The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-25
COAST ITEMS.
hrief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

stockton cool this sort of weather.
4, 1t was 80 hot at San Miguel, last week, that
Inc nigh temperature caused some chemicals
| 10 drugstore there to explode and set fire
| to the store.
The assessment roll for 1891 shows the
wealth of Tulare County to have increased
more than one-aud-a-haf millions during
the past year.
The statistics show that Los Angeles re-
| celveS more papers and periodicals by mail
ana ana express than any other city of its size in
the United States.
sno hIiiing OF the Charleston sailor was
hopDed Sunday night and roughly handled
py those who heard him.
Inc excessive heat at Sacramento Tuesday
SO affected ex-Mayor Turner of that city
anat ne was seized with a congeStive chill
ana mas since been quite i'll.
Whlle digging in the earth with his hands,
recently, resident of Los Gatos found a
nugget OF gold. Continuing the search he
Claims to have found decided indications of
the presence of the precious metal.
!, a gentleman in Los Angeles has grown in
MS yard, within the city limits, this season,
Two Two punches Of bananas that have ripened
Iully and are pronounced by good Judges as
me Irult as could be grown anywhere.
AN Anaheim man set out a eucalyptus
stake, recently, which, to his surprise, took
root ana has grown into a tree. That is
something like it. Hurrah for country
where a man may set out fence and get "a
| forest!
The citrus belt seems to be able to raise
something besides ranGes-mortgages, for
| instance. Property in Riverside is mortgaged
70 The extent of SO, 407, $40 81, and in San
Bernardino the mortgage crop amounts To
| Sl,03S, 1876 A.
AS fiat contradiction to the assertion
mat there is no animal life in Death Valley
TIE Government SuryayInO has found
zOO varieties Of mammals and sixty varieties
| Oh reptiles, specimens of which have been
forwarded TO Washington.
j.. W.. Anderson. State Superintendent
9 o. r f instruction; has designated the
NJ. Fisher, late County Superintendent of
schools OF Alameda County, as tie official
organ OF the State Board of Education.
The Phoebe (Nev) Recorder SAYS: A
boulder of ore was found several DAYS ago
near the old Meadow Valley works which
produced twelve sacks of 200 ounce ore
Inc boulder had been passed and repasssd
for the last fifteen years, aud no Que sus-
pected its worth.
Inc una Indians are rapidly becoming
civilized and take kindly TO European attire
except shoes. The Cotton Chronicle saws
the squaws who don these for the first time
have hard time learning 10 walk in them,
ana step ike chicken with red flannel
string on its foot
A correspondent of the Alturas New Era
writes to that paper from Snohomish that
ne Is IN wet country; that the horse mar
ket Is dull and that the best stock man can
prlng INTO the country just at present is red
headed girls. They are at a premium and
hard TO get for love or money.
A dilapldatad cart drawn 10y a bullock
ana conveying man, his family and lot
OF household effects. created quite sensa-
ton on the streets OF sacramento Wednes-
1nxr .I.
ramentans of early days when such spec
tacle was very common. The party hailed
from III Dorado County.
One OF the longest and most costly steel
railroad bridges in the country is now being
erected by the Union Pacific across the Co.
iumoia River at Vancouver, Wash. The
length from the Washington to the Oregon
shore will be COCO feet, aud the draw-per
Will be over 400 feet long. TIE cost OF the
structure viii be over S4.0O0,O0O.
The San Berpardino Courier saws a bow
was yelling -" Hot popcorn" on the street
lhere recently, when the temperature was
about 1OO' in the shade. He made no sales
Tor some time, aud suddenly. as though
struck by bright inspiration, he bawled
out: q" lce-cold pop-cOrnw The Courier
doesn't say whether that fetched them or
not.
A field fire near San Luis Obispo Sunday
night destroyed a setting of some GOO or 700
sacks of grain that had been blanketed and
was awaiting threshing, and also the entire
threshng apparatus of engine. thresher.
separator and derrick fork. A spark from
the engine, or match carelessly dropped,
must nave caused the fire. The grain was
insured.
A Santa Monica man who likes to raise
Dig things has now on exhibition in the local
store potato weighing three pounds one
ounce Besides this he has a l3-monlhs-old
helier that gave birth 10 calf not long ago,
ana plymouth Rock hen that lays an egg
with double yOlk every day except. Sun
Day He proposes to set these eggs to see if
tney VIII not hatch two chickens apiece, and
also to ascertain if the religious observance
OF the Sabbath runs in the breed.
A seventeen-year-old boy living near
G9leo took rifle day or two ago to kill q
chicken Tor supper, walking along with the
| weapon on his shoulder when by some
means it discharged. The bullet struck the
| ground behind him. and. glancing struck
the boys little sister in the ankle. passing
crosswlse OF the limb and laying the bone
pare. Either the bullet split or picked I'D
stone and hurled it in its flight. as the child
also received severe and painful wound
| Just above the knee at the same time.
:, The Portland Oregonian declares that
| nghtnlng from clear sky struck Helena
| SMont) woman the other day and traced on
small branch of tree. The figures of the
leaves were nearly perfect. She was not
hurt in the least Now, that may be ali
right: AT all events we are glad the woman
wasn't hurt We have heard of lightning
from clear sky striking man named An
anlas once, and this sort of item makes us
AFRAID that a similar streak will come out of
clear SKY aud print something in some of
| our Coast papers one of these days that will
| make 'em wonder how they are ever going
| TO get to press.
General de Peyster. one of the parties to
| New ork octogenarian divorces suit, has
Scots. He has every book, prose article or