The morning call., 1891-09-04
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and

Territories.
The Yolo County far this week Is prov
ing great success.
Mexico will have a $2,000000 exhibition
at the Worlds Fair
Over 1000 people are engaged in hop-pick-
ing ABOUT Wheatland.
Mountain lions are annoying Southern
Arizona stockmen very much.
Gold quartz mines in Okanogan County,
Wash, are attracting great attention.
A pup was born at Los Angeles recently
with two distinct feet on its left hind leg.
A Pasadena man has this season taken
1000 pounds of peaches from two trees in his
orchard
The Riverside Press is urging that the
city should purchase the top of Rubicoux
Mountain and begin the construction Of
public park.
The ostrlches on the farm at Pasadena
have all been attached and removed to Los
Angeles, as the result of a suit recently
brought there.
Mountain lions raided sheep ranch near
Chico last week and in two nights killed
between fifty and sixty head Of sheep.
There were only two of the depredators.
Three small boys. the eldest only ten
years, were arrested at Fresno last week for
shooting holes in three boats on Dry Creek.
They said they were playing Chileaas and
were firing on the insurgent fleet at Val
paraiso.
The superintendent OF Yuma Prison,
Ariz., has been considering solving the
prison labor problem by utilizing the con-
victs' labor in the manufacture of onyx
from the quarries into ObJects useful and
ornamental.
The mining industry Of Arizona has as
sumed one of The most important posi- tions
among its resources. The amount of capi-
tai invested iE. mining and the value o { the
nrO6uptinn rad with il Sh0w tl q n
dustry to be among the most profitable OF
Legitimate speculation.
TIE Azusa News announces editorially
that school opens soon." The News would
do admirably well to profit by its knowledge
of this fact by attending school, learning to
spell, not to break more than three gram
matical rules in one sentence and to know a
roman letter from an italic.
The Whittier Pointer says: Mrs. Cornell,
the hOuSekeeper at the Reform School,
showed us copy of THE DAILY MORNING
CALL, published Friday morning, Septem-
Der "a, 1858. 1t is about two-thirds the size
OF the Pointer. and many of the items in it
are interesting. Colonel J. J. Ayers was
editor-in-chief of THE CALL.
Patrick Duffy of Grass Valley, going home
on the railroad track. Sunday night, was
struck by the midnight express from Nevada
City, going at full speed, and was hurled
unconscious into stream of water. The
CHSluGOi lClb tuO COlllSlUU, SlUUpeu the
train and Duffy was rescued by the train
men just as he was slowly drowning.
A Jap at Esparto, visited drugstore the
other evening to purchase some quinine.
The clerk put it up for him and he went
home. Shortly after taking the medicine
the Jap became violently i'll. Prompt
medical help was rendered, and it was
found the clerk had put up strychnine in
stead of Quinine. The Jap will recover
A young Indian was drowned in Dun
vanish River, near Seattle, the other day
while endeavOring to rescue little Indian
girl from meeting the same fate. The
child was bathing when the strong current
brave plunged in after her. but was himself
carried away, while the little girl was res
cued by some men in boat.
Los Angeles County, through its District
Attorney, is suing Orange County TOR S14.-
600, an amount which, it is claimed, was
0verpaid the younger county at the time of
setting up business for itself. As both par
ties are decidedly interested in the ltiga-
tion, the courts of both are barred from
trying the suit and it will be heard in the
Superior Court of Ventura County.
The Grass Valley Tidings says: Nearly
the entire force of the Banner mine are
temporarily laid off. the strong flow Of
water tapped in the shaft when the ledge
was cut recently having gained so rapidly
on the pump that 1t is necessary to put in
an auxiliary pump. The present pump
was all but lost Saturday. Manager George
Fletcher states that operations will be in
full swing again in week OF ten days.
The Yuma Sentinel makes n statement
that will make northern Isaak Waltons en-
vious, when it is claimed that at the mouth
of the Colorado River and the upper end of
the Gulf of California are to be found sea
bass that weigh from go to 750 each, clans
rs large as a common dinner plate, millions
of sardines and smelt, oysters small but
delicious, millions of soft-shelled crabs and
other she'll fish. myriads of wild geese,
brants, ducks, cranes and other sea fowl
and birds. 1t is a paradise for fish and
game.
The Fossil Journal. published in Morrow
County, Oregon, says: John Putnam was
over in the Wagner country last week, and
brought back with him beautiful speci-
men from the Morrow County opal beds.
The opal is large and luminous, and is i'm
bedded in hard, conglomeraie substance
about the size of mans fist. To get the
opal out of this substance without breaking
is delicate and tedious operation, per-
formed by means of a fine steel saw and a
continuous dropping Of water. Several
thousand dollars worth of the opals have
already been sold, and q large shipment
will soon be made to England