The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-22
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
rItories.
Nearly S35, 900 has been raised In stock fol
hosiery and underwear factory to be built
at Waterloo, Linn County, Oregon.
Thirsty, the wretch who attempted to as
sault iittle-six-year-old girl in Southern
California, has received eight years in the
penitentiary.
A liquid resembling petroleum has been
discovered near Black Lake, Olympia, and
samples have been sent to San Francisco
Tor testing purposes.
Mrs. Mary Lippy. living near Orange. was
caught III runaway accident at Santa Ana.
few days ago, and had several inches OF
her scalp torn from her head, besides being
otherwise hurt.
The stable of J. de Barth Shorb near Los
Angeles was destroyed by fire night or
two ago. Six valuable horses were de-
stroyed, besides four carriages, sixty tons
OF barley hay, several sets of harness and
other valuable property.
That typographical curiosity, the Azusa
News, says: 1t is learned that the Arrow
head Water Co. sold EItawonda Town Co.
water at $500 an inch, delivered. 1t is
rumored that the company will furnish
Glendora with water with slight advance.
Farmers living on the, east fork of Hood
River, Oregon, are about to utilize the water
OF that stream by building an irrigation
ditch four feet wide at the bottom and about
the same depth. The head of the ditch will
be 1900 feet above the head of the Columbia
River.
Indian Agent Cole has completed his
work of enrolling the CRur d. Alene Indians
entitled TO share in the distribution of
100000 paid by the Government for lands
recently coded. 1t is found that 426 Indians
are entitled to share of the money and
that each will receive S1100. Some Of them
are already well-to-do.
The San Jacinto Register says DR.. Gibson
OF Diamond Valley killed q monster rattle
snake on DR.. Gregory's ranch. This much
to-De-dreaded reptile measured five feet ami
TWO inches, and was II years old, as was
proven by an equal number of rattles
When discovered the huge creature was
Ielsurely swallowing cotton-tail rabbit
without any evident difficulty.
The Santa Cruz Herald recently ceased
publication and the Sentinel, believing that
It's loathed contemporary was entirely dead.
jumped upon the remains in gleeful and
cruel way; whereupon the Herald springs
into lille again and i'll supplemental num-
Der following its vaedictory proceeds to de-
nounce The editor of the Sentinel in half a
dozen articles loaded with hard names.
3. e.: Rees, a mining man, proposes to
reVoiutonlZe mining on inaccessible Lodges
by ascending to them in balloon. He says
that large balloon will be inflated in the
bottom OF the canyon and secured by ropes
there to prevent Its escape, when it is pro-
posed to initiate it and make the ascent to
the point in the walls of the canyon where
the ledge is and a foothold will be worked
into it from the balloon.
A party from the Portland Oregonian
Office lately assembled Mount Hood On the
summit they saw a very lively mouse, which
had made its nest in the copper box left by
the Alpine Club. 1t had gnawed one corner
off the book and cut up a newspaper to
make nest. Some of the boys threw stones
at the mouse, but soon desisted when they
thought what struggle for existence the
little beast must have. What the mouse or
the foxes live on is difficult to imagine. The
party left some food for the mouse, and
probably every one who ascends the mount
ain leaves some crusts or crumbs there, but
such stray fodder must furnish very pre-
carious existence even for mouse and his
mate.