The morning call., 1891-08-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Tel
ritories,

Br1ef Notes from PacIuc states ana Ter
ritories.
The Oakland Times is to have Il new
dress of type.
A geological garden is in all probability to
be established at Sacramento.
The Mariposa Gazette says that that seq
ton is threatened with an attack of typhoid
fever.
Santa Cruz has professor of Parasites"
whatever iu the name of anthemology that
may be.
The grouse season is now open in Wash
ington, and sportsmen say the birds are
very plentiful.
One hundred and ten degrees in the -
shade was the sort of weather Modesto ell
JOyed Sunday.
Laramie, Wyo., the old home of Bill Nye
now boasts of a bicycle club. Nye ought TO
return ana join it.
On Sunday last, at Angels Camp, John
Doubt fell 100 feet in the Utica mine shaft,
and was instantly killed.
The races this week have brought large
crowds to Helena, Mont. SAYS the Jolrn j,
including the inevitable band OF thieves.
General II. G. Rollins has been appointed
Auditor of Los Angeles County to fill the
vacancy caused by the death OF Converse
Howe.
While diving in San Lorenzo River the
other day Santa Cruz young man
struck his head upon rock and was I'M
mediatelv paralYZed.
The die is cast by the Oakland School
Board, and lady teachers married, or con-
templating being married, must resign from
their positions.
a young maR-who is in the Convers
County (Wyo.) Jail for stealing a beef,
says the Leader, wrote East as follows:
Dear Father-l have been picking up flesh
since came out here, but am still confined
to my room. Kindly send me 81 90 incare of
my friend, N. Campbell"
Spokane seems TO be in fair way TO Sc
cure ore reduction works. She has a smelt-
er costing 100000 and now seeks IN obtain
railroad spur to the plant aud $50, 900 as
an operating and ore-buying capital. East
ern capitalists offer 20 supply half of this
sum and local capital is asked to supply the
remainder.
1t will be interesting, says the San Diego
Sun, TO find out what effect the Saton sea
will have upon the proposed Yuma extern
sion of the Peninsula railroad, or upon other
projects OF a similar nature. Is San Diego
to be put on the Peninsula or left oa the
man land. The question IS growing decid-
edly interesting.
According to the Stockton independent a
Mexican woman 105 years of age. Mrs Per
fecta Rodriguez, came in from La Grange,
Stanislaus County, the other day and filed
her final entry on 160 acres of land. The old
lady still appears TO be hale and hearty.
She was married several times, and has
twenty-five children.
DO the people who use kerosene 10 light
fires ever read the papers? Atleasta dozen
lives year are lost on tile Pacific Coast
through that recklessly dangerous practice.
but still the folly continues. 1t looks as
though they do not read the papers. Three
deaths have just occurred in the town Uf
Redding from this cause.
Antelope Valley, says the Los Angeles
Times. reports this year to. 900 acres If
wheat as tne as any in California which
will average eight and half sacks (about
HOO pOunds) to the acre. Four or five
years ago this vast territory was in Ell
feet desert. Now its grain crop ai0ue Will
bring to the producers over Sl,000001.
A Riverside dude, bent upon lark, i'm
ported from Los Angeles, the other night, a
frall, fair blonde. Somewhat to his sur
prise, hcwever, he was unable 10 fiud ac-
cOmmodation for her the Riverside hotels aud
lodging-honseS refusing to admit her. Cast
out upoa the cold world the pair had To
walk the streets till morning studying as
trUnOmy.
The Salinas Democrat says: A curiosity
in the shape OF an old conveyance from
Francisco Figuer0a 20 Jose Maria ZuarrS
del Real was recorded yesterday by Recnrdnr
Robinson at the request of +. \. GOaeZ.
The instrument is written in Spanish and
was executed long before the American
occupation of California, bearing date
November 81, 1887.
Worlds Fair Transportation Company
",
Incorporated. Upon payment of 81 pr
week from now until the exposition opens,
the company guarantee to take its members
to and from Chicago and pay all their
necessary expenses for one week. Ths
capital stock is $4,000, divided into 100
shares of 500 each.
The champion fish story of the season
comes from Srattle. and is told by a man
who declares himself willing to swear that
one day last week he and two companions
rfrht tvar,
thirteen inches in length, in two hours ami
half in the south fork of the SnoqualmIe
River He thinks this caps the climax of
truthful fish stories, and SO do we.
Visitors to the old Jail quarters, says the
Santa Rosa Republican, are always attract
ed to the north wall of one of the rooms by
landscape that was drawn thereon by nne
of the inmates of the Jail. 1t was executed
with burned stick, and US a work OF art
II is novelty, to say the least. 1t repre-
SentS a mountain home and there ran be
seen the house. the barn, the yards. the
stock, and away off to the right a balloon is
seen ascending, but the unlucky aeronaut is
swiftly rushing toward certain death.
And now, says the Stockton Republican,
after all the trouble the stoekmen have ex-
perienced in getting the kite-shaped track
In order and ready for use at the coming
fair. some of the more prominent horsemen
OF the State promise that they will not
speed their horses upon it for fear that they
Will make so good records that they will be
put in higher class than they are able TO
compete in at other places. Ii this is fact,
and it comes to us on good authority, il is
likely that the new track Will be more of a
curse than a blessing.
News for Cigarette Fiends.
Deputy Collector Lambert of the In
ternal Revenue Service seized two cigar
factories yesterday at 705 and 719 jackson
street They make cigarettes from cigar