The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-10
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOries.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
j. W. Scott was convicted of assault to
murder at Napa on Saturday.
Ventura claims to have the best water
system OF any town in this State.
The State aud county taxes in Humboldt
County, New, amount to 81 60 on the 500.
Tie Mayfeld PaIo Alto has been en-
larged, and Will appear on Saturday in the
future.
Joseph Brunson. laboriug man of Lodi,
cut his throat on Saturday. He was drunk
at the time.
The iron and machinery for the sugar
factHry at Chino will require 200 cars to
transport it.
At a recent trial in Summerland, Santa
BarOa County, the lawyers employed we've
named Butchers and Crow.
+. w. Hummason, a prominent stockman
of Washington, has been convicted of steal
ing cattle by a jury at Spokane Falls.
An old man named Manning was arrested
in South Riverside on Saturday for assault
ing the wife Of Principal Kerr Of the public
school.
A block OF Inyo marble, Weighing 50, 700
pounds, went through Verdi last Friday.
1t win be placed in the Mills Building in
san Francisco.
The Riverside Press says the tin-mine
owners were heavy losers by the late storm,
which swept away large dam OF masonry
and concretes.
Dr. A. ]. Lawrence was convicted of man
slaughter at Santa Barbara on Saturday.
He killed his vile at Los Olives on the Oth
of October, 1880.
Victoria %. c. man has faith in that
city's growth. He has leased plot OF land
for forty years and given contract for put
ting up a three-story brick block.
According to interviews with leading bust
Of ytr ntr YNtthl nd in ns
weeks Independent times are very hard in
that county. No one seems to have money
for any purpose.
Henry Parr and S. p. Mccormick got into
row in a Portland saloon, and both drew
their pistols. Mccormick will die and Parr
had several bullets in his anatomy that may
give him trouble.
One year ago j. L. Weeks was badly in
iured while working in the Fremont Mill at
Seattle by the breaking of large saw. Last
Friday jury gave him verdict for $4,000
against the company.
The Visalia Delta says: Laborers are so
scarce in this vicinity that the older boys
attending the public schools have quit their
studies and are now employed on bitches
that have TO be repaired. The boys are paid
81 day for their services.
Santa Barbara has a new evening paper,
the Star. 1t was first published last Thurs
day by Goodwin and Walker, with Mr.. Nc
lhipoi is iDtdl GulluI. L ne Quar- Is u neatly
made-up paper and is fall of news. In
pol ties it will be independent.
Fred Forbush of Santa Barbara wounded
a duck in the surf last Friday. His re-
trieVer Maude went after the bird that
struck out TO sea. After swimming half
mile the dog caught the duck, swan back
and laid the prize at its masters feet
Bids were opened at Maxwell, Colusa
County. recently, for building a headgate
and crossing over Stony Creek for the Cen
trail 1rriga,ing Canal. The lowest bids
were S24.999 for the headgate and S49, 1913
Tor the crossing. Both amounts were higher
than the engineers estimates.
The Portland Oregonan says: The late
Captain Colcord who was drowned near San
Francisco was a schoolmate of Captain E.
A. Noyes, well-known here. OF five com
rades who left Searsport, Me-, to become
sea captains Mr. NOycs is the only one liv-
ing The rest were all lost at sea.
Says the Placer Herald | would rather
be resident of Ophir than be President of
the United States, said an enthusiastic resi-
dent of the above named town the other day.
Why? was asked. Because, he said, when
anybody down there dies, everybody. in
Guiding the corpse, goes TO the funeral
The Tulare Register says: A few days ago
san francisco paper announced that rail-
road engineers had determined that they
would not pull a train upon which Mes
senger Haswell had charge of the express
car, and we notice that one or two of the
valley papers have made the same state
ment. we are authorized to state that the
report is false. The engineers have taken
no such action and do not contemplate do
ing so.
The Historian says: "What is one mans
meat is another mans poison" is an old
saying If all that Captain A. NJ. Simpson
says be true the proyerb is exemplifed in
the. case Of Coos Bay. When tile United
States engineer started the jetty there Can
tain Simpson tried TO dissuade him. lie
says that he warned him that no good would
come of it. Now, he says, the jetty there is
nearly finished, and while before it was
built there was twenty-four feet of water AT
the entrance there is now but fourteen feet
and be blameS the lefty for il.