The morning call., 1891-06-12
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Baker City Oregon script is worth only
30 cents on the dollar.
Bears and cougars are reported thick
about Sumas, Oregon, so that the school
children 60 il crowds for safety to and
from school, the larger boys gong armed.
George II. Humphrey, a travelling sales
man, was run over and killed 10y an electric
car at Seattle last week. Nearly every bone
in the POOR fellows body was crushed by
the car.
The San Joaquin Valley is not only in
ficled with grassnOppers this spring, but
reports also come from St. GATHERINGS and
vicinity that immense hOcks of mud hens
are eating up hundreds Of acres Of grain
through there
demented woman strayed from her
home near Baker City, Oregon, recently.
The Oregon Blade thus narrates her sad
condition when found: She was in semi
nude condition, having lost her shoes in the
mud near where she was found.
The LOmpOc Record says that the honey
season this year Will b6 the lighteSt for
many years in California. Apiaries that last
year yielded twenty tons or more viii not
extract pound this season. There does not
seem to be as much nectar II the flowers as
heretofore.
an epidemic Of mysterious disappeaTances. "
The latest is that of c. II. Dyar, a DTomi-
nent business man Of Ontario, who tied his
horse IN front Of a house the other morning,
went off up the road and has not been heard
from since.
Last week the fve-year-Od son of w. c.
PITT of L0velOCks ran the tine of a pjtchfOrk
through his foot The point entered the TOP
OF his foot, al the middle OF the instep, 60
ing clear through the foot and penetrating
the sole of the shoe. So far the little fellow
is doing nicely.
Two cOloTed men of Fresno quarreled
Monday over some chickens and turkeys be-
longing 10 one, which ne alleged the wife Of
the other killed. The owner OF the turkeys
was shot at and wounded by his opponent,
who shot to KILL but having poor weapon
only succeeded in intlicting a severe wound.
swarm Of bees has taken possession of
a chimney Of a house near SebastOpOl, con-
strUCtIng their combs in the bottom Of the ttue,
where they eau be seen through the stove
pipe hole. Ia order TO witness the opera
tons of the bees without being stung the
inmates of the house have placed a glass
over the stoYe-pipe hole.
An Italian employed at Dingle's railroad
camp, near Castle Rock, Oregon, was pre-
pairing to kin fish in the Cow itz River, the
other day, by the illegal use Of giant powder,
when the stick exploded in his hand, tearing
Ing manner. He was taken to the hospital
at Portland for treatment.
According to accounts there are four diff
ferent mountain peaks In Idaho that by
actual measurement are from - to % feet
lower than they we're fifteen years ago.
The theory is that quicksandS are under
mining them, but more reasonable theory
is that the states of which IN y are CON-
posed are being disintegrated by the atmOs-
pheTe and sIlue down the slopes.
Gratz Brown of Los Angeles, while driv-
ing in from La Jolla the other night, came
to a place where former road had been
fenced up with barbed wire. Not knowing
of this circumstance he drove directly into
it, and both be and his horse were terribly
cut and bleeding profusely before they
could extrcate themselves from the barbed
horror. The horse was at first expected to
die but is now doing well.
San Dicgans are now exulting over the
news from London that the English owners
of the San Diego Water Company have
agreed TO the contracts proposed by the city,
aud that they have given orders that a sur
vey be made and that a railroad be con-
structed from San Quentin some 200 miles
through the peninsula of Lower California.
According to the terms Of the contract
actual work must be begun within thirty
days.
Over year ago a suit was commenced
against the Mayor and City Of San Diego to
GUST the former from Office and declare the
city's charter unconstitutional, null aud
void. On June 9TH, however, three Superior
Court Judges, sitting in bank, ordered judg-
ment TO be entered for defendants. This is
a practical Confirmation OF the legality OF
the charter, and will tend TO quiet many
other questions that have hinged upon the
decision.
The Suffer County Farmer wants a Farm
ers' Alliance organized to regulate the
weather, and SAYS: We heard one man,
who lives within few miles Of Yuba City,
bewailing his i'll luck Sunday n a most pa
theuc manner. lie stated that he had about
eighty tons of hay down which was drenched
by heavy rain on Saturday. What made
him feel so badly was not the fact that his
hay was damaged, but because on the oppo-
site side of his farm there was large field
of grain that needed rain, but not drop fell
upon 1t.
Professor Edward Hyatt Of San Jacinto
writes in the Register of that place: 81
know a place on the Encinitas coast where
the beach is shut in for miles by perpen-
dicuiar wall of pebbles. At high tide the
waves dash against the cliff, undermine it,
and scatter pebbles on the beach. They are
wonderfully uniform in shape, fattened
ovOids and ellp>OldS, ground and polished
In the mills OF the gods. All the cOlOrs of
the rainbow, and more besides, catch the de-
lighted eye"
From the valley Of the Methow Washing
ton, come reports of phenomenal mineral
deposits, undeveloped as yet. and whose ex-
istence has not heretofore been suspected.
The Spokane Review says, regarding them
Silver, lead aud coal abound in vast quaint j.
tics, while the bars at tile mouths IF the
streams emptying into the Columbia are
simply gllttering with -four gold. Pros
peetOrs are beginning to turn their attention
IN this direction, and 1t may not be many
years before the mines of the Methow are as
famous as those Of the CGur d. Alenes.
The Nevada (Cal) Herald thus writes of
curious musical freak there: The porter
of a saloon near our Office gives us a novel
entertainment every morning. He arranges
his tin spittOons in a row and plays a hose
upon them to clean them. The spittoons are
Of different sizes, and by clever arrange
ment Of them he can by turning the hose
from Que to another, run the scale on them.
He has "Can You Come Out Tonight,
Love?" down pat, and is now practicng
Yankee Doodle" When he learns AN
ME Rooney" we are going to have him ar
rested