The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-08
COAST ITEMS.

Matters of Interest From Pacific States
and Territories.
A chess club has been started at San Luis
Obispo with six members.
J. L. Childs has quit teaching school. and
will edit the Coos Bay News.
Blackleg is proving fatal to cattle in the
western part of Nevada County.
Oroville was lighted with electric lamps
for the first time last Monday night.
One bank in Los Angeles gave its stock
holders i'll 1890 dividends TO the amount of
S3350O0.
The Del Norte Record says not pound
of butter can be had in Crescent City for
love or money.
Mrs. f. NJ. Kennedy has bought a con-
trolling interest in the Kent Journal, King
County, Wash.
When the Seattle public schools opened
last Monday there were 1900 pupils present,
with Ill teachers.
The gas company of Tulare City has de-
ciared an Irish dividend of So share, pay
able January 18th.
The Alta mine at Virginia City has been
shut down for good, and fifty men are
thrown out of work.
A rich strike OF high grade gold ore was
made in the Eagle Toll Mountains, fifty
miles from Phoenix, Ariz.
Paul Bushman of Cathalmet, WASH,
cashed $40 in gold near his cabin some
1880 NoS' W AOii hC hCuG " Ills Ddllh IL Was
empty.
1t is said in the Oakland papers that some
boys found gold ledge while hunting cattle
IN the hills east of Sunol Valley, Alameda
County.
A special election will be held in Butte
County. on Saturday, January 18th, to
choose a Senator In the place OF c. l.. Pond.
deceased.
The Drain Echo of Douglass County,
Oregon, was six years old on January ID.
IL Is prosperous, and now appears without
any plate matter.
James Townsend of the Homer Index
(Ney) was rescued from snowslide in a
prisoner for three days and nights.
Oscar E. Trask, a prominent logger, was
fatally shot by David Montgomery, farm
er. at Snohomish, Wash, last Sunday Pub
lie sympathy is with Montgomery.
A young woman of Pomona drove a herd
oil 100 Wild Arizona steers from the depot to
her fathers stock-range In the San Jose
hills last Friday. She managed the whole
drive alone.
Inc Ventura Democrat says: We heard
man the other day talk about the tightness
OF times and scarcity Of money out in his
section who has 1000 sacks of lima beans in
his barn, waiting for the market price to
get up to cents pound.
F. w. Dearbon of Walla Walla recently
received pension Of SIT a month, together
with back pay amounting to S3428. He
spent four years in Libby Prison aud four
months and eight days in Andersouville
Prison. He escaped from the latter place
by digging long tunnel
The Portland Oregonian says: Rev. Charles
Bonnel who was rector of st. PauPs Church
III Salem twenty years ago. and we'll known
to the residents of that city at that time, was
found dead in his cellar at Wissahickon
Pa, December 10Th. He had gone into the
cellar to light the heater fire and fell dead
from heart disease.
-, The Arroyo Grande Herald saws: On
tuesday over six tons of onyx were shipped
from our depot one stone alone weighing
$500 pounds. An increased impetus is
given to the shipment of this valuable rock.
lately, the proprirtors of the mine having
received heavy contract for supplying IL
Tor ornamental work on Governor Perkins
hne residence now being built in San Fran
cisco. We understand the rough stone is
valued at $50 ton.
The Salem Journal says that in OREGON
there yet remains nlnety-six log school
houses or this number Lane County leads.
having sixteen. Grant County comes In
next with ten. Many of the other counties
nave from one to four or five. The counties
that have no log school-houses are Curry.
Malheur, Marion, Morrow. Polk, Wallowa'
Linn and Yamhill Some of the counties east
OF the mountains could not build log school
houses If they so desired, unless they build
them with Sagebrnsh.