The morning call., 1891-08-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Washington has l6S branch Farmers AL
lance organizations, Whitman County lead
ing. with 40.
High excitement is said to prevail ir
Grant County, Oregon, over alleged gold
discoveries there.
The Redlands peach crop is said to be
coming in very heavily, and large quantities
OF the fruit are being dried.
According to the Banning Herald, San
Jacinto peak is exactly 1O150 feet above
sea level and GraybaCk 1920.
Riverside city assessment amounts to
over S4,000,000, and when the Board of
Equalization met there had not been a single
request for reduction of assessment, q cir
Gums tance which speaks well for the as
SCISSORS.
The Pajaronian says: The mouth of the
Pajaro River is gradually moving 10 the
north. and is cutting away the Camp Goodall
sand-hills. 1t is changing its course so
rapidly that it would not be surprising if
the mouth would in time be near the old
warehouse.
The Los Angeles Express says some of
the bathing costumes seen down that way
this summer are so loud that it is impossible
to hear what the wild waves are saying.
Yet we understand they are epitomes
OF good form" How do you reconci lie the
two statements?
On Thursday last, while chnpping wood at
Malone's brick-yard, near Glen Ellen, Tim
Cronln aged IS years, accidentally inflicted
a frightiul cut on his right knee with the
sharp AK he was using. The young man was
rendered unconscious by the injury. AL
though dangerously wounded he is likely to
recover.
The Fresno Expositor thinks the Lower
California earthquake story is lone of
Colonel Aliens best" and that it will "go
| ringing down the ages with the pterodactyls,
the Arizona wild man, the Banning glacier,
San Dego's lake of ink, the suicides ice
cavern, and lose itself In the Oregon man.
moth cave"
A Phoenix (Ariz) man was recently lead
Ing bronco by rope in the left hand.
The bronco bucked and jerked the rope very
tight. 1t caught under the lower edge OF
ling On the same little finger, aud pred the
upper edge so powerfully against the part
there encircle1, that the finger was almost
Gu: entirely off. 1t hung by the skin and
was splintered back into position, in the
hope that reunion might take place and the
finger be saved.
As-George Ross OF Santa Clara went to
drive horse from the yard day or two
ago, the creature rushed at him, caught him
by the shoulder, tearing a great piece of
flesh out. and knocking him down, trampled
him 10 death. Ross cries attracted negro,
who ran to his aid with fence rail. but
tripped over the rail and fell, striking his
nead on stone. help coming, the horse
was shot and the negro removed, senseless,
but not seriously hurt.
Annie Conant, San Diego invalid who
has been endeavoring during the past year
to collect million Cancelled postage stamps,
has succeeded in accommodating the enor-
nous number of $4,000. This probably
represents an expenditure by the people
who used those stamps of between $4,000
and $4,000, and ii is not likely that this en-
thusiastic collector secured more than an in-
finitesimal fraction of the stamps used by
the people of this nation last year.