The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

ritories.
There are 100 arteSian wells in Pomona.
During the past year the population OF
Ontario has increased % per cent
Chinese gamblers in Portland pay 1910
month to the police, says the Historian.
1t costs $50 for any gosling to monkey
with the Salvation Army in Astoria, Oregon.
Three masked men plundered saloon in
South Butte, Mont, OF S11O0 last Wednes-
day.
syndicate of Montana capitalists III
vested $3.50, 600 last week in Ellensburg,
Wash.
Oats are scarce in Eastern Oregon and
Washington, aud tue farmers are glad TO
pay cents a pound.
a number of valuable horses have fallen
victim 10 anthrax about Martinez, says the
Contra Costa Gazette.
The Legislature of Nevada passed an act
allowing u cents from the Treasury for
each gopher destroyed
a man at Gate City, Wash, has been ar
rested for stealing saw-mil and carting 1t
a distance of twenty miles.
While breaking colt near Pendleton,
Oregon, recently, Gus Long got caught in
rope and was dragged to death.
Captain Ewell. who had both legs broken
in the disaster at Lake Labish. Wash. has
settled with the company for $1,000.
Frank Fisk of Coulteryille. Mariposa
SUuulO, buUt uillStll ldSL
Wednesday. The wound was fatal.
An examination for applicants to appoint
ment at the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Nd, will be held at Santa Rosa on April Dist
The owner of the Santa ISABEL rancho,
in San Luis Obisp0 County, has set out
large number of fax plants as an expert
Dent.
pocket was struck in a dry claim at
Osceola, New, recently, from which $1,000
was taken with d rocker in less than two
hours.
Work will soon be commenced ON q new
Catholic college at Spokane Wash. 1t will
accommodate 400 b0arders and will cost not
less than S20O,000
A physician of Candelaria, New, came
near losing one of his eyes last Monday.
He was playing with pet ofiole that drove
Its dill into his eye.
There is trouble in prominent young
ladies' school at Los Angeles. Seven teach
ers want their salaries, and the principal has
gone into insolvency, with personal prop
erly worth So 70.
The Fish Commissioners of Portland,
Oregon. are having much trouble in keeping
out Chinook salmon from tie markets. The
prescribed fish Is struggled into the city
incaSed IN sturgeon.
While prospecting about Palsade, on
Mount st. Helena, recently, DR.. Smith
struck silver ledge six feet wide, says the
Napa Register. some ore was taken to the
Grigsby furnace for smelling which yielded
$50 ton.
The Whitewater River has disappeared
from sight in Los Angeles County. The
railroad station at Whitewater now has to
be supplied with water brought from the
Sierra Madre Mountains, distance Of sew
eral miles.
The Victoria COlonist says Telegram was
received there from London recently To the
effect that at the annual fur sales the price
OF kuper Island sealskins declined 10 per
cent, while the pelts from the northwest
coast declined 10 per cent.
Ramon Ortega was out looking for some
lost sheep IN canyon near Sespe, Ventura
County, on Wednesday, when he ran against
large brown bear. He had no firearms,
but he lassoed the bear and dragged it tO
death. 1t weighed 500 pounds.
The Azusa Pomotropic says: The band
boys have a novel way OF raising the neceS-
Sary funds to pay for their Instruments.
They simply threaten to serenade the in
divdual who will not subscribe something
toward the band fund. 1t brings the money
every time.
Next November, says the San Diego
Union, Miss Sheppard of Long Branch. n.
y, viii leave this port on small schooner
for four months cruise along the coast of
Lever California and Mexico She is an
ardent c0nchologlst and has found rich
field about San Diego.
pied Saturday afternoon while descending
the mountain from GlenbrO0k to Carson on
snow-shoes. He was pitched head first
down the hill, and wrenched one of his
knees. The doctors think he will be laid
up two or three weeks.
The Pomona Times prints this astronomi-
cal society note: "When two more suns
have come and gone, aud two more moons
have smiled in soft and bewitehing lowell
ness over our beautiful valley, there will be
a wedding and two heartSswill be made to
beat IN harmonious union"
The Alturas New Era says: As an ex-
ample of the scarcity of money, Center
vile young man went TO half dozen PROM
inent rancherS the first of the week and
offered to sell 300 feet of lumber for St in
cash. The farmers were all eager W buy,
but no one could raise the money.
a wedding in high life took place at Port
Townsend last Monday, when the Prince of
Wales eldest son of the late Duke OF York,
head chief of the ClaIIam tribe, and Prn-
cess Bessie Jackson OF the royal house of
Clallam were united in holy matrimouy by
Rev. Myron Eels. Queen Victoria, the
groom's mother, was expected to grace the
festivities, but she was so busy digging
CLAIMS that she sent her regrets.