The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-09
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The Marshfield (Oregou) sup says that the
prospects are that Coos County will have,
this season, the largest fruit crop of many
years.
A largo round-house Is to be built at
Ammonia. There are TO be twenty tracks
running to 1t, and good-sized depot will
also be built
The School Board of Puyallup, Wash,
have decided to hold special election May
10th for bonding the city for $4,000 for
school buildings.
The Dodger. the thirty-second weekly
paper issued in San Diego since December,
1887, appeared there last Saturday. 1t
promises Ito fill long-felt want"
the Glen Terry Vineyard. near Clayton,
Contra Costa County, yielded six tons of
Chasselas Fontainebleau grapes to the acre
last year from three-yeaT-Old vines.
The father OF Charles Wablquist, young
boy Of Fairhaven, Wash, surrendered him
to the police, last week. for horse-stealing,
claiming he could do nothing with the boy.
Fresno must raise $500 more before the
needed 100000 bonus is complete for the
Mountain Railroad. The promoters of the
scheme refuse TO do stroke Of work until
every cent is collected and lodged in the
bank.
Judging from the number of men who
voted for your grandfather fifty years
ago that have turned up since President
Harrison came to this Coast w. II. Har-
risOn's political opponent wasn't in it.dur-
ing that memorable campaign.
A skeleton was found near Santa Monica
on Saturday evening, packed in wooden
box and buried in sand bank. The bones
were evidently those of man who had died
with his boots on, and there was bullet
wound in the skull. The Coroner thought
1t not worth while to hold an inquest, but
took away the lower jaw, which contained
gold-filled teeth.
The condemnation suit for the right of
way Of the Puyallup Valley Railway
through the Puyallup Indian Reservation
will come up for hearing before Judge
Campbell in Tacoma on May 9Th. The de-
ciSion in this case will settle the question
whether any railroad can condemn a right
OF way through the lands of the Indians
without an ACT of Congress.
d. Carter, an old man, who arrived in Los
Angeles from San Diego, Sunday, was held
up and robbed on the street at 80 Monday
morning. Five of the railroad men have
been arrested for completely in the affair.
Carter positively identifying one, and claim
Ing all were OF the party. The affair is
curious one. The railroad boys arrested are
well known and one Of them is a minister's
son.
Last Sunday being the thirty-hrs ami
versary of a famous stage robbery that oc-
CURED near Nevada CITY, by which the rob.
bers secured $21 900, Uncle" Rufus Shoe
maker of the Grass Valley Telegraph is re-
minded that strong circumstantial evidence
pointed directly 70 him as one of the per-
petratOrs OF the crime, and only his high
moral character as a newspaper man saved
him from being jailed therefor.
j. V. Benson of Ontario, Los Angeles
County, has nit upon novel device for ex-
terminating coyotes, or your neighbor's dog.
1t consists of an ordinary sponge boiled in
lard. The boiling process condenses the
sponge. the lard making tia toothsome Wand.
When swallowed by n coyote the lard in tina
sponge Is assimilated, leaving the latter to
absorb the gastric juices of the stomach, till
1t swells TO size sufficient to kill the animal.