The morning call., 1891-06-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and


Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Quong Lee. Yreka Chinaman, has so far
assimilated the Mclean mans business
ways as TO 90 into insolvency.
William j. Onsley, the young negro who
is confined in the County Jail at MarysvilIe
for the murder in July last of George Ball.
a prominent citizen of that city, is said to be
dying OF consumption.
The Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyo., has noti-
fed saloon-keepers that hereafter the Sun
day closing law will be rigidly enforced
Heretofore the saloons have kept open be-
tween the hours of 10 and O'Clock.
p. Chaperon, Portland baker, who per-
siSts in keeping his money in tin pail in
the cellar OF his house, was robbed Sunday
morning Of his pail and its contents for the
third time within the last six months.
The Retail Clerks Union of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is making war against those
merchants who, contrary to law, keep their
stores open on Sunday. The union is de-
termined to secure for the toiler one days
rest in seven.
Orlan Capron of Los Angeles. about 60
years Of age, who drives sprinkhng-cart
there, was thrown from his seat on the cart
Tuesday and the wagon passed over his
right wrist and hand. crushing them so that
some OF the fingers ii not the whole hand
will have TO be amputated.
ST. Helena boasts of an extraordinarily
active ''uldeSt inhabitant in the person of
book canvasser named Davenport, who, al
though now 92 years old, is as vigorous as
most men of 80. Two years ago, it is said.
he walked from st. Helena to Pope Valley
and back again, a distance of 81 miles, on
the same day.
1t is reported that valuable mineral paint
has been discovered in the MOrOngO dis
trict, east Of Banning Not only, says the
Citrograph, has the mineral value of $50
ton as paint, but secret analysis by the
State Mining Bureau shows that it carries
S279 in gold and one and six-tenths ounces
Of silver to the ton.
On the person of q drunken tramp, who
was run into the City Prison at Salem the
other night, were found number Of Lon
don and Chinese drafts. Among them was
a Wells Fargo money order and draft on
H0ng-hong. 1t is thought the arrest may
lead to the discovery of the offenders in
some important mail robbery.
About two months ago the butchers of
Helena, Mont, combined and put up the
price OF all kinds of fresh meat al least
cents per pound. The thing did not work as
they anticipated. however, and business fell
off so alarmingly that the ''trust" has col
lapSed and gone back to prices at which
people Of moderate means will buy meat.
Wednesday of this week was the twenty
first anniversary of the visit of three gentle
men to the locality where the town of
Riverside now stands, the result of which
visit was the founding Of that city. OF
those three only one, Dr. Z. g. Brown. is
alive to-day, the other two, DR.. w. B. Brink
and DR.. j. z. GreVes, have gone to the great
unknown.
horse, frightened by an electric car,
broke loose ana ran away in Sacramento
Wednesday morning. He frightened team
attached to an express wagon and they also
ran away. In less than five minutes sew
eral vehicles were wrecked, number of
people hurt, and pandemonium reigned until
both runaways were caught Fortunately
no one was seriously hurt.
A man named Marshall, claiming to be
from Oakland, and driving a buggy toward
the Oregon border, with a boy about Is
years old, was arrested at Ager, Shasta
County, Sunday, on charge of passing
bogus dollars, number OF which were
always observed II be in circulation i'm
mediately after their advent in ANY town.
They were taken to Yreka to await an ex-
animation.
Saturday night, after Miss Lydia Keyser,
who lives on her fathers RANCH near Sacra-
ment0, had retired 10 rest, she suddenly
became aware that there was n strange man
in her apartment. She screamed. when the
man spTang to her bedside and covered her
face with chlOrofUrm- soaked cloth. The
noise had awakened MIR. Keyser and his
son, however. who rushed to the room, but
the intruder made his escape. Whether the
object OF the miscreant was robbery, or some
grager crime, Is not known.
H. Nader, a Lincoln placer County, farm
er, was awakened late the other night by
man who asked shelter, saying he had been
robbed and beaten. Mr.. Nader thought the
fellow some drunken tramp, but he was
given permission TO sleep on a strawStack.
In the morning he was found unconscious,
with his skull fractured in two places. His
purse, containing some S13, was not taken,
but his watch-chain had been broken and his
watch was gone. The man was taken to the
hospital and may die. His aSsailantS have
not yet been found