The morning call., 1891-12-19
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritorIes.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
There are eighty-five men and no women
in the Idaho State Prison.
Typhoid fever is said to be raging in some
parts of Cons County, Oregon.
Arizona oranges are being offered for sale
in the markets at Los Angeles.
The mail stages in Northern Idaho are
now making their trips on runners.
The papers Of Victoria are talking of the
desirability of provincial university.
The fund to erect monument to Doug
las Gum is progressing slowly Ill San Diego.
The Trustees of the various churches that
were demolished by the recent wad-storm
at Pasadena have decided 10 rebuild at once.
The Postmaster of Bakersfield. Kern
County, says that at the rate that town is
growing it will soon be entitled to free pos
tai delivery.
Fresno's petrifed man after extensive
travels, during which he experienced many
adventures, including being attached for
debt, has returned home for the winter.
There are great many cases OF la grippe
reported from the different small towns
along the coast, the disease manifesting its
usual tendency to develop into pneumonia.
There is another Christian scientist scan
dal, this time at San Bernardinn, where
Mrs. George Ward is to be prosecuted on a
charge of being responsible Tor the death Of
George Lord Jr.
The report of the acting Governor of Arl-
IONA estimates the present population at
10000. which would indicate an increase OF
10000 over the figures shown year ago by
the census enumeration.
A gold brick weighing 356 ounces and
worth about $1,000 has been received at the
United States Assay Office in Helena. 1t is
the product of a twenty-Seven days run
from the Royal gold and silver mine in
Deer Lodge County.
The orange crop of Butte County is be-
ginning TO show up in market. A carload
of beautiful fruit was sent East this week.
The oranges. like all other fruits, are rather
late in ripening this year. Those about
Sacramento are as yet hardly ready for the
table.
A few of the good people of Los Gatos
are making strong opposition to the Sunday
mail service there. and also TO the estab-
fishment of the proposed Kelley Institute
for the cure of inebriates, fearing that
either will prove detrimental to the morals
of the town.
1t is reported here this afternoon, says
the Reno Gazette of Tuesday, that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
the Brotherhood of TTainmen have ANAL
gamated with the o. 4. rs, and If the
Southern Pacific Company does not with
draw the affidavit order that every Southern
Pacific feeder will be tied up.
The Wetmore has been lbeled for $780,
COO salvage. Nothing like striking high.
says the Historian. 1t was lucky for the
Wetmore and the Zambesi both that the Co.
lumbia River was so near Had the dis
aster happened 100 miles to the north or
south of the smooth Columbia the end
might have been less satisfactory
viii S. Green of the Colusa Sun, one of
CALIFORNIA; stanchest Democrats, says of
the sugar bounty: "lnasmuch as this sum
paid for the development OF the sugar in
dustry is voluntarily contributed by the
drip bar t,1tffa o,,l oha 49, tfa,,
there is not much ground for the free-trads
nonsense about the oppressive sugar
bounty"
The authorities Of La Grande, Oregon,
backed by strong public sentiment in view
OF the recent outrages committed there and
the mysterious disappearance of two we'll
known citizens of the vicinity. have given
orders, and are strictly enforcing them, re-
quiring all gamblers, hobos and FOUNDERS
generally to leave the town. The gambling
houses have been closed and q general
reformation has set in.
The Virginia Chronicle SAYS: Sever al
men employed by the water company in
sweeping snow on the Fivc-mile Reservoir,
on the Ophir grade, received an un ex pected
duckng recently. The Joe proved too fragile
to bear their weight, aud all were precip-
itated into the water, and some had tough
time getting out As yet no ice crop has
been harvested this season, either from the
divide or Ophir-Rrade reservoirs, the ice not
yet having attained sufficient thickness.
If the association formed by the orange
growers of Riverside be perfected in time to
handle the crop of their locality, says the
Ontario Observer, it will, with the assist
ance OF the Southern California Fruit
growers Union, brace up prices perceptibly.
In Pomona price as high as So % box
has been paid producers for oranges for the
holiday trade. Two dollars box is a
highly remunerative price, but the indca-
tons are that prices will rule above rather
than below that figure. The lateness Of
the crop is much in the growers favor.
The State Land Commission at Washing
ton has selected 5000 acres OF land near Col
vile, Stevens County, for entry, as part of
the capital building grant. The present
value of land chosen, with timber thereon,
is estimated at from So so to $50 per acre.
The tracts OF Wahkakum land recently Sc
lected have been assigned to the grant for
the State Reform School Governor Ferry
and Auditor Reed have deposited $1,000 of
personal funds in the Capital National Bank
OF Olympia to meet filing fees. When this
fund has been exhausted more money will
be provided in the same manner.
The Templeton Advance has the follow
ing to say about the poll-tax, over which so
much dissatisfaction is felt in the rural dis
trlcts: The poil-tax on the Pacific Coast is
direct retribution for demagogy. I'm
der the plea that Il universal poll-tax would
man is met with yearly demand for tax
out OF all proportion to his means and is
compelled to pay it on demand. The work
lngman seldom escapes his contribution of
two or three days income to the road and
| poll-tax funds. The tax is not based on
justice, and some more equitable method
OF taxation ought to be substituted.