The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-13
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Tel



ritOries.
Three citizens of San BernardinO are to be
prosecuted for wasting water from their own
aTtesian wells
Charlie Croco, a Woodland boy, was
drowned Monday while swimming in the
canal at that place.
Placer miners in Strawberry Gulch, FIRE.
mont County, Wyo-, are said to be washing
out SO a day TO man.
A three-Story and attic dormitory building
is to be erected at Stanford University by
September 20, 1891, the contract price of
which is S54,820.
A man named Lotus fat lily stabbed an
other by the name of Beden at Grande
Ronde River, Oregon, the other day in dis
pute over matter involving 80 cents.
Miss Victoria Cast, a Sacramento young
lady, has been rendered insane by religious
feeling a contemplation OF her supposed
sinful condition and a disappointment in
love.
The San Mateo Tlmes-Gazette says that
gold in paving quantities is now being taken
from the black sand washed down by the
streams Of that county from the Santa Cruz
Mountains.
The people Of Red Bluff, finding their re-
cent amendments 10 their charter uncOn-
Stiutional, aud not being able to make a
change in their government are talking of
diSinCorporaung.
Reports from all parts of Southern Cali
fOrnia indicate that the orange crop is to be
very large this season. 1t is likely to eX-
coed the crop of last season by hundreds Of
car loads, and the prospect is also bright for
good prices.
4. /. Larson, a labOrer. from Horse
Plains, Montana, has gone crazy. He i'm
AGNES the COWS are after him and want to
Kill him, and SO great is his terror that he
has several times tried to jump into the
river to escape.
Miss Ella Wilson. a sixteen-year-old Los
GttOs girl, myS terlOusly disappeared fIom
her house about SchoOl-time last Friday
morning and has not been heard from. She
acted as usual when she left, bidding her
father g0Od-Oy, and had only few dollars
in money.
1t is reported that the drives of Texas
cattle over much Of Wyoming into Montana
will ruin for the year a vide range Of area
and entail a loss of hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars. While much Of the mischief has
been done a determined effort Is being made
TO enforce shipment Of the herds.
The American C0lored Mems Mexican
Colonization Company is the name Of the
new organization that proposes to begin its
work by placing colonies on the east bank
of Colorado River below Yuma. They will
occupy the tract where the former owner,
the late Thomas II. Blythe. of will-litigation
by forming the LeTdO Colony.
In removing the tools from a well at
Stockton last week the gravel brought up
contained evidences Of an underground
river which must some time have existed 500
feet beneath the surface. Fish bones were
found in the gravel, one specimen being the
jaw-bOne of a fish THAT must have weighed
a pound or more. 1t differs in structure
from any fish known at present
AS Mrs. Brink Of Winters and her little
daughter were diving tile other day they
were attacked by a tramp who undertook 10
assault Mrs. Brink The fellow attempted
to drag her from the buggy, but the horse.
becoming frightened, wheeled, knocking the
man down, and ran down the roId toward
home, tire tramp in chase. Mrs. Brink
escaped, and a man whom she Identifies as
her asSallant has been arrested.
1t is said that in the western part Of Hum
boldt County there is a petrjfied forest
whose trees are Of enormous size. Near \.
ii. A. MasOn's ranch at Alder Greek there is
enc tree partly uncovered which is over 100
feet in length AID fifteen feet in circumfer-
ence. Numerous other trees are found in
the vicinity which are also petrhed, in fact
no living tree is found there. The country
in which these trees are found is mostly al
kali. The p6tTltied trees resemble pine to a
certain extent.
petition has been got up. sigued by
OF leading citizens Of Los Angeles, to Gov
ernOr Markham, asking for the pardon OF
W. +. Rozeie, who was convicted in De-
cember, 1887, of being an acc0mpllce of his
wife in a iOl-thrOwing episode, which
created quite a sensation at the time. The
signature Of Judge Gardiner, who tried the
case, Is attached TO tie petition. Mrs.
ROZele. who threw the vitriOl into Petrie'S
face, after two unsuccessful trials, was
allowed to 20. Her has band. however, was
convicted on the first trial and sentenced to
nine years in San Quentin.
a Butte dispatch of June 4th says: The
peculiar case Of a man with two divorce suits
pending against him at the same time came
to light here to-day. Edward Blythe came
here from Salt Lake year ago, and March
9th last married Miss Clara EyeIt. April
8th Mrs. Blythe discovered that she was
Mrs. Blythe No. 2, aud that her husband
had a legal wife and three children living
in Salt Lake. Correspondence followed be-
tween the two ladies bearing the name of
Edward Blythe and divorce suits were sim
utaneously begun, one in Butte and one in
Salt Lake. The divorce for Mrs. Blythe
No. was granted here to-day.