The morning call., 1891-06-17
COAST ITEMS.

Fresno has a new weekly paper, called
| Sunday Sayings.
Stockton is talking of having the town
lighted at night by natural gas.
The Hessan fly has made its appearance
in Napa and S3nOma counties.
The Southern Pacific has Just let the con-
tract for a $1,000 depot at Chino.
Hop lice are said 10 be doing no little dam
age in Washington and Oregon fields.
a thirteen-pOund trout WIS caught in
Bear Valley Lake, San BernariinO County,
the other day,
The town of Swasey. Shasta County. is
progressing. 1t is considering the question
of local option and expects soon to have a
church.
Fleming, the unfortunate minister of
| Pasadena who was sent to San Quentin for
an attempted outrage on his serYaut-girl,
has gone crazy.
II. K. Snow Of New Jerusalem. Ventura
County, has a lot Of sOftShelI English wal
nut trees in bearing at his place there that
he planted as seed just three years ago.
Mrs. J. U. Winneger has disappeared
from Santa Cruz, where she has been stay
ing. Her hat and shawl were found on the
beach, and her friends fear she has been
drowned.
Mrs. Flora Morgan of Bakersfield has
been awarded So, COO damages for injuries
received in a railroad accident at Delano,
aud SIC, 600 for the loss of her child at the
same time.
The Kaweah Colony Trustees. with cne
exception, have been fined S3Ol, so that
they might appeal their case to the Circuit
Court They all aYerred they had no prop
erty, aud will go TO jail in Los Angeles for
thirty days.
Three human skeletons have been found
near Tombstone, AriZ., in such position
as to Indicate fierce struggle among them
al tn 10 frr -
indicated, but the citizens have so far failed
to get any light on the matter.
The remains of the soldiers buried at Fort
Laramie, WyO, are to be exhumed and re-
inferred at Fort Mcpherson, Nebr. There
are seventy-hve bodies, and the Government
will pay 50 apiece for the work of taking
them mp, transporting and reburying them.
c. II. Dyar Of Ontario, one of the most re-
cent mysterious disappearances," who re-
Gently tied his horse % a tree aud skipped
out, has been heard from, having written his
wife that he will come home when he has
| made money enough to pay his debts and
support his family.
An Amador teamster, who has lately
| been very sick, threw up, one day last week,
a particularly vicious looking lizard over
six inches long. The man was reduced
almost to a skeleton by his Illness previous
to getting rid of his unwelcome visitor, but
| is now somewhat improved in health.
A man named Fowler, while hunting ia
Kitsap County, Wash, the other day, mis-
took his companion for a bear, discharged
| the contents of his gun into him and killed
| him. The COrOneTs jury discharged Fowler,
the Coroner discharged the jury-and vic
tim, hunter, jary and gun are now all gone.off.
A genuine oil boom is Undertaking. in
| Southern California. Oil has been struck
in the streets OF Los Angeles. The great oil
belt that is known to exist in the San Fer
nandO mountains has been traced for eight
miles, and has 4 depth Of Uil-pTOducing sand
that has not been found elsewhere on the
Pacific Coast.
At FOntaaa, one night last week, a tramp
laid down by the railroad track and allowed
his head TO BE- crushed by a passing train.
He died next morning, and the Coroner's
| jury that was summoned found him guilty"
and wound up their report by declaring that
The accident was caused by gross neglect
on the part Of the deceased"
''COleville Pete" young Indian who tes-
| tilted against La-La-See and Pierre Paul,
| two Indians who were hanged for murder at
MsS0ula, Mont, last winter, was stabbed to
| death IN his wigWam at Horse Plains, Sun
day night OF last week, by squaw, cousin
Of La-La-See, and an accOmDlice, also a
squaw. The TWO are under arrest.
The Portland 0regonian SAYS: Several
years ago Walter Kirk was lost III the Blue
Mountains while hunting, and what became
of him was never known. A few days ago
Frank Baird of Hopeton discovered a mans
skeleton ia the neighborhOod where Kirk
was last seen. and it is thought to ba the re-
mains Of the missing man. The skeleton
was found at the foot of cliff with the left
side OF the skull badly crushed, as If while
stumbling along in the snowdrifts he lost
his footing and fell to his death below.
The town Of Willows does not hold out
Pvery brilliant inducements for strangers to
locate there. Recently young man arrived
there by train, put up at one of the hotels
and proceeded TO inspect the town. Several
weeks passed. The occasion for his pres
ence was not revealed, and some suspicious
| minds received the idea that lie was spy
| from the hated city Of Colusa. Ii was de-
clded to give him a lesson, SO he was ar
| rested and tried as vagrant, but nothing
could be brought against him and he was
| discharged, naturally very mad man. He
| has now brought suit against the town for
| $4,000 for false Imprisonment, and it turns
| out that he Is young Eastern lawyer look
| ing for location. He has been offered
$1,000 to compromise the matter and hush it
up, but refuses,
His Mother Paid the Fine.