The morning call., 1891-09-19
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Terri
tories.

| tories
| Lompoc now has fully organized County
| High School.
Tacoma has a company Of girl soldiers
| who are being drilled.
| Chico is to have a new harvester works,
| the work upon which is progressing rapidly.
| w. Q. Judge, Mme. Blavatsky's favorite
| pupil, has been talking theosophy up in Sc
| attic this week.
| A train-fagman is to be put on the mar
| row-gauge track where 1t crosses the Ala
media at San Jose.
Tacoma has been giving Jay Cooke warm
welcume this week and celebrating his visit
| In various pleasant ways.
As Bert Jennings OF Irving, Oregon, was
riding home the other day his horse STUN
bled and threw him, breaking both his
| arms.
The Prescott Courier, speaking of an ad-
vertisement that appears in its columns. says
"it has no two words alike except one
word"
Mr.. Knowles of Lakeport. in the El Cajon
| Valley, has an apricot tree in bis orchard
| that bore, this season, 1900 pounds Of ex-
| cellent fruit.
| The Newcastle (Wash) mine is reported
! to be frequently turning out 1G00 tons of
coal per day. The Franklin mine is ship
| ping $50 to 400 tons per day.
a syndicate of Cinnamon, with ample
capital backing it, has purchased site near
Victoria for rlce-mill and work Will be be.
gun at once on the erection of the same.
A coast papers account of a recent fatal
accident at Portland. Oregon, says the un-
fortunate victim in diving in the river
| struck an obstruction and broke his neck,
| and was accidentally drowned.
| A salmon feet inches in length, weigh
| ing rs pounds, and with tail spreading Is
inches, was brought into cannery at Van
couver few days ago. 1t was sent to the
| Canadian Exhibition at Toronto.
The Ladies' Annex of the Los Angeles
| Chamber OF Commerce, which was prepar-
| ing to disband on account Of alleged snubs
| bestowed upon it by the sternsr members of
| the chamber, is now said to be reconsider
| ing the matter.
| Horace Davis, having applied for wharf
! franchise just below Cemetery Point. near
| Martinez, the suppositl0n is that his con-
| tempiated large fi0uriDg-mill is to be erected
| there and the people OF Martinez are jubii-
ant accordingly.
The country press is beginning to express
| considerable indignation over the probable
fate of young Ray Gibson of Oakland, who.
| while suffering from a gunshot wound, is
being left to the tender mercies of Chris
tian science doctor"
About month ago portion of 3 street
in Virginia City caved in. 1t was filled up,
| aud day or two after caved in again at the
| same place, the filling that had been put in
d
| hole some twelve feet square.
Yuma County, AIiz., will soon have fine
| lrrigating system in operation. Two irri-
| eating canals Will be taken out below the
| town Of Yuma 10 irrieate the thousands of
| acres of rich bottom lands Judge Z. NJ.
| Sanford Is one OF the projectors OF this en-
| terprise.
A Los Angeles barber, who rented his
shop of woman, failed to pay his rent for
| some time. Being asked to leave he refused
to do so. telling his landlady she could not
put him out without going TO law. where
| upon she quietly took him by the scruff Of
| the neck aud deposited him on the sidewalk
| so subdued that he was willing to leave at
| any cost.
| According to the San Jose News lady of
| that place, who is a spiritualist, recently
| went TO local gallery to be photographed.
| The sitting passed off without unusual oc-
currence. but it is claimed there were five
| human faces distinctly visible around the
! head and one on the breast of the sitter
| The photographer is not spirltualist and
claims he did not see any such manifesto
| tions during the sitting.
| The people of FallDrook, San Diego
| County, are agitated over the prospect of
having their town left to one side by the
| railway, and as Fallbronk is located in one
| corner of the irrigation district, the Review
favors moving the town, bag and haggage.
| to more central location. Mr.. Van Rens-
|
| will not come to Fallbrook, Fallbrook
! should go to the railway.
The Oregonian says: The Coos Bay
| steamer Express caught fire while living at
| the Marshfield-mill Wharf early Monday
| morning. She was beached on the mud
| fiat opposite, where she burned 10 the
waters edge. The hulk lies near the wreck
| OF the old Messenger, which met similar
| fate many years aga. where small portion
OF her huh and her machinery are now yisi-
| BILE at low water. 1t is not known how the
| fire originated.
| According 10 all accounts there are more
| swindlerS and thieves and fewer farmers at
| the State fair races this year than ever be-
\ fore. One man was met on getting off the
| train by a fellow who pretended to b. a
runner for hotel. Come right along with
me" he said, cheerily, and the new arrival
went The pseudo hotel runner and couple
| of pals cut the new arrivals money pocket
out of his trousers before they had gone far
| from the cars and got away with S104 The
man had to go back home to get some more
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