The morning call., 1891-09-05
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States an,
Territories.

Br1ef Notes FROM Iacluc otatcs anu
Territories.
Salt Lake City is to have q large stamp
ing and tinware factory.
Two Alameda young men are making
their plans to walk to Chicago and take in
the Worlds Fair.
A Conger eel weighing eighteen pounds,
and five feet long, was caught near Turn
water, WASH, last week.
In some parts of Southern California po-
tatoes are being offered at cents per sack
in the ground, the buyer to dig for them.
Rich iron ore has been struck in San
Ysidro mine, few miles below Ensenada,
Lower California. A vein 1000 feet long
and 60 feet deep has been found.
A Chinese woman attempted suicide at
Sacramento the other day by taking opium.
A doctor was summoned and she is greatly
improved and will probably recover.
The contract has been awarded BY the
Electric Street Railway Company at What
com, Wash, for four miles ef track to What
com Lake, to be completed January 1st
The coming State Fair at Sacramento
promises to be an unusually brilliant one.
The race track has been greatly improved
and is now claimed to be the best in the
State.
A wild boar was killed Sunday by Fred
GOtObed, Mike Judge, Phil johnson and
Finley Mcmillan on the Rancho del Paso.
The beast weighed 800 pounds and had i'm
mense tusks.
The town of Perris has more than doubled
in population within the past six months.
Three handsome new brick blocks have
been erected and another large one is in
process of building.
A number of capitalists have offered to
raise S3,000,000 for building railway to
Astoria provided the city will give them
1000 acres of land near the city and right
of-way for their track entirely around the
peninsula.
At Astoria the other day gang Of men at
work Quarrying fired off a blast at the noon
hour. A piece of earth weighing $50 pounds
crashed through the roof OF house, nearly
tearing everything to pieces. Fortunately
no one was injured.
In spite of generally expressed disap-
proval ON the part of farmers in some sec
tions the State Board of Examiners have
approved of the coyote scalp bounty, and
claims will be paid The amount of bounty
claimed since June 30th is 1915
A strong effort is to be made to establish
beet sugar factory at Alyiso, Santa Clara
County. There is already one prosperous
factory in Alameda County. in the same
valley, and the beets grown there have
large proportion of saccharne matter.
Archie Falknor, a well-known cowman of
Wyoming, while driving lot OF cattle
north recently, poisoned his eyes by wiping
the sweat from his face with gloves that
had been saturated with the alkali water of
the plains, and is now in the hospital at
Sheridan, totally blind.
A destructive fire has been raging in the
Santa Ynez range, along the Santa Barbara
road, for week or more. The timber and
underground is destroyed over large area,
and the Santa Barbara stages had some very
narrow escapes. They had to run regular
gantlet of fire on every trip for several
days.
The maddest man in Oregon is paying
PendletOn doctor day wages to pick shot
out of his back. The shot was pumped into
him by companion hunter, who thought
he was a jackaSs rabbit. What makes him
so mad is the idea that he was taken, or
mistaken, for jackasS rabbit, sort O. add
ing insult to injury.
A Rpdland correspondent of the Los An
geles Express says: Another great scheme
of the Bear Valley Company is developed in
the intelligence that a contract is about to be
let for mile and half tunnel to connect
Dry Lake north Of Van Dusen Creek with
the Bear Valley reservoir. 1t is said by
those who have examined the ground that
the development of this lake will furnish a
body of water nearly equal to that held in
the big reservoir.
As young lady of Cathay Valley was
riding home from aneighbOr's, Sunday night,
a masked man armed with q shotgun
Sprang from thicket and ordered her to
dismount. Thinking he meant to steal her
horse she hated, but lie immediately SelZed
her, and after beating her over the head till
she was unconscious outraged her. She
was still unconscious when found. Friends
are securing the country after the wretch,
who. If found, will doubtless be given short
Shrift and snug neckte.
The Oregon City Enterprise says: There
is general movement among the hop men
of Clackamas County to employ none but
white laborers as pickers in their yards this
season. The probability is that not
Chinaman will be employed in the county,
especially if the labor element, which Is al
ways so opposed TO Cinnamon, meets the
hop-growers half way and uses every en-
deavor to supply the needed plckers. The
exclusive employment of white pickers will
mean the retaining at home of thousands of
dollars that heretofore have been carried out
of the county to our loss.
At Old Elk Grove Wednesday morning,
says the Record Union, barrel of whisky
in George Ottman's store exploded, and
damaged the place to the extent of several
hundred dollars. Nobody was injured, al
though several persons were in the store at
the time. The explosion was caused by
lighted match being thrown into the open
bunghOle of the barrel by Ottman'S little
boy. 1t tseems that the insurance ON the store
was to have expired at noon, and Ottman
started Tor the city to have it renewed. The
explosion and fire occurred soon after he
left home, and the insurance was still on
the goods