The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-02
COAST ITEMS.


Stockton is to have new City Jail.
Petaluma Creek is being dredged of rocks
and sDagS.
A life-saving station is to be erected on
LOOMS Beach. near Astoria, Oregon.
The new Kings County (Wash.) court
house will be ready for occupancy June 1st
A sheep-raiser of Placentia. San Diego
County, sold 1850 sheep Ihe other day for
$4,000.
Eight hundred and two carloads of oranges
have been shipped from Riverside since
December.
Ore estimated to be worth 5000 to $4,000
per ton is showing up in the None Such
Mine, Mont.
A few shrimps have this season made
their appearance in Bakers Bay, very
unusual occurrence.
The Great Eastern Quicksilver mine. in
SOnoma County, is turning out 160 TASKS
monthly, and gives employment to about
forty men.
The ladies of the W, G. T. U. are endeav-
oring to have scientific studies on temper
ance introduced into the Sonoma County
school course.
Ten acres of orange orchard, without any
buildings ON it, sold at Riverside Tuesday
for $500 This is the highest price yet
reached in that market.
The weather prophets are advising Sacra-
mento Valley orchardists to Hook leede
oudt," as indications are plentiful that a
high frost is likely to visit that region.
a twig was picked from Petaluma april
cot tree the other day that, though less than
six inches long, bore a cluster of twelve
apricOts about the size of bantam eggs.
A Martinez saloon-keeper has a young
wildcat for pet. 1t is as gentle and play
ful as any other young kitten, though its
wild pIopensities may develop with age.
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Ostrich Company Tor $50, on account OF
depTedations committed in his barley field
adjoining the ostrich farm, by the big birds
A Mr.. Hazeltine, an old-time Stoektonian
who recently died in Iarrytown. n. Y, has
left $4,000 of his large fortune TO be de-
voted TO securing public library for Stock
ton.
The SonoHa Lumber Company's mill at
GueTneyille one day last week cut over 3d.
600 feet of lumber in eleven hours with one
circular saw, record unbroken on the
Coast.
w. II. Frally, q San Diego County man,
who recently fell from load OF hay, crush
ing his skull so that several pieces of bone
had to be taken out, is now up again and
going about.
Cattle-thfeves are at work around Jamul,
in Southern California. The other night
they killed eight steers, stripped off their
hides, ana left the caTeaSes lying in a ravine
near the cement works.
The Willows Journal boasts that Solemn
County" has 10 debt, and an assessed yalua-
ton OF SIl, 50O,0 600. But there are still those
who persist in declaring that there is not
yet such county as Glenn"
a stock company has been incorporated,
with capital stock OF 100000, for the pnr-
pose of reopenfng and operating the old oil
and gas well in the south pass Of the Suffer
County Buttes, near Marysville.
Hon. John Robson, Premier of British
Columbia. and wife passed through Seattle
one day this week, bringing to Victoria, for
burial, the remains OF their son, +. w. Rob-
son. who died Of consumption at Los An
geles last week.
0roYille has a homeless boy. He is 4
years DID, weighs twenty-five or thirty
pounds, cannot stand, as, If he has bones,
they seem to be like soft rubber; but he
can scratch the base of his head with his
feet, or roll himself into bail.
An elegant silk flag TWEEN ty feet in length
now floats from the iag-pole over re
PoStotfice, in the Boehmsr Block, Alameda.
The fag-pole was furnished by Mr.,
BOehmer, who says the colOrs were Sc It 30
Alameda by Postmaster-General Wan /.
maker.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce has
had proposition laid before it by the Puget
Sound Dry-dock Company to subscribe S4O.-
600 of stock in the company and offer site
and the company will remove the dry-doek,
when completed, and large ship railway 10
Seattle.
AS William Covington was driving down
the canyon, near RedlandS, the other day,
two MeXicans attacked hin; one held his
horse While the other pointed a pistol at
him and fired. The horse jerked back, and
the bullet passed through beth lapels of
CoyingtUn'S coat, grazing the skin. He
fired at the men in turn, but they both fled
and escaped.
In measuring the capacity of Kern River
this year, says the Bakersfield Republican,
wires were stretched across the river bed
41V Ieet apart, and measurements were
taken every twenty feet by men in boats.
For velocity Of current floats were started
from the upper WIRE and their time in
reaching the lower line accurately taken.
Then, to finally wind the thing scientifically
UP. the abscissa of the aSymtotes were
calcu lated,