The morning call., 1891-10-15
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brlet Notes From racine states anu
Territories.
The total debt of Shasta County is
$3.50 70.
The LaDwai Indians in Northern Idaho
have enlisted in the regular army.
Sugar beetS are being successfully cult-
waited on the Laramie (Wyo.) plains.
Visalia. Tulare County, proposes to have
fruit caunery to dispose of next seasons
crop.
1t is said that the Yakima Indians are
willing to take up farms and throw open
the reservation to settlement.
The Fresno Exposltor says the diphtherla
scare down there is a useless scare over
few sporadic cases of the disease.
An order for 800 combination and cattle
cars is now being filled at the machine shops
OF the Southern Pacific Company in Sacra-
mentO.
Ole hundred and ninety-nine pounds of
potatoes We're grown by Howell Prairie
Oregon rancher this year from single
pound of seed.
1t is now declared that the mountain fires
near Gilroy have done more good than
harm SO far, nothing but chappardl and
brush having been destroyed.
a new house recently built at Palermo,
But County, has paper roof. Pressed
paper Is SAID 10 be excellent for this pdr-
pose, being both durable and fireproof.
Tie largest fur shipment of the year was
made from Victoria. s. g., Wednesday by
tile hudson Bay Company. 1t was destined
for London, and included $4,000 worth OF
beaver and $4,000 worth OF bear skins.
A Eugene Oregon man was recently SEN
fenced TO twenty days work on the streets.
He refused to work, and the Marshal
chained him to tree in front of the Jail
and kept him there on bread and water
diet until he changed his mind.
A couPle of Chico fishermen last week
caught fourteen Alaska sea trout in the Sac
rameuto River. These fish are rarely found
Ia fresh water, ana experience fishermen
say they have never known them to be
found in the Sacramento before.
James Carroll, who claims to be a brick
maker, entered a jewelry-stOre at Stockton
one day recently, and asked the proprietor
for % cents. Being refused he struck the
lrweler IN the mouth, ana fought so saw
agely that 1t took several men to arrest him.
The leading citizens Of Blaine, Wash,
have formed company with a capital stock
| of SO, 600 to prospect for coal, coal-oil and
gas and it is the intention of the company
| to find either one or the otEer Of these COM
modities or the result will be direct pas
sage through the earth to China.
The Pioche Record relates that on Main
street there the other day squaw was
seen belaboring her liege lord with a pick
| handle, which she laid on with no spariDg
hand 1t appears that he had transferred
his affections to maiden of the tribe, and
| the wife of his bosom took this method of
encouraging him to greater fidelity.
B. Maloney of Porter Creek, while haul
| ing grapes to the B0wm wine-cellar, near
| St Helena, met with a fatal accident His
horses started up, and he was thrown to the
| ground when one wheel OF his wagon
| passed over his body, breaking three of his
| ribs. One of these penetrated his lung, pro-
ducing hemorrhage, of which he died the
| following day.
G. W. Dunn, the California naturalist,
| has collected over 10000 insects belonging
! to the horn-winged family. 5000 of the
cricket tribe, about 1900 butterflies and
numberless rare plants and animals. On
| his last trip through Lower California he
caught 200 insects of the Cicudela Sonimer
in two hours, for which he received twenty
five cents each.
A Fresno physician is recommending
eucalyptus tea, made by boiling the leaves,
| to all of his patients who are suffering from
nalaral troubles, and the discovery is
thought to be quite an important one. The
| planting OF eucalyptus trees In malarial dis
tricts 10 improve the health of the neighbour
hood is nothing new, but the use of decoc-
ton of the leaves is quite novel.
A zinc ledge is the latest mineral discovery
made in the vicinity of Spokane. C. p
| Carlin reports that he has discovered IA
foot ledge of that mineral, and recently
| took samples Of the ore to Charles Fassett
for assay. Mr.. Fassett has made q number
| of assays, and finds that the ore carries
| from 80 to 40 per cent of the metal. the
| location of the ledge is withheld.
James Wiley of Port Costa jumped up be-
| tween two freight cars to catch a ride home
to lunch the other day He stood between
the cars, with a foot on the brace of each,
| until the train stopped, when. the drawheads
being gone, the two cars closed up against
| each other, and Wiley was crushed between
| them. He fell down on tho track, and one
| car-wheel passed over and cut OFF his leg
| He died within an hour after
Some time ago lady living near Santa
| Clara was taken very Ill with high fever
and severe gnawing pains in the head
After some time it was discovered that dur
ing her sleep a fly had deposited its eggs in
her nose and the nasal passages in the head
were full Of worms about aquarter of an inch
long. For weeks her life was despaired of,
but finally, after the removal of nearly 900
of the creatures, the danger is over and she
is recovering
The Truckee Republican thus describes
the recent storm on Lake Tahoe: The
waves ran mountain high and considerable
damage was done. At Stems Camp the
waves broke log boom and the logs were
scattered along the shore of the lake for
several miles. The steamer Tallac was
nearly wrecked as she lay at the wharf at
the Tallac house. The force of the waves
threw hel violently against the wharf, and
big hole was made in one side of the
vessel.