The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-08
COAST ITEMS.
Blief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

BIief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
recent decision of the State President
is that an atheist is not eligible to member
ship in the Farmers Alliance.
j. 3. Patterson OF Tacoma, who was VS.
itng at Gilroy, was drowned Tuesday even
ing while bathing near Camp Sargent
San Diego has nearly $150,000 of the
500, 900 subsidy necessary to procure the
erection there OF the proposed iron works.
The Indian agent at Perris, San Diego
County, has been authorized to advertise
for bids for the erection OF 49, 900 school
building for the Indian children.
Alpine County, Cal, has ninety-six voters.
lis great register consists OF two leaves about
Sx6 liz size and was printed In San Francisco,
there being no printing olhce in Lhe county.
John Balm of Zincon went to the hills to
get a broncho, some ten days ago, ana has
been missing ever since. The horse that he
rode has been found dead, with bride and
saddle gone.
A three-year-old boy at Pomeroy, Wash,
fell into Il well one day last week, but had
sense enough to cling to the well bucket and
call for aid. He was drawn up badly scared
but not hurt.
A Woodland CYolo County, men has
adopted two young kittens which She en-
tieed away from their natural mother and
movers them under her wings at night as
regularly as bed time comes.
Lake Tulare is said to be spreading ont
over the deserts of Tulare County and float
| ing the houses of some OF the actual
! settlers" The melting snow IN the noun
| tans is the cause of the rise.
Miss Ada Vaughn of Silver, Mont, left
there on Wednesday of last week and took
| the train for Helena to have tooth ex-
| tracted. She has not been heard from since
| and her friends are exceedingly alarmed by
| her absence.
Some prominent men of Susanville, Las
| sen County, have in view plan for drain
Ing Eagle Lake in the mountains at the head
| of Honey Luke Valley, which is a great
sagebrush desert. and utilizing the water for
| retaining that waste tract.
| A number of hogs have died within the
| past few days at Pendleton, Oregon, of Il
| mysterious disease. The animals cough and
| sneeZe, run at the nose, and soon die, some
| easily. some apparently in great agony.
| Authorities conflict as to what the disease
| may be.
E. G. Hoag of Fresno lost his watch, most
| unaccouDtably, recently. Some time after
another resident Of Fresno, passing a fig
| orchard, climbed tree to help himself TO
| fruit and found tue watch hanging by the
chain from tree. Evidently Hoas had also
been impelled to kalp himself to figs.
a couple of hslf-grown linnets fell from
their nest in Anderson, Shasta County,
! few days ago. They were picked up and
| put into the cage with male canary, which
| at once began TO feed them, and has cared
for them like mother ever since, keeping
tie young birds well fed, SO that they are
| lively and well.
The Chinese orchard hands in this State
have been getting very independent lately,
and the other day at Yuba City the CelaS-
tials i'll one orchard had little difficulty
with the white foreman, and undertook to
scare him out, whereupon he gave them a
surprise by diScharging the whole crew.
ami employing a family of fifteen white i''-
MIGRANTS a 0nlV ton Glad tn upt N .
work, ana are doing IL better than me
Cinnamon did.
A number of bold robberies have recently
taken place at Silver City, n. Mex. A ledger
in one Of the hotels there woke up the other
evening in time TO SEE man standing be
side him, revolver in hand. The intruder
kept him covered with the weapon while he
| quietly took possession of his vest, which
| contained watch and chain in one pocket
and then backed out of the window to 30
| to another hotel, where he made off with
the cash box.
Two years ago DR.. l.. B. Lawrence of So
noma became convinced that subterraneau
river flowed beneath the town-Sitn. and act
ing on his convictions he bored well, with
the result that at less than 2G0 feet flow OF
half million gallons in twenty-four hours
was obtained. Two other parties III THE
vicinity then followed his example with Tx,
success. and now three wells yield between
two and three million gallons every twenty
1Our n0urS.
A four-year-old child is living at Cottage
Grove, Oregon, the right side of whose body
is larger than the left, the dividing line be,
ing exactly in the center of face and body
All the organs on the right side, as we'll a,
the limbs, are much the larger, and there i:
tumor in the stomach, the growth o
which has pushed the heart nearly UP into
the throat. The child has been in this con-
diton from birth, and the doctors are ia
able TO afford it any relief.
, An unknown bird was captured at Wood
land, the other day, which, according to TIN
Mail, had no feathers, but was entirely GOV
cred with thick coat of bristly black hair
On the back the hair parted, the part fol
lowing the spinal column almost ON line
Its optics were so "pOp-eyed" that it gave
the bird very comieal appearance. Th'
bill was almost blood-red, and shaped some
thing like ducks, only tits hooked on til
end. The feet are partially webbed aud tn
toes are fitted with long claws.
The Reno Gazette says: A Gazstte re
porter paid a visit to Truckee the other da
: and learned that the old coins recentl
! dug up near Bonner Lake were plante
! there by c. F. McGlashan. a thrifty attol
!, ney who wrote book about the ill-fatss
Bonner party. MeGlashan's object is Q,
planned by the fact that his buok did no
+ sell very well, and he Was anxious to bay
? interest In the affair revived. The lat
I. Judge keySer. McGlashan's father-in-la y
. had an interesting collection OF old cOin
\ and it was from this source that the suppl