The morning call., 1891-08-29
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Marysville's assessment roll is S13, 900 less
this year than it was last.
California lions are doing great damage
among the sheep up in Tehama County.
The editors Of Oregon held their annual
convention at Astoria on Friday, August
2Sth.
The laying of the cornerstone of Portland
University took place on Tuesday, Bishop
Fitzgerald officiating.
The recent hot wave is said by Napa
growers to have hurt the grapes that were
just beginning TO turn.
A Redondo man has just got rid of tape
worm 42 feet long. Now prepare t0 hear of
O Sea-serpent story from Redondo.
Very promising natuial-gas indications
have been discovered on Spring Greek near
Saratoga, Wyo., and borings are to be made
there.
Fire at Edison, Wash, early Wednesday
morning, destroyed the Edison Hotel, with
all its contents. The loss is estimated at
| $1,000.
Cotton marble is being used in preference
TO porphyry for macadam on some of the
streets of San Bernardlno, because it costs
81 q cents per lineal foot less.
A runaway team struck a fire. plug at
street corner in Sacramento Wednesday,
breaking 1t off near The ground. As con-
sequence the street was soon flooded.
The San Bernardino .'rimes-Index notes
the fact that while the value of all other
property has risen, the railroad assessment
in that county has this year fallen OFF over
| 500, OOO from last year.
Seven men, employed as distributors by
| the Contra Costa Laundry Company, across
the bay, went on strike this week, because
| the management put two girls on the same
work. Other hands were put on and the
work proceeded.
A WAS fOund
| peach tree at Ventura, the other day, on the
| same stem with small, fuzzy peach. The
nectarine was the only one found on the
tree-"all the Others as the Ventura OBJ
server nalvely remarks, "being peaches"
The average humidity in Los Angeles
this year in August has been less than in
the same month for fourteen years past,
and clOudlneSS about the same, which Iacts
90 TO show that the climatic effect of the
Salton Sea has not been very far reaching
The Daily Astorian says The Albatross
reports several spots in the Pacific, not far
from shore, where the water is four miles
deep. They are nice, quiet spots, where an
old whale can retire and smoke his pine and
wonder over the general wickedAess OF man
kind.
George Merchant while digging a we'll at
Eureka Flat, near Walla Walla, last Thurs
day. was sutfocated by foul air. He had Jig
| nailed TO be h0lSted up, and when about half
way fell out of the bucket. When brought
| to the surface few minutes afterward he
| was dead.
The celebrated Treadwell mine on Doug
| las Island, Alaska keeps 240 stamps going.
| The mine Is an immense quarry Of pay ore,
| enough being IN sight to keep the mill, said
TO be the largest in tile word, at work for
fifty years 1t is four miles from Juneau, a
| town of 1900 Inhabitants.
A horse died in a mysterious manner at
| WIllamina, Wash, the other day and post
| mOrtem revealed the fact that death resulted
! from the bursting of blood vessel. The
horse had got lis foot over the halter and in
the struggle burst Il small blood vessel
and slowly bled to death internally.
Frank Schaffer OF Seattle was bathing in
Lake Washington Monday evening learning
| to swim by holding fast TO Il small log. The
| swell OF passing steamer caused him to
lose his hold on this log, ana although a
| number of friends were about HIN he was
| drowned before aid could reach him.
The new freight rates established by the
| Oregon Railway Commission are a reduction
| on an average OF not less than 80 per cent
on grain and millstuffs aud about Is per
| cent on horses, mules, ETC., IN CARLOAD lots.
| The Union Pacific will, with the Southern
| Pacific, contest the matter in the courts.
| The McCl0ud River Pioneer says Pebble
| School District. in that section, comprising
| territory large enough for State like Rhode
Island, received but S5l to from semi-anuual
| State apportionment aud ST 10 for library
to raise more children, as the appOrtOnment
| is made on that basis.
/ A little girl named Stnnit, living near
| Raymond, Fresno County, was terribly
burned the other day. while preparing
| breakfast, by flames issuing from the door of
| the stove. Inc wood in the stove was too
| long to admit Of the door being closed. The
| child's clothing was all burned off and her
| flesh terribly blistered.
| While John Mclaughlin of Sacramento
| was lifting some heavy object, Wednesday,
| he ruptured the wall of his abdomen so
that his bowels burst through. The sufferer
| was found in lumber-yard, where he had
| laid down, and removed to the Receiving
| Hospital. Afterward he was taken to the
| County Hospital. 1t is feared that he will
| die.
The San Diego Union says: There is
man in town from San Francisco who pro-
| poses to erect magnetic separator to re-
| cover magnetic from beach sands, il he can
get subsidy of $500. He pro Oses to use
| electricity to induce strong magnetic cur
rent which is calculated TO draw the iron
| aside from tue quartz and lime and other
sand grains.
Matters must be dull In Santa Ana, but
| In spite Of that the Standard manages to
| squeeze out an Item and thereby show its
| own erudition and (Dossibly) piety. 1t says
| This week has been time OF profound
| peace and quiet in Santa Ana. 1t reminds
/ US Of the history of Rome at the beginning
of the Christian era, when the Temple Of
| Janus was closed.
| The Cheyenne Sun says: Frank Mel
| bourne, the Australian and New Zealand
rain-doctor, is coming out here from Can
| ton, Ohio, to experiment. F. III. Jones of
this city has been negotiating with the man
| ufacturer OF moisture for srme time. Mel
bourne agrees on his part to set up his plant
near Cheyenne and make rain or stand his
own expenses at trying. Mr. Jones has
raised purse of $50 to pay the wizard s
expenses. with the understanding that sub
| scriptlons are annulled If the experiments
| fail
The other day, says the Post t-Intelligencer 7,
a thlrteen-year-oid Seattle boy shot bald
eagle which measured six feet from tip to
tip. The boy is the son of A. l.. Palmer,
who lives on Lake Washington, near the
end of the Rainier-avenue line. Yesterday
morning lie went out with o Marlin rifle,
and not far from the house saw the eagle
perched on the top of the tallest tree in the
neighborhood. Taking aim at quite a dis
| tance he fired, scarcely expecting to hit the
eagle. But the bird fell and lay fluttering
| on the ground when he came up. One wing
| had been shot off, but there was no other
injury. The eagle fought savagely. but was
captured alive.
Redwood City's New Bank.
On the 1st prox new bank will CON-