The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-17
COAST ITEMS.


Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
A bank has been stari-d al ferhdaie'
HuMboldt County.
There are eighteen manufactories in the
little town of Ceutrfta, WASH.
The AstoriaR saJS arr drea ell, Elk meat Is re-
ported slow e6 9 5000 cord, Of fasctnes to
cDmpIete the work at the Columbia River
IN heaviest taxpayer Of Spokane Falls
is ! J. Brown, whose contribution this year
The Port Townsend papers say that no
man can drink thirteen glasses Of whisky in
that town and live,
Ed GJrham, the stage-driVer who was
Shot by Tobber near Redding recently, is
in dangerous condition.
The Trustees Of the Washington Insane
Asylum have decided to build an addition
to the main structure that will cost SIS, coo.
The City Council OF Santa Barbara has
ordered every eucalyptus tree that stands
within 100 feet of a Waterman to be cut
down.
The people of Tillamook, Oregon, believe
in public schools, and have Just voted in
favor of raising $500 to keep teacher busy
this year
The Snohomish (Wash) Sun has been
fighting disTeputable land agents for some
time, and now has libel suit on its hands
for $4,000.
News was received at Keeler last Satur-
day OF the exploring party in Death Valley.
They were all well but had been delayed in
their work by inclement weather.
Alameda County bas a new journal, the
LOrln Progress, that made its first appear
ance last Thursday. j. V. Geary is editor,
and II. I. GTun0ugh is business manager.
The Santa Maria Times man of March
rE0g tao riorrc u
Estee has been elected U. 5. Senator to fill
the unexDired term Of the late Hon. George
Hearst.
Some giant-powder caps were placed on
the railroad track north Of Chico last Satur-
day night, and the wheels of some cars Of
the south-bound express train were badly
damaged
Sam Mackinder was freed by panther
near Crescent City last Thursday. He
shouted for help. when John McVey came
with rife and shot the varmint. Il
measured 8 feet inches in length.
The price of salmon as fixed by the
Columbia River Protective Fishermen's
Union, for the season of 1891, is as follows:
Fish caught in private nets, 81 each; fish
caught in cannery nets, 80 cents each.
The Coos Bay Sun says the woolly aphis
and black scale have made their appearance
and are pretty well distributed throughout
the orchards in that county. Prompt and
EauiCdl lnedSuitS dlOu6 eau eALeELLlUdLe LueSe
pests.
The body of an unknown man was found
on the beach at Bolinas Bay last Saturday,
but Identification was impossible, as it had
been so long in the water. Some foreign
coins and papers were taken from the
clothing.
Yamhill still leads the van in progress.
Her county Courthouse is lighted through
out with electric lamps of the most i'm
proved kind, and there is no better lighted
town in the whole State of Oregon, in pro-
portion to its size, than McMinnYlle.
Old jim, the oldest Indian in this part of
the country, died at his camp in Jackson
Valley one day this weeK. says the lone
Echo jim was an old man, so very old
that none Of the old-timers around there
can remember him as anything but an old
man. The Echo does not claim that he was
the Oldest man in the world, but saws the
facts at hand show that he was something
under 175 years Of age.
Says the Seattle Press: The policemen of
Seattle have been provided with SIP worth
OF nice new clubs, aud presumably the next
man VINO presents an opportunity for a
clubbing will enjoy the sensations of skull
cracking with billy modelled upon superior
lines, accompanied by white silk trimmings.
1t has been suggested that white has been
chosen as an emblem Of the purity Of the
Chief. When attention has been once called
TO this touching BIT of poetry and cOlors, the
real beauty and correctness Of the white silk
will be perceived