The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-18
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COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

Monterey is to be lighted by electricity.
Tacoma is about to issue $4,000 In Donus
| for the city park.
With a population of over 10000 Fresno
| had only four deaths last month
The unwilling of the statue Of Junipero
! Sierra will take place at Monterey, June sd.
Large quantities Of fig and orange trees
are being planted in Marcopa County,
| ARR,
California lions are preying upon the colts
and horses in pasture near Chenille, Kern
| County.
strong effort is being made to establish
a mail route between Ukiah and Bartlett
! Springs.
According to the Telegraph just about
In Grass Valley.
Within the past two weeks five new ALI
| ances have been formed among the farmers
of Butte County.
d. f. Mcclellan, pioneer Of 1914, having
settled in Gilroy in that year, died recently
In North Yakima, Wash.
Portland is OYerrun with stray dogs and
! the people are signing Tor the dog-catcher
| 10 catch on and reduce the anime surplus.
The Stockton clothing clerks have secured
/ the closing OF these stores on Sunday ana
| can now attend church or 90 fishing on that
| day.
Fresno vineyardsts have made arrange
|
| few Cinnamon will be employed IN the vine
| yards
| Hanford is now lighted by electricity, be-
ing supplied with an Edison electric light
| plant propelled by 125-horse-p0Wer COrllsS
engine.
Cutting hay with header is one Of the
| latest developments in S0lanO County. 1t is
said that by using header the hay is kept
| perfectly Clean.
| The Placer News-Messenger is the latest
candidate for public favor. 1t takes the
| place OF the Lincoln Report, aud Is edited
| by +. l.. Sanders
The fruit crop of Nevada County prom
ises 10 be so heavy this year that cannery
is being talked Of as a necessity to keep the
| fruit from going to waste.
The Board of Regents of Washington
State University have recently made lib
| eral increase in the salaries Of the various
instructors in the University.
Stephen Watson Of San Benito County
| las a field of beardless barley, in which the
! grain stands four feet high, grown on land
! for which he paid $40 an acre.
The Sheriff of San Bernardino County has
! succeeded in capturing ChappO PablimO, the
| supposed murderer of the Frenchman AL
/ lient, who was killed at Riverside some time
| ago.
a bed of gravel that has every appearance
| of having once been the bed Of a large
! stream, and which shows quite a color of
gold in the gravel, has been found near
| Truckee.
Dr. Parent a leading veterinary, after
careful investigation, pronornces the Cases
! OF supposed CHAMBERS among some horses in
| PanOche Valley 10 be merely severe cases of
! nasal gleet.
| And now it is declared that Geronimo is
! not and never was a Sunday-schoOl teacher,
| does not even attend regularly in fact, but
| spends most of his time at the depot selling
| canes 10 travellers.
| The cooks and walters of Spokane have
! formed a union, the object of which is to
! shorten hours, get fair pay for their labor
| and drive every Jap ana Chinaman cook
| and waiter out Of town.
A drunken man was found lying across
! the railroad track near Portland, Oregon,
where he had fallen and hurt himself. He
/ was removed just in time to prevent
! train from going over him.
| A child is said TO have been born recently
| in Oregon " ith a well-deYeloped dOIsal fu
! According to reports of the sort of Gather
! now preVallln Up there fms will be found
an acceptable addition to Webb feet.
! Washington State papers are warning all
| persons WHO obtain divorces there not to
| marry within six months thereafter, as that
| length OF time is allowed for an appeal
| and the Supreme Court might reverse the
! decree.
| An expert, who has been looking into
certain taX-cOllection matters at The in-
/ stance of the Taxpayers Association of
| Los Angeles County reports SIS, 0O0 or
more gone, which no one seems able to ac-
! count for,
G. W. Hinckley of Winters, Cal, last
| week shipped ten-pOund box Of R0ya
| apricOtS TO Chicago. He made shipment
there the same day last year, which sold for
| sixty cents a pound. This is the first ship
ment for this year.
| Sheep men are said TO be leasing all the
big ranges IN the mountains Of Nevada
| County and catching up everything in the
shape of land that they can secure. 1t is
said there is big money in sheep at present
and tlocks are being increased rapidly.
A human fiend entered the house of Frank
| Candlant of Thistle, Utah, Sunday. and after
assaulting Mrs. Candlant ransacked the
house, taking everything Of value, even to
| the rings the woman wore, aud decamped,
leaving her unconscious. She was 50 in
| JuTed that her life is in great danger.
+. w. Skldder of Kern County had his
| right arm taken Off just above the elbow by
the premature discharge of gun on Mon
day last lie was out hunting IN the noun
tains back Of Fort TETON and was Just in
the act of loading his gun, an old-fashiOned
| muzZle-loader, when the accident occurred.
A horse WAS brought to Modesto for sale
| the other day with its name aud the hairs of
| its tail chewed off 1t was one of band
caught by the SHOW in the hills winter be-
and tails and even ate the dead bodies Of the
| horses that first succumbed to cold and
| hunger.
The Anaheim Gazette says: Peter Arimond
has shown us some lemons, which he
| buried along with a lot that had fallen from
his trees as an experiment in January last.
| Alter having been underground for nearly
| hVe months. the lemons were found to be
solid, bright looking and juicy, and Mr..
Almond thinks he has discovered the
proper method Of pre- serving this fruit.
A steamboat is shortly to be put Oh Kings
| River, near Reedley, announces the Expos
| itor OF that place, which statement. being
| Interpreted, means that min living there
| Will place two-horse- power oil engine in
| his large Skiff, which is to be made into a
| sde-wheeler with wheels three and a half
| feet across, and tn this will be attached
barge eight feet wide by eighteen feet long.
Frank Poor, Benicia man, Is prepared
! to take oath that on Thursday last near the
railroad depot he saw German carpnearly
! four feet long digging in the mud for clans.
! We do not question the truth OF this story,
! but there is an incompleteness about 1t that
causes us pain. Why could not Mr.. Poor
| have told US whether the carp was carrying
those clans home in a basket for family
consumption or shipping them citywaId for
! this market?
The Fruitgrower tells of queer freak
that has occurred in number of orchards
near Calstoga. The peach and apricot trees
last week began TO drop their leaves very
heavily This state of things kept up for
| four or five days, when the dropping grad
ually ceased. The leaf-stem seemed to be
dead close up to the branch, while the leaf
was bright green and healthy looking. The
occurrence has mysGied local growers and
| no one has yet been able to furnish salts
factory explanation.
Charged With Malicious Mischief.
Henry Curtis was arrested by Detective
! Rogers on a warrant charging him with
malicious mischief Up to week or so ago