The morning call., 1891-11-17
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and FER
ritories.
Oregon's wheat crop is..said to be less this
year than last.
An electric RAILROAD is to be built from
Sacramento to Perkins.
A new society called the Saccharine Club
has been started at Chino.
The town of Banning is seven years DID,
and, it is said, has never had wedding.
A Mr.. Robb, an Eastern capitalist, Is
thinking OF starting bank at Redlands.
The CitrOgraph predicts that Redands
will have population of 5000 before the
close OF the year 1892
The focd at Tacoma is subsidng, cold
wind having stopped the melting OF the
snow in tho mountains.
The meter system of measuring water has
gone into effect at Santa Barbara, anu IS
causing much complaint.
And now the Fresno County jail is said to
be invaded by spooks, who keep up no end
OF a row and rappng at night.
The city of Portland has bought and made
a free thoroughfare of the bridge connect
ing East Portland with the city at Madison
street.
An Arizona farmer has tame rattlesnake
to guard his premises instead of dog. Inc
report does not say whether the snake
sleeps in the farmers boots
John Lawson, pioneer. who came round
thO iIUlH W lIlS SUdSI III tue Cdli1 6oiu-
fever days, has been sent to the Sacra-
mento County Hospital. Lawson lacks but
month or two of being 100 years old.
The Yuma Sentinel says that Henry
koshland met with curious injury the
other day in Mojave County. He was
asleep in camp, near Signal. when skunk
bit him in the nose, intiicting a deep and
dangerous wound.
The Southern Pacific Company has let a
contract for new depot at Chico, and work
will begin next Monday. The building will
be adapted not only to present but future
needs of Butte's pretty little city, and will be
handsome structure.
The Petaluma Packing Company has
shipped East from this years pack about
forty carloads of its canned goods, which
have gone 10 Denver, Chicago, st. Louis,
New York and other Eastern cities. II Is
shipping now two carloads every day.
The Pajaronian says: Tie first consien-
ment of cows for the WatsOnville Creamery
arrived and more lots are expected soon.
The creamery will be in running operation
within week and another important In
dustry will be added to the list Watsonville
now has.
An improvement of considerable impor-
lance is about to be made at Red0ndo Beach
in connection with the shipping business.
Two large anchors, weighing 5000 pounds
each. and having 2B-inch mooring chains,
are TO be placed at m0Orings. to which YES
selS may Do ancn0reQ TO insure safely IN
case of storm. :.
A stranger succeeded in passing a number
of So and $40 silver certificates on Tacoma
merchants last week. The So is of the series
OF 1856, with large seal. The paper Is said
TO lack the silver thread or any imitation
thereof, but is otherwise good counterfeit.
The $40 bill is of the now series of 1890, and
Is a poor counterfeit.
The sawmills of Fresno County, located
in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from the
headwaters of Kings River to The head
waters of the San Joaquin and its tribu-
taries, have all closed down for the season.
winter weather having set in at that alti-
tude. The output for tho season is about
60,0OO,O COO feet, valued at 100000.
The Fresno Expositor thinks that since
the grapes and the fruit are about all gath
cred in, the people begin to feel that gen.
une old-fashoned rain lasting about forty
days and forty nights would be thing to
thank fortune for. 1t would open up the
farming Interests, lay the dust, bring the
wild geese, purify the atmosphere, knock
the old leaves off the trees and assist nature
and the race OF men wonderfully in carry
ing out the interchangeable DEGREES of fate.
a Yakima (Wash) artesian well Is exhIb-
iting most peculiar characteristics. The
drill was sent down about 300 feet, when
work was suspended, awaiting casing,
owing to phenomenon which cannot be ac-
counted for. Sometimes there is a suction.
and sometimes blast Of air from the well.
One day piece of paper placed over the
hole would be drawn down, while the next
it would be sent flying into the air. That
an air-chamber has been struck there is lit
tie question, but the varying mood of the
wind is what is pulling those who are in
teIested.
An Astoria woman had letter from a
friend OF hers living in East Portland, says
the Astorian, who had a narrow escape
from death by poisoning last Sunday. The
East Portland woman had been to Long
Branch last summer and took some flea
powder along TO try and keep off the fieas
that are such a pest in the sand there She
brought some OF it back with her and on
Saturday found she had use for 1t. In
sprinkling it on her bed she accidentally in
hailed some Of the stuff ana 1t made her
deathly sick. A doctor was called and an
antidote administered. The lady says she
Drafars tha aaos