The morning call., 1891-12-03
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories
Riverside expects to ship 300 carloads of
oranges this season.
Sacramento's horse-car railroads are all
TO be changed to electric roads.
A special Fresno on Wheels" is to go
East during tie holiday season
Brandy from grapes, at Folsom. this State,
received the first premium at the recent
Missouri State Fair.
A company with plenty of means is Dor
ing for oil at Redondo Beach. The outlook
is said to be favorable
The success this year of the peanut crop
in Ventura County will induce many next
year to substitute this crop for beans
The town of Ontario, by majority of
nine, has voted to incorporate as a city of
the sixth class. The new city is but half
mile square.
A storage dam to hold 5000, 900, 900 gallons
is 10 be built in Soledad Canyon, near Ac-
ton. in Los Angeles County. 1t is to be $50
feet high and about 900 feet long.
Eucalyptus trees are used at Ventura for
piles under wharyes. The wood is said to
resist the teredo and other borers equally
with if not better than Oregon pine.
There is very strong flow of natural gas
in the bed of the river, about three miles
from Ventura. A lighted match will set FIRE
to space SIX or eight feet in diameter.
Eugene Balloer, aged years, was killed
in one of the school-yardS at Spokane the
other day by zip" stick striking him in
the windpipe as the children were at play.
The Nevada State journal says it is grow
ing to be the fashion in Virginia City for
young men who have lost their money
through gambling to take poison with sui
cidal intent.
Arthur Stayner. the Utah beet-sugar
man, has made proposition to the people
of Laramie. Wyo., looking to the establish
ment of refinery there. 1t is thought a
stock company will be formed.
The old cry of large crop and low prices
for oranges is being raised at Riverside this
season. and buyers are around. as usual,
Offering absurdiy low prices for fruit The
latest bid is IS cents box for seedlings.
The principal business houses and hun.
dreds of dwellings in Stockton are now
lighted by natural gas. Of which the supply,
IN that section, Is apparently inexhaustible.
The wells are from 1000 to 1900 feet deep.
Nine English cartridges have been re-
ceived at Portland. They are .in size be-
tween the Oregon quail and pheasant, and
will be turned loose to increase, but in what
portion OF the State has not yet been deter
mined.
The Indian Industrial School at the Pop
lar Greek Agency, Mont, was burned down
on Tuesday night. There were about 400
Indian children in the building, but all got
safely out. The loss to the Government
will be about $4,000.
AT Butte, Mont, hundreds of whistles at
the mining works announce the hour three
times day A facetious individual sug-
gests that the whistles be arranged on the
principle of the calliope, to play Yankee
Doodle" in the morning. Comrades" at noon
and Home. Sweet Home at night
In order to diminish overfows along the
San Gabriel by protecting and encouraging
the growth of mountain timber, the General
| hao t,.ffi ,lr !
sale an area of ground twenty by forty
miles at the head of the San Gabriel River
all legal private claims TO be respected.
The Pomona Times emphatically denies
the truth of the dispatch that has appeared
in number of northern papers, that the
Pomona Board of Trade has agreed TO raise
$500 among the citizens OF that place for
banGuet!ng and entertaining the National
Editorial Association during its meetings
and excursions next June.
WOlf-hunting is becoming popular sport
in Wyoming. At the Four j ranch, near
old Fort Lawrence, they had pair of i'm
ported hounds that killed eight big wolves
in one day, recently. The cowboys come
seventy-fye miles TO follow the dogs. and
pronounce the sport far ahead Of anything
they ever thought of for fun.
The Dinuba CTulare County, Dispatch
says; William Smith. on his place, i've
miles from town, planted pumpkin seed
pound pawn ticket. He planted one seed
and raised from it forty-three pumpkins,
weighing in all over 400 pounds. This was
surely some pumpkins" of seed.
Fanny Davenport's agent states that she
intends to spend at least $4,000 in improve
ments on the place she has just bought in
Orange County. The tract consists of $50
acres IN selected and picturesque part of
Fulton Canyon, and when laid out under
the direction of competent landscape artist
and stocked with game and fish, it will be
one OF the notable places of Southern Cali
fornia.
A man named Schriyely met with seri-
Gus accident while hunting about twelve
miles west of Eugene, Oregon, a few DAYS
ago. Two men were hunting and only
Schrively had gun. They got crippled
pheasant into brush pile and the bird be-
ing on the opposite side Of tie brush pile
Schrively threw his gun over to his com
panlon TO use. The gun was discharged
and part of the charge took effect in
Schriyely's groin.
Since Mr.. John g. North has sued the
Bear Valley Irrigation Company for $4,000
and costs of suit for flooding his land, GER
tain papers are saying that serious charges
of corruption were made against him while
manager OF the company. Newspapers had
better be careful in making charges of cor
Tuption against John G. North, says the
Pomona Times He is one of the most nm
right men IN California and has the courage
to defend himself as well as demand his
rights.
The Whittier Pointer says: In the last
two months we have seen more peanuts
than we ever saw in our life before. Hay
racks and hay-racks piled with peanuts
have passed our Office door. A large crop
was raised around Whittier this year. at
present there Is no market for the nuts, but
by spring our farmers hope that they will
bring 81 a sack. The picking OF peanuts
from the vines furnishes light employment
Tor number of hnYS and girls 'rhpv get