The morning call., 1891-10-21
COAST ITEMS.

Territories.
There are 102 log school-houses in Oregon.
John Heath, one of the earliest settlers of
Fresno County, died last week.
Los Angeles County pays 100000 moro
into the State Treasury than she receives.
Superior Judge Harris of Fresno has de-
cided that the County Government Act Is
invalid.
An effort is being made to introduce
physical culture into the public schools at
Sacramento.
The hotel bell-boys OF Seattle have patti
toned the Board OF Education to establish
a night school.
Fresno shipped a train-load of twenty-siX
cars of raisins one day last week, making
total Of 250 carloads thus FAR this season.
1t is rumored that tin ore has been discov-
cred few miles back from Lake Elsinore
and about fifteen miles from the Temescal
mines.
The new building which the Portland Or
nine stories high, 100x100 feet, with tower
200 feet above the sidewalk.
The San Antonio Electric Light Company
has applied to the San Bernardino Trustees
for a franchise to put another electro lght
system in that city. 1t will probably be
granted
1t is said that the beet-growers of Chino
the result of their first years work. They
consider the business as fully reliable as
grape or orange culture.
The Southwest Sentinel says it has been
demonstrated that cotton can be success
fully grown in some parts of New Mexico
The hols on The stalks raised there are
said tn be as fine as those grown in Leu
isiana. Georgia or Alabama.
Homemade sorghum is for sale in Kettle
Falls Wash, where the demand far exceeds
the supply. 1t is stated that for the past
eight years sugar-cane has been successfully
grown in that vicinity and the syrup manu-
factured from it is of superior quality.
The Laramie Boomerang states that Il cit
izen of that place has been suffering from
IAN attack of the brain" This is not
common disease in those parts, perhaps,
and the citizen had better beware as it is
apt t. be serious if left to run its course.
The number OF fires at Bencia lately is
causing the people to inquire whether there
is a tire-bug in their midst. From reports
that come in from other towns. both north
and south of the bay. it would seem as if
this class Of fendS was having fall OPEN
ing"
Reinhold Harris of Walla Walla was riding
near Pendlet0n, Oregon, tie other d ay when
his horse SHE'D and strew him against n
barbcd- wire fence. Harris leg was terribly
cut, the main artery just escaping, and it
will probably be several months ere he can
walk again.
The Bear Valley Irrigation Company has
flel two notices Of actual work begun for
impouudng water In san Diego County.
The work is begun on the west bank of
Snow Creek and on the west bank of Falls
Creeks, both creeks being in San Jacinto
Mountains.
The WatsOnville Paja-onian says the beet
crop in the Pajaro Valley will overrun the
estimate this year by 1000 tons. and pre-
diets that the sugar beet season Of 1891 will
be more satisfactory to both growers and
factory owners than any they have been
through heretofore.
According to the Times Index burglars
are entering houses in broad daylight in San
Bernardno. They hang about until they
see the people of the house 20 downtown or
elsewhere and then they boldly enter and
carry off whatever they desire. Not salts
fed with this they destroy clothing, carpets,
etc.
1t is said that the car of grapes recently
shipped from EscondidO arrived in Mime
apDlis in good condition and sold at high
prices. The criticism is made that the boxes
in which the grapes were packed were not
such as are in use in the Eastern fruit trade,
or still higher prices would have been re-
ceived.
II is estimated that the Pajaro Valley
Railroad has diverted at least 100000 worth
of freight business from the brOad-gauge
line in the Salinas Valley this season.
These figures are taken from the Salinas
Index. The major part of this business
goes to the steamship company, because 1t
has the long haul.
The physicians who have been attending
Officer Nash. who was shot by Ortiz at
Reno, say that the bullet that it was feared
would cause his death has cured q rupture
of many years standing. The bullet irri-
tated and infiamed the break and caused it
m haal II Ia Of rho n,oc rlyal l,Ia
cases on record, and the doctors will report
1t for the medical magazines.
The Daily Astorian says: Some of the
old-time residents of the Coos Bay country
were SO skeptcal when told OF the intended
development of that section that it WAS
found necessary to import locomotive en-
gine, which is now source of surprise to
the residents. A portion of the track of the
proposed Coos Bay, RosebnrG and Eastern
Railroad mas been laid and Oh this line the
locomotive is running.
The Folsom Telegraph says the water in
the river there is only about six or seven
inches deep, and spreads out over the bot
tom more than in former years. Above the
bridge there is no channel at all. The bot
tom of the stream above the bridge is filed
with soft sand and mud, and the person
who attempts to cross would have difficult
and dangerous job. Below the bri dge a
short distance there is not so much sand
and mud, and the channe! is deeper.
According to the Newport Times the
workmen on the Yaquina Bay jetties are ac-
complishing more work than any Govern-
ment works on the coast. AT the Columbia
works, says the Times, they have five times
as large plant and have no rock to handle
smaller than five tons. Here the rock are
of all sizes, from fifty pounds upward, and
yet the men on this work handle much more
than One-ffth as much rock as the men on
the Columbia work during the month Of
September.
The other day in the Union mine, at Cop
peTopolis, a miner named Winters was be-
side a car loaded with quartz, with his left
hand resting on the edge of the car, when
sharp-edged piece of quartz, becoming dis
lodged from the roof OF the tunnel, fell,
striking him on the wrist, cutting his hand
off as cleanly as If knife had passed
the wrist. The hand dropped into the car.
Winters was taken to Copperopolis, where it
was found necessary to amputate the arm
above the elbow.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says that Call
fornians should be the last persons in the
world to laugh at the emigration OF the
American hog. Every porker that goes to
Europe takes money out OF California
pocket. This State imports more hams,
bacon and lard than it produces. Conse-
qurntly the better market there is for the
American hog on the other side OF the At
lantic, the worse it is for consumers on this
side OF the Sierras. This is mainly true,
but still California can afford to rejoice
over measure that helps her fellow States,
even at her own expense.