The morning call., 1891-09-09
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter
ritOries.
Sand suitable for making glass has been
found near Spokane, Wash.
Twenty-Five carloads OF wine left St.
Helena, Napa County, last week.
A Chinese woman named Now Jou. aged
"a, committed suicide Saturday by taking
morphine.
Fire recently destroyed 300 bushels of
grain on the farm Of j. II. McCluDy, near
Eugene, Oregon.
It is reported that the Southern Pacific
road has purchased the Astoria and South
Coast Railroad for S54, coo.
The Yuma Sentinel has the following
society Item: About 100 Mojave Indians
arrived in town Sunday from up the river
on q visit to the Yumas,
a San Bernardino blacksmith named John
son got drunk on grape brandy the other
night and was found next morning dead
from the effect of his potatons.
At Bakersfield the other day a savage bull
dog sprang at Il twelVe-year-old boy, biting
him in the arm ami tearing his cheek in
terrible manner from the eye TO the mouth.
Fire at Liyermore destroyed the steam
printing Office Of the Herald, the leading
paper, and the bank building, which was
substantial and handsome structure Of
brick.
Huntington, Oregon, Is fast becoming an
important shipping point for Eastern Ore
gon. On Friday of last week HOO head OF
sheep were shipped 10 Chicago and 800
head Of cattle to Portland.
Forty-three thousand sacks OF grain have
already been hauled to the depot from the
| Tehachapi Valley, and 1t Is estimated that
this is probably less than one-third the en-
| tire crop. Some 5000 fruit trees are also
! being set out in that vicinity.
The charge is again made that certain
cauneries in California are putting up choice
.f.S tnlN 1.aA
| by the local dealer as Eastern fruit, while
| inferior grades are decorated with gaudy
| labels and shipped as hlgh-class California
| fruits.
Last winter Port Angeles bank was
| robbed of 5000. A man who had been act
ing as ianitor afterward confessed to the
| robbery. Later he was sent to StellacOm
| as insane. He was dismissed last week as
cured, and now denies that he ever made
| the confession.
1t is said that several well-known men,
| bers of the Baptist Church at Riverside
have quit its circle and joined the Salvation
Army. giving as their reason for so doing
| that the Baptist Church was not spiritual
minded enough to suit their ideas and
| spiritual capacities.
The people of Windy Island are fighting
| Chinese gardeners and farmers are refusing
| to lease them lands. This year the frugal
| MOngOlS will have $50 acres, which Will
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OF 5260 tons. which at SO per ton yields the
snug profit of $4,000
A horse at Santa Cruz the other day mis-
took his mistress hat, which was trimmed
| with oats and blossoms, for par
| ticularly delicious mouthful of green, and
he took it all in at one fell swoop. He was
| doomed to disappointment for the oats
| were stuffed with cotton and the stems
| we're made of wire.
The Oregon Blade says: A very destruc-
tive fire occurred at Lostne, Wallowa
| Valley, on the night Of the 10Th of August,
consuming livery stable. five head Of
horses. harness, hay, etc, also burning the
| Keller House. and the houses of Frank
johnson and Mr.. MastersUn. This is the
second fire within the last sixty days.
A recent enterprise on the part of fisher
men at Redondo has been the making Of
numerous travis or set lines. One of these
lines on recent morning developed catch
| of one yellOwtail and thirty-seVen sharks.
| The latter were deprived OF their fins and
chucked over board A Chinese merchant
in town is the purchaser of all the sharks
fins ubtainabe at cents per pound. The
celestials use them for making soup.
The present wonderful run Of salmon has
so glutted the market, says the Port Towns
end Leader that for some time these silver
sided beauties have been selling at cents
| apiece, but the price took q tumble yester-
day and several fishermen sold b0at-l0ad
|
the pitiful price Of cent apiece One cent
for a 20-pound silver salmon, the finest
quality of that excellent fish, is the lowest
price, perhaps, that food fish ever sold for
in this or any other country, but salmon are
so plentiful that people do not know what to
do with them.
The Placer Herald SAYS: William Foster
Of near Lincoln is exhibiting at the county
fair new variety of grapes, grown by him
from the seed. and which for want of bet
ter name we will call the Foster Tokay. Ii
10 not quite SO large as the Flaming TOkay,
but the punches are more compact aud the
berry is much more highly colored, being q
bright, transparent red. 1t Is superior In
flavor to the Flaming Tokay and has equal
keeping qualities. II is greatly admired
and the grapemen who have seen it think In
time it will Outrank any other varieties
known as grape for export.
The Yuma Sentinel says: The other day
pretty Rosa and gentle Annie, two maiden;
of dusky hue, tried to settle quarrel ovel
one and the same lover by a hair-pullnf
match. One noted Cocopah and the Other
a Yuma, met, word and then not blow
but handful Of hair and then another. un.
til the lookers-On pitched In 10 separate tht
beligerent females. Two strong mon tool
hold of one, and two stronger ones o
the ether, and they pulled and tugget
until each maiden lost her hold on the other