The morning call., 1891-08-21
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Marysville is raising $1,000 for an Ad-
mission day Celebration Fund.
The appearance of anthrax is reported
among the cattle in Los Angeles County.
Arizona boasts that she will soon be a
formidable rival to California in the fruit
growing line.
a livery-stable was burned at Spokane,
the other night, which destroyed about fifty
head of horses.
The Governor SLOVENIAN ranch in South
ern California has been subdivided, and
Will be sold in small holdings.
a bar of gold bullion, valued at S24, 900,
from the Out mine at Silver City, was sold
in Virginia City, n. Mex, the other day.
A man was found at Helena, Mont, the
other night hanging over a steep embank-
ment hopeleSsly intoxicated. He had over
$500 in his pockets.
Beaumont. says the Ontario Observer, has
been sold to an English syndicate. On
tarlans who own property in that burg Will
now have chance to unload.
Frank Moses, an Indian in jail at Quincy,
Cal, on charge of having murdered ms
wife, last Friday took a towel and with his
feet on the floor leaned forward and StTan-
gled himself.
There is marble mine, recently located,
at Providence, Cache County, Utah, that
yields marble so much like notified onyx
that the difference can only be discovered
by the use of chemicals.
A cloudburst at Minersyille, Utah, caused
a big commOtion last week, and caused an
extensive flood. The water came down a
canyon and through the town in a sheet 10
feet high and 90 feet wide, but fortunately
did but little damage.
According to the Haywards Journal
Green Bartlett, the original proprietor OF
Bartlett Springs, has been fined $1,000 and
sentenced to 500 days i'll Jail for a second
violation Of the deer law, in Trinity County.
Bartlett is worth about 100000.
Southern California growers are making
great preparations to furnish the Eastern
markets with winter vegetables. There
will be several months in the year when the
Southern California producer will have
comparatively no competition in the East.
c. Z. Bailey of San Jose, the leading i'm
porter, breeder and dealer of Angora goats
IN the United States, and who has for years
kept herd of Angoras at Soledat, est-
mates that his clip OF mohair this year will
reach $1,000 pounds, of value OF $40, eco.
The total number Of goats and kids in MI
Bailey different herds is said to amount TO
10000
The Virginia Chronicle says that Nevada
may be retrograding in the matter of popu-
latiUn, but in agricultural products is forg-
ing to The front. Nevada took tile prize at
the Centennial Exposition for her potatoes,
and at New Orleans her apples, potatoes
and wheat were voted the best Nevada
beef also finds ready sale In the markets OF
California and the East.
Between Georgia and Virginia street
wharvcs, says the Vallejo Chronicle, is now
4 thick bed of tuleS, something which has
sprung up inside of two years. Last year
there was but a tuft or two of tule grass.
but it caught hold and it was not long be-
fore what had been mud fats at low tide
ana smooth sheet of water at high tide
was covered with u thick green swamp-land
growth.
A cattle-raiser from New Mexico has
been telling the st. Louis Globe Democrat
how cowboys prevent stampedes of cattle
wien they see the well-known signs of such
an event by singing to them, which immedi-
ateIy pacltes them and they all lie down
quietly. Those who have had the pleasure
of hearing cowboys sing will readily under
stand why the cattle lie down-because the
music makes them want to die.
The Etcondido irrigation district has
made contract with the Moffett Company
of Syracuse, \. Y, for the development of
water supply from the San Luis Rey
River, and it is likely that other districts in
the neiGhborh0od will be supplied from the
same system, which is expected to be one of
the largest on the Coast. An expenditure
Of S5,000000 is mentioned rs probable in
carrying out the company'S plans.
A Pasadena man has discovered q new
process for the rapid curing of summer
grown lemons. His method is to lay upon
the floor Of cellar or curing-house about
inches OF green alfalfa, on which he piles
several layers of lemons aud covers the
whole with about inches of the same
material. BY this process, it is said, he
succeeds in curing perfectly green lemons
in from ten to fourteen days. The chemi-
cally produced heat of the alfalfa acts as
the curative agent.
The Los Angeles Express says: A good
result of the glut in the potato market this
season is likely to be the establishment of q
starch manufacturing industry in this sec
ton. 1t is generally admitted that the sur
plus crop could be converted into starch,
with fair returns to the growers and the
manufacturer. The potato yields one-filth
of its weight in starch, which is worth
cents pound, or the equivalent of a cent q
pound for the raw potato. The crop can
be grown here as probably as anywhere
else.
According to the Salinas Index animals
now protected by the game laws are hurt
ing the orchards up there. In one or tw o
orchards particularly q great number of
trees have been killed by the browsing of
deer. and at other places IN the country
quails have harvested good part of the
crop of the vineyards. While it might be a
technical violation of the law to kill pro-
tected game out of season, no jury or court
in the world would convict mau for an
act done in the necessary protection OF lis
own property.
a Porteryille man was bitten by big
scorpion the other day A white swelling
at once formed, and couple of gentlemen
present gave him tumbler of whisky and
put some salivated chewing tobacco on the
wound and bound 1t tightly up. The whisky,
however, having no effect, second tumbler
was given and he then lay down. About
five hours later The bandage was removed,
revealing a greenish matter which had been
drawn out by the tobacco. Another band
age was put on aud he rested until the next
day. The wounded man vomited freely,
which no doubt expedited his recovery.
Looking for Lost Brother.