The morning call., 1891-10-03
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.


A fish cannery has been started at
Laguna.
The Colusa B ard of Supervisors refuse
to dismiss the Willows election cases.
A yonng woman OF Nspa, Ca, has ad-
vertised in the local paper for husband.
The Ontario raisin crop is said to be
about third larger this year than ever
before.
One man in Anaheim has raised 115,OOO
pampas plumeS this season, and finds O
ready market for them.
The new Santa Ana water works have
been satisfactorily tested, solid stream be-
ing thrown 135 feet vertically.
Qlite number of horses and mules have
died near Woodland in the past few days
from the effect of eating cantaloupe melons
In a field.
Miguel Hernandez a well-to-do Mexican
OF Park View, n. Mex, and owner of con-
siderable ranch stock, committed suicide re-
Gently by blowing the top Of his head off.
Stories are told by travellers through the
Cascade Mountains of an active volcano to
be seen some distance cas- of Mount Rainier.
Plans are being made for seeking 1t out
next summer.
David Talley of Julian killed mountain
lion near there recently, which measured
nine feet from tip to tip. His color was
Gawny yellow, with numerous White spots,
showing great age.
The woods in the vicinity Of La Camas,
Oregon, are said to be alive with coyotes SO
bold and Troublesome that people actually
find it necessary to club them away from
carriages or under tue horses feet.
Salvador TriobiO, an Italian miner at
Jackson, AmadOr County, lost his last dol
lar Friday night at the gambling-table
when lie pushed the cards away and placing
a pistol to his head blew his brains out.
James Price, a Scotchman, while under
the influence of liquor, tried 10 drown him
self in an irrigating canal at Riverside, the
other day. His laudable Intention was fruS-
trated by three men, who tSheu HIN out.
Rev. Daniel Clay. the aged minist 'r, who
was arrested at San Pedro on charge Of
criminally assauiting eleven-year-oid girl,
was discharged by the Los Angeles court,
the case being shown to be clearly one of
conspiracy.
The school children of Helena are raising
a fund to get handsome gold medal to pre-
sent TO Charles Curtis OF that pia e, who
recently risked his life ana broke leg in
reScuing child from n terrible death in
front of a runaway horse.
a man at Dunlap, in Southern Arizona,
the other day put giant cap in his pipe
along with some loose tobacco, and had one
finger half torn off by the explosion. 1t was
some little time before he could be con-
WINGED that the camp had not been attacked
by Apaches.
At his home near Slayton, Oregon, last
week, Calvin Neal, aged about 70 years, and
a pioneer of 1914, died to all appearances.
After fourteen hours, and While pTepara-
tions for his burial were being made. he
showed signs of life aud revived, though he
lived but few hours atterward.
The Beaver, the first steamboat that ever
sailed on the Pacific Ocean, is now lying at
Burrards Inlet, on the Oregon coast, where
she is being visited by thousands of people
Tho nrapnui.n no j. ast hnip inH
away pieeemeal by those who wish memen-
toes of the pioneer craft The Beaver came
around the Horn fiity-twO years ago.
A curious question is up for decision In
the court at Ventura. James LeOnard
wants an injunction to prevent the Lewis
Brothers from thrashing beans on his land
on the ground that the machinery had been
used ON another place where wild morning
glory abOundS and that the seed of the
noXious weed would be disseminated on
plaintiffs land.
The statistics furnished at the port of
Vancouver b. c., state that for q period Of
six and a half months, from January l to
July 10. 1891, there were diSembarked at
Vancouver 1900 Cinnamon, 9J per cent of
whom were bound for the Uuitet States. 1t
is doubtless true, as many claim, that
large percentage of these succeeded in
stealing across the border aud into this
country.
L ne DUllllES khDnl.J OdLtLtt od1Ss MdJUI
Wyman, United States Indian Agent has
come up from Crow Agency for the purpose
of collecting the grass rent from the outfits
grazing cattle on the Crow Reservation. to
whom the privilege has been leased. The
Major says he will have something like
$4,000 IN his inside pocket when he gets
through. all Of which is to be turned over
for the benefit of the Crow Indians.
Petaluma is to have a dIstillery where
pomace that has hitherto been used
for hog food will be utilized in making
brandy and thereby converted into source
Of much greater prof; than 1t has been.
| The dstllIery VIII also make use OF Large
quantities of fruit that could not be used
In the canneries and drieTS, and in this way
too will effect a considerable saving for the
fruit men. The distillery will occupy an
acre of ground and the construction has al
ready begun.
The Placer Herald says that when Hon.
John Z. Irish was in Auburn, a few days
ago, he started out to call on several of the
local lawyers. Not finding any of them at
home, he stepped across to the Temple
| Building, and to young lady who was
standing in the doorway he said; "My
| dear miss, hope you will excuse my seem
ing impertinance, but do you know if this
| is the lawyers pedro or poker hour. and if
| so, can you tell me in what saloon | would
| be most likely to find themY
1t is not generally known, says the Monte
| sano Democrat, that woman contractor
was engaged on the railroad work in this
! region, but such was the case, Sophia
| johnson is the name of the lady, and she is
| now erecting handsome two-story building
in South Aberdeen with the money she real
| lied from her contracting. Superintendent
| Clayton gave her a contract for fifteen sta
tons, but, seeing she would not get it done
in time, cut her down to ten, which she
| completed in good condition. 1t was a lit
| tie strange to see a woman shoveling dirt on
the railroad, but she seemed to enjoy it.