The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-15
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOries.

ritOries.
Contra Costa County is shipping new
crop alfalfa hay.
The people of Pleasanton are talking Of
incorporating their town.
The monthly shipments Of oleomargarine
to Seattle are said to average 10000 pounds.
The fruit-growers of Grass Valley have
organized for mutual protection against
buyers.
The Blodgett Springs Hotel. eight miles
from Gilroy, was burned to the ground
Monday night
1t is said there will be very little barley in
the Sacramento Valley this year, and the
price will be high.
A horse accidentally overturned hive of
bees near Chico the other day. and was
stung TO death by the angry insects.
The people of Washington Township,
Alameda County, are moving in the matter
of a union high school under the new high
school law.
The big fire at San Jacinto last Wednesday
week OccasloGed loss OF $4,000, aud is
proving a sad blow to the industrial future
OF the town.
An effort is being made in Los Angeles to
secure the enforcement OF the State law for
bidding the sale of tobacco to children under
Is years old.
Sam Temple Of San Diego, the q" jim
Farrar of Helen Hunts novel, Ramona"
was married last Sunday at PERKS to Mrs
Elizabeth Winters of San Diego.
Some constituencies wretches tied fish
hooks to the drinking cups Of Petaluma's
new public fountain the other night. Fortu-
nateiy, however, no one got caught on
them.
Tacoma is to have business mems jubi-
lee, an entertainment in which one hundred
OF the leading business firms of Tacoma will
be represented by as many pretty young
ladies.
A new worm is working dire havoc in
Santa Clara County prune orchards AMI
growers will sign no contracts for their
crops until they see what the results of this
invasion will be.
Eight enlisted men have been arrested by
the military authorities at Fort Walla
Walla, charged with being accessory to the
lynching Of Hunt on April oath. On the
arrest becoming known six other men de-
serted Sunday night.
jose Vincente, section man at Byron,
while sitting OH a hand-car the other day
while the car was In motion, leaned too far
back, and the car-handle came down on his
shoulders crushing him double. He was
badly hurt, but may recover
r. Kirnan AID Recorder DUNCAN of Genoa,
while fOrding the river in Carson Valley last
week In buggy, were swept down by the
current. The water was so deep that the
the water and unhitching the horses man
aged to get them out and alterward pulled
the buggy out.
Ed T.. Hoffman, a Pasadena brick-layer.
who was Injured by falling from building
last September, has brought suit for NAL
practice against the two physicians who al
tended him. He alleges that he was worse
after two months treatment by them than
after the accident, and claims So, 900 dam
ages. Both doctors are prominent practi-
TONERS.
Ole Swanson, Seattle electric 1ineman.
while on the crosspiece of one OF the poles
the other day, accidentally received a shock
from live wire that rendered him inSensl-
bic. de fell against the heavy wires, and
was thus saved from falling to the ground
but it was some moments before he recoV-
cred consciousness sufficient y to descend
from his dangerous position.
A gentleman living near Selma planted out
vineyard this year, which sprUuted out
early and before the danger from frost had
| entirely passed. He was fearful that his
vines would be killed, and to prevent this
he turned cattle In the young vineyard TO
| eat off the young sprouts, which they did.
| The gentleman saws if the frost had caught
| the sprouts it would have worked its way
| down into the main vine and killed the
roots. AS it was he saved his vines after a
| severe frost, and they are now putting out
new sprouts.
| At the Baker City Jail one evening last
/ week, while the SherltfS were busy in their
! Office, some of the prisoners sought freedom
| by digging through the west wall OF the
| Jail. The instrument used to dig through
| the wall was a common pocket knife, ana it
proved an effective tool. as the work of re-
| moving thirty bricks only consumed the
| space of twenty minutes. The unusual
noise excited the suspicious of the officers,
who repaired to the rear end of the building,
where they found hole large enough for a
man to crawl through. Had the officers been
one minute later, several prisoners would
have been at liberty.