The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States an,
Territories.

tory. The venture is to be backed by Min
| neapolis capitalists
The suspended bank at San Diego has
| been given time to resume, by the Comp
troller OF the Currency.
1t is said that there is S12 600 600 on de-
| posiiln Los Angeles banks, with but little
| demand from borrowers.
a number OF families arrived in Perris
| last week who had come all the way from
Dakota in prairie schooners.
Duey Wo Lung, Chinese merchant of
Riverside, has "mysteriOusly disappeared"
leaving number of mourning creditors.
Captain Charley, a Mojave brave, was in
the city the first of the week, says the Red
| lands Citrograph dressed in the uniform Of
| United States soldier and carrying a cane.
Three hundred residents OF Sonora, Tuol-
umne County, are bewailing the fact that
| they invested IN the defunct Progressive
Benefit Order Their losses aggregate about
| $4,000.
Last weeks clearinghouse statement
makes fine showing for Los Angeles.
The exchanges for that city amount to up
ward of 81, 100000, the largest in the history
OF the place.
The Horticultural Commissioners of San
Diego County estimate the number of fruit
trees set out since January ,,1S9l, at 60O, 900,
| covering 5000 or 5000 acres. The result will
be feit within the next two or three years.
a crazy Chinese woman wandered out in
to the street at Modesto the other day, and
after walking about for several hours finally
began stoning passers-by with stones gath
cred by the wayside. She was finally taken
| in charge by her relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charl,s D. Roo, a ycung
| couple from San Francisco, are SPEND IN 2
| their honeymoon in San jose after a ro-
mantle marriage which occurred last Satur-
| day on tug beyond the three-mile limit
outside the Heads at San Francisco.
Cuyamaca reservoir has been stocked with
bass, catfish, pike, sunfish and perch by the
United States Government In about four
years, says the Citrograph. there ought to be
good hshing up there for pike and bass
The balance will all have been eaten up by
that time.
A meeting will be held in Bakersfield
early III February by the leading shippers
in Kern, Fresno and Tulare counties, the
purpose of which is to take preliminary
steps for the construction of q railroad from
Bakersfield TO San Luis Obispo. 1t is part
OF the scheme to run steamers between Port
Hartford aud San Francisco.
Two ostriches from Los Angeles were on
exhibition at the Petaluma poultry show.
While the birds were being recaged to make
the journey back home one of them became
angry at something and kicked out with
such violence as to fracture her thigh-bone
IN two places. A surgeon pronounced the
fracture irremediable and the bird was
killed.
The authorities of British Column bia are
beginning to ind out that the Importation
OF Chinese and japanese girls for I'M
moral purposes is becoming one of
the most profitable trades in the province
Three japanese girls were brought over by
Canadian Pacific steamer short time
ago. and one OF them sold in New West
minister for $500.
Virginia City. New, has female ghost
Unlike the orthodox prOwler from spirit
land, she dresses Ill deep black, and her fa-
Vorlte pastlme is lowering about the Divide
about midnight and throwing a moldy
shroud that retains the odor of the tomb
over the head OF any belated pedestrian.
Reno has also seen her, and she seems to
divide her time between the two places.
DR.: Walter Lindley, Superintendent of
the Whittier Reform School, has made ar
rangements with the Southern Pacific Rail-
way Company to transport fifty boys of the
Whittier Reform School to Riverside on
Tuesday, December 10Th. on the occasion of
tie State teachers meeting. The boys are
all well drilled, and IL is the intention OF the
authorities 10 show the public the effect of
the reform school upon bad boys.
According to the Ontario Record. n couple
OF recent settlers at Cucamonga laid in a big
stock OF cow-melons and experience few
days since. The melons cost them So and
the experience was thrown in. They en-
gagged load of pumpkins of rancher over
toward EtiWanda and he took advantage of
their ignorance and palmed off the melons
on them. They hauled an immense wagon
load home over the sand and stacked them
up carefully. Their stock has not fattened
as yet much on this succulent vegetable,
and the neighbors have not yet got over in
curing abont the quality of those pump
kins. The Bostoniaus may "know beans
but they can learn thing or two on the
melon racket in this country.
A new transcontinental railroad will soon
join Puget Sound to the Great Lakes re-
m mis- t.
Pacihc line of the Great Northern, which
for a year has been quietly but rapidly
pushed westward across the Rockies toward
Seattle and Portland. The rails are already
down from ST. Paul to Kalispell, the new
town established on the Flathead, tribu-
tary of the Columbia. In the valley of the
Columbia the line opens up virgin coun-
try SAID TO be very rich in timber and with q
remarkably mild climate and an abundant
rainfall. The best agricultural lands on the
road are in the Flathead Valley, with the
fast growing town of KalIspell as its center.
The line Is being laid with the heaviest
steel and has been selected with the object
Of giving it the lowest grades Of any trans
continental road.
The Miles City MONTY Stock-growers'
journal says: A great deal of dissatisfac-
ton exists in Yellowstone County over tie
buDgling. way in which the purchase of
portion OF their reservation from the Crow
Indians has been conducted. The treaty
with the crows was made last year, and in
March was ratified by Congress but clause
was put in just before the passage of the
bill by which any Indian or half-breed was
allowed TO, make his selection of 100 acres
in the coded land, and was given sixty days
to make the selection. Under this clause
the squaw men. many of whom are quite
wealthy. took up land. not only for their
half breed children, but ran in all the In
dams they could. and even some Cree half
breeds, who had taken refuge here after
Reips rebellion in Canada, and the feeling
is growing so strong that If the opening is
delayed longer than spring booming par
ties will be formed and go in aud possess
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