The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-07
COAST ITEMS.
To be continued.


There are said to be about fifty buffaloes
left in Wyoming.
The State Citrus Fair for Northern Call
fOrDia is 10 be held at Auburn, beginning
January 18th
The telegraph line between Rawlins and
Fort Washable, Wyo., has been abandoned.
Lander people are trying to lease the line.
The I5ex mine, one of the best paying
geld mines in San Bernardino County, has
been spld to Riverside party for $4,000
cash.
The Ely New News says there is much
quiet work being done there in connection
with a new railroad line from Utah west
ward.
The Nevada City Herald suggests that
the parors of Native Daughters of Grass
Valley and Nevada City participate In
tug-uf-war.
Can Christians dance? is the question a
Seattle prea her discussed at length, last
Su day. We suppose so, ii they know how
and are not cripples.
There are $50 veterans in the Yountville
Home and fifty more are out on Through.
Every cottage and cot is occupied and no
maIe disabled veterans can be provided for
al present.
Michigan apples are selling al Los Angeles
for So per barrel \ ct the press of nearly
every county in the State confidently boasts
that each particular section !" Is especially
adapted to applegrowing.
A carload OF 5000 fruit trees was re-
ceived at Oakland, Oregon, this week, to be
planted on tie ChcnOweth fruit farm. This
is but part of the 100000 General Farney
intends planting there this year.
San Mateo has recently held fair for the
benefit Of the Library Hall Fund, which
proved 50 successful that it is now proposed
to conduct a series of entertainments
throughout the winter for the same purpose.
Deer are very plentiful this winter, on
Camas Prairie, Idaho. One man brought
six into Boise. The other day, which lie sold
at four and five cents pound, and claimed
he had killed twenty-five in less than four
weeks,
The people of Fresno Flats have recently
been vlctimZei 10 considerable extent by
the passage amOug them of counterfeit silver
dollars. J. ii. Murphy, the c0unterielter.
has he n arrested and will be tried at Los
Angeles.
The surveying party of the Montana,
Wyoming aud Eastern Railway has reached
Great Fails aud located the line of railroad
to the banks of the Missouri on the north
side Of the city. At present no surveys ara
to be male beyond that point.
The immense log-jam in Skyhomish River,
above Monroe, Wash, is said to he 400 yards
long, and the logs are piled up twenty to
forty feet high. Unless steam windiass is
put to work on II soon navigation TO Sultan
will be closed for the winter and possibly
y
John E,tenberg who was recently sent to
McNells Island, from Seattle, charged with
smuggling has been recognized AS James
Wilson. who was sent to the island for a
similar otfense two months ago and escaped
by cutting a hole in the roof and making
away in prison boat.
The Valley Hunt Pasadena riding So
ciety, is arranging for New Years tourna-
ment Of roses, a feature of which will be
the Introduction of old-time teats Of riding
and popular games of early California days
The days events y i'll conclude with Span
ish fandango at one of the halls in town.
The town of Antelope in Wasco County.
egon, has been rife with litigation lately.
In recent brawl over there a man was shot
through the foot, and during 4 recess in the
trial that followed two of the jurors quar-
relied and fought, were parted by the jus
tce, and then fined by that dignitary for
their unbecOmins conduct. Antelope is
lively place.
The Los Angeles Times says: James
BaldTidge Of Covina left at the Times office
yesterday samples OF the wild wormwuOd
which grows abundantIy in his neishbor-
hood, making a weed four to six feet high.
Mr.. BGldridge says 1t has been used as a
remedy for poiSOn-oak for thirty years and
is sure cure. A tea is made Of the herb
and with this the affected parts should be
bathed freely.
A Bakersfield Chiuaman recently traded
potatoes for COW and the COW was brought
to him before the potatoes were delivered.
That night the COW broke in upon the pota-
toes and gang of animals helped her. SO
that by morning the potatoes were all gone
The mysterious part of il Is that the COW is
gone too and John cannot find trace of it,
He is praying to his biggest JOSS, for he is
afraid that the potatoes have eaten up the
cow.
At Tacoma the other day several boys who
were prowling about the bluff Just west of
the Northern Pacific Railroad track, south
of Fifteenth street, had discovered a forgot
ten magazine containing about 5000 pounds
of giant powder cartridges, such as are used
In mining and for blasting purposes. The
boys placed several on the railroad track in
front OF passing engines to see them explode
but the dampness p. eyented what might
have been an awful catastrophe.
One Of the biggest rocks ever moved In
the course Of railroad construction in this
country was recently eXcavated on the line
of the Mexican Southern by Colonel Lamar
The Lower Californian says the giant
bowlder was 40 feet in height and meas
ured 1000 cubic meters. Six dynamite cart
ridges were placed under the r, OK after the
men had excavated as much earth as posi-
bic, and were fired one after another. At
the sixth explosion the big fellow rolled
over out of the way.
Whitman County. Washington, is enjoy
Ing series Of sensations n-cOnnecton with
her county affairs. Her County Surveyor.
it is charged, sold his office to his deputy for
$1,000, payable in eight installments; her
County Commissioners have been appro-
priating money for iunketing expeditions to
Olympia and elsewhere at the rate of S2j a
day expenses, and her other officials have
employed so many deputies aud run mat
ters so extravagantly that they are creating
deficiencies where there should be sur
plnscs.
William Ireland of Milton, Oregon. while
hunting in the John Day country recently.
was himself hunted by an elk He shot the
animal, which fell, and he ran to cut its
throat The elk then arose and attacked
the hunter with its horns and front feet.
| Mr.. Ireland was soon rendered unconscious.
| and laid ont day and night before he re-
covered sufficiently to drag himself to camp,
which he reached in horribly bruised and
frozen condition. He is now suffering
greatly from the effects of the encounter,
but it is thought he will come out all right
The body Of the elk, which was dying when
1t attacked the hunter, was found at the