be built at
Stockton on the race grounds. Nearly $4,000
has been raised for that purpose.
II is now proposed TO start an additional
agricultural experiment station at the Sol
dieTs' Home, near Santa Monica.
The Petaluma Packing Company has
begun work, and expects TO put uD over
LOCO coo cans of fruit this season.
Charles Moore, miner, was suffocated
in shaft near Albuquerque, N Mex, this
week by the fumes of powder smoke.
A Chinese laLeretto has been established
on D0rcey Island, about twenty miles from
Victoria, b. c., and five patients were taken
there Thursday.
Members of the Moiave and several other
tribes of Indians are having grand pow
WOW and cry-up for their dead on the Cali
fOInia bank Of the Colorado River.
O. b. Wilson, ex-Mayor of Great Bend,
Kans, was arrested in Seattle Monday on
the charge of absnonding with $4,000 be-
longing 10 people who lived in his town.
Three California lions were killed last
week within one and half miles of the
dollhouse, Fresno, by Joe Medley, an old
time Californian, The animals were I'M
usually large.
o. S. Liyermore, who has been taking the
school census Of Liyermore district, reports
the very large increase, for a town of that
size, Of about 100 over last year. TIE place
is growing rapidly.
Warren Ferguson fatally stabbed George
Collins (cOl0red) at Stockton the other night,
because of the representations of colored
girl that Collins had passed some unfaYor-
able comments upon himself.
William Donovan, a prominent Demo-
cratic politician, was found dead in his
room at Port Townsend Thursday after
noon with bullet hole in his head. What
prompted him to take his life is a mystery,
The experimental tobacco crop of three
acres that was planted in Los Angeles
County this season is said TO be doing very
well The young plants are already more
than foot high and making a vigorous
growth.
A watchdog belonging to Bud Taylor of
Tehachapi was bitten on the jaw by a huge
rattlesnake Monday. The dog fought and
killed the snake, and by the free use of
ammonia Mr.. Taylor succeeded in saving
the animal.
Replying to correspondent who has asked
for information Oh the subject Pasadena
writer says that orange blossoms and
other flowers may be best prepared for
sending East by waxing the stems and stick
ing them in potatoes.
The house of Section Boss Buckley at
Santa Onafre, San Diego County. was
broken into by two tramps Monday. The
thieves stole $40 in gold aud tore gold ring
from Mrs. Buckley's finger, severely LAGER
atng her hand in doing so.
The fourteen-year-old daughter of J. J.
Brown, professional cook at Seattle, eloped
last Thursday with ayOung Frenchman who
recently arrived there from Havre where
the girl had attended school He had fol-
lowed her all the way from France to marry
her.
Theresa Galindo, aged 16, and Victor Com
Zales, aged 70, were married in Judge Rev
nOlds' chambers in the County jail at Los
Angeles, Tuesday. Gonzales was prisoner
in the Jail, being confined there Oh barge
of seducing the girl. He had wanted to
marry her in the first place, but her parents
forbade it.
Two brothers named Dean made an as
sault Tuesday evening on Captain Beall
of the Visalia Salvation Army CAPTAIN
Beall is woman. She was struck over the
head and severeIy.hurt. Game, a member
of the army, went to her rescue and one of
the brothers attacked him. The two broth
ers then jumped the town to avoid arrest
Two Chico fishermen hooked perch the
other day, the peculiar appearance Of which
led them to cut it open. They found within
1t twenty-six live perch about half an inch
long packed side by side. The little fellows
were all alive, but died soon after removal
AS it is customary for these fish TO hatch
from eggs in the water, finding the small
ones in the mother fish was quite a novelty.
A Spokane Judge became indignant the
other day at jury, which, after being ont
twenty-fOur hours, could not agree. He or
dered them back to the jury. room and
ordered the baiiff to give them nothing To
eat until they had returned verdict of
guilty or not guilty, in highway-robbery
case. IL did not take the twelve good men
and true long to return verdict of guilty
after that
a number of residents of Monterey have
been greatly annoyed of late by anonymous
letters in peculiar print hand. Thursday
q sign ''roomS to let" printed and stuck up
on a house door, attracted the attention Of
a recipient of one Of these letters, and COM
parison showed certain peculiarities of the
lettering of both letters and sign were iden.
teal. A good deal of excitement is likely TO
result IRON the giveaway.
Near Calistoga, Saturday afternoon, de-
cayed tree fell across the railroad track. A
couple OF boys discovered il and with two