The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritorics.

ritorics.
A camp of Indian war veterans is TO be
organized al Astoria.
Two Hanford men killed 1914 ducks and
| geese on Tuare Lake one day last week.
A man at Healdsburg pawDed his false
teeth the other day to obtain the where
wlthal to purchase drink of whisky.
FOrtv-seven carloads of English walnuts
were shipped from Riverside this season,
the people OF that vicinity receiving $4,000
for them.
The orange-growers about Alhambra are
beginning to snip their fruit, which Is said
to be very fine this year and unusually free
from smut
The ordinance establishing bounty on
jack-rabbit scaps in San Bernardino County
has been repealed, the repeal taking effect
on Christmas Day.
The Prescott (Ariz.) Journal Miner Looks
forward longingly to raIl connection be-
tween tat place and San Diego. The
chances are good for it
There are quite a number of black-tailed
deer in Southern California markets shipped
from Mexico. Some OF them are very large,
weighing 100 pounds dressed.
I. c. White of Fresno has sold his Rasina
vineyard, the Oldest vineyard in Fresno
County, Ter $4,000. 1t is eighty acres in ex-
tent, with good buildings on it.
There is a man down in Pomona who
drives horse that is a tobacco fend. He
must have his "chew" regularly aud il it
is not given him he kicks" literally as
well as tiguratively.
The legend on carload of powder for
warded from the Santa Cruz works for the
steamer San Francisco was "Benicia Ar
senal, Army Polnt-rush" That, says the
Los Angeles Times, about expresses the
sentiment Of this country.
Marysviie girls who sigh to be fashiona-
bic, having made an effort to introduce the
chaperOn system at parties there, Instead of
the good old fashion If having gentlemen
escorts 10 and IF m those places, the Appeal
warns them to desisJ from such folly If they
ever expect to become matronS.
Julius LuhrdOrff OF Tulare has some hon.
ing pigeons that he has been testing lately.
Some of them have made the following
runs: From Fresno city, forty-fve miles,
in sixty minutes; from Bereuda, seventy
five miles, in two hours; from Modesto, 1877
miles, in five and half hours; from Porter
vile, thirty miles. in forty-five minutes.
An association has been formed in Port
land for the purpose of prosecuting all vio-
lations of the game laws of the State of
Oregon, and tie sum Of $500 has been
raised to defray the expenses Of prOsecut-
ing the Killers OF game out Of season. The
game up there is rapidly being destroyed,
and it is high time something was done In
the matter.
a Mr.. McShulin Of San Diego, while walk
Ing on the railroad track the other day,
stepped aside to allow swltch-engine to
pass. He stepped little too far, and fell
into small lake of pitch, tar, or some such
stuff, that just there seeps from the gas
works near by. He called Justify for help
but none came for some time, but he was
finally taken home and Invested of his outer
| clothing. lie was quite i'll, and As the tar
| dried the torture was eXcruciating.
The Fresno Californian saws: Let MS
warn fruit-growers throughout California to
| avoid travelling tree agents as they would a
| peSthouse. In planting an orchard do not
| send to Delaware, Florida or elsewhere for
trees Buy them from we'll known and re-
sponslble home dealers. In this manner de-
structive insect pests and diseased trees will
| be avoided lar easier than where an order ia
| sent ont OF the State and the stock shipped
in bulk. Too much caution cannot be exer-
| cised in this matter.
Albany. Oregon, now fully appreciates
the need OF free bridge over the William
| cite River. The cable TO the ferry parted a
few lays ago, and farmers who live few
| miles from the city in Benton County were
compelled to return home by way of Cor
| Wallis, an extra distance of twenty miles,
| Some fears were entertained during the re-
cent high water lest the false work for the
new bridge would go out but all except one
| bent stood all right and work is progressing
rapidly now
Charles Berry, proprietor of the Redwood
| House at Hoopa, Humboldt County, has
| commenced what might be called an erial
| ferry across Redwood Creek, near his place
| The contrivance consists of a strong wire
| rope stretched across the stream at a con-
| siderable distance above the water, over
| which will travel. by means of pulleys and
| sheaves, box or car. This box will be
| large and strong enough to carry a horse
| should it become necessary to transport
animals across.
The Pasadena people are properly indig-
nant over the course Of the San Francisco
| Examiner in publishing an extrayagant and
| sensational account of the recent wind
storm, says the Riverside Press. We do
not blame them, and yet people will, APP
| parently from preference. read Just such
rot" provided it is about somebody else or
some other section, or the paper referred to
would be compelled to 60 out of business
| for want OF support.
Ventura County claims the honor of being
the most prolific bean-growing section in
the world. The Los Alamos Central SAYS
| that one ranch of 2200 acres has produced
| 1890 tons of Lima beans this year It took
$1,000 sacks to hold the crop. and they will
fill about l03 cars, on the average Of ten tons
to the car. This will make eight or nine
| solid trains OF beans But this is only from
| one ranch. The railroad company expects
to handle 1900 carloads of beans on the
| Ventura division this year, which, at 81:
| per ton If shipped East, means S133, 600 in
| their cash account.