The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-09
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Portland, Oregon, wants the annual en-
campment of the G. A Z. in 1892, and will
make strong pull to get it.
Diphtheria is said to be raging among the
Navajoes in New Mexico and great many
OF their children are dying from the disease.
a quantity OF California apples were con-
demned at Portland last week, as it was
alleged they were infected with the San
Jose scale.
There are to be three wood drives down
the Carson River this season. 1t is ex.
pected they will be got through by the 10th
Of September.
found in the mountains near Harquahala
the other day. He had evidently persisted
for want of water.
Jean Renault, the French Canadian who
recently attempted an assault upon lady
at Boyle Heights. Los Angeles, has been
sentenced to three years in San Quentin.
Peter Ask of kirkwood, Tehama County.
last week lost three fna cows, it is sup
posed by their eating Egyptian corn. All
died nearly at the same time after eating
tile corn.
1t is claimed that coyote scalps are being
imported from Nevada by enterprising per-
sons to Satisfy the demand created for them
by the SIS bounty recently established in
this State.
A Cowlitz (Wash.} baby was attacked by
bees the other day and so badly stung TIL at
It's recovery Is regarded very doubtful.
Fifty stIngs were extracted from its face
and head.
There is talk in Santa Barbara of build
Ing an electric railway to the hot springs, a
distance of six miles, with rise of over 800
miles. About $4,000 is estimated as the
probable cost Of such a road.
Rumor has it that the Baptist College at
Los Angeles may soon be able to sell
out Its property at an immense advance, on
account of the profitable ol-walls in the
Immediate vicinity. A proposition has been
made and refused to sink a we'll in the col
lege campus.
Thirty-two japanese, who arrived in Port
land by the steamer Batavia few days ago,
were at once set to work by Chinese laud-
owner named Bing at chOpping wood on a
forty-acre tract he had just bought near
Fulton Park.
lhere is a grapevine in Santa Barbara,
planted in 1880. which. it is claimed, is the
largest in the world. 1t covers superficial
area OF 1900 feet, and produces from 10000
to 1000 pounds OF grapes annually-enough
to make from $50 to 800 gallons of wine.
Two boys, aged Is and 16 years, living in
Umatilla County, Oregon, have been, sur
rendered TO the Sheriff by their respective
fathers Tor stealing steers from neighboring
farmers, driving them to Milton and selling
Them: The younger boy took the lead and
did all the trading.
The Bug Commissioners of San Bernardino,
says the Pomona Times Courier, are trying
to invent wash for coyote scalps. The
County Clerk puts his scalps in the Bug
Commissioners room, and they have not
been happy since the law went into effect.
Ii is much easier to kill a scale bug than to
kill the odor from couple OF dozen scalps
OF the festive coyote.
One of the attractions at the On
tarlo Hutel this summer is said to
bs a nest hidden in climbing
vine, IN which pair OF humming birds
tiny birds are said to have appetites all out
OF proportion TO their size, and keep both
parents bringing nectar from the neighbour
ing gardens TO feed upon
Hillsboro, Oregon, is not "onto" the latest
fad, and the Hiilsboro Independent says !:
Three Portland damsels caused sensation
in HiIlsboro last Saturday by riding into
town man fashion," 1t may be all right,
but we are not used to it out here in the
''rhuoarbs," and would prefer it if travel
ing female equeStriennes visiting our village
would keep both limbs on the same side of
the horse.
The Banning Herald says: Frank D.
Lewis, attorney for the Mission Indians,
visited Palm Vale this week to look after
Indian water rights down there. 1t is said
that Palm Vale denies that the Indians have
clainBto any of the water, but Mr.. Lewis
says that the water rises on the reservation
and has been ditched by the Indians tor
forty years past. He now proposes to make
an effort to firmly establish the Indians
rights to the water.
Salt Lake City justice is considering the
case OF man who has been living with his
own nj zee as his wife. They went into
Mexico and were married, and claim to
"meet as strangers" when in Utah, and
While they are evidently guilty of crime, the
case is peculiar and monstrous one,
which If the law can be made to reach them
will doubtless land the offenders in the
penitentiary for long term of years
The Tucson (Ariz.) Star says: The con-
struction OF the Santa Cruz canal will make
over 100000 acres of Santa Cruz Valley land
available for agriculture and horticulture,
which means the addition of more than 1000
families to Pima County aud the annual
production OF vast amount of wealth. The
valley OF the Santa Cruz is one of the richest
in the world, and its productive capabilities
when brought under irrigation will prove to
be Tar beyond all expectations.
William Miller, working five miles south
of Tulare Lake. started with team for mis-
home in Sunfower Valley several days
ago. The next day vaquero found his
team drowned in one of the sloughs leading
from Kern River to the lake. Miller had
failed to appreciate the changes wrought by
nlsE water III lnab LOCALITY ana allowed his
horses to get beyond their depth. He
escaped by swimming, but was obliged to
leave the team and struck out across the
plains for home. When he arrived he was
nearly exhausted. his tongue was terribly
swollen and he could hardly make himself
understood. He had travelled the entire dis
lance over the burning plains of that re-
gion without drop OF water and nearly
perished on the way.