The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-22
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Items From Pacific States and
TerriinriAa.

Brief Items From Pacific States and
Territories.
A lady notary public will soon put out her
shingle in Pasadena
Santa Cruz is at last to have that much
talked-Of street electric railroad.
Fresno rasin-grOwers have organized
cooperative company. and large packing
house is to be erected in the city at once.
James Joyce of Arroyo Grande, San Luis
Obispo County, was struck by lightning
Monday during heavy storm there and
instantly killed.
John G. Abbott, one of Nevada City's old
est residents, died there, Monday, of COM
plication of drOpsy, heart and kidney dis
eases and asthma.
Dixon, the editor and hOrse-thief of Las
sen, has been found guilty of the charge
made against him, and sentenced to seven
years in San Quentin.
Dr. Warburton of San Jose has been sued
in the sum of S25, 900 for alleged malprac-
tice in setting the bone of a boys leg in so
unSkiilful a manner that the patient is per-
manently crippled.
George Miller, keeper of Los Angeles
saloon and biIlard-rOnm was found dead
on sofa in one Of his eard-roOms Saturday
night, with an ugly wound behind one ear.
1t is evidently case OF murder, but no eleW
is afforded to the perpetrators Of the deed.
G. +. McGlassen of Truckee started to dig
cellar the other day, and found it lucky
venture. The first thing he met was vein
of cement which has q high market value,
and penetrating that he struck ledge OF
rich quartz, such as is used in manufacture
ing '49 jewelry.
The Postmaster of Ell Pas0 has got him.
self into hot water by throwing ont OF the
mails an edition of the local Democratic
paper containing reports of a court decision
on the Louisiana lottery while it is alleged
he took N nOtiaQ of fbp Rpnnhipap
that contained the same thing.
Two Petauma boys last week found
nest of young foxes in the limb of a tree.
There were four of the little creatures, and
| each boy took two home, where each hap
pened to have a cat with litter of kittens.
| They killed the kittens, and each pussie has
adopted and is raising two foxes.
Harry Swan, young man who went to
| Truckee a couple of weeks ago strapped,
| applied to the Rev. r. Z. Sisson Of that
| place for aid. Mr.. SisSon found him work
| and allowed him to sleep in his house, a
kindness which Swan recompenSed by de-
| camping one evening with about $50 in
money and Mrs. Sisson's gold watch.
The courts have decided that San Diego
| must pay the Coronado school teachers their
| salaries from the oath OF October, $780, up to
| the date OF the incorporation of Coronado
| City. The matter has been the subject Of a
| lengthy suit, the question being whether
! district before incorporation was cOnSum-
| mated.
| A great many dead fish have lately been
! found in the river near Napa, and it was
claimed that the dumping of refuse from the
| California Pomace Works killed them, but
| that theory has been disproved and it is
| now thought that parties have been destroy
| ing the fish with giant powder, and that
| fishermen using nets throw the little fish
| overheard when they are dead.
Redapds is in bad way. Last Friday,
on one of her principal streets. no less than
! three public fights occurred without the ar
| rest of a single man. The Redland Facts
back, and stood upon the principal business
! streets bare to the waist A hundred men
| gathered around the fighters, and another
/ such deluge of blasphemy and indeceny
never disgraced Redands.
One day last week a span of horses be-
! longing to Mr.. j. S. FillOon hauled what is
| claimed to be the heaviest twO-h0rSe load
| ever brought by team to Sanger from Fresno
| 1t consisted Of nine pieces of timber, Sx8
! inches, 40 feet long, weighing nearly a ton.
| The lumbermen Of Fresno offered to wager
! that the team would give out long before
| Sanger was reached, but they got there Just
| the same, making the trip in about five
hours.
The thirteen-year-old son of G. Keith of
! Carson City, New, while playing in field
! Sunday was shot in the right thumb by a
small rifle bullet. He heard no report and
saw no one with a gun, but felt sudden
| pain and was surprised to see blood on his
I hand. DR.. Guion dressed the wound and
! extracted a 22-caliber bullet, which had
| shattered the main bone. The shot was evil
IDENTIFY fired by some person many yards
away.
A Grass Valley Chinaman employed as a
domestic became deranged last Saturday
| He demanded his wages and the demand
not being complied with, seized an Ak and
| attacked his employer and her daughter.
| They slammed door in his face but he
broke the barrier and raising the AK would
have killed them but for the timely arrival
| of neighbors attracted by the women's
| screams. The Monaghan was taken to the
| County Jail.