The morning call., 1891-08-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The smelling works below Portland are
IN the hands OF a receiver.
Thirty thousand pounds of copper are
mined daily in the Morenci District, Arizona
Hood Aston. aiourteen-ye ar-old boy, was
drowned the other day in the Sacramento
Swimming Baths.
Eilensburg. Wash, is elated over the dis
covery of gold in that city. 1t is said that
nuggets as large as thlmbes are being found.
1t is now confidently expected that every
thing will be in order next week for the
grand opening of Chino's big sugar factory.
The Austin Advocate claims to be in
formed by those interested that the Nevada
Central Railroad owes some of its employees
ten months wages.
The Tacoma Ledger says: A Puyallup
brave is known as Gunr Nawt 1unyt which
Is pronounced very much like one of the pre-
vailing slang phrases.
John Appleton of Garden Valley, Idaho,
while logging at that place recently, was
was instantly killed by log falling on him
and plnnIng MIN to the ground.
The Columbia River salmon pack closed
on Monday night at midnight The pack on
the river for the season is $4,000 cases. a
shortage of 60,O00 on the pack of 1890.
Miss Bertha Wolfe of Winters succeeded
in one day recently in cutting and spreading
twenty-nine 50-pound boxes of apricots in
one day, for which she received 81 90.
The Santa Clara Journal denies the report
that Senator Stanford has purchased the
property there Of the Home for the Feeble
minded for the purpose of turning it into O
free kindergarten.
George Benson. aged years, strayed
away from his home the other day at ker-
byville, Oregon, and was found drowned in
the Rogue River, which runs through his
fathers farm there.
Oregon farmers are cominr IN .ba oonoI,
sion that there is more money to be
made in horticulture than in any other
branch of farming and are rapidly turning
their grain fields into orchards.
Charlie Haven, Cheyenne darkey. is Try.
Ing to get up butting match with another
hard-headed fellow at Laramie If the
other fellows head is harder than Charles
It's pity the latter shouldn't be accommo-
dated.
Senator Stanford expresses himself as
very much in sympathy with the desire of
the Los Angeles people for the improve
ment Of their harbor and proposes to visit
that city and inspect the haTbor before re-
turning to Washington.
1t is stated at San Diego that Sonora Ruiz
Burton has received notice that the Mexican
supreme Court has decided the long-con-
tested litigation for 100000 acres of laud in
Lower California against the International
Company and in her favor.
Accidents are SO frequent in occurrence
nowadays that the Marysville Appeal sug-
geSts that every man, woman and child
should have name aud address tattoed on
their bodies, or stitched into their clothing
so their friends could De notified in case OF
accident,
John w. Mackay is at Virginia City and
has assumed charge of operations in the
Consolidated California and Virginia, Ophir.
Mexican and Union Consolidated mines,
pending the absence of Superintendent Ly-
man, who will spend a brief vacation in
California.
The people of Tulare have a grievance
against the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany. The company is removing its diyis-
Ion headquarters from that city TO Fresno,
and the railroad employees who have pur-
chased homes in the former place are not
enjoying the prospect any more than do the
Tuareans.
According to the Fresno Expositor the
chinese are getting hold of large quantities
OF fruit IN Tulare County, and are becoming
quite factor In the shipping trade One
great objection to this is that the Chinese
not realizing that they are cutting their own
throats thereby, persist in sending inferior
fruit to market.
The lone Echo says: ". Il. Prouty has
had constructed in San Francisco a huge
wagon, put up expressly for hauling marbls
from the Carrara quarry. The wagon will
have four-lnch steel axles and everything
else 10 proportion. The wheel-tires will be
Jour inches wide and one and a quarter
inches thick. The wagon is designed to
carry twelve tons at load.
The Lower Californian says a wonderful
Hover has been discovered on the Isthmus
OF Iehu2ntepec. Its chief popularity Is the
haDit oil changing its colors during the day.
In the morning 1t is white, when the sun is
at Its zenith IL is red. and at night it is blue.
The red, white and blue flower grows on a
tree about the size OF guava tree, and only
at noon does II give out any perfume.
a. Nichols of Los Angeles, while in the
mountains. in Nevada, recently, with a
friend, met big cinnamon bear. They had
shotgun with them, but 1t was not loaded
Tor bears. However, they dropped a smooth
round stone into the mnZZle of the weapon.
on top of the load of shot. and Nichols
then fired at the head of brun, who dropped
dead in his tracks. The beast weighed $50
pounds.
AS specimen of English as she is wrote
IN Southern California this from the Los
Angeles Hotel Gazette is simply dubious. to
say the least: The Committee on Hotels of
the Chamber of Commerce report as fol-
lows on p NJ. Scots offer of five acres of
land for large tourists' hotel on Eaie
street, two miles out in the northwestern
city limits: Just at present we do not know
OF any hotel that can be had to put on the
hye acres OF such fine agricultural land. aud
your committee think it wise not to accept
the proposition SO literally made until tie
street roads concentrate on it.
A few days ago, says the San Diego Sun,
Z. +. francisco. who resides at Lakeside.
was aroused about o'clock in the morning
by the cries of one of his farm-hands, who
had evidently freed something, he did not
know what. Mr. Francisco went out with
his shotgun and brought down 1--WE fat coons
with i've successive shots. Mr.. Francisco
has the finest watermelon-p patch In the val
ley, aud these coons had been scooping ont
dozen or more of the largest melons every
night. The hired man found them there at
an early hour. and had been keeping a vigil
liant guard for about two hours.
The Fruit-grower has this good advice for
California growers: We notice that Mary
land and Delaware firms are advertising
California peach pits for sale to Eastern
nurserymen and orchardists, the ADVERTISE
ment being accompanied by the statement
that the peach yellows is not yet known in
California, and, therefore, the pits are bet
ter than those taken from Eastern peaches.
This should be big sermon to California
hort!culturists. 1t should teach them that
at all hazards, no matter whose toes are
tramped on. Eastern peach trees and even
seeds should be vigorously excluded from
our State.
MAJ ehn he IL.