The morning call., 1891-04-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Petaluma is to have pickle packing es-
adjustment.
Humboldt County has practically no
Chinese population.
No Oregon newspapers are allowed in the
Salem penltentiary. Not surprising rul-
ing by any means.
The expenditure in Los Angeles this year
for street railroads, improvements and
buildings will reach So, 000,0O0
. Twenty thousand gallons of white wine,
vintage 1892 were purchased at Sonoma last
week by New York wine firm.
j. de Barth Shorb, a San Gabriel agri-
cuturist, is grubbing up fifty acres of vines
on his place. and will plant the land to figs.
Los Angeles has preacher who refers to
Henry VII as "that pIOus saint who Is sec
end only to Martin Luther in having made
Professionalism popular"
The Los Gatos Mail, which up to two
weeks ago was Democratic organ, has eX-
perienced a change OF heart and now APP
pears as an exponent Of Republican prin-
cipleS.
The famous Bears Nest mine, near
Juneau, Alaska, has turned out to be a
mares nest. Some $500. 600 have been sunk
in the venture, which has now been abau-
doned.
1t has come a tlastl Captain Bushnell Of
the Oakland ferry service is described by a
husband of Mrs. Rosa l.. Bushnell Of the
Golden Way"
Such trifes come cheap in San Jose.
George Hanson, who accidentally shot HIM
self Sunday night in the Hensley House,
while trying TO shoot the proprietor, was
fined IS by Justice Gass.
Fresno boasts of a two-year-old hen OF
the Jersey blue breed, who IN the past four
teen months has Matched out 102 chickens,
an average of over seven chickens month
for that time. Great he B, that.
The young men of Agnews, Cal, have
for some time found lucrative employment
in frog-catchlng, but ruined by Chinese
cheap labor they have abandoned the field
to John" and taken TO blcycle-r.dng
The Ventura Democrat says: Au aeroite
weighing about three pounds fell near the
Hughes place, Pleasant alley, a few days
ago. Its substance is volcanic and the
specimen was light and perm-ated with air
cells.
Peter Urbani the two-year-old son of
Rafael and Mary UrbAni of Stockton, who
was so mySterlOusly stabbed by an unknown
iend while asleep IN his cradle couple of
months ago, died Sunday of memhranous
Group
One day last week while herdng cattle
on the " Grant" near LemoUre, Tuare
County. vaquero discovered all elk in the
brush and succeeded in capturing it with
that section.
IL a 500 estate being probated in the
SOnoma County Superior Court sixty heirs
are named. and there is great apprehension
felt among them lest they will have TO levy
an assessment on themselves to pay the
administrator.
Some time ago travelling agent visited
Chico and Marysville, and sold the ladies
there quantities of alleged rare and deSir-
able garden seeds" They were planted, and
now every fair gardener who inveS. ed has
fine crop of radlshes.
Indian Agent II. w. Rust of San Diego
County has fallen into deep dlsfav0r with
the Southern California tribes, who have
prepared specific charges against him, and
denOunce him as guilty OF "crauklneos that
amounts TO imDecility."
Ezra Gaskie, a native of Jerusalem, was
arrested at Tuiare last week and sentenced
to twenty days in Jail for begging. Ca
searching him $500 was found about him,
with n number of letters from prominent
people recommending him 10 the charitable.
The new county high school law, having
done away with the CaIDinetti course ill the
Livermore public school, the people of that
and the adjoining districts are moving in
the matter of establishing a union high
school there, as provided for by the new
law.
A banana tree In the yard of John Pres
ton at Or0ville is SAID to be- putting forth
leaves, and now promises 10 proau a large
crop of fruit. Inc tree is three years old,
ten or twelve feet high, and last year bore
for the hrst time, maturing considerable
fruit.
Thomas Sebring of Sebastopol, Cal, was
in town the other day, says the Petauma
Imprint aud adds: He is SO years old, can
cut q cord OF wood in day and is as
straight as an Indian" Mr.. Sebring came
to California in 1S49 and settled in Sebas-
topol In 1852.
Mrs. Prouty of Waterloo, San Joaquin
County, with her two children, attempted to
cross the railroad track in front Of Il NOV
ing train Monday, but her horse, more SEN
siDle than its driver, refused to go, and only
the animals stubborn resistance to her
whip and voice saved the lives of the whole
party.
A site has b en- selected for the new
Indian school at PERKS. 1t is to be located
on an S0-acre tract four and quarter miles
north of the town. and work will probably
be commenced within tairty days The
sum Of $4,000 is TO be expended, and the
school Will probably be opened in October
with about 100 pupils.
A man named Harry Brannan was driv-
ing near Tulare the other day, when sud-
denly his dog came bounding toward him
followed By six coyotes. He went to the
rescue of the dog with his driving whip,
but the coyotes attacked hun, making such
an onslaught that he was glad to call his
dog, jump in the cart and drive off as rap
idly as possible,