The morning call., 1891-09-17
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Terri
tories
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Brief Notes From Pacific states ana Ierri-
tories
tits rumored that Santa Cruz is to have
new daily paper.
The almond harvest is beginning in the
Santa Clara Valley, and promises fairly
Quite a number of the horse-car lines In
Los Angeles are to be changed at once to
electric routes.
Giiroy has voted for the issuance OF bonds
to the amount of $4,000 TO be expended IN
municipal improvements.
Thus far San Diego COunty's contribution
to the Coyote Scalp Bounty Fund Is 10000
GIL scalps having been taken there.
Milpitas held an election last week and
voted to spend $1,000 for completing ana
repairing the pubIc-school building.
The Fresno Republican says finer ralsins
were never seen than the crop that Will be
| shipped from that section this season.
The San Diego Union says some fine look
| ing copper, reported to have come from the
| Francisco mine, in Trinidad Pass, was on
| exhibition there last week.
A carpenter named G0odsell, employed on
the new mill at the PalO Alto mine, above
Merrimac Butte County, fell from seal
fold the other day breaking his neck and
dying instantly.
An effort is being made at San Jose to
secure tile location there of the sp0ol-sllk
factory of Belding Bros, large Eastern
concern who purpose establishing their
business on this coast.
Two young colored men hired horse at
San Diego, the other day, and with friend
drove to El Caj0n and return. thirty one
miles, in about four hours. The day was
very hot and the horse was nearly Killed.
The parties were arrested for cruelty TO
animals.
The Seattle Telegraph says: 1t has an
odd ring about 1t, but the Olympia Tribune
il ~ in ding ~ A rhor daV for the
State. At the present rate of forest hreS
and barbaric slashing Of timber we Will be
praying for trees before long in this paradise
of giant woods.
The fun of calico balls and poverty par
ties having been exhausted, the young
people of Virginia City gave shabby
genteel" party the other night Carefully
patched and polished shoes, threadbare
coats, and all sorts of garments that had
seen better days" were the order OF the
evening
Charles DAILY, Dixon young man. went
up to Sacramento to take in the fair the
other day. With $50 % in his pocket he
boarded a street-car aud when he went TO
pay his fare found the $50 gone, the light
fingered party who took that amount gem
ernusly leaving him the So cents with which
to do" the far
The Vallejo Chronicle says the recent
celebration at Santa Cruz shows that tie
UIuEI Nl NdllNO COio - BAONlu6 wv 4'ht 5S AOA
one small town to attempt to do justice 10
il. 1t must come that either number OF
celebrations are held in different portions
of the State or some large city must be Sc
leeted for the Admission day jubilee.
The Reno Journal says: Joseph Frey has
a patch OF tobacco on his ranch south Of the
river which Is sad by judges OF the weed to
equal any raised in Kentucky or Missouri.
AS species of the tobacco plant Is indi-
genOus TO Nevada, and grows iuXurlantly
on the driest ground without lrri CATION, this
State may be particularly we'll adapted to
the growth OF the cultivated variety.
A San Jose woman recently made COM
plaint in a city court that her son. II years
old, having been thrown from a delivery
wagon, which he was driving, received
broken arm ana has since been home Sick,
which so enraged the boys father that he
drove him from the house, and he has since
had to sleep in barns and OuthOuseS, his
mothers pleadings for him being without
avail. The fathers name is j. ShaTrett.
The University of Arizona promises to
take a leading step with other schools of its
class on the Pacific Coast IN the practical
studies of agriculture, mining and hOrticul-
ture. 1t is well located for studying these
mostimportant branches of education. lrri-
CATION, mineTalogy, geology and other special
branches will receive most careful atten-
ton. The prospects are tndt it will become
one of the favoTite educational Institutions
in the West.
AN old style Los Gatos carriage appeared
on the street there the other day, attracting
considerable attention 1t had wheels at
one end and sled at the other, not for al
ternate snow and bare ground, but as a
wagon up hill and sled down, the load be-
ing shifted as one or tile other was met.
Ten years since, says correspondent from
that place, hardly any other conveyance
was seen; hundreds of elegant equipases
are now seen every day.
One of the elephants on Sells circuS-train
got thirsty en- route the other day. He was
in a car next the engine and smelling the
water in the tender tried TO get 1T it.
There was hole in the front of his car,
and thrusting his trunk through this he
began pulling the trewood out of the
| tender and dropping it piece by piece down
between the tank and the car. Luckily
the engineer discovered the animal and
| stopped the train or a snaSh-up would soon
have resulted.
Herbert Haven, prominent business
man of Seattle, while at North Bend, Wash,
the other night was causeleSsly kept in
custody for three hours by a drunken
United States Deputy Marshal, who
claimed to recognize him as a criminal the
authorities were looking for. The Marshal
| knew Haven when sOOer, but not even the
protestations of number of wrll-kn no wn
| known citizens who also knew him ayailed
| against the fellows drunken whim. 1t is
likely to cost him dear.
Fortune-Hunter.