The morning call., 1891-09-02
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
A mountain of coal in Wyoming has, it is
claimed, been burning for thirty years.
An Indian school is to be established at
1yuden, Wash, and building will soon be
erected.
A six-inch vein Of coal has be en- struck
near Del Mar, San Diego County. The lig-
mite comes TO the surface.
At the Winters ranch, Washoe Valley,
New, 500 pounds of cheese are made daily,
for sale in California and Nevada.
Quite number of fragments have bern
recovered of the large meteor which fell.
recently, about five miles west OF Visalia.
Gilroy claims the champion egg-eater OF
the State. In ch0p-hOuse recently he ate
an oyster stew, chicken and four dozen
eggs.
Grape-growers in Sonoma County propose
to dry their fruit this year owing to the
small price offered by wine-makers for the
| grapes.
According to the Fresno Expositor the
| raising OF turkeys is a more profitable occu-
patton there for those who have grain fields
or large ranges than raising cattle.
Fresno County is overrun with tramps,
and orchards, melon patches, etc. suffer ac-
cordingly. One man near Fresno lest about
SIS worth OF muskmelons last week.
Reports from Seattle and the north are
that trains OF the Great Northern and Gen.
trail Pacific routes are just now crowded
| with Indians, who are focking to work in
the hop fields.
The water in Carson River is so low at
this season that the Ophir and Douglas
mines at Dayton were compelled to shut
down last week to let rancherS have water
for irrigatiDg.
| The Board Of Fish Commissioners have
ordered 3,000,0 900 trout TO be raised at Sisson
this year, if all goes well. Lake Tahoe has
been selected as the hatchery for land
locked salmon.
OF the 1000 orphaned children cared for by
the Good Templars' Orphan Asylum at
| Vallejo, only fifty were children Of Good
| Templars. And now the managers want
$1,000 to carry on their work. .. O.
The Sacramento Record Union says that
the proposed State Immigration Convention
| called by the Real Estate Exchange of San
Francisco is in reality hostile movement
against the State Board of Trade.
a party Of land-swindlers have been az
rested at Portland. They have been locating
parties on land for payment of $50 and
claimed that a syndicate they represented
would buy the land at an advance.
AT Pasco, Wash, the other day a crowd
Of citizens gave a man q beating with a
| fence picket for whipping his wife. The
| wife refused TO testify against him, so the
neighbors took the law Into their own hands.
The Portland OregOnian says: A school OF
whales have been. making themselves at
| home close along the beach between Rogue
| River and Hunters Cove during the week.
performing their risky and amusing antics.
Mrs. Richard Grid of Chino has had
souvenir sugar spoon made that is beauty.
| 1t has an engraving of the sugar factory in
the inside of the bowl and a sugar beet on
the handle with the word "Chino" below 1t.
| She also has preserved In silver bowl the
first sugar that came from the factory.
A young stallion owned by Santa Paula
man was taken very i'll few evenings ago.
A veterinary was called who tapped the
animal behind tho ribs with sharp instru-
ment. A great quantity of gas rushed out,
and on match being applied to the gas it
| ignited and burned with much force. The
horse seemed much. relieved, and may re-
cover.
The Elkhorn Irrigation Company Of
| Sheridan County, Wyo., proposes to build,
tan estimated cost of $780, 200, a ditch that
will irrigate 10000 acres of land. The water
| will be taken from Tongue River, Goose
| Greek and number Of tributaries to the
river. AS no 6uming or tunneling is neees-
| sary along the course Of the ditch, 1t will DO
cheaper than the average.
The San Diego Union says: Experiments
with the seed OF the tree tomato, which A.
j. Verlaque Of Twentieth street, near L,
| received from the East some time ago, DEM
| onstrate its advantages. OF his four plants
the most vigorous is now seven feet In
| height and is trimmed back and propped
like castor bean. The vegetable contains
more meat and fewer seeds than the. vine
tomato, and II bears fully as large and
abundantly.
The Santa Ana Press says: Henry Pope
| OF Westminster brought in to be sent TO
| Chicago hill of corn standing sixteen and
twO-thrds feet in height. This corn was
| planted on the Doth day CT May and pulled
up on the 18th day of August. A whole field
oil this corn was raised without irrigation.
| This is the sort of corn the almanac used to
tellabout where the ears were picked by men
on horseback. Wedidn't use to believe that
story in those days.