The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-11
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

The San Marcos Hotel at Santa Barbara
closed Tuesday for the season.
A movement is now foot to light the
town of HealdsbuTg, SouOma County, by
electricity.
Charles Watkins. twelve-y ear-old boy,
is held in $1,000 bonds, at HOLSTER, Cd
charge of arson.
The ammonia In a refrlgerating machine
at Auburn got on the rampage the other day
and caused an explosion.
San Jose is sadly in need Of several new
school buildings, the present ones being
already full to overlooking.
Forty-two San Francisco schoOl-teachers
have made arrangements to camp this sum-
mer at illNaIley, near Sausallto.
The Deputy District Attorney at Fresno
has been held in the sum of $1,000, on
charge Of assault with a deadly weapon.
Publication of the Pomona Daily Times
was suspended Friday, May Sth. for the
good aud sufficient reason thatitdid not pay
The graders on the San Ramon railroad
will reach San Ramon next week and the
road will be in running order before the
grain season arrives.
George E. Williams pioneer of 80, died
at his home in South Fork, ModOc County,
on Wednesday last Mr.. Williams was 68
years old and native of Missouri.
Grass Valley fruit-growers are interested
in forming fruit union for the purpose of
marketing their fruits, as has been success
fully done by growers Of other sections.
A Forestvilc (SOnoma County, CORE
spondent reports that an army OF caterpil-
lars has descended upon one of the orchards,
covering the trees and devOuring everything
available.
Colusa County has been divided at last.
Glenn County has been established, and
now it is hoped the State will near no more
of that venerable nuisance. the county-di-
vision fight
The Remillard Brick Company at
PleasantOn opened for the summer work
last Monday, and Is now running full
force of men, several hundred being en-
plOyed about the works.
George Spencer of Los Angeles has been
experimenting with tobacco on land near
there and thinks it good crop for that sec
ton. He says three crops year, averaging
1900 pounds TO the acre, can be obtained:
A little Humboldt boy took mouthful
of I've water the other day. The burning
caused him to spit 1t out, and his mother at
once administered sweet oil and sent for the
doctor, who said the prompt use Of the oil
saved The child
A. A. Dickie, residing near Suisun, has
on his place an apparently ineXhauStible
supply of cement rock easily accessible and
Of fine quality, to utilize which it is pro-
posed TO organize a cement company with
works at Suisun.
Annie Prindle, a Salt Lake hotel cham
beTmaid, became jealous Of the attention
her lover, a salOon-keeper, paid another
girl and last Monday morning fired three
shots at MIN from revolver, iDiicting three
serious and painful wounds
The Arizona Board of Regents have
engaged an architect from Phoenix to draft
plans for two brick residences for members
of the faculty, to be built on the north side
of the University grounds. The houses
will be of brick and cost $4,000.
Last Thursday afternoon William John
son of Danville. and a companion, while
riding through the LiyermOTe Valley drove
over bank of the Tassajara Creek, some
twenty feet in height. johnson was
seriously hurt and the other man instantly
killed.
The berry-raisers near Santa Clara, where
this is an important industry, are growing
desperate over the havoc wrought by gangs
Of hoodlums who visit their fields nightly
and do great damage. The growers threaten
to arm themselves for the protection of
their fields.
A little boy and girl. children of Bishop
Allen of Draper. Utah, fell into large
pond, Sunday. Louis Allen, their older
brother, aged Il. jumped into the water and
rescued them both, but sank, after saving
the second child, and drowned before help
could reach him.
w. P. Valentine of SAINT Cruz has in
vented sewing machine attachment which
he claims doubles its motion. He has organ
lied a stock company With $1,000, 900 capital,
and is trying to persuade the people of Santa
Cruz to take S12,500 worth of stock aud
donate an acre of land, to have large
mandatory erected there.
The Colusa Sun says: Some of our con-
tempOraries are publishing in apparent good
faith description of a contrivance by
which water is 10 be forced to height OF
700 feet with fall of only twelve feet. 1t
is the invention of one White of Suisun.
Whenever Mr.. White makes water force
itself above its level, he can, by the same
continuance, lift himself over wire fence
by the seat of his pants.
Mrs. Maude S. Peaslee contributes to the
Sacramento Record Union a story entitled
"A Modern Tantalus." The story is found
ed on the Brennan tragedy, which occurred
on the 21st of February, 1858, near Grass
Valley. On that day Michael brennan,
President of the Mount Hope Mining Com
pany, killed his three children and his wife,
and then committed suicide. The killing
was done with prussic acid. The cause of
it all was disappointment in mining on Mas