The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-27
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Joe Dye, a well-known Californian, was
shot and killed last week in Los Angeles by
Mason Bradfield.
George Poor, for the past forty-three
| years a resident of Benicia, died there
Wednesday last Of dropsy
There are 5000 land-ocked salmon trout
! in the State hatchery at Carson, which are
| to be distributed the last of this month.
Bad boys are proving a great nuisance to
| the Alameda Free Library people, defaelng
| books. shutting and fastening outside
| doors. etc.
There is much complaint in Salt Lake
| City that the public watering troughs are so
| unclean that disease is spread thereby among
| the horses
The Laramie (Wyo.) City Council has
| passed an ordinance fixing the retail liquor
| license at $500 year in addition to $500
| county license.
A young lady of PaySon, Utah. swallowed
dose OF poison the other day in play. Her
| friends and relatives were not in play when
they buried her.
The Oakland police have given notice TO
| tobacco dealers there that the law prohibit
| ing the sale of tobacco to those under 10
| years OF age VIII be rigidly enforced.
Robberies are becoming of frequent oc-
cuTTence in Ventura County. 1t is thought
! probable that all of the MANY recently COM
| mitted there are the work of two men.
The San Jose Mercury has just secured a
| Goss perfectng press, and comes out in a
| new aud enlarged form that indicates enter
| prise and prosperity on the part of the pub
| fishers.
Daniel Welch of Seattle was riding a
| horse the other day when the animal began
| to buck and finally fell on his back. crush
| ing Weleh to death before be could spring
| from the saddle.
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| the city finances, which are running low.
| He fears the borrowing power OF the city
| will soon be exhausted, unless Tetrench-
| ments are made.
Some malicious person filed apart two
| strands Of the cable OF the PittSburg (NeY)
| tramway recently. The mischief was dis
! covered before the rope parted, however,
and an accident thus ayerted.
Landowners and others interested in the
reclamation of the tuie lands of Y olo basin,
| opposite Sacramento, are taking steps to
| decide upon and put into operation the best
methods Of attaining this end.
Ii is estimated that nearly 10000 acres Of
| arid land in the Yakima Valley Wash,
! can be reclaimed for about SIS, 600, or about
! S. so per acre. Preliminaries to granting
contract for improvement are being per-
| fected.
James Walsh OF Moores Flat, Nevada
| County, was throwing out some giant pow
| utL ilud1 htitt IL ca piOutuy tGdlluB OIL
one of his hands and part of his arm. He
/ was also lacerated and terribly burned about
the face and body.
| ID. Anderton, residing near Orland, was
| attacked by huge hog the other day and
ere he could escape received a severe cut in
| the thigh from tile creatures tusks The
| animal weighs over 600 pounds and was
| formidable assailant.
| Peter Anderson of Seattle, while trying,
| as it is claimed, TO steal ride on freight
/ tain near Spokane recently, slipped as he
| was climbing up the cOwcatcher and had his
| leg crushed. He is now bringing suit for
| 5000 against the railroad company.
Antoine Ullmann, living near Santa Ana.
| started for town Tuesday morning, but on
the arrival OF his team in the main street he
was found dead, lying on his face in the
| bottom Of the wagon. The coroner's Jury
| found the cause of death TO be alcoholism
Monroe Davis, a cousin of Marshall Nagel.
| who sEot Judge Terry. fired four shots at
| Joe Ihralls, resident OF Indian Valley,
| last week, but failed to kill him. Thrals is
peaceable citizen, and the people are high
| ly lncensed at Davis, who has been arrested.
The chOcO is new plant from the island
| of Samoa, which is creating great deal of
| interest in Santa Barbara. The fruit weighs
| on an average about three pounds, and has
| the flavor OF a chestnut 1t Tipens in about
! ninety days. and has been known to grow
| to weigh twenty pounds.
The grasShoppers are said to be this year
| more numerous in the northern counties
than they have been for years. IL they
| keep on multiplying there is prospect of
| their doing great damage. They are fought
| by herdlng, as they can be driven by one
man like flock OF sheep, so that man or
| boy can defend, singly, large piece of
| ground.
Mrs. Shaw, a San Diego woman, locked
| her house and went to call on a neighbor re-
| ppntlV Rpfnrniny hn baA
broken in, and was making a tour of the
| premises. lie was making himself at home,
but the plucky woman picked up conven-
| lent whip, and proceeded to lash him so
| effectively with it that the fellow skunk off
| without protest.
A curious Will exists in Marysville, and
| was written by a well-knoWn old resident
| who Is now IN very feeble health. One Of
| the provisions is that every man who at
| tends his funeral ceremonies adjourn to
! saloon, which Is named in the will, aud there
| drink until he has had his fill. The expense
OF TINS eccentrlclty Is charged up against the
| old gentleman'S estate.
The north wind went on a rampage at
| OToYille Few days ago; it capsized a shed,
| blew down photograph case, broke off the
| top OF lemon tree in one yard, knocked off
| pretty good crop OF figs III another, landed
hundreds oil oranges on the ground from
| trees IN various gardens, twisted and yaDked
signs about in an unpleasant manner, and
| did other damage on small scale.
| The Woodland Democrat says farmers in
| that section are growing prejudced against
| the combined harvester. Many farmers arc
| complaining that their fields which were
formerly free of all foul vegetation since
| the introduction Of the harvester are bec0m-
| ing SO foul as to create alarm, and some of
them go so lar as TO predict that within five
years there viii not be one of the new ma
| chimes in use in Yolo County.
At Bakersfield the other day man found
| peculiar blaze on great oak tree in
| lonely spot. He cut off the bark and found
| the following memorandum on the solid
| oak, in very plain characters: Here John
| in 1888" -Four inches of solid wood two
| feet square vas cut out and will be sent to
the Historical Society. Though the letters
had been cut IN they now stand out of the
wood