The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-10
COAST ITEMS,

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
1t costs about $50 per pupil, per annum,
to maintain the public schools OF Astoria,
Oregon.
Sacramento is said to be flooded with
very dangerous counterfeit OF the silver
quarter.
Stockmen along the San Joaquin have de-
clared war on cattle thieves and 1t looks.
says the Modesto Herald, as though one Cf
this couDty's leading industries is TO be de-
stroyed.
The Mound Indians are celebrating
spake-danee at Winsl0w, AFiZ. Ii is re-
ported that hereafter the Government Will
not ermit festivities of this sort on the part
of the Indians.
A subscription is being raised throughout
Washington TO erect new building for the
White Shield Home, for fallen and fren i
less girls, at Tacoma. Seven lots have been
donated for the society to build upon.
A Stockton man has traded livery stable
and outfit for share in Fresno's petriied
woman. which he proposes TO take East and
exhibit. The lady is considered paying
investment, as the people all flock TO see
her.
Kalama man sits grave ly down, SAYS
the AstoriaD, and writes that the lefty Is the
reason of the small number of salmon this
year. Pshaw! No such thing. It's the
Mckinley bill. If you're giving reason at
az SifO tHC ohO.
The body OF Mrs. Mary Martin, a wealthy
widow residing alone on a ranch at Eagle
Rock, near Los Angeles, has been found at
the bottom of we'll so feet deep Oh her
place. She left letter indicating that 1t
was a case of suicide.
The blasting of rock at CAROLS Point on
the Columbia, says the Tacoma Ledger, has
been completed. 1t took fifty men eight
months to accomplish the work. Sixty
thousand cubic yards of rock were removed
from the Northern Pacific right-of-way.
Placer County fruit shippers have entered
into combination and will no longer allow
the Chinese of that section TO ship, through
them, the inferior grades of fruit which the
CeleStals have this season been sending To
market to the great damage of the reputa-
ton of Placer County fruit.
While being hauled to fire at Sacramento,
Wednesday evening, a spring of one of the
fire engines broke and the ponderouS ma
chine tipped over. carrying with it John
Maiigan the driver, who was strapped II
his seat, unable 10 get free. and was cutie
badly hurt. The engine, too, was consider
ably wrecked.
James Shinn of Niles has in his nursery
fig trees grown from cuttings imported by
the San Francisco Bulletin from Smyrna
about eight years ago, bearing perfect fruit.
Mr.. Shinn has also IN his orchard the IL
were brought in twenty-five days from
Smyrna by way of New York, and but few
of them died on the way.
Recent Newcastle correspondence OF the
Placer County News says: 1t is reported
that some miners working III seam dfggingS
at Paradise, below Todds Valley, fnuId
valuable pocket recently, taking out 5000 in
four nuggets. the largest being worth about
$500. The May flower and Paragon mines
are taking out some uncommonly rich
gravel, and the prospects are good for any
amount of 1t in the future.
hi
near Grupe's sawmlli, Wash, was bitten on
the left foot by rattleSnake recently while
crawling in the yard about the house. The
child was given whisky and 4 bottle of tur-
pentine was applied to the bite. The poison
could be seen rising in the turpentine. Tao
whole body of the child became terribly
swollen, and it lay in stupor for several
days. At last reports 1t was recovering.
The Corvallis Oregon Gazette says
There Is untold wealth lying at the very
feet OF the citizens OF Newport In the cod
fisheries, if they choose only to reach for u.
Almost any quantity of this fish may b.
caught here, and yet not one city in ths
valley is supplied with Newport fish. II il
a mammoth industry, which lacks only
energy to develop. For the time being cold
storage is the only necessary outlay of capi-
tai, and being had, the industry Will pay for
its own upbuilding and improvements. 1t
would be no transient speculation, bat
would be right here year in and year out.
The Red Bluff Peoples Cause says:
Those who placed mixture of arsenic In
their orchards some weeks ago when the
grasshoppers were so bad, in the hope of
killing the insects that ate of 1t, have been
rewarded for their trouble in way that
they did not expect. The remedy did not
prove effective in all cases in exterminating
the grasshoppers, but it has proved mos
effective in killing rabbits. which are about
as destructive to young orchard as grass
hoppers. 1t is said that many rabbits have
been killed by eating of the arsenic mix
ture, and in many places their carcasses can
be seen lying thick through the brush ad
1acent to the orchards where the arsenic
was used.