The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-23
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
A Danish colony is to settle in Cape Val
ley, Yolo County.
The Oregon insane asylum is becoming
overcrowded, every day seeing one or more
new arrivals there.
1t is claimed for the Butler raisin vine
yard. near Fresno, that it yields its owner
an income of 100000 annually.
Relating how citizen frightened foot
pad the other night the Portland Oregonian
says the fellow turned and ran as if he had
been shot"
The latest fad among San Bernardino hor-
ticulturiSts Is budding roses on peach
stocks Roses SO grown are said to be very
fine and hardy.
A dissolute linguist, a teacher OF seven
different languages, has been jailed at Lara
ME for beating his wife. who supported
him by taking in washing.
The heirs of Hazelton, the former Stock
tonian who recently died in the East, leay-
ing SIS, 900 to the Stockton library, are re-
ported about to make an effort to break the
will.
According to the Yuma Sentinel Indians
are of late catching very sarge fish in the
Colorado River. Many of the Colorado sal
mon caught weigh from twenty-five TO fifty
pounds.
The Fresno petrifed man has been at
tached at Needles for debt of Sal. The
Needles Eye sympathetically remarks
that the way of the petrlfied man is hard
in that country.
Nearly all the banking houses of the
Belingham Bay cities have signed Il call for
meeting with a view to organizing for
mutual protection. A clearing house will
probably be formed soon.
A prominent citizen of Salem, Oregon,
has offered to give 5000 for the founding of
public library in that city, provided the
Aka Hesperian Literary Society will raise
$1,000 Tor the same purpose.
Wild ducks are said to be dying by the
hundreds on the Salton Sea. They light on
the water and:the salt crystallizes on their
feathers to such an extent they cannot fly
away. This tale has sadly salt SAVIOR.
Fish Commissioner Mills has gathered
100000 Eastern brook-trout spawn in Nevada
streams, for the purpose of restocking the
waters and assisting the California Fish
Commission. BALI the catch goes to Cali
fornia.
While fishing up the Yellowstone, In Mon
tana, the other dav George Stewart of
Livingston caught the largest speckled trout
ever seen in that locality. 1t weighed s
pounds and ounces, aud measured % inches
from tip to tip.
Sacramento, after much consideration and
discussion, has arranged to get polling
booths for the approaching election made
with steel frames and covered with canvas
In Sucn way as to be neat and durable, at
a cost of about SIS each.
The Florence Oregon Board of Trade is
trying to raise money enough to build $780,
GOO steam schooner to ply between the Suis-
law and San Francisco. She will have a
tonnage of 45o tons, aud load out with lum-
Der and farm produce and in with merchan-
disc.
During the coming year the Alameda
Sugar Company expects to make 5000, 900
pounds, the Watsonville company 5000, 900
pounds and the Chino company 5000, 900
pounds. From these figures it Will be seen
that sugar is likely TO be very plen iful
hereafter.
W. W. Stewart Of San Diego has received
some very convincing campaign material
from the Temescal tin mines in the shape of
small pigs of tin, branded with the word
Temescal. They will be distributed through
out the country as paper weights, at a cost
barely covering the value of the tin.
The Chino Sugar Factory is already bear
ing fruit in the way OF attracting new
settlers to Southern California. 1t is re-
ported that fifty Ohio families lave signed
contracts for land on the Chino Ranch, ill.,
tending to come out during the winter and
take possession. The price for the land is
$500 er acre, with water.
The Santa Ana Blade says: All the old
silver locations throughout the county are
at present showing up finely, while several
new developments promise great things in
the future. A visit to the mines situated in
the SilveradO Canyon, and about a mile
above the old town site, shows the extern
sive workings that have been carried on
there in the past year.