The morning call., 1891-08-25
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritnrias

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
| ritories.
| John p. Irish wrote all the leaders for
last weeks Dixon Tribune.
Reports are current again of Chinese
| being smuggled over the line into San
! Diego County.
Hugh McNary, pioneer of Oregon, hav-
| ing come from Illinois in 1913, died at his
| home, near Salem, few days ago, aged 81
| years.
Grass Valley is to have jockey club,
| composed OF number OF representative cit
| liens. An option on lease OF Watt Park
| has been obtained.
Santa Rosa (Cal) parties, it is said, will
| undertake to establish woUlen-mils in Col
fax, Wash, If Colfax capitalists will
take $4,000 of ther stock.
1t is repo ted that Il large number of Sac
| ramentO Valley peach orchards are affected
| this year with peach moth and spliT-stOne,
and that some growers Will lose heavily on
| these crops.
Hard lines have fallen upon yiolators of
the fish law, up in Alpine County. The
| officers are using every effort to stop illegal
| fishing, and they must DO it if they do not
want all the fSh in the district TO be exter-
minated.
The thunder storm that visited Perris the
| other day did considerable damage. During
| its continuance lightning struck a brick
| building in course of construction and tore
| of rain fell.
| Report has it that the Santa Fe Company
| contemplRtes extending their Southern Cali
| fornia lines SO as TO reach Chino and share
with the Southern Pacific sUme of the busi-
ness of tiat place, which the latter road now
holds exclusively.
There is an old silver-mine shaft on a
ranch at San Miguel, Lower Cal, 80 years
old and sixty feet deep. Swarms of bees
are continually flying in and out, and it Is
supposed that many tons of honey might be
found IN the shaft.
a prominent stockman tells the Santa
Rosa Republican that sheep are over a dol
lar hundred more this year than they were
last, fact which he attributes to so many
having been killed during the heavy rains
OF the winter lSS9-90.
Colonel John p. Irish is travelling through
out the State addressing the people on
various topics connected with the industrial
development of the State. He recently said
that 100 persons own and control a majority
OF the acreage between Sacramento and
Shasta.
Seattle woman bought some furn ture
recently which she was slow in paying for
and tEally the dealers sent their attorney,
with writ OF repleyin, to recover tie goods,
Whereupon the woman fired on him with a
32-caliber revolver. She was arrested and
locked up on charge of assault with al
tempt to kill
Nhdl DlOOhS, tHS Otu negro VINO muir
dered his young wife in June, at Spokane,
says: They will hang INC because AM
old and black, and have no friends nor
money You see, there have been twenty
three murders in this county and they have
never hanged any one yet, SO l think they
will commence OF me-"
Going to law is not always the remunera.
tlve business some people consider It. Mrs
Schramm of Los Angeles recently obtained
a Judgment OF $1,000 against tho Southern
Pacific. The railroad appealed, but a com.
promise was finally made for $3.50. OF this
Mrs. Schramm got half, her minor children
half of the balance. and she secured 5000
out OF the original $1,000.
a few days ago, says the Truckee Repub-
llcan, while working in the timber near his
mill, which is situated about five miles south
OF town, George Schaffer discovered an
aoanuoned tunnel on quartz ledge. 1t Is
In the side of Sn0bomish Mountain. Some
OF the rock was taken out and assayed
SAT 40 per ton. The tunnel is probably
thirty years or more old.
There is great deal of speculation of late
IN the press OF California as to the prdctica-
| Dllity OF growing tobacco and cotton in Cali
fornla. Both have been shown to be feast
Bile. Good specimens of both were exhibited
at the New Orleans Exposition. Sixteen
years ago excellent cigars manufactured at
Gllroy from tobacco grown near that place
were sod in Los Angeles, aud were much
appreciated here.
The Prinevile News says: A great manv
wheat fields in the 0choco and Mckay val
leys have been practically ruined by rust.
The ground being wet and the grain very
RANK, the crops were in no condition to With
stand the effects of brOiling sun and
many farmers whose prospects were SO
brilliant only few days ago are quite
naturally sore over the unavoidable misfor-
tune that has befallen their wheat crops.
The Seattle Post-Inteligencer says: Mr..
Philo Rutherford of Fail City is among the
guests at the Snoqualmie Hotel He is one
of the oldest settlers in Fall City, having
gone there some eighteen years ago. Al
present he owns an excellent hop ranch.
he SAYS: Inc lice are doing quite a good
deal Of damage TO the hops about Fall CITY.
expect tnat they will destroy about one
hlth, possibly one-fourth of my own CROP"
Panthers are getting very thick and bold.
says the Mount Shasta Herald. One day
last week Mr.. Sullivan saw two in the rear
OF the Del Coronado in broad day, parties
report seeing one near the college building.
ana as we were returning from tho Sisson
Lake one evening last week we heard one
screaming at some distance from u.s. Moth
ers should look out for their little ones. as
they are the most liable to fall prev TO
these animals.
Regarding the Board of Forestry, which is
dolns good work In this State, and is be-
coming great institution in European
countries, the Portland Oregonian saws:
forestry is not likely to become of interest
In oregon for some time, notwithstanding
that the forests here are being cleared away
extensively. The farmer who clears ground
mas to maintain constant struggle against
the persistent spread Of Seeding trees over
ms cleared land, and if he gives way in the
struggle his fields are soon botted ont bv
young forests 1t is this constant pressure
OF the intIudng forest upon settlements
that prevents the average farmer from TAX
ing an interest in forestry.