The morning call., 1891-10-25
COAST ITEMS.
Copyright

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Chico is to have large new railway de-
pot.
An $500 saddle is on exhibition at Los
Angeles.
The Chino beet factory will continue
operations until December.
Stockton is to use its natural gas supply
TO light and heat its new Courthouse.
A workman named Galovanni was
drowned in q wine-Yat at Newhall the other
day.
A convention of California bee-keepers
has been in session in Los Angeles this
week.
The hop-picking season is over in Wash
lngtou, ana the season S yield Is SAID 70 De
very good one.
The first days business of the recently
opened Orange-Growers' Bank ut Riverside
amounted to $4,000.
Oregon'S funds are exhausted. the Legis-
lature not having levied taxes enough TO
meet its appropriations.
At Walkervile, Mont, the other night, in
n saloon fight, John Douney stabbed Philip
Prior with a pair of shears.
There are several cases of diphtheria at
Pomona, and the sanitary condition of the
town is said to be very bad.
The constitutionaity is to be tested In
Nevada Of the act creating the State Doafd
OI Assessors anu EQUALIZATION.
A band of seventy-five elk appeared near
| Glenora, Oregon, one day last week. A
miner named D0naldSonAshOt eleven of
| them.
The merchants of Santa Cruz have inst-
| tuied closing at 6 o'clock III the evening and
| the Santa Cruz Sentine! is bitterly opposing
| the movement.
| Two men were seriously, perhaps fatally,
| hurt on Two different cable-cars at Los
Angeles. Wednesday, by being thrown off
| as the cars swung at full speed around a
| curve
a good deal of work has been done this
| fall in Strengthening the 4olo levees, and IL
is confidently asserted that they will now
| keep the water back, even though the river
| be thirty feet deep.
A block Of pure asphaltum, weighing two
and half tons, was recently taken from
| the asphaltum mine, near Santa Barbara,
| Cal. 1t is believed to be the largest piece Of
! asphsltum ever mined in one block.
The people residing along the Chino
| Creek are making vigorous kick on ac-
| count Of the outfall from the Chino sugar
factory being turned into the creek. The
stencil is almost intolerable, and it is feared
| that much sickness will result
The Los Angeles Herald says: The bee
| men in the northern part OF the valley have
| noticed for some time that many OF their
colonies of bees were getting very weak,
and they have made the discovery that they
| were being devoured by sknnks
An alarming mortality has lately prevailed
among the mutton sheep of the Rock Creek
| District, Wyoming, and the woolgrowers
of that vicinity are becoming convinced
that it is due to deliberate poisoning. The
matter is to be thoroughly sifted.
Inspector Loranz reports that the average
| yield of beetS at Chino viii be about eight
tons per acre, and not as high as was est-
| mated earlier in the season. The falling off
lnaI r1-s,a
| and lots of it, TO insure good yield of beets
and this years experience Will be both in
structive and profitable to the Chinoites.
At Virginia City the other day gang Of
young toughs followed the funeral of q
| Chinaman to the grave, and after the cere-
monies were over and the Celestials had
| taken their departure the young gh0ulS not
| only disposed OF the funeral baked meats
left on the grave, but they dug down to the
| coffin and robbed it of 40 cents and lot of
| trinkets.
Tie people of Santa Clara County have
/ nothing to complain of in regard to this
| years products. Last week the shipments
| from San Jose overland to the East were as
follows: Canned fruit. 1,5S660O pounds :;
green fruit 10S7, ,070; dried fruit, 2, 141, 800 !;
wine and brandy. S3,635; garden seed, 73,-
80; leather, 36,2i5: quicksilver, 22,6S0. To-
tai, 5,036040 pounds.
w. w. Stewart of San Diego received
1S,000 pounds of pig-tin from the Temescal
tin mines to-day, making seventeen tons
on hand in his warehouse. The San Diego
Sun says that just as soon as the TranScon-
tnental Association, now in session, shall
fix rates, the tin will go East. Mr.. Stewart
has orders filed for five times the amount
on hand. The mines are producing little
moro than a ton q day.
John Crouch, one Of the largest land
holders in Butte and Colusa counties, re-
Gently added to his landed possessions by
the purchase Of 2100-acre ranch ON which
was a dwelling that cost $4,000. Being
afraid Of being assessed for these improve
ments, he proposes to destroy tho house, as
he will convert the ranch into wheat field.
1t is stated that Crouch has already de-
stroyed ten or twelve houses on land pur-
chased by him.