The morning call., 1891-08-26
COAST ITEMS.

pAAch -NOhSS Il AoAAi ssNfAAS otdtos anu
ritories.
There are 54,S71 acres planted to grapes in
Fresno County.
Arizona has a web-footed boy. he will
doubtless be "in the swim.
Twenty acres of orange orchard sold at
Riverside last week for $4,000.
The building of an electric road on the
old grade between Boise ana Caldwell,
Idaho, is being agtated.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of Red
lands new school bonds were sold Satur-
day. They draw per cent interest.
Charles Nofeus, prosperous contractor
of Centralla, Wash, has ''mysterious!y dis
appeared" and no cause is known for his
action.
People who live along the Nisqual!y
River, Oregon, are compelled TO pay 30 cents
ferriage for crossing stream no wider than
a street.
The Sacramento swimming baths have
been open but two weeks, yet 108 bathing
suits and q gross of towels have already
been stolen.
In the west 100 foot drift in the Midnight
mine, at Phllipsburg, chute of ore show
ing considerable ruby, about is inches in
width, was struck last week.
Lewis. the Light" an erratic genius
well-known to Callfornans from Siskiyou
to San Diego, has been pronounced insane
and locked up at Los Angeles.
Sacramento is one day to have a new
City jail. Meantime the police bead
quarters and Jail will find temporary lodg-
rnent in the Wels-Fargo Building.
According to report the amount of
smuggling in the neishborhoDd of Sumas,
Wash, on the Canadian boundary line, is
stupendous, and smuggling is leading in
dustry there.
Four sheep-herders in Converse County,
Wyo., think that an unhealthy section.
Their stove was recently blown up by pow
der hidden in 1t during their absence from
camp, and strychnine poured over their
food.
The 100000 acres of land granted to the
Oregon Central Military Wagon Road Com
pany has been sold to a company Of Eastern
capitalists. 1t is said that they will star t
mills along the Middle Fork next year, and
put the lumber on the market.
The stage from the Dalles to Bake Oven.
Oregon, was stopped by masked man the
other day. He demanded the mai! pouches.
which the driver handed him, and he then
disappeared in the brush. This is the first
stage robbery in that section for many
years.
The Oregon State Journal of Eugene,
Oregon, says: Stephen Smeed OF Waiter
vile brought the first hops of this season to
Eugene last Wednesday. August 10Th, and
shipped them to milwaukee,, Wis. He
brought fourteen bales, weighing about
$500 pounds. raised on two acres of land.
The Astorian says: The 'green-goods"
men are harvesting crop of Oregon suckers
who send money to So Liberty street, New
York, to get boxes of sawdust in return.
People who bite at such a bait should re-
member that nothing is free on earth ex-
cept salvation, and there is some doubt
about that.
The waters of the Salton Lake, says
southern exchange, are still rising, but al
most imperceptibly. 1t is said complete
sandbar has formed across the Colorado
River nalnNy whara III haC ntIt tb
banks, and unless this is removed, the per-
manent overflow of tho river must be into
the desert
A pair Of oil-soaked overalls thrown upon
some straw i'll the basement of Sacra-
mento building set fire to the straw by spon-
taneous combustion the other day. During
this hot weather great care should be exer-
cised in leaving matches, oil-soaked gar.
ments, ETC., about.
Work on the electric road between Hay
wards and Oakland will be begun in earnest
this week. The first work is the filling in of
place between San Leandro and Haywards
that will require about 5000 cubic yards of
dirt. Simultaneous with this operation
grading for the new tracks will begin in
East Oakland.
Several workmen engaged in bracng up
the old Sutter Fort building had close cali
on Saturday. The south wall of tho struc-
ture-which was made of modern brick, and
was OF no historical interesJ-tumbled down,
| The workmen would have been caught bur
| for the warning Of e. j. Gregory, one of
the Suffer Fort Trustees. who was standing
| near.
| 1t is said that the Beet Sugar Railroad.
| from Watsonville TO Moss Landing, has
already taken large amount of business
from the Southern Pacific Company. All
the grain in the district touched by the
Spreckels line goes by that road to Moss
Landing. and thence to San Francisco by
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
| boats.
The Reno Gazette says: About 200 Tn.
dans took possession of some empty box
cars OF freight train this morning with
out being provided with transportation. in
Tending to 60 to Sacramento 10 pick hops.
The conductor could not put them off. and
! the train pulled out with them. The In
dians, when questioned, said: "Maybe so.
! hop man IN ranch at Sacramento pay fare
all right" The Indians are the only people
that can beat railroad. and they can do it
| With The boIdnpSs nf huoaa