The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter
ritories.

California has 241 chartered Mas onlc
lodges, with 1900 members.
A. b. Spreckels has bought the street
railroad system of San Diego.
The Riverside Banking Company has in
creased its capital stock to S1,00G.0O0.
The best coal as yet found in California
is said to be in humboldt County, near
Eureka.
Ranchers around Idaho Falls. IDAHO. are
offering potatoes in the field at 10 cents per
100 pounds.
The Cajalco tin mines of South Riverside
turned out twenty tons OF pure tin during
the month Of October.
The Anaheim Gazette is informed that
100000 OF that districts irrigation bonds
are about to be sold at satisfactory figure.
The Commissioners Of Lander County.
New. have reduced the State and county tax
to So on each 500 to Offset the horizontal
raise OF 10 per cent.
A pelican measuring eight feet from tip to
tip was on exhibition last week III Santa
Barbara store. 1t was captured while asleep
on large rock on the Montecito beach.
The farmers of Sacramento Valley are
showing great earnestness in their deter
mination to save the valley and its rivers
from the destructive work Of the hydraul-
ickers.
A committee appointed to raise $4,000
for the support of an educational institution
at Grants Pass, Oregon, report that they
will have no trouble in securing the full
amount.
1t is estimated that the raisin crop of Cal
llorna Will this season exceed 800 carloads
The season has been very favorable tor
drying the second crop of grapes, aud the
quality of the raisins is excellent.
1t is said that thousands of bushels OF
peaches and apples are being fed to the
hogs along the Snake River fruit-Oet in
Oregon, and all because the frut-raiserS are
mot 70 rod fal- nf I'm
comes on.
II is said that sixty tramps were expelled
from trains between Cotton and Yuma in
two days last week. In common with other
tourists, the fraternity are flowing in great
numbers to the winter resorts i'll Southern
California.
The Yuma Pumping Irrigation Company
has purchased a carload Of agricultural i'm
plements and contracted for $1,000 worth OF
tees and vines, which are To be set out on
the ground which is being put in condition
Tor planting, one mile west Of Main street,
\ una.
Since the passage of the act giving a
bounty on rabbit scalps it is reported that
the plains OF Tuiare are covered with bald
headed rabbits, parties having scalped the
poor creatures in order to obtain the bounty
aud then turned them loose TO replenish the
earth that the scalp supply may not fail.
On Sunday, November Isr, the steamer
plotting her seven hundredth trip between
that port and san Francisco. The Hum
bOdt was built in the northern bay in 1876
and has crossed the Humboldt bar between
400 and 1900 times without ever having met
with an accident.
In order to encourage the raising Of early
vegetables, the Santa Fe road has decided
to put fast train on between Southern
California and Chicago. With proper care
IN raising 1t IS predicted that many vegeta-
bes can be put on the market in January
and February, when Eastern prices have
reached the top notch.
Tie LEGAL papers say that the opinion of
several housewives on Chino sugar is that it
is exceedingly rich in saccharine matter.
One lady SAID she had ruined a cake or two
before size found out what was the matter
that the amount OF sugar called for in the
recipe had to be sealed down one-thrd, or
the cake would fall rs fiat as Il pancake.
The Day Oregon -Four Corners says that
Oregon girls take the cake" when il comes
10 buckarOOing," Last week an emigIant
wagon and band OF cattle from Oregon
passed through town with two good-look!nr
web-foot girls driving the cattle riding
'straddie" and sitting the saddle with as
much ease and grace as the most accom-
plished vaqueros.
A scamp by the name of Brown is infest-
ing Los Angeles and Orange counties and
sw!udling the orchardisls BY boring holes in
Of powder ana plugging the holes up, guar
anteeing that every disease and insect aft
fecting the tree viii be destroyed by the
absorption of the powder into the sap.
The California Fruit-groWer denounces him
as fraud.
An artesian well at Galveston has reached
depth of more than 1000 feet and is still
going down. Wood was pierced at depth
of about 1900 feet. and its age is estimated
by Professor Slngey nj 100000 years. In
the same stratum in which the wood was
struck we're found seeds resembling those
of the apple and blackberry. The 1850 feet
Of deposit over the wood bearing stratum is
chiefly sand.
Things are in bad way, apparently, in
San BeInardino, and the Ttmes-C Courier
growing desperate. says: When every
house IN the city is burglarzed; when
tramps have full control of the city; when
safes are blown open and stores robbed 4;
when men must carry an arsenal at night /;
when the Trustees wake up to these
| things-then, and not TIL then, will our
police force be enlarged.
The Cheyenne Sun contains remarkable
account of "criter" captured by one of
the outfits on a recent beef roundup. The
freak Is a fuli-grown steer of immense size
and perfect form, except that he has but a
single leg in front and that running from
just beneath the chest He was corraled
with bunch Of mavericks far up in the
hills and Will he taken to one Of the ranches.
The steer Is good traveller.
A San Diego business man expresses to
the Union of that city his conviction that
war with Chile would be splendid thing
| Tor San Diego. In explanation he says !:
I'VE would be the nearest point for supplies
and troops, and if the Government found it
| necessary TO Tall the gap through from
Yuma, you may be sure we'd have the
shortest transcontinental line in a hurry.
| Nor would We wait long for coast defenses.
| Government would have to act"
The Tombstone Prospector relates a deer
| story which Is at least novel one. w. G.
| Green OF that place was coming across the
country near Hereford on Monday last ac-
| companleG by others, when he ran into a
large buck deer tangled up in the barbed
| wire OF neighbOring fence. His horns were
| so completely tied up in the wire tha t it was
| with difficulty that they were extracted af-
| ter bullet had ended his life. 1t had evil
IDENTIFY struggled for many hours to regain
| its liberty.
Concerning the bean crop in that vicinity,
the Ventura Free Press says: 1t is esti-
mated that there will be 1000 carloads of
10000 pounds each in Ventura and Santa
Barbara counties. This would make train
| nearly fourteen miles long, not including the
| locomotives. SupnOsing one locomotive
| pulls twenty cars, it viii take hundred
engines to move the crop. There will be
| 100000 sacks of beans, allowing 500 sacks to
car. The empty sacks cost the grower
! S3OOOO, notwithstanding the Mckinley bill,
| but the beans will bring about 81, 100. 600
| into Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.