The morning call., 1891-01-16
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
The daily output of the Nlpa tanneries
Is 1900 skins
large deposit of mineral paint has been
discovered in Pinal County, Ariz.
Mr.. Swineheart intends to start a weekly
paper at Elgin, Wallowa County, Oregon.
shark was caught at Santa Cruz the
other day whose liver yielded six barrels of
oil.
During 1880 the Dat Hill Quicksilver
mine: Napa County, produced 200 TASKS,
which sold for SOL each.
The Postmaster of Silver, Okanogan
County, Wash, gives the entire receipts Of
his office to the mail-carrier.
The tide ran so high last Sunday morning
at Santa barbara as to wash away the
street-car track at the beach.
-Four large whales were taken last week
at CoJo Station, Santa Barbara County. One
boat was smashed, but no one was hurt.
The store of Mcdonald Bros, at Grayson.
Stanlslaus County, WAS robbed ON Wednes-
day by masked men, who held up the own
ers and three visitors.
Mrs. Guest, an aged woman, was fatally
burned at Nanaimo, b. c., on Wednesday
Her clothing took fire while she was stand
ing before an open CRATE.
An electric cable car at Portland, Or, ran
into team of horses attached to a wood
wagon last Wednesday. Three horses were
killed and the wood piled upon the driver
The Contra Costa Democrat says the
Union StOck-yard Company has bought 65j
acres at Point Pinole and an engineer is
now engaged in laying Out asystem of water
works.
The Virginia Chronicle says: Idaho has
already elected three United States Senators
and Is thinking of elpcting another Don't
do 1t, Sister Idaho. Three of kind beats
two pairs.
The people of Ellensburgh, Wash, de-
mand that the books of the city officers be
0yerhauled. This has not been done for
five years, and the taxpayers want to know
where their money went.
Fairhaven, Wash, has raised bonus in
cash and property of about 900 to secure
the location OK the State Normal School. Ii
has also raised a like bonus OF 500, 700 TO
secure the Northwestern University, on
which 1t is understood $4,000 are to be ex-
pended within two years.
The San Diego Sun tells of monster
black bass taken with hook aud line recent
ly at Cedros Island. 1t weighed 3lS pounds
and the catcher was forty-two minutes in
getting the fish alongside the steamer Ka-
lux. Before attempting to haul on boaId
the fish was shot in the head.
The Tillamook Headlight claims the dis
tiHction of having published more land no.
tees than any other paper in the United
States Within the past two years the jour-
nal has contained $40 timber-and notices
anu cco huulCSbcdu pIS-tluptlDH mol tttS,
and the editor challenges the outside world
TO beat his record.
The Pomona Progress says: The Calkins
Coal Mining Company has been Incorporated
at Santa Barbara, with capital of 81, 100000
The mines to be developed lie near to South
Riverside. The coal obtained from the
South Riverside and Elsinore coal belts is
not marked first-class, but it is found to i'm
prove in quality as depth is attained.
The Los Angeles Times is responsible for
this The owners of several large ranches
near Los Angeles are talking of getting bills
through the Legislature TO make counties of
their estates. They will then appoint their
relatives to Office and invite taxpayers by
selling off their tracts on the instailment
plan, which they can afterward buy back
cheap ut Sheriff's delinquent sale.
Vandals have been operating in the john
Day country of late. A short time since
was discovered that fourteen tons of hay at
the old ranch of Dick Hickson. near Jen-
MES Peak, had been eaten up TO the lass
straw by outside ranch stock, says the Fos-
sill Journal. The wire fence around the
stack-yard had evidently been cut with some
sharp instrument, supposed to be Ratchet
and the wires laid down by hand by some
one few weeks before