The morning call., 1891-09-10
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

BTleI NOTES aClnC hHu 4GN-
ritories.
Quite a rain shower visited Santa Cruz
Saturday, the first OF the season.
The Alvarado Sugar Factory will begin
work for the season on the 18th inst.
The first shipment of Fresno raisins,
about 1000 boxes, went East last week.
General Manager Clarke says the Union
Pacific will soon be extended from Utah to
California.
Sarah Bernhard is to play in Los An
geles on the 18th inst, and tickets are sell
ing at from 81 to So.
Eliza Coon and Fay Coon, two of the
Grants Pass forgers, escaped from Jail at
Ashland, Cal, and disappeared.
At Redlands the past year $500, 900 worth
Of new buildings have been erected, an
average OF over $500 for every family in the
town.
A light shower visited Pasadena the other
evening. II is said that after the shower
curious odor as of escaping gas was noticed
everywhere about town.
The cars for Santa CrGz's new electric
road have been completed at Stockton and
shipped to that place, and the road will
soon be in running order
Ellensburg now boasts the finest school
house in the State Of Washington. 1t is q
large, substantial building built Of brick,
with stone belts, and cost $4,000
The Sacramento police are making it hot
for the Fickpockets who have assembled
there with view to enjoying the fair, and
already five of the light-fngered ones are in
durance vile.
testified that on Sundays he took in about
500. on Saturdays $50 and on other days
about S15-hence the violation Of the Sun
day ordinance.
According to the South Riverside Bee the
force AT the Temescal tin mines. so far
from being reduced, IS being increased as
fast as can be done to advantage, but that
work in some other lines has been stopped.
The first dress TO be manufactured from
San Diego grown silk, with the gloss re-
| tanned, was exhibited at the Chamber OF
! Commerce recently. Ii was a dolls dress,
and being exposed for sale at public cutlery
| brought So. By such incipient grOwths are
great industries born into the world.
The Pomona Times says: The Arrow
| head Reservoir Company hopes to have the
| road from San Bernardino Valley up and
| over the mountain to the reservoir sites
| completed in two weeks. The company is
| pushing work as fast as men aud money
can do it. This is just the news thousands
! of people beside those Of Pomona are
! pleased to hear.
Tue Board of State Viticultural Commits
| sioners have just issued q directory of the
| grape-growrrs, wine-makers and distilers
| of California, and of the principal grape
| RIUHeIS anu Hlut-HldhOIS Ol Tie
States. The object OF the work In compil-
ing the directory was to secure the most
! complete statistics yet obtained regarding
the viticultural industry.
During the absence from town of N.
| Salisbury and family of Sacramento three
| burglars entered the place and were opcrat-
| ing on door upstairs when the Chinese
cook, left In charge of tbs house, discovered
them. Though badly scared he grabbed one
| burglar and yelled for aid, but being three
against one the thieves escaped, though with
out their tools, ere help arrived.
The Los Angeles Times says: The ed
itor of the Riverside Press declares himself
against the permanency of the Salton Sea
by the opening of channel from the Gulf
of California, unless the weather prophet of
the Times can convince him that the
"beastly sticky and sultry weather" we
have had for the past six weeks is not due
to the new desert lake. We decline the
contract.
California will make a good showing as
producer of beet sugar this year. The
! Chino factory expects to produce 5000, 000
| pounds of sugar. the jacksonville factory
100000 pounds. and the Alvarado factory
100000 pounds. This makes a total OF
1900 tons, which seems a large amount, but
the United States imports sugar to the value
of S100.0Oo,o0O annually. 1t will be some
time before we can make all this sugar at
| home,