The morning call., 1891-03-09
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

BRIEF Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The estate left by the late George Tuppy,
Treasurer Of Nevada, was worth $4,000.
The Total output of bullion at the Tacoma
smeter during February was 300 bars valued
at 50, 155, 120.
cloudburst flooded the ranch of ]. R.
Garnett in Colusa County last Monday and
drowned five mules.
+. Mitchell took contract last week to
| pillow 1000 acres of wheat land in MERGED
county. lie Will use steam outfit.
D. S. Pitner Of Mendocino has 6000 eggs
Matching i'll his incubators. He is getting
ready to start another batch of 2000
A small cyclQne swept over a portion OF
Yuba County last Friday and did consider
able damage to farm buildings and fences.
A serious landslide blocked all trains at
Tunnel II in the Tehachapi Mountain on
Friday. 1t will take twenty-four hours to
clear the track.
a Stockton minister was operating a small
printing press tie other day when he got his
little finger in the way Of moving piece.
lie is now minus joint Of that finger.
When the levee at Yuma gave way the
Colorado River torrent was ten miles long
and in less than twenty minutes the water
was nine feet in Main and ella streets.
The Gilroy Gazette says: Sugar beets
! planted among two-year-old trees near Wat
sOnYille paid the owner Of the twenty acre
| field a net profit over all expenses of SSO5
| Not bad help toward the orchard expenses.
The Monterey Enterprise says that work
on the JuniDero monument is proceeding
rapidly. Carving has already begun and the
| back and robes have already been carved
| out; also part of the head aud face. 1t will
not be long before the work is completed.
The Indian hunters of British Columbia
| are not slow III finding out when they have
good thing None of them will ship on
| sealing schOoners these days unless they are
! paid 81 for each pelt taken. Six schOoners
were waiting for crews recently off the coast
| but the SiwashPs refused to 60 on board
| unless their terms were signed.
| For twenty years John V. Towt has lived
a quiet live in Monterey and Santa Cruz
| counties as farmer. he received telegram
| last week from New York announcing the
| death of his father whose will gives him
| S63O,000 with an allowance OF 5000 month
| for his life. Mr.. Towt married in Monterey
| County and has wife and five children.
The sheep in Grant County, Oregon, are
so nearly free from disease that the practice
| of fall sheaT!ng will soon not be necessary,
and will doubtless be entirely abandoned.
| The stock inspection law has been of great
| benefit 10 Sheep-ralserS of the country, for
without it, gays the Grant County News,
| they never would have got the better hand
! of the sheep pest
The Yuma Sentinel of Sunday. February
| Doth, got out special edition that was writ
| ten, set up and printed on the street. Ed
| itOr DOrrngtOn mOdestly says: 1t is not
| what we would have been pleased to make
| it, but under the circumstances it is as we'll
| as we could do, moving four times and the
disarrangement Of everything has made us
much trouble and work and not helped the
paper.
Indian Agent, has been informed by the In
| dams that one of their number, who was a
| witness before Justice Linn at the prelim-
| mary examination OF men arrested by Con-
| stable Epson few weeks ago for selling
| whisky to Indians, has been poisoned. The
| Indian received two small TASKS of whisky,
| which he drank and in a few hours was a
corpse, the suppoSiiion being that the liquor
| was poisoned.
| The Ontario Observer is responsible fol-
this; FL. c. Oakley's pumpkins attain a
| size so large they cannot be loaded into a
! wagon. He concluded that he would have
to get smaller variety of pumpkins or quit
| the business, but as he was about to resort
| to the latter alternative happy idea struck
him and he straightway began training the
vines up to roof OF a shed. In few weeks
the roof of the shed was covered with MAN.
moth pumpkins, which he was enabled to
roll into wagon and market.
Says the Truckee Republican: The
| Southern Pacific Company has lately conf
| pleted at the shops in Sacramento a COM
| pound locomotive for freight service. In a
| trial trip from Sacramento to Colfax it was
pronounced success, being much lighter on
| fuel than the machines now III use, and do
| ing the same wnrk. The intention is to
| send her to the Tehachapi Pass for a ten
days trial. The conjectures for the success
| of the engine are few, aud the result of the
test is looked for with interest by engine