The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-07
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
| Territories.
1t Is said that there are not enough hay
presses in San Benito County TO handle the
immense hay crop this year.
Mrs. Levipia MeMurray died at an adj
vanced age, at lone, last week, leaving
seventy-nne living descendants.
The City Prison at Sacramento is said to
be perfect hotbed of sickness and poison
| GUS influence on account of bad ventilation.
c. p. Huntington has promised $1,000 for
home for Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont as
soon as Los Angeles has raised $1,000 for the
same purpose.
The First National Bank of Merced has
decided to surrender its charter as national
bank and incorporate as a commercial and
savings bank, with capital stock of $780,
600.
The Farmers Alliance Business Associa-
ton is a new concern being formed at Paso
Robes, with capital stock of $4,000, TO do
a general merchandise aud real-estate busl-
ness.
An attempt was made the other night by
incendiarleS TO destroy the town of Salinas.
The people are deeply indignant, aud the
City Council has decided TO offer q reward
OF $3.50 for information that will lead to the
capture and conviction of the miscreants.
A count of the Chinese in California is
now in progress. An effort will be made to
secure accuracy, but The work, which the
last Legislature provided for, is more diff
cult and expensive than was imagined.
Probably the only exact figures viii be Sc
cured In large cities.
According to the Silver State, more than
twenty persons have been drowned IN Lake
Tahoe, but none of the bodies have ever
been known to come to the surface. 1t Is
said, too, by persons who ought to know
that a dead fish sinks and never rises to the
surface.
Ii. &. Perkins, man working on the Suis-
law Railroad survey near Eugene, Oregon,
met with very painful and dangerous ac-
cident. He was walking on log and cut
ting brush when he lost his balance and
fell. striking one of the sapIings which he
had cut. The sapling penetrated the abdo
men, almost diSem0Owellng bin.
AT FL Dorado last Thursday j. A. Camp
bell was hauling shakes, and coming to the
turn at MOsQulto Bridge unhitched span
of mules there in order to make the turn
easier. The mules, with the stubbOrnness
OF their kind. began to back toward the
stream, aud actually backed of the cliff into
the boiling torrent below and were killed be-
fore they could be con rolled.
The authorities at Long Beach, Pasadena,
propose to render bathing in that resort this
summer as safe as possible. clearinghouse
keepers Will be obliged TO maintain life
saving boats beyond the breakers every day
between 10 O'clock in the morning aud in
Inc cNtulti3' % OOuSH IOllC6ullu VIII dloO
be on duty to warn people from going out
when the sea is too high or the life boats are
not out.
The other day young girl about 10 years
old was walking from Philomath to AL
bany, Oregon, along the rairOad-track.
While crossing trestle of the bridge she
stepped back TO catch remark male to
her, lost her balance and fell over back
ward. AS she fell young man who was
near by sprang forward, Just reaching one
of her knees, and saved her falling dis
lance of about forty feet to almost certain
death.
E. c.. Austin, foreman of the Jamul Co.
ment Works at San Diego, found big Wild
cat in the drying-rOOm the other day. He
caught it by the tail aud a lively scene en-
sued. Help coming, the animal was secured
by means OF laSSo, though not until several
suits Of new clothes had been rendered
necessary and two dogs had lost consider
able fur. The creature is now securely
Gagged.
The story is going the rounds that during
q recent fire in Berlin, the water giving out,
the beer-vats and barrels of large brewery
were tapped by the fremen and the contents
used to eXtinguish tile flames. The story is
by some regarded with Increduity. 1t is
probable enough, however Some years ago.
when the old church at the X-Misson of
San Jose burned, the immense casks in the
old adobe winery were opened and the wine
used to put the ire out
The Willamette. Columbia and other
rivers on this coast are reported this season
to be full of strange muilet that has not
been seen for years, This fish enters the
rivers about the same time as the salmon,
and deposits spawn In the same manner as
the salmon. When the young fry are
Matched the shell remains attached to the
fish for ten days. 1t is nurtured with the
young of the salmon and when they are
both large enough the salmon eats his conf
paniOn. The mullet lives largely on minute
particles and suction, so the mullet is said
to be no enemy to the young salmon.