The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-30
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Saticoy, WASH, is soon to incorporate.
Helena is about to have new city jail.
Rawlus, Wyo., is to have $25, 900 hotel.
The Truckee River is being stocked with
Eastern trout.
The Gamewell fire-alarm system is being
! introduced in San Jose.
A vein of coal ten feet thick has been
found and is being worked upnear Chehalis,
Wash.
The twenty-eghth annual session of the
| SonOma County Teachers Institute will be
held in Petaluma next week.
Portland's Chief of Police is on record as
being in favor of open gamblng-houses in
that city because they keep money IN circu-
lati0n.
Work will be begun at once on the great
| Sunnyside irrigation canal at Yakima,
| Wash. The estimated cost of construction
is S1,50o,O00.
HALEY, Idaho, is having a scourge of
measles so severe that help cannot be OBJ
tanned and mothers are worn out caring for
| their children.
Tacoma has placed S550,0OO bonds at par
with a Minneapolis firm; S350,000 is for
funding the city's debt and 100000 for
| building city hall.
Auburn placer County, citizens are hold
| ing meetings with a view to inducing the
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provements begun at the station early in
1890.
Charles Painter of Walla Walla has Just
realized $4,000 on the investment of 500
| in land many years ago at Seattle and Ia
| coma, and still mas fOuT-SiXths of his prop
ertY left.
The Tulare Register says there is danger
| of chicken famine there, as all: the setting
/ hens are being robbed of their eggs by per-
! sons in search of missiles to throw at the
/ Salvation Army soldiers, who are in town.
A San Luis Obispo County Judge recently
| sentenced a man TO a half-hoar in Jail for
/ smoking in court. The man pleaded in ex-
/ tenuaton Of his offense that until his atten-
| tion was called to the fact he did not know
/ he was smoking. -:
| g Domestic, =" Foreign" and Chinese ;,
| are the somewhat peculiar heads under
| which the Napa Register advertisAs the un-
/ called+fOr letters in the Postoffce. That
| must be avery fine distinction that differen=
/ tiates between g Chinese . and " Foreign"
a 'smelter and refinery are soon to be
built at Seattle, and after its completion. in
| about six months, nothing but bullion will
| be shipped. A stack of twenty-five tons
capacity will be built at first with the cal
| culatOn OF increasing as business demands.
! w. w. Gillett of Palermo, for many years
| an orange-grower in Florida, says that in
| every orange there are two seeds larger than
| the others, which, If planted, make trees of
! larger and more vigorous growth than the
others. Florida growers call these the king
| and queen seeds.
The Mountain Messenger of April 25th
| says: wire rope for the Mountain mine
is stranded at Truckee, awaiting the melt
ing of the snow on the mountains. 1t will
be fully month yet before any freight can
get to Sierra City by the way of Truckee,
there yet being some five feet on many miles
of the road. On the road between the city
and Nevada there is no snow.
John Money of Napa is at work ON a curl
GUS kind Of wagon. 1t will be a four
wheeled vehicle, in many respects similar
to those in general use, but instead of being
drawn by horses, will be propelled by means
of gasoline engine. The one having it in
charge will be seated at the rear end, where
he will be enabled TO manipulate both the
engine and the wagon by means of levers.