The morning call., 1891-01-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States a


Territories.
The beet sugar factory at jacksonville has
been closed down.
In Watsonvile and vicinity IN grippe is
enjoying a great run. Physicians report 80
cases.
Farmer Byrnes of Scots Valley, Lake
| County, lost forty sheep last Saturday night
| by dogs.
A carload of provisions was sent from
Palouse City, Wash, recently TO the Kansas
| sufferers.
Z. IL. Gould, late a prosperous farmer of
Butte County, left on estate worth 100000
to the family.
A recent arrival at Eureka, Humboldt,
| from Chicago, was taken with the small
| poX soon after reaching town.
a citizen of Burns, Oregon. has been ar
! rested for having used Cancelled postage
| stamps with bail fixed at $50.
Hay is now selling in Harvey Valley,
/ Oregon, at s. ton. Last year at this time
II WAS hard TO get al SIS ton.
a schOol-teacher named Baker has left
! Sequel, Santa Cruz County, for Salinas City,
after serving twenty-one years in the former
town.
a young man named Coffin was danger
ously hurt a few days ago while hunting
! near Iuscar0ra, New. lie will lose one of
| his arms.
From present appearances the Portland
/ Oregonlan says there VIII be taenty-three
cannerles at work on the Columbia River
| this season.
\ telegraph operator named Stuart has
sold a nine in Idaho for 100000. The par
ties who bought 1t expect 10 make millions
cut Of the property
! \ boy pOacher on the duck marshes near
| Su.sun was ordered OFF by keeper last Sat
uTday. lie refused to 60, when one OF his
fingers was shot off
During the past year and half nineteen
| miles OF streets and sidewalks have been
graded, pianked and improved in New
| Nhatcom, Wash. at a cost Of S326,096 Sc.
The Lassan Mail says the skating on a
| pond IN SuSanyiile Is good, and the young
people enjoy the fun hugely, especially
when party of skaters break through a
hole.
j. NJ. Chavez, a sheer-herder. was shot
dead at the Iuni Sal. Lakes, y. Mex, on
| Friday. by George MetZger, foreman of
! HubbllfS ranch. Chavez fired at his man
| and missed him.
Two tenderfeet left LemOore last Thurs
day to walk to the lake that seemed only a
mile distant from the hotel. They walked
hlteen miles before they reached it, and
hIred team TO ride back
An agent OF Governor Francis of Missouri
| Is anxious To have Governor Markham par
don Wilson Howard, notorious outlaw,
now IN san Quentin, so that he can be taken
back to be tried for five murders.
The Great Register of Alpine County con-
tains only ninety-siX names. Not a voter is
claSsed as a lawyer, while the County Judge
gives his occupation as "A foundryman. He
has held the Office for eleven years.
Redondo constable named Foyer ar
rested William Quirk some time ago for
alleged Understanding and held him In Gus
tody one day. Dark was discharged, aud
a jury on Saturday awarded him SloOo dam
ages against Foyer.
Tho Cotton Chronicle says: Every little
village and some sparsely settled precincts
! are pluiuing their pinions to take night mo
the political empyrean of county seats II
riverside goes, why not Aqua Mansa' 1huio.
| Needles and Bloomington?
The Sheriffs of twenty counties IN Wash
ington met at North Yakima last Nednes-
day and held secret meetings for two days
1t is supposed they discussed measures for
self-proteetion and for better means Of deal
ing with the criminal element
The Kern County Gazette SAYS: Some
enthusiastic divisionists are talking of a
Mojave County, taken from Kern, san Ber-
nardino and Los Angeles, ana with the town
of Mujave as the county seat. That melon
is scarcely ripe enough to pull yet
A sensation was created at Elensburg,
Oregon, Wednesday afternoon by the re-
| ported finding Of the bodies of two infants in
the city reservoir by the ice-cutters. Many
families have ceased using the water and
will await developments. How the bodies
came there is a mystery.
The Colusa sun has printed a list of non
resident landowners in that county who
| own over $40 acres of land. They are IO7
in number, and hold in the aggregate 3Ol.-
1872 acres Of land. There are 2j5 residents
who own 601, 40 acres, leaving 267, 5J6 acres
for the small land owners.
The Portland Oregonian says: Mrs.
Nancy Westfall. wife of Chinese contractor
Of Albany, was baptized at the Albany Bap-
tist Church Sunday evening. Her husband
, IS already member of the church and i,
liberal with his means in the advancement
OF the work of the church.
The Santa Rosa Democrat saws. Tn the
case of Ellen NJ. Cotton VS.. G. T. Hunting
ton ct al. judgment was satisfied in full.
Friday, as shown by the Sheriffs return of
execution. The costs in this celebrated case
amounted to $40, $50 II. The transcript in
the case aggregating over 1000 pages, was
printed in this Office.
Two years ago San Diego man planted
some oysters at the mouth of the Sweet
water River His first plant was forty
now spread over 1900 acres. Three thou
sand acres are now ready for eating and the
owner expects TO get 1000 bushels to the
acre.
The Advocate says: William c. Graves,
miner from Lassen County, is in Traver
visiting his sister, Mrs. Clark. He was a
member of the Bonner party which became
famous in the history Of California through
privat!ons which it suffered in vending its
way across the plains to the Golden State in
the early days Mr.. Graves is still hale and
hearty.
The Martinez Gazette saws: Among
the articles stolen from the safe of b.
Neustadter at Concord on Sunday night
were number of coins which the thief can
, never hope to realize upon without the GER
talnty of detection, and which to the owner
p0sseSsed value beyond computation.
There was a Morocco silver piece of the
year 1918, Japanese gold piece 1876. sill
yer piece 171S. silver piece 1897 Spanish
silver piece 1850. trade dollar. HANOVER sill
yer dollar, Irish half-penny, Peruvian silver
dollar, copper piece 1876. $50 Confederate
bill, Swiss coins, 2B silver groshen, and 10
cent greenbacks, and other foreign coins
The MERGED Express says The railroad
officials now believe that they have OBJ
tanned clew of the man who started the
engines from the sde-track AT Fresno
December 2Gth last. The party who is sus.
pected TO have done this deed is named
Pete III. Short who has a mania for start
ing engines. He is supposed to I've insane
and is certainly dangerous man to be at
large. lie was arrested in Sacramento on
March %, 1890. for stealing an engine in the
Sacramento yard. He is suspected as the
party who stole ran the engines out of
the Fresno yard on December 26th last 1t
is understood he is travelling in the south
somewhere, and as he has a mania for
engines he may turn up in Los Angeles
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