The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-19
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific states and
Territories.
The Tacoma smelling and refining works
shipped 1850 bars of bullion, valued at $685.
co., during the month of September.
II is reported that controlling Interest
IN the Los Angeles Water Company has
been sold to a syndicate OF Eastern capt.
talIsts.
The Supervisors of Nevada County in-
tend to provide the SherIf'5 office with a
pair Of bloodhounds for trailing fugitive
criminals
Six inches of snow fell in Helena, Mont,
a few nights ago. A large number of fine
trees were broken down and destroyed by
the snow, which was very wet and heavy.
A. H. Bronson OF Long Beach has dis
covered an Indian bnryng ground in the
PalOs Verdes hills Indian jars and drink
Ing cups taken from the mounds are now on
exhibition at Long. Beach.
The potato starch factory started by Los
Angeles capitalists at Whittier is using 800
sacks of potatoes per day. AS several
other factories will be started within the
next year, there will be no more surplus
potato crops
The Grass Valley Telegraph says; A gold
quartz nugget Of the value of S1400 was
found Monday afternoon lying on the b"d-
rock in the Washington mine At Iowa Hill.
1t had lain there for a long time, and many
people had walked over it. Experts say it
is one Of the handsOmest nuggets ever found
in the State.
The Northern natural gas well in Stock
ton has declared a dividend OF 81 90 Ter
share. making the second dividend that has
been declared by that company. The Cen
tral Company has purchased 1900 feet Of
pipe TO lay in the streets and will sink their
well deeper, it now being down 1900 feet,
with a eleveu-inch pipe.
A two-year.old child climbed up into a
urnrar'c 6of Of Ia
other day, seized the renS ana drove OF, the
horse going On Tuu. Near the college the
baby steered the Tig up onto the sidewalk
and was thrown to the ground. Fortunate
ly he was not hurt, and the horse was
stopped before doing any particular damage
to the wagon.
a Fresno physician is recommending euca-
lyptus tea, made by boiling the leaves, to
all his patients who are suffering from ma
larial troubles and the discovery is thought
to be quite an important one. The planting
of eucalyptus trees in malarial districts to
improve the health of The neighborhoud is
nothing new, but the use of decoction Of
the leaves Is quite novel.
We notice, says the Reilands Citrograph,
that those papers which use boiler plate are
now publishing an article on the - Yelling
tonians." or "Callfornia Big Trees" These
trees are 'Sequoias' and are never called
"Welllngtonians," except by the British
and their imitatorS in this county. Sequoia
gigantea is the proper name for these vege-
table giants, and CalifOrnlans should have
native pride enough to stick to native
name.
Two California youths, says the Stockton
Independent, who were enjoying the sights
Of Chicago, lost all the money they had one
day recently on she'll and pea game.
Thereupon friend of the boys wrote Chi
cagO paper asking it TO expose the game
and protect Verdant youths from the West
This is the worst blow that California Intel
| igence has received in the Columbian me
tropolis. When a California youth is so
green as to bet on a fake of that kind he
should never be permitted to roam so far
| from the paterna ranch.
A San Bernardilo young man recently
| had the indiscreton to make certain boasts
relative to lady in that town which
aroused the latters ire. Sac said nothing,
but tile other evening accepted an invitation
to 90 to drive with him. Several miles out
| OF town the lady pretended to drop her
| gloves, and the fellow alighted to pick them
| up AS he was STOPPING over looking for
| them a heavy rawhide descended upon his
| head and shoulders, and ere he could re-
cover from the surprise he received an I'M
merciful fogging al the hands of the indg-
nant woman, VINO then drove off aud left
| him to get home as best he could.
Too many plerodsctyls, petriied men and
other natural curiOsitirs have turned the
neauo VI euI'olo III the iOI h4olI ~ iuUhensi w
| little burg known as Fresno. Those heads
are getting too large for safety, in fact, and
| are spinning very fast, as witness this from
the Fresno Republican: The question is
frequently heard on railway trains nova
days of how far certain place is from
Fresno rather than how far it is from San
| Francisco or Los Angeles. IL is not tho
| population of this city that gives it this
| prominence; it is the fact Of its commercial
importance and remarkable adaptability to
the raising of almost every plant egetable
| or tree under the SUM-"