The morning call., 1891-06-11
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Brown, of Eshcol,
/ celebrated their golden wedding Saturday.
A female tramp passed through Lompoc
the other day carrying two valiSes, roll OF
| blankets and box
The Del Norte Record says wild pigeons
are thick throughout Elk Valley and other
| sections of that country.
There are five prosperous colonies of Nor
| mons in Mexico, most OF whom are IRON
| Arizona and New Mexico.
A cave appeared in the Waterloo mine,
near Calico, Cal, Saturday. killing one
man and severely injuring two Others.
Miss Flora Gill of Tacoma four years ago
| entered into real estate speculation there
| with $4,000. and since then has netted $4,000.
The Puget Sound Steamboat Association
| has reduced the freight on millstuf, grain,
| etc, between Tacoma and Seattle to 81 per
| ton.
| A Gonzales CTex.) thief reached the limit
! the other night. He broke open the South
| ern Pacific Railroad office there, stole the
money and carried off the vault.
A young Spanish American journalist
| from the City of Mexico is now in Southern
| California, engaged in writing biography
of Don Pic PicO, the last Mexican Governor
| OF California.
Burglars entered the hardware store OF
Frank Pierce of Monterey Friday night and
drilled four holes in the safe door. They
failed to strike the combination, however,
and the safe did not yield.
A S0nOma County farmer whose vineyard
has been attacked by grasshoppers has pur-
chased 10000 paper bags to cover the young
vines. The bag covering to said successfully
TO resist the grasshOppers.
AT the present rate of the organizations
increase it is estimated that by the time OF
the State meeting, in October next, there
Will be 61,000 members OF the Farmers
Alliance enrolled in California.
During thunderstorm at MeMinnville.
Oregon, Saturday night, the electric light
wires were struck, and the shock was car
Tied along to the station, a mile away, de-
ranging the plant and plunging the city into
darkness.
A young EHglishman, said to be Mon
tana Tancher, struck Moose Jaw, an Oregon
railway station, the other day, and aston
ished the natives by the way he spent money.
Among his many bargains was the purchase
Of a squaw for $4,000.
A Red Bluff boy fired off rife the other
day. killing sparrow, woundlng cat and
manning a parrot. The ball then went
through pedestrians hat. broke vslua-
bic vase, shlyered a $50 mirror and barely
missed killing an editor.
There is now living at Hanford, Tulare
County, one OF the crew of the vessel Alert
that was sent out by this Government, in
1881, with four others 10 rescue the Greedy
expedition. The man is a Swede, aud is
working about the country as vineyard
| hand.
There is a girl in Los Gatos who, accord
| ing 10 the Mail of that place, says she does
not marry because she has considerable
money Of her own, parrot that swears,
monkey that cEews and a stove that
smokes" and that, therefore, she does not
need husband.
Two careless drivers from San Jose ran
down one OF group OF children playing on
the Alameda, near Santa Clara, Sunday.
The hub of one front wheel of the buggy
struck one little girls face, throwing her
| down. while hind wheel passed over her
hand. She was quite badly hurt
A large number of leading society women
of Los Angeles and Ontario have been vic
timized by a Mrs. Post, who represented
herself as All agent of the Redfern tailoring
establishment Of New York, and took
great many subscriptions 10 an imaginary
'art directory company" at a dollar apiece.
Last week clOIdburst occurred in Fresh
water Canyon, IN the hills west of Colusa.
The Sulphur Greek stage was passing ut the
time, and, hearing roar, the driver glanced
up and saw solid front of water about
four feet in depth rushing down the gulch.
and only escaped the flood by flashing his
horses TO run. The water finally crossed
the road not twenty yards behind the stage,
carrying rocks and trees in its course.
A mammoth fir log is to be sent to Chicago
as a specimen Of Washington timber. 1t
was selected by ID. Soper of Chicago, who
came TO Puget Sound for the purpose OF
shipping one of the famous trees. The one
selected was found at North Bend, King
County, and measures, after being squared.
53X51 inches across the butt, and when
placed on the trucks it was 113 feet long,
but two feet had to be chopped off In order
to ship it, and it is now III feet long. 1t is
a fine specimen OF Washington yellow fir,
and, examined by glass, showed AL rings.
This would seem to make it AL years old,
If the generally accepted theory may be re-
lied on.
California writer's have lately been suf-
fering good deal at the hands of Eastern
literary sharks. A recently published ac-
count says that Emily Brown-Powell,
well-known writer of Alameda, recently
wrote an article on Hints to Art Students"
and sent it to the Ladies' Home Journal
The article was rejected and sent back with
marks on it which showed it had been care
fully read. Lately there has appeared an
article in the Home Journal on Useful
Hints for Drawing" which in many pas
sages Is almost a reproduction of the re-
jeeted one, and 1t looks as if Mrs. Powel's
article had been deliberately copied while
IN the possession OF the editor who re-
jected 1t.
Speaking Of a projected Russian enter
prise, the Olympia Tribune says: The be-
ginning OF work on the railway across ST.
IBERIA and Russia from Vladivostock to ST.
Petersburg is a movement which will be
felt in the Puget Sound country in the
future almost as much as the opening of the
Nicaragua Canal. We are nearer to the
eastern terminus of this proposed railway
than any other section of the United States.
The new railroad aud the consequent devel-.
Opment of the territory will largely increase
the wealth and Importance of Russia and
shorten by many days the circuit of the
globe. 1t will open up wonderful amount
OF commerce with the ports of Puget Sou nd
and send our products to a vast stretch Of
country in exchange for articles we need