The morning call., 1891-04-03
COAST ITEMS.

ment Dry-dOck at vancouver, Is. o., early
this summer.
A syndicate of capitalists from Helena,
Mont, recently bought tract OF 5000 acres
near Fairhaven, Wash.
The budget was presented to the Victoria
Legislature on Wednesday afternoon by Mr..
Turner. There was no debate.
The railroad depot of the Southern Pacific
Company al Rocklin was destroyed by fire
on Tuesday night. Loss, $1,000.
The Pomona Times says the navel orange
crop this year will not be so heavy as 1Or
1890, but the quality was never better.
Carroll and Allen, pugiiSts, under sem
tence for prize-fghting, escaped from the
jail at North Yakima on Wednesday night.
New York trust company has brought
suit to fOreclOse a biz mortgage on the
Helena Hot Springs and Smelter Railway
Company.
Since January 1st. says the Stockton
Mail, $50 acres in the northern part of San
Joaquin County has been planted to vines
and fruits.
A number of Modesto sports went to the
Fresno races last Saturday, says the News.
They struck the wrong horses and had to
walk home.
The Nevada City papers unite in saying
that the body recently found in the snow OF
the mountains was not that of Ed SecOrd,
who has been missing for nearly year.
Leading article in last weeks Whatcom
Reyeille: Several mistakes occurred IN our
items week or so ago, but 1T was our fault.
We changed our drinks from brandy 10
Hudson Bay rum.
The carcass of a sperm whale, % feet long,
washed ashore near Cape Arago, oregon,
The lucky finders went to work extracting
oil. From the head they took 800 gallons
and 100 barrels from the rest OF the cadaVer.
An ordinance was passed recently in Sc
attic which called for $1,000 special license
fee from concert saloons. The owners tried
to get an injunction from the Superior Court,
but Judge Lichtenberg promptly refused to
interfere.
Twenty years ago L. J. Rose of Los
Angeles bought yearling mare at Mill
waukre He got her cheap, but she has
proven a mine of wealth to her owner. for
her colts have sold for 100000 She has
now living sixteen sons and daughters.
Tha Fresno ExpOsitor says JUICE Holmes
of the Department of the Superior Court
has only been three months on the bench,
yet he has cleared the docket of every crinIl-
nal case. He did it by hard work by hold
ing court every day from A. NJ to P. NJ.
Jerry ST. Dennis, one Of the most extern
slye farmers aud St0ckmen OF the Umatllia
reservation, tells the Athens Press that
during the past ten months thieves have
stolen from him niuety-three head OF cattle,
six horses, set of harness, saddle, etc, aggre-
eating $500.
The Tulare Register says: The man.
moth steam shovel at work IN the bed OF the
San Joaquin River is scoOping out nearly
1000 cubic yards of gravel per day, which is
being strewn aiohg the road northward from
Fresno. The gravel-cars will be down this
way later on.
While digging sewer on West Eighth
street, Astoria, last Friday the w0rkmen
ran against some logs that formed part of
the old Fort George stOckade, built in 1910.
One was sawed through. 1t was Il spruce
tree, and was as sound as the day ii first
was put down.
The Roseburg Plaindealer says it is re-
ported that the mountain opposite the great
slide in Cow Creek canyon is loose and mOv-
ing slowly down hill. The railroad has
been moved out OF line about foot, and is
liable at any time to be buried beneath an
avalanche of rock.
Boomer BilyeD, aged 10 years, went on a
hunting trip from Scio, Oregon, last Mon
day. In jumping over a log his gun was
discharged, and one of his hands was ter
ribly shattered. Two doctors were called,
who performed amputatlOn, but the young
man died soon after.
No sooner was it announced that on April
LIST the city of San Diego would be without
street lights than every tough and vag in
Southern California made a bee line for that
place. The people, however, are up in
arms, and the first attempt TO rob or assault
will be stamped out by lynch law.
Says the Anacortes Progress: An East
ern Washington exchange dev0teS half a
column of its Sp%ce to an article entitlPd
How to Cultivate Wild Rye" 1t is not
generally known that wild rye can be cut
tiYated, but there are number of young
men in Anacortes who know a whole lot
about sowing wild oats
The Reno Journal SAYS: w. Hargraves
was engaged in planting currant bushes in
the back yard OF lot on Second street Sat
urday and found, about six inches beneath
the surface of the ground box about two
feet long containing a coffin. He did not
examine the contents. but the superstition is
that it contained the body of an infant
Says the Orovile Mercury: How many
eggs DO you suppose family eats in year?
gentleman told our reporter recently that
his wife figures that their family, one of five
persons, ate 101 dozen. and they didn't have
eggs every day either a family of five pei
sons. each one egg day, will consume 1925
eggs IN twelve months, or more than l52
dozen.
The Inyo Register says: T. L. Baker ar
rived from Kansas last week, bringing with
him twenty-five Bob Whites" Seven of
the birds died on the road. The rest were
turned loose in }. l.. Bourland's field. For
the benefit of those who have never seen
any of the species it may be stated that in
color and size they remember generally the
California quail. but have not the top-knot
of the latter. Look out for them and spare
their lives.
The following appeared in recent issue
of the Puyallup Commerce, edited by j.
Watermelon Redington: AyOung man who
resides at Spokane and Switzerland offers to
plant a flag on top of Mount Puyallup for
$1,000 The Puyalup Commerce will give
him $4,000 if he will go to the tptop of the
great snow mountain and there stand on his
head for thirty days. Between his toes he
must balance Il large transparency of black
cloth, on which will be printed with white
ink, in great primer caps, the soul-Stirring
motto: The Pnyallup Commerce rarely
Sux eggs and never milk dux."
There is perhaps no labor so tiresome as
that which its performer sees is 10 accom-
plish no good. And it is Just in this way,
saws the Salem Statesman, that Howard
and Curtis, the two amputating con-
victs in OregOn's State Penilentiary, have
been laboring every day, Sunday excepted,
for twelve long months. For ten long hours
every day they drag over the same we'll
known path heavy piece of pig iron. This
is their punishment for manning themselves
in the hope that they might escape labor.
1t Is just punishment, and it has been sue
cessfu for since these wretches have been
{ dragging the weight behind them there have
been no more self-impOsed amputati0ns.
The following bear story appeared in last
weeks news Of the McCloud River Pioneer:
Some days ago a shake-maker who was
making shakes at Black Cox Mountain,
north of town, cut down big five-foot
sugar pine, but after telling it discovered
it hollow for some forty feet above the butt
log Gazing in the cavity he discovered it
TO be chuck full of bears. five black, seven
cinnamon aud three grizzlies, the animals
having holed UP for the winter. With
great presence of mind. the man split off
some slabs, sawed off the hollow part,
nailed the slabs over the opening and
started the log down the steep mountain
toward this nlaPp whprp IL arrival safe nd
sound. Che bears can be seen through
ranlzs in the slabs living In stata of spnii-