The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


The city of Spokane has voted to create q
bonded debt of S1,2J0.000 for the purpose of
making public improvements. Out of 1907
votes cast only 70 were against the PROPOSE
tiOG.
Alameda has a hOuse-painter who pos
sesSes acknowledgements for granting
preparation, which he is said to drink by
the quart The man has never tasted
whisky.
f. A. Gould, sixteen-year-old boy of
Arcata, was cunning for pigeons the other
day. and setting his gun, an Old muZZle-lOad-
ing piece, against tree, it tumbled down,
dischargng its contents into his thigh and
wounding him quite severely.
A MaIysville woman took offense at a
festive drummer who was bent upon exer-
cising his destinations as a masher upon her
young daughter and administered sound
chastisement upon him, using big bologna
sausage as a weapon OF attack.
A young woman of Seattle took her baby
out for ali airing Wednesday, but failed to
strap the little one in the baby-buggy, and
in fitting it, to get the front wheels up a
step. the buggy tipped too far, and the child
fell out, striking upon It's head and breaking
its neck.
The Alameda liquor-dPalers who are try
ing to start movement to contest the legal
ity OF the new liqUor-licenSe ordinance have
been unable to arouse any enthusiasm in
the matter. and have abandoned the attempt
a number of saloon-keepers have expressed
their intention 10 close their places.
Richard Noye, an Alameda young man,
took long. sharp butcher-knfe the other
day and started out to kill a hen. The latter
objected, and in the chase after her the
young man slipped, and fell upon his knife,
the blade OF which completely penetrated
his arm and narrowly escaped severing an
artery.
The members Of the Los Angeles Board of
Education reserved all the best seats for
their friends at the recent High School ex-
hlbitiOn there, which left the graduates
none for their friends and relatives, which
so nceused the Young people that they have
struck and refuse to commence" at the
commencement exercises.
A number of Pajaro Valley admirers of
the redoubtable John Lawrence Sullivan
went 10 the stations along the way to get
glimpse of John en- route TO Santa Cruz.
The champion was very drunk, and near
PaJarO, In passing from one ear to another,
lost his silk hat, which one Of the aforesaid
admirers picked up, and sold to another for
SO.
The house of a San Bernardino man named
DurStOn was burned down a short time ago,
and, while under the influence of liquor,
Durston went to the jail and gave himself up,
claiming that he had set the house aire him.
self. He is now recovering from three
weeks debauch, and claims to remember
nothing about the fire or such statement
on his part.
Lydia Derrick, the four-year-old daugh-
ter of e. A. Derrick of Dry Greek Valley,
was playing about the house the other day,
when she was heard to call out, gleefully,
that she had rattlesnake to play with.
Her father sprang to investigate, just in
time to discover huge RATHER about to
spring upon the child, who was rescued, and
the snake killed.
A young colt. one of driven band of
horses, got pushed over the road edge above
st. Rest New, the other day, into the Lake
Tahoe flume and carried to the bottom of the
pitch, nearly three-quarters of mile.
When found his head was nearly severed
from his body, caused by pdtting his head
over the edge of the flumP-boX, and he was
badly cut elsewhere, but it is believed by
local horsemen that he will recover.
William Cook of San Jose, while in a
badly Inc 5riated condition, was driving a
spirited horse through the streets, when the
animal took fright and ran away. Cook
was thrown from the cart, and. his foot be-
coming entangled in one wheel, he was
dragged, head downward, about fifty feet
before the horse WAS stopped. de was un-
conscious when picked up. but soon recov-
cred, aud seemed none the worse for his ad-
venture.
Charles Halves of Pacific Grove entered
the Del Monte drugstore at Monterey the
other night AMI made small purchase OF
morphine. When the druggist was giving
him his change Halves drew a revolver and
shot and killed him. Halves is morphine
fiend, and is supposed Ia have been crazy at
the time. Only the promptneSs of the
Sheriff in arresting him saved him from a
lynching. Wagner, the druggist, was a
young map, aud leaves widow and two
children.
A Red Bluff authority says that the cows
that so nysteriously dropped dead, as re-
ported, in the cornfield there, were probably
killed by the Egyptian corn on which they
were feeding. He has since lost cows, and
had two others nearly killed the same way.
He says the corn bloats them like green
clover, and they die as do animals who have
eaten too much clover. He thinks that a
few mouthfuls of this corn will kill cows,
and that death results from KIND of wind
collie" Fermentation sets up Immediately
after swallowing the corn, deleterious gases
are generated and the animal dies suddenly
and in great pain.