The morning call., 1891-10-22
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Redlands is to have steel pipe factory.
Victoria, B. c., has population OF $4,000
whites.
There are 1868 convcts in the Oregon State
Prison.
There are O,S42, 434 acres of vacant land
in Wyoming.
Work on the new Postoffice at Sacra-
menta has been discontinued until April
next.
Santa Cruz is about to propel the street
cars there by electricity produced by water
power.
The California State Convention Of the
Farmers Alliance meets in Los Ange les
this week.
Some incredibly malicious fiend got at the
fire hose at Marysville, the other night and
cut it badly.
The crop Of sOft-shell walnuts at Santa
Ana this year is said to be the largest ever
grown there.
Riverside has 1000 acres of raisin vine
yards, from which it is estimated the yield
this year will be 175, 600 twenty pound boxes
of raisins.
There is said to be heavy business done
along the Upper Rio Graude River in snug
CLING horses and cattle from Mexico into the
U United States.
The Union Oil Company of Ventura
County obtains daily flow of 800 barrels Of
oil. Of this the Chino sugar factory takes
$50 barrels daily.
1t is reported that the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company will enlarge the wharf at
Moss Landing, near Santa Cruz, TO meet the
demands OF the increasing traffic.
The Prescott Courier reports tin mine
as having been discovered near the Salton
sink n tbp Nnma npcart Eiftv-Sil
cent tin Is claimed for the new discovery.
The Santa Fe Railroad has given years
free pass and purse of $500 to the Mexican
lad Moreno, who recently warned train
and saved 1t from running into landslide
near YOrba
A capitalist of Los Angeles has offered to
advance S2OO,0 900 to the farmers OF the Ca
huenga, to enable them to erect beet
sugar plant to be operated. on the CO.
operative plan.
The Fresno Central Californian says:
There is good reason for believing that the
Southern Pacific Company will in few
days commence active work Oh the compile
ton OF the present terminus of its coast line
to Santa Barbara.
The Indians on the Walker River reser-
vatI0n are growing very discontented. In
dian trader ESden maintains his rights as
sole-trader on the reservation and the In
dlanS are compelled to sell their fish, grain,
ETC., to him or not at all.
At Tucson, AriZ, last week. a woman
was fined, divorced aud remarked, all
within half an hour. She pleaded guilty to
violation OF the Edmunds act, her hus-
band obtained a divorce and she at once
married her lover, a Tombstone man.
A certain minister not far from San
Diego, If the Union of that burg is to be-
lievtd, announced from his pulpit on a re-
cent Sunday morning: Il have forgotten
my notes and shall have to trust to Provi-
dence. but this evening l will come better
pre- ared."
There is dog at Cheyenne that will, it is
claimed, pick an American dollar from a
pile including any number or sort of coins
OF similar appearance, size and weight His
name is Tony. and he is to be exhibited in
Western show, where he will earn his owner
SS5 week.
At Oakesdales, Wash, the other day, D.
3. Sutton, President of the State Farmers
Alliance, was egged by the people while
boarding train. The citizens were indig-
nant over certain aspersiOns alleged to have
been made by him in the Spokane papers on
the ladies of Oakesdale.
TIE atrocious name Of Kinneloa has been
saddled on the town of Lamanda Pasadena,
in Southern California. This nondescrpt
cognomen is a compound of Kinney, the
name of the man who wanted his memory
thus perpetuated, and "loa," the tail end of
Mauna Loa, the Hawaiian volcano
II. b. Everest. the proprietor of the Ar
lington Hotel, Riverside, is down on the
Chinese. he does not employ any in the
hotel or on any OF his ranches, and has re-
Gently given orders to the hotel clerk not To
allow any Chinese laundrvmen to enter the
hotel to solicit custom from the guests.
The sentiment that in Eastern States clus-
ters about the beautiful morning glory does
not prevail in California, where the plant is
regarded as a most troublesome weed. Ven
tura County is legislaing against it, and
Tuiare and Santa Clara County farmers are
being greatly troubled by its persistent
growth.
John Houck, a Santa Barbara County
rancher, put out forty acres of fruit trees
last winter, which made a good start and
were doing well, when grasshoppers de-
scended upon the orchard and ate the trees
nearly all up. Mr. Houck is now plowing
up what trees remain In order TO put the
land into grain.
A big story is going the rounds to the
effect that Ben CaiT, the champion Splinter
of Redlands, recently chased a squirrel that
had twenty yards start of MIN, caught the
animal by the tail and beat its brains out on
log. There is great talent going to waste
in Cave He ought to run for oflice-as
roadmaster, for instance.
The present gas company of Stockton viii
shortly discontinue the manufacture of the
article, having purchased the large natural
gas well that was recently discovered near
that city. The well has a daily flow of
about 100000 cubic feet, and this will enable
the company to dispose of gas to consumers
at the rate Of 81 per 1000 feet.
Alfalfa hay is now selling at Fresno at
S12 ton. The ExDositor says: The Fresno
farmers do not raise enough hay to supply
the local demand Hundreds of tons have
to be brought in from outside counties every
year. Land that will grow alfalfa can be
bought at from IS TO S25 per acre. With
land at such prices money can be made
growing alfalfa hay even rthOugh the market
price should fall as low as s. per ton.
A new bank is about TO be Established In
Monterey to be known as the Bank of Mon
terry, with capital stock of 100000. The
stock is all taken, principally by residents
of Monterey. Hon. Jesse d. Carr of Sa-
linas City Bank. David Jacks, H. A.
Greene. I. j. Field, Hon. B. v Sargent,
Aionzo Allen, David Rodrick. Edward In
gram, j. b. McAbee are the principal stock
holders. The number of new banks now
starting up in the different small towns
along the coast is an encouraging indication
of the prosperity of The State