The morning call., 1891-09-29
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Terri
tories.
Tacoma has new paper, the Evening
Call.
The Eugene Oregon ice works is now in
operation.
A wooden factory Is to be established at
Union, Oregon, this fall.
Overcoats and heavy wraps are now the
order of the day in Wyoming.
HorsP-thieYes are said to be thick and get
ting in active work in the vicinity OF Day
export, Wash.
The street-car companies of San Bernar-
dino have thrown up their franchises rather
than pave their tracks.
A correspondent of the Butte Miner
claims to have discovered anthracite coal
within 100 miles OF Butte.
The pee pie of Gilroy are kicking vigor-
Ously over the assessments in that town. 1t
is claimed that they are VIGOROUSLY unfair
Highwaymen near Banning the other day
attacked TWO Cinnamon in a vegetable
wagon, killing one and badly woundIng the
other.
1t is reported that San Diego is to have a
new morning paper, the Courier, which will
be started by Hon. r. NJ. Dagsett, ex-
Minister to Hawaii.
While shooting at blue-jay near Salem,
recently, Charles Thatcher's gun kicked,
knocking Charles down and breaking his
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gun was loaded.
In the Fresno Colony, Friday. & thrash
iug-machine and outfit was burned, entail
ing a loss of $1,000. There was no insurance,
as this sort Of property is not taken as a
risk by insurance men.
Napa Valley vineyardists are not happy
at the prices Offering for wine grapes this
year. They think $40 ton is not enough
TO pay for picking, and some growers will
let the crop hang upon the vines until it Is
ready to drop eff.
F. A Fem, who has charge Of the selec-
ton OF lands coded to the Slate of idaho by
Congress says that the lands in tho north
are much more available Tor immediate re-
turns than those IN Southern Idaho, owing
TO the fact that no irrigation is needed in
that section.
The latest exhibition of undue goodness
has been made by certain rigtdly righteous
ones of Portland, who sent in a petition to
the Directors Of the recent industrial eX-
position there, asking them to remove
statues and paintings of the nude order
from the art gallery The Directors did
not comply.
The Portland Oregonian says: A regi-
ment of turkey buZZards, numbering hun
dreds, was seen the other morning between
Pendleton and the Agency These ill
favored birds were never seen before in that
locality and their presence in such large
numbers Is pulling those who witnessed
the spectacle.
At Sacramento, a day or two ago, as
Frank FOnt0n, butcher in slaughter
house, was hanging some meat on an iron
hook quite high up, the support on which he
stood gave way and FOnton was caught on
one of the hooks, which went through his
hand, and he hung there till rescued by
fellow-empl0yeS.
The water in Salton Lake has fallen four
teen inches ia the last five days, and the
amount OF water supplying the lake does
not equal the evaporation. the greatest
depth of the lake is 36 inches and its area
80 miles long by 10 wide. Recent visitors do
not think it has changed the climate of the
surrounding country.
San BernardinO County sporsmen who
desire TO shoot quail before October 1st have
hit on a scheme to eVade the law Beng
allowed to shoot the birds within a mile OF
vineyard they carry along grape-cuttings
to the hunting grounds, stick them in the
ground and hunt unmolested in the vicinity
of the improvlsed vineyard.
The pOstoffice at Evanston, Wyo, was
broken into the other night and the safe
blown open by some unknown parties.
Trey secured only a fraction over So. The
inner drawer OF the safe, containing about
$500, was not mOlCSted for some reason.
Tie officers are on the lookout for the burg
lars, but as yet have no trace Of them.
The Santa Maria Times says that as a
iduJ VI lldb lbNu WAS tuHdg6u III preparing
chicken Tor dluner one day last week she
found in its crop nugget of pure gold about
the size of grain of wheat. 1t has long
been known, adds the Times, that gold ex-
listed in considerable quantity down on the
beach, but no prospecting has been done
right in town.
A few nights ago some uuprincipled
scoundrels discharged several blasts of
| giant powder on the surface of the waters
| at Meadow Lake, near Cheney, thereby de-
| suoying large numbers of the carp in the
| lake. The crime is punishable by term of
several years in the Penitentiary and if
caught the perpetrators will undoubtedly be
| prosecuted and convicted.
There is well at the rear of a business
| block in Ocosta, Wash, that GIBBS ana flows
with the ebb and flow of the tide. The
Pioneer says Of it: When the tide is full
| stream nearly the full size OF a two-inch
| pipe flows from the well at a height of
! three feet above ground. When the tide is
out the water goes down in the pipe and it
requires the use Of pump to bring it to the
| surface.
The other day at Truckee two gamblers
| took fifteen shots at one anOther-no one
hurt Then an officer attempted to arrest
one Of them, and thirty or more bullets
| were fred-nether principal injured. To
| be sure, bystander was slightly winged by
a spent ball, but this was his own fault, as
| he might have made himself perfectly safe
ny StduuiHS III IIue WIN Ine principals OF
| the affair.
While a south-bound freight train on the
| Southern California Railroad was running
at rapid rats along the route in Bedrock
| Canyon, above Yorba, recently, it narrowly
| escaped very serious accident, which was
| only ayerted by the presence OF mind of a
| Mexican youth named Moreno. While work.
ing in a field lie heard great rumbling, and
| found mass of rock and earth had fallen
on the track. He had barely time TO rush up
the track and warn the freight.
John A. Wolford of Lone Mountain, n.
Mex, was blasting logs with black powder,
| when the powder was exploded in some
manner which he is as yet unable to ex-
| plain, blowing off all his clothing except his
| shoes, burning the skin from the front of
his body, legs and arms, tearing the flesh
| from the palms of his hands and pulling the
| finger-naiIs out by the roots. His beard
was burned off and his face SO blackened by
the burning powder as to render him almost
unrecOgnizable.
| VIII 5. Green of the Colusa Sun is trying
to square himself with the Colusa girls for
| having gone clear to Mississippi for wife.
He says: I'VE will wager years subscrip-
ton to our daily that we can number more
| good-looking young ladies than Marysyilie,
Woodland. Willows, Red Bluff. Chico, Oro-
vile or any OF such towns. Our children
look like their parents; the boys favor the
father and the girls the mother, and we are
| all Missourians born in Kentucky" That is
good, very good; but why, then. did brother
Greene go out of town for a wife?