The morning call., 1891-01-06
COAST ITEMS.

The Humboldt Mail has suspended publ :
cation.
The 0rand News was five years old last
| Saturday.
James Jewell. prominent local politi-
clan of Virginia City. is dead.
The FeIndale Enterprise has been
changed from folio to quarto, with plate
| matter inside
An inexhausrible supply of fine building
sand was found recently three miles from
WaterVllle, Wash.
The records of Union County. Oregon,
show 1124 uncanceled mortgages, whose
face values are 81, 063, 5G7.
The people of SiIverton, Oregon, cele-
brated New Years day by dedicating fine
school-hOuse that cost $1,000.
The MADEIRA Mercury says some Indians
| have been working placer claims in Coarse
| Gold Gulch with fair returns.
well-defined rumor has it that crude
| petroleum has been discovered in the hills
back of Forest Grove, Oregon.
The youngest boy of II. 7. May of Mo-
| desto was fatally burned on New Years day
| while playing near an open fireplace.
James McMakin of Shellvile. Sonoma
County, picked ripe waternelonS and three
varieties OF perSlmm0nS on New I ear'S day.
| Two boys with unSavOry regulations
have been arrested for robbing the railroad
station at FELTON,, Santa Cruz County, of $50.
Mrs. II. S. Jones of Yuba City sent to the
| Marysyille Fair last week eight pumpkins
that grew on one vine. They weighed 1900
| pounds.
The gold shipments OF the province of
| Victoria, B. c.. for 1890, were S411, S77 80,
| the smallest since 1855, when gold was first
| discovered.
A sailor on the Chilean ship Emma
| Louise, lying at Port Townsend, fell into
the hold on New Years day and was in
| stantly killed
A.
| from Eastern and European ports for San
| Diego. Their combined charters will re-
| quire $685., 600 in coin.
The owners of the Brown Bear mine, in
Trinity County, have refused an offer of
| $1,000,000: There are only three owners
Martin, Watt and Melton.
Every tree that is imported into Pomona
Valley this season must be subjected to the
| gas treatment. The fruit-growers will take
no chances with the scale bug pest.
Two attempts were made recently to set
| fire to buildings in Fortuna, Humboldt
| County, and the Standard advises the people
| to organize neck-tie party at once.
A tannery at Walla Walla, WASH, now
turns out l20 hides every day. 1t requires
1S5 cords of Oak and hemlock bark to keep
the works running through the year.
The rapid growth of Spokane Falls is
shown by postal figures for three years. In
1888 the receipts were $4,000; in 1889,
S3lyos0. while in 1890 they were So, 600.
John Price and A. Carson of Crook County,
| Oregon, tried to rope wild colt one day
last week. Before the job was half through
| Carson was knocked out, with his spine in
]ured, his thigh broken IN TWO places, while
| Price was run over and trampled ON severely.
Says the Oroville Register: e. l.. Durham
| of Pentz was the first man to manufacture
raisins In California. These first raiSips
were put up in 1864 and were sold to George
| G. Perkins. Mr.. Durham afterward sent
raislns to Paris, where they won a prize at
the Worlds Fair.
John Miller, rancher near Vancouver,
Wash, recently sunk an artesian we'll 22S
feet and now has flow of 1900 gallons an
hour. He values the well at 5000 and in
tends to put up tanks and supply the town
with pure fresh water. The well is the only
one on tie Columbia River.
A log-chute near Brewer, Oregon, was
the scene of strange disaster last week A
drove of twelve cows were going up the
chute, when a big log came laundering
down toward the mill. Five animals were
| ground into sausage meat, and four were so
badly injured that they had to be killed.
The Nevada Transcript says: Lewey
Rose, an Indian who was sent from this
county IN 1881 to serve a life sentence for
numbering Chinaman, and who was re-
Gently granted pardon by the Governor. is
now boss blaSter IN the Folsom Prison quar-
| ~. he gets So 50 day and board for his
services and lives in style outside the peni-
Tertiary.
Samuel Bern, Mayor-elect of Aberdeen.
has given away during the past few years,
for the benefit of Aberdeen and the encour-
agement of manufactures, cash bonus and
property which, at present prices, foot up
to $3.50 Co., The Democrat published al
the neiehboring town of Montesano, says
yet some call the father of Aberdeen a
mosSback. Would that Montesano had a
few such mossbackS."
The wife of Meme johnson of the Middle
Fork is missing and has been missing since
a week ago last Sunday, says the Whatcom
Reveille. 1t is feared she has wondered
away in the forest and persisted. She left
her children Saturday. The oldest child is
10, the youngest years. The children are
In great distress and johnson Is doing al
have lived in the country two years She
has left him twice before, and it is thought
she is insane.
On the day before Christmas Frank
Doughton and Grill Burkhart, who live a
few miles south of this city, says the AL
bany Democrat. came upon a wild hog that
had been seen quite often in that locality
| The hog was so fat that its locOmotion was
slow and tedious. They caught it with
dog, hauled it home, killed and dressed it,
and found 1t weighed 500 pounds. After
trying the fat out they found it weighed go
pounds. 1t could not run, and would only
| fight when one got in its way.
The Portland Oregoniap says: Something
| ike retrlOutl0n appears TO have overtaken
Prince Morgan, the twelYe-year-old col
ored boy of ,shedd, whose left hand was
| shattered by the premature discharge of a
shotgun. He obtainedsthe gun by forging
Wells, Fargo order at Shedd, While the
agent was absent. and sending it to an AL
Dany hrm for the gun. nice $40 one.
The ,otfense was soon discovered, leaving
the boy without gun. AS he was SO
young, and it was his first dishonest act, al
ways having been very straightforward
boy, nothing was done in the matter.
The Seattle Telegraph of January 1st
| says; 4. n. Armstrong yesterday received
| a pair of blankets from a friend ln Albany
| Oregon, as a New Years present The
| blankets were made by the Brownsville
| Woolen-mills out of lambs wool. They are
| pure white, and have Mr.. Armstrong; ini-
| tials woven into them. They are heavy and
guaranteed to keep a person warm even on
the stormy side of the north pole. Mr. Arm
strong says he wishes he was an Indian for
day or two so that no could wrap the new
drapery of his couch about him and 90
around town and exhibit these blankets.
They are valued at $50 pair.
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