The morning call., 1891-08-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories,


The Santa Barbara Daily Star has gone
the way of all flesh-and many newspapers
Stockton'S electric street railroad has
| been sold to q number of San francisco
capitalists.
On October 1st the Southern Pacific Rail
road shops will be removed from Tulare TO
Bakersfield.
the public schools of Reno will not open
| until August 31st.
| Two beautiful moss-agate columns have
been completed at Verdi, New, for the
Mills Building in San Francisco.
John Gormev, q Sacramento morphine
fiend, committed suicide the other day by
cutting open an artery in one of his arms.
A lamp exploded at Portland, Oregon,
Sunday night, and dt s:rOyed the residence
OF w. b. Singleton, causing loss of about
$4,000.
Washing the trunks of orange trees in
solution of aloes will. says a San Diego
County authority, prevent rabbits from
! gnawng them.
1t is rumored that there are good many
cases OF typhoid fever at San Juan. Water
supplies should be carefully Investigated
| during this hot weather.
The latest story ahoat at Riverside is Ia
the effect that S350,000 has been offered for
the Rose mine, which is owned by River
side parties. By company of New York
| capitalists.
A concern has been Incorporated at Wyo-
ming, to be called the Northern Wyoming
| Canal Company, which has capital OF
| 100000 and proposes to reclaim some 81, ,00j
| acres of land.
Willie Reeves, aged 10 years, while bath.
| Ing IN the rlver at Sacramento on Tuesday
afternoon with number of playmateS, sud-
denly sank, and was drowned before aid
| could reach him.
The initial number of the Alliance Adyo-
cate was issued at Oakesdale, Wash, last
week, with w. G. GilstraD as editor. 1,
WI! be the State organ of the Farmers
Alliance, which Is very strong up there.
Durin last weeks spell OF hot weather
an Ala media man went about with a biz
sign on his breast on which was painted in
letters large enough to be seen before one
| got Within speaking distance "Yes this is
hot enough for me-"
At the present rate of fruit-tree planting.
the Salinas journal is of the opinion thai 10
Will be but few years before there will be
one continuous orchard from the mouth OF
San Miguel Canyon; in Monterey, to Hollis
ter, In San Benito County.
Richard Hughes, Portland bricklayer,
was accidentally shot Sunday by his partic-
ular friend, John Beyan, who was handing
him for examination revolver of curious
make which he kept in his room, when the
weapon was discharged The bullet en-
tered Hughes mouth, killing him instantly.
Three gold bricks from Cedros I,Iani
mine were received at San Diego bank
few days ago. They weigh 2173 ounces and
are valued at $3.50 This is said to have
6 6een ten days cleanup at the National
| City reduction works. Evidently, says the
San Diego Union, there is money in it for
| sumo one.
- On September 7th Woodland, Yolo
County, viii vote on the proposition to is
sue $4,000 bonds, SIS, 600 for water $50 OOo
for City Hall and $40 900 for sewerage
| The Mail thinks the proposition will he
carried by two-thirds vote. Evidently
woodland doesn't intend being left oehud
In the race.
Three or four months ago the-editor of
the Los GatoS Mail brought some castor-oi!
plants from Tres PinOs and planted them
In his garden, having heard they wOuld
keep gophers away. They grew nicely, and
a. gopher, has not appeared near the place
since, whereas there had been several
around doing much damage.
ii. Roscoe, timberman employed in the
| Eagls mine IN Nevada County, Tel Oyer.a
lumber dump the other day a distance OF
40 feet and struck on his head. He went to
Work us usual next day, apparently not
much hurt by the fall. ROscue is very
| powerful man, and can, it is said, readily
| hit IN one hand 400-pound weight.
There was bold attempt of prisoners in
the Walla Walla lWash) Penitentiary to es-
cape last week. The cooness of Warden
| McCless. who was held by convicts with
knives at his throat, and the good shooting
| OF TWO OF the guards, who killed the two
Tlngleaders OF the cOnvicts. prevented what
threatened to be an emptying of the prison.
Near Portland, Oregon, lives a man VINO
| Is such confirmed w0man-hater that he
| has built himself house near town, the
| threshold OF which, it is said, no woman
| has ever been allowed to cross, and he
has willed his property to man who viii
| only hold 1t on condition that he never al
| lows woman to come on the premises.
Frank Swipes, bridge watcher at Bel
| KNAPP, 120 miles west of MissOuIa, Mont
| while resting on the end of the bridge
| Thursday, was assaulted by two tramps
and his head frightfully cut with in iron
| pin. They robbed him of his watch and
| $50. He managed to drag himself to his
shack, where he was found Friday morning
and taken to the Northern Pacific Hospital
| at Missoula.
| One day last week while Jim Derby of
1amhlll. Oregon. was hauling manure from
the barn-yard to the garden, he found "a
| young chicken that had Just been hatchrd
| In the manure pile. He mad dug ,wn
about two feet when he made the discoy-
| cry. The little chicken was Just able to
stand, and was taken and put with hen in
coop with a lot of other little chickens,
and is now doing fac. The egg must nave
got thrown and covered with manure and
the heat caused the chicken to batch.
One of those big, hnlking brutes of boys
to be found in nearly every community
turned up at San 1Sidro the other day in 4;
champion achievement of cruelty. lie tel
one end OF stout cord to the leg of a Iittla
boy, fastening the other 10 the collar OF a
big dog. He then tied tin can to the dogs
tail and started the pair adrift. Fortunately
the little boys mother appeared upon tine
scene just in time to save him from serious
injury, If not terrible death. Floggns
would be too good for that San Ysidro youth
A special from Los Angeles to the Sacra-
mento Bee says: Judge Smith Of the Supe-
rior Court has rendered a decision in tie
cases of the saloon men charged with a
violation of the Sunday closing ordinance.
on appeal from the Police Court The
court holds that Yiolators of city ordinance
are not entitled to trial by jury before police
courts provided by the Whitney act. The
opinion is concurrsd in by the other five
Judges of the Superior Court. The effect OF
the decision is to largely increase the use
fulness of the police courts.