The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-19
COAST ITEMS.

= u 93-p0nnd cantaloupe Is on exhibition at
San Diego.
.. Fresno is going to have a new electric
street railway.
Six tons of pig tin were shipped from Riv-
erslde to San Francisco the other day.
The building at Portland of the new home
lot 1allen women is nearly completed. 1t
will cost $4,000.
Miss Ella L. Knowles is a leading member
OIL the Montana bar and one of the legal
lights of the State.
The call for a convention of irrigators in
Salt Lake City next month contemplates
thirty delegates from California.
The ladies Of Oakland have taken to riding
the bicycle and may be seen on the streets
IN great numbers any pleasant evening.
:, James Gibson, pioneer of 1850, and for
tnlrty-seyen years q resident of DownIe-
vile, died suddenly Wednesday night of
heart disease.
The Ventura Unit is a newspaper, pub
llshed IN that enterprising town, that pur-
poses to advocate the principles of the
Farmers Alliance.
Paso Robes now has a street-car route
extending from the Southern Pacific Rail-
road depot TO the Mud Springs. and ears are
now running regularly.
lie Chino sugar factory will begin work
ABOUT the middle of this week. There are
hundreds of acres of mature beets ready for
use, ana delivery az the factory began Mon
day.
In Manitoba and the Northwest provinces
the wheat crop is reported SO abundant that
ten trains day, working for seven months,
VIII be required to remove the crop to
market.
AS Ira Adams was hunting near Turner,
oregon, the other day. he started to climb
fence, carrying his gun, when the weapon
unfortunately exploded, so wounding his
hand and wrist that they must he amputated
quite way up the arm.
At recent aDt-saloon meeting in River
side L. Il. ii. Chambiin said: "When there
were no saloons the arrests for drunkenness
were about two month, and they came
generally from elsewhere Now the arrests
run up TO twenty month"
The Anaheim Gazette reports ano Their dis
appearance, namely that of DR.. j. S. Gar
diner, eX-Secretary of the Anaheim Water
Company. Any mystery that might hang
ABOUT MS non-appearance is apparently ex-
plalned by the simultaneous absence OF S11S0
Oh the company's money.
Santa Clara can boast a man of whom it
is said that during his sixteen years resi-
dence there he has never been known to
purchase stick of fre-wood, protecting
himself from winters chilly blasts by sticks
derived from his neighbors' wood-piles dur
ing the hours of Silly night.
The Yuma Times believes thoroughly in
the assertions OF valuable mineral discov-
cries to be made through the exploration of
the overlooked desert now in progress and
says: Large nuggets of GOLD have been
brought in by Indians at intervals from the
desert region, but the placers have not been
found.
A long-distance telephone line now ex-
tends from San Luis Opispo to Santa Maria,
and it is said to be the intention of the com-
pany to extend it to Lompoc and Santa
Barbara and ultimately connect with Ven
tura and its system of county lines and on
to Los Angeles. Sucn n linz wpul1 ha
valuable.
Urtah Folger, noted confidence man of
California, came TO grief at Stockton Satur-
day evening He had been representing
himself as Deputy Sheriff from Arizona,
and had in different ways done different
persons Tor various considerable amounts
before couple of genuine deputies from
Stockton arrested him.
The Portland Oregonian says: Puget
Sound herring, cured and packed at Point
Roberts, are declared to be superior to the
Eastern fish. The curing of herring is
destined to become a leading industry on the
Sound. The waters of the Gulf of Georgia
and all the bays and inlets thereof swarm
with this fish at certain seasons of the year.
A big ditch to tap the Owyee River, Ore
gon, is to be dug this fall. The head of the
ditch will be six miles from the mouth of
the river, where it empties into the Snake.
The new canal is to be built by English
capital and the cost is estimated at $3.50, 600
Its capacity will be 200, 600 miners inches.
and it will irrigate 10000 acres Of land in
the Owyee Valley.
The three colleges at Spokane, Wash.
have united TO form university with a
present fund, in land, of about $3.50, 900 and
immediate expectations of about $50. 600
more. There Will be an academic, legal. n
medical and theological department. Rev.
r. Z. Bisbee of Cambridge, Mass, will be
President Of the university The deanship
n hn Io., hoa ha.,
mund +. Dole of the Seattle, recently of the
New hampshire, bar.
Leonard Addleman. aged 16, the son of a
farmer living near Houghton, WASH, acct
dentally Shot and killed himself Thursday
morning while cunning. He was using an
old muZzle-loading rifle that had been con-
Verted into shotgun, and in setting it down
against tree the hammer caught against the
rough bark and the weapon exploded wound
ing him. His father caught the boy, who
exclaim!ng, "Oh, papa" died instantly.
An ingenious contrivanee will be used on
the ears used in hauling beets to the sugar
factory at Chino from the surrounding
ranches. The cars, which hold about three
tons each, are mounted on wheels having
very broad tires, and are so constructed
That the pressure OF the hand upon lever
suffces to dump the beets with which they
are loaded into the factory. Every other
car In the train is equipped with an in
geniously constructed derrick, which is
used to lift the beets into the two cars be-
tween which it is operated.
The Portland Oregonian says: A Chicago
Alderman, who passed through Portland on
his way to San Francisco, in speaking of the
Worlds Fair said: 1.-THE committee is now
working for rate of cent mile over all
the railroads Tor the round trip That
would bring You Portland people to Chicago
and carry you back again for S25. Another
thing we intend to do. and that is to bring
the New Workers, who have so far done all
round trip. The main point We are aiming
at now is to get the round-trip rates down to
/ cent mile"