The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-20
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOries.


An ostrich farm is to be established at
MADEIRA.
Los Angeles is to have $40 900 fruit-dry-
ing establishment.
Thugs made two attempts to hold up cabs
last Saturday night in Sacramento.
Olive oil is being shipped from Southern
California to fill orders in England.
Yolo is taking steps to organize county
fair. with a capital stock of $4,000
Roger Plant has bought the Grand Gen.
trail Hotel at Los Angeles for $4,000 cash.
Azdsa is shipping Strawberries to this
market at the rate Of TWO and quarter tons
daily.
Astoria has a young woman typewriter
operator who has written 375 words IN three
minutes
RedOnd0 Is enjoying quite little boom.
A Large amount OF building is going on in
that future seaside city.
A number of farmers in the vicinity of
Winnemucca, New, are going largely into
the growing OF sugar beets.
Kittie Sangunetti. native of TuoIumne,
aged 20, committed suicide at Bakersfield
last week by taking morphine.
c. NJ. HeintZ has purchased the Orange
Grower, paper published at Rlalto, and
will bring it out hereafter as a tWenty-four
page magazine.
Andrew Simon, an old man, a sort of
lanatlca!, wandering preacher, was found
dead n his b d last week at his residence,
near Forest City.
A steam-piDe on the pleasure-yacht Aquila
burst at Seattle the other evening; the en-
gineer and a lady passenger were badly
Scalded by the escaping steam.
A stock company has been formed for the
manufacture at Cloverdale of champagne
and brandy. The concern has a capital
stock of 100000 and is composed Of solid
business men.
Henry James. a young man of Grass Val
ley, went violently insane the other day
and made desperate attack on his father,
grasping him by the throat and nearly
Strangliug him before assistance came.
Some malicious person took a vauabl
hilch COW belonging to Superintendent
Lotus of the Golden Cote mine, Sonora,
and tied her to a tree on hillside ia such
manner that the poor animal checked to
death,
The baggage wagon Of a travelling comedy
troupe went off the grade near DeadwOod
the other day, killing a valuable horse and
wTecking the wagon. The two meu who oc-
cupled the vehicle jumped just in time to es-
cape injury.
The opening of the home for erring girls
at Portland, Oregon, suggests to an Ore.
g0nian writer the equal necessity existing
there for home for inebr!ate men, without
whom, he argues, there would be fewer Of
the former class.
a fine colt tied in front of blacksmith
shop at Arm0na, the other day, became
frightened at the noise in the shop, and in
endeavorng to break loose lunged forward
upon the large, Sharp-p0nted hltchiHg post
which entered the abdomen of the animal,
killing him in few minutes.
1t is said that there is no appropriation
made to pay the coyote bounty Of which we
have been hearing 50 much lately, for which
reason the law is practically imperative.
though money from the General Fund is be-
ing used to pay the bounty, and as long as
this source OF supply lasts scalps will be
cash.
AS the Petrolia and Ferndale (Humboldt
County, stage was making a trip Saturday
it got into quicksand at the mouth of Oil
Creek and a wreck nearly enSued. The
wagon was pulled out minus a tongue, and
the passengers got good MeIting, but 30 fur
Their damage was done, though the escape
was a narrow one.
A strange and terrifying beast is prowling
about Woodland, carrying off cattle and
soaring the tercest dogs. No one has cot
sight OF 1t yet or identified it, but its tracks
have been measured and are about sixteen
inches long and eight broad, with long claws.
An expedition Of hunters is forming to go
out against the creature
10 Herring Of Pomona is the patentee of
a new fruit-pickeT for apricots and peaches
which will take hold OF the fruit and pull it
from the tree without bruising 1t aud much
quicker than can be done by hand. 1t will
pick fruit in any position right side up.
upside down. off the topmo5t limbs or off
the ground with equal ease.
Thomas Brown, travelling salesman of
Seattle, whose wife died recently, becoming
respondent on account of business reyerses
and sorrow at her death, went to his wife's
grave Friday and fired four shots at his own
no hIIllnfS tp1 cir nil hut
neither made necessarily fatal wound and
he has a chance Of recovery.
The astonishing report comes from Los
Angeles that some Cinnamon of that CITY
were found recently with young white
boy in their possession whom they had pur-
chased, it is claimed, from his mother for
500 1t is said the purchase of white chill
dren is a common practice among the Chi
nese if they can find them to buy.
A. Harrison was at work in a shed on
his ranch near Arrowhead Wednesday,
while his son, about twenty-five feet distant,
was putting cap on gun. The latter's
thumb slipped, the gun was discharged and
Mr.. Harrison received the load in the back
of his neck, the charge just grazing the
spine. 1t was a narrow escape, but the
victim of the accident is doing well.
Francisco Sanchez the wife Of Frank
Sanchez. who is in jail for murder, attempted
suicide by taking morphine the other day.
she was TeScueui WneIeupOn the IacJ was
materialiZed that her espondency was due
to the circumstance that she was net mar
ried to Sanchez according to the rites of the
church, but by Peace Justice The cere-
mony was therefore performed by n priest,
to the woman's relief.
George Miller of Santa Ana reports the
latest freak in the way of a calf as having
been born recently on his place. 1t has no
eyes, no tail, and hardly enough backbone
to reach out to where the backbone should
reach. This causes internal complications
and otherwise makes this calf a most curious
thing. 1t has one little hole in its forehead
near where an eye should be that appears
something like a bullet-hole The calf is
perfectly healthy, drinks from pail and