The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-13
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The value of domestic produce exported
from Hueneme last year was $G5l,2S0.
The delinquent tax list of Yolo County for
1880 was the largest in years, S51j6 IT,
The MADEIRA Mercury says 5000 acres viii
be planted to vines aad fruit ;rees this year.
The crop of winter strawberries in South
| ern California has been ruined by recent
frosts.
w. w. Reed, one of the oldest citizens of
San Leandro, Alan edy County, died last
Sunday.
Garroters in Tacoma operate on victims at
the railroad depot, and no one dares 10
interfere
One fifth of the school land of Pacific
county, Wash, was seld by auction on
January 6. for S122, 722.
The firm of r. p. Rthbet & Co. OF Victoria.
b. G., has been changed to a Corporation
with 100000 capittl stock.
j. j. Richard OF Browns Valley, Suffer
County, lost finger on Saturday by the ac-
cidental discharge of his rife.
Coulterville has one resilient who moas-
ures feet above ground. The Sh- -
man in town scales just feet
Joseph Yank, a pioneer rancher # Co.'S
Creek, Shasta County, was found dead near
his house, last Friday morning.
The Red Big1 Board of Trustees has re
fused to accept the chemical engine and the
manufacturers threaten to sue them.
The delinquent tax list of Venture County
will be less than $1,000. Most of this i, due
from non residents on special school lax
The people of Corvallis and Sllver;on,
Oregon, offer IL bonus of 5000 each 20 any
person who VIII start eanueries in those
places.
The growth of FairhaYen, Wish, is phaa-
omenal Eighteen months ago where til,
city OF 5000 inhabitants now stands was
forest clearing.
The Hueneme Herald says the railroad
freight on beans to Eastern points has bern
raised 10 cents hundred pounds from ami
after j nuary 22d.
J. l.. Black. under arrest at Butte, Mont,
for Illegal voting, tried to escape into Can1d.,
but was oyerhauled at Great Fails by United
, States Marshal Furay.
The Grape Must Company of Geyserville,
SOnoma County. has shipped leo tons re-
Gently TO England, where it will be used in
terrifying naive wines.
Smelt have commenced running up the
Columbia River at Astoria in enormous
numbers. Experts say the next thing will
be good run of salmon.
A pocket was struck in the Black Bart
mine near Coalterville, MaripoSa County,
recently, from which $1,000 in god Was
taken from 400 pounds of rock.
G.. L. Mast of Horseshoe Bend, Mariposa
County, has built foot bridge over the
MERGED River. 1t is 800 feet long. made of
wire-cable one and a-half inches in diameter
One of the pupils in the Springyile Dis
triet School, in Tulare County, is c. w.
EiSter aged 2S He is anxious u learn and
commenced like n man AT the bottom Of the
ladder. While at school his ranch and stock
interests will be looked after by his friends.
The property of the defunct Los Angels
Tribune was sold by the Sheriff last Friday.
Everything vent under the hammer except
the big press, for which no one bid cent
The result OF the sale footed up only $780,
not enough to pay the bills of the printers
and reporters.
To give some idea of the possibilities to
b. obtained III farming, says the Snoho-
mish sun, Mr.. Isaac Cathcart, the merchant
prince Of Snohomish, is responsible for the
statement that he cleared more money last
year Oft twelve acres OF vegetables than lie
did off his stock of dry goods, valued al
$4,000
Says the Astorian of last Friday: A
letter from TillamoOk announces that the
water-logged Norwegian ship Stratum
went ashore at Sand Lake. below Cape
Lookout, and had broken up. The beach
is strewn with lumber and wreckage, and
beach cOmbing is both fashlonab Bile and
profitable i'll that section.
Frank Joseph was driving along steep
grade last Sunday, near Millville, SHASTA
County. HIS wife aud child were with him
in light spring wagon. The brake col
lapsed, the horses ran away aud all the oc-
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high bank. Mrs. Joseph was dangerously
hurt, the child was killed and the father was
badly bruised.
The restaurants about town, says the
Phoebe Record, are notified by the water
company that their water rates hereafter will
be $40 per month instead of S12 The cause
Of the raise is not stated, but there appears
to be an African in the fence somewhere
and the move is thought to be against the
Chinese restaurants, another of which is
shortly to be opened.
Says the Sentinel: Many of the Yuma
Indians are very angry from the fact, they
say, that they were called in here by Agent
Rust to receive ratiOns. When they reached
here from all parts of the country they
found there were no rations for them, but
that they had been called in to be counted.
The compliments they pay Mr.. Rust are far
more expressive than elegant
The greatest marvel of all the rich posses
sions of the Maharajah of Baroda is car
pet, about ten feet by six, made entirely of
strings of pearls, with center and corner