The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Dlphtheria is raging in Visalia, and there
were several deaths there last week from
the disease.
The Deep Greek mines of which we are
hearing so much nowadays are Just over the
Nevada line In Utah.
Cowboys are scarce In the Big Horn basin,
and as consequence Wyoming cattle men
are paying big wages.
The editor Of the Norwala News adver-
tiSes large sums of money to loan at per
cent Just fancyl An editorl
The Seattle Press Times Is making q
strenuous effort to have an extra session of
the Washington State Legislature called by
Governor Ferry.
Every little town in this State and Ore
gOn is now discovering that it has among its
inhabitants the man who looks exactly like
7 resident Harrison.
Rights of way have been secured through
Nevada for the Utah. Nevada and Califor-
MIA Railway. and the officials hope to begin
grading this summer.
POncho, the Piute Indian who piloted
General Fremont across theSierra Nevadas,
died the other day at the Pyramid Reserva-
ton in the sagebrush country.
John Swami of Redands has on his place
ten-month-Old orange tree. just foot
high. that has fully developed blossom on
the top. Score one for Redlands.
The Kern County Californian tells of
grape tendrils in vineyards down that way
that grow IS inches in a week. Couldn't
you lop off an inch or two Of that?
Nathan DarrOw, G. A. r. veteran, aged
s., was found dead by the road near
Rialto, San BernardinO County. The
COroner's verdict was heart disease.
Fruit-growing is proving considerable of
an industry in Washington. Spokane
County alone last season shipped 2,S00,O00
and the outlook is good for big crops this
year.
The people along Corle MADEIRA Creek,
near Tamalpais, have for the past week,
during low tide, been able to throw fish out
of the creek with pitchf0rks, so plentiful
are they.
The Pasadena High School has been
placed on the list of accredited schools"
fl0m which pupils having diplomas are ad-
mitted to the State University without ex-
animation.
There arrived in Humboldt Monday two
had travelled together from Hamburg. Ger
many, to their father, Jacob NOrvak of
Arcata, Humboldt County.
JawbOne Gulch, Silver Crown Mining Dis
trict, Wyoming, has woman MINER a Mrs.
Shawn, who took up her claim, keeping up
the assessment work with her own hands,
and has now struck it rich"
A squaw known as Carson Charley's
wife" was cut to pieces by the Piute In
dians near Lovelocks, New, last Thursday,
because they suspected her of being a witch
and causing sickness in the tribe.
There are three Chinese lotteries running
in Woodland, patronized principally by the
poor young clerks of the town, who thus
blow in their small wages in the vain hope
of making something for nothing.
Some one. presumably boys, entered the
house of c. III. Randall of Pasadena while
the family were at church last Sunday
morning and stole a number of articles, in
GLIDING several books and banjo.
Chicken thieves are thick about Grass
Valley. They raided one yard the other
night and got away with thirty-six chickens.
a plucky game rooster who made a yigor-
Gus fight being the only one that escaped.
While playing at Smelling the other day
two boys dug up nine $50 gold pieces on the
river bank. They bore early dates and
were found near the haun:s of the bandit,
Tom Bell, who was hanged three years ago.
The Helena Journal says of Sheep Butte
district, In Meagher County, that the country
Whereabouts Is covered with copper float
from the size Of a mans fist to powders ten
feet in thickness, all of which is very rich.
June 49, 1891. the people of San Bernar-
dino County will be called upon to vote $780,
coo bonds for Courthouse, to be located on
the site Of the present building, which is in
adequate to the needs of the growing sec
ton.
Or0Ville In the near future will be YER
liable olive grove. The amount of olives
that are already planted there and those to
be in the near future is surprisingly large.
Both Oroville and Palermo will put up olive
mills this season.
The unralled wharf at Benicia claimed its
tenth victim Sunday night, when Charles
Riley, an Eastern traveller, arrived at
Bencia the Oregon train, and in getting
off the train on the south side, it being very
dark, stepped overheard and was drowned.
Edward Jarvi, Finn, living at Rawins,
WyO., has obtained q verdict for $4,000
damages against the Union Pacific on ac-
count of a crushed leg, the result of an acct
dent in one Of the cOmpany's mines. The
case has been in the courts three years, and
the verdict Is final
A new pest has appeared in the orchards
OF Pleasant Valley, which kills the trees
outright, boring straight into the heart of
the tree. 1t is black fly to the naked eye,
resembling flea. Under the microscope a
long, sharp bill appears. No one has yet
succeeded in identifying it.
One OF our wide-awake fruit-growers pre-
diets that within year or two night work
by electric light will lie common thing in
our orchards. In this way large perishable
crops can be quickly handled by having two
shifts of men at work, so that the fruit can
be harvested before it spoiS on the trees.
Reports from orchard and field, this
spring, point to a scarcity Of labor in har-
vesting crops. What pity it is that some Of
the crankS who want to walk themselves TO
death, or fast in public, or go without sleep,
for lack of better employment, could not te
sent 10 work in the orchards of the State.
The Perris New Era says: The big bags
of fleece brought here for shipment every
day call to mind the opening chapters Of
Helen Hunt JacksOn's Southern California
romance, Ramona" Over $1,000 worth of
wool has been marketed through Perris in
the past month, and the season is not yet
over.
The Los Angeles Tribune says: The
captain Of the chilean steamer Itata, now
lying in San Diego Harbor, claims to have
100000 on board, which he desires to
exchange for California flour. This ought
TO be good beginning in the business of
opening up commercial relations with the
west coast of South America.
Charles Ashburn, a ffteen-year-old boy,
while playing in the outskirts of Nevada
City, Sunday morning, was struck, Just
above the knee, by rifle ball. No report
was heard by him or his comrades, and it
is supposed the shot was fired by some dis
tant rifleman. The ball penetrated SO deep
it could not be found by probing.
The Winchester Plowshare and Pruning
Hook, acknowledging editorally the kind
ness of certain citizens who helped repair
the damage done the Office by recent fire,
says Of the men who gave the needed help
III ever it should be our good fortune to
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