The morning call., 1891-06-30
COAST ITEMS.

improvements.
The cornerstone Of the new theater at
San Diego was laid Thursday.
Pasadena has decided by a vote OF 12S to 3
that High School is wanted IN that town.
There is said to be in the western part of
Humboldt County a petrihed forest whose
trees are Of enormous size.
A Pasadena boy had his face cut Wednes-
day night by The unexpected explosion OIL a
bottle containing Coronado water.
Petauma shipped, last year, 1852, ~
eggs into the markets Of the world, ana vet
Petaluma hens nave to scrat Tor living.
A sturgeon nine feet three inches long,
weighing $50 pounds, was caught In the
river at Anderson. Shasta County, last Fri
| day morning.
Patrick Flynn, a workman at the Stan
| ford University, died suddenly at Grldley 5
| Hotel in Maytield the other night while
| eating his supper.
The editor Of the Benicia New Era is not
! only the town editor, bat Town Clerk, Sun
| day-sch0ol teacher, pillar OF the church
and general putter-tO-rights OF the commu-
nifty.
Last SATURDAY. the infant daughter Of B.
H. Won Claim Of Oakdale climbed up to the
kitchen sink and pulled down can Of con-
| centrated I've upon her head and face, burn
ing herself very severely Herewith.
4 pack-horse, belonging to a couple OF
campers, while coming down the Devil ;
Slide" on the trail 10 the san Gabriel
River in the Sierra Madres, slipped. and
plunged down into the canyon, 100 feet be-
low, and was Killed.
The northumberland son of 81.
johnson of RiD0n was kicked by mule
colt Thursday afternoon. The baby scalp
was badly laceTated aud the skull laid bare
fIom the base Of the nose to the top OF the
| forehead. The wound, while bad, Is not
however, necessarily fatal
Two women in buEgeS had a race up Z
street, Sacramento, Thursday evening, and
In crossing another thOrOughfare knocked
! down and seriously hurt kittle H0ehn, 10
year-Old girl, who was crossing the street
! The reckless drivers did not stop to aScer-
| tam what mischief they had done.
A house of questionable resort having
| been established IN respectable nelghb0r-
! hood in Stockton the nelgnbOrS, unable to
Gust it in any other way, have reSOrted to
! the desperate method OF sporting" It's ire
Quenters and placaTdIng their names IN a
/ conspicuous Place. There is a good deal Of
| Quaking in some circles over this bulletin. "
Arrangements are being made at Port
| HadlOCk for q great Indian p0tlatch, COM
pared with which all others on Puget
| Sound will sink into insignicance. 1t is TO
| come of on July 4th, and it is expected that
| from 5000 % 1900 Indians will be- in attend
| auce from various places in Western Wash
| ington, besides large delegations from the
| reservation west OF Union City
J. b. Garner was at work repairing box
| car in the yard al DunsmuT the other day,
and while his head WAS bent down in fixing
the air-brake the cylinder, forced out by
| the compressed air, struck him 10 the head,
the brtke-lever catching him on the other
side, and his skull was nearly crushed His
eyes and cheeks were terribly mashed, but
he is making good recovery from his In
juries.
& few days ago two young men Of Iowa
Hill, Placer County, fuding two men asleep
BY the roadside under the influence Of liquor
| lighted a candle and put 1t between the two
sleepers for a joke. Their clothes took fire
and they were both badly burned, one of
them so seriously that he may not recover.
| One of the J ReTS has been arrested and Is
out on $500 bail, but the other has skipped
the country.
Thursday morning about / o'clock Spe-
cial Officer COTyell Of Virginia City, hav-
ing, after great physical eXertiOn. arrested
a trOu OleSOme customer aud locked him up,
left the iail with the officer VINO had as
sisted him and walking a short distance up
the street suddenly fell dead without even
uttering 4 grOan. 1t is supposed the great
exertion he had just passed through caused
heart failure.
a family of seven children at FL Dorado
contracted diphtheTia last week from drink
ing impure water. Six have already died
aud the seventh, a young man Of 20, is not
expected to recover. A rather startling cir
! cumstance in this connection IS the fact that
| this same water supply has been used right
along by the children OF the public school
! up to short time since. Had not school
| closed recently an epidemic would probably
| have resulted.
| H. W. Byrd Of Vsalia shipped a box of
| apTIcOtS TO Denver, Colo, with instructions
| to have them returned. This was done with
| a view of testing the shipping qualities of
I the fruit and learning tie degree of ripe
/ ness the fruit should attain to be in good
| shipping condition. Mt. Byrd was not at
| home last week when the apricOJs returned,
| and hence they were boxed for twelve DAYS,
| and when opened We're in good condition
and fully ripe, though partially green when
started on the journey.
George Mckee Of Potter Valley went out
| on horseback TO herd some sheep Tuesday
| morning. As be had not returned Wednes-
| day morning, search was instituted, and he
| was found in an unconscious condition,
| badly wounded in the head, his horse, a
good saddle animal, brdled and saddied,
| grazing some distance away. The Dos lin
| gered until Thursday morning, when he
| died, without recovering sufficiently to give
| any explanation Of the accident.
A. J. Archer of Traver has a blackberry
| vine around which he has placed a frame
/
ter. The vine has grown up through the
center Of this framework and its branches
| have completely covered it and are so full
! OF fruit that it presents the appearance Of
| a half sphere with the oval side NJ, on
which some one had tastefully arranged the
fruit. berry touching berry. until there can
nothing be seen but the fruit. The foliage,
| excepting the center stock which reaches
several feet above, is completely hid from
| view.
j. w. Rathbone, farmland on ranch
near Stockton, who had his back broken
while breaking a horse, died on Thursday
| afternoon, two days after the accident oc-
Cured. When it was found that his back
was broken, efforts were made to learn the
| names and address Of his parents, but be
said his mother was old, aud it would be as
! well not to cause her sorrow, and he de-
| clined to give his friends further informa-
ton in the matter. His mind was clear uI
to the time of his death, and he made dis
position Of his savings by executing will