The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-29
COAST ITEMS.

Territories.
San Jose will be out of debt at the end Of
this fiscal year.
Walla Walla proposes to spend $500, 600 in
Improvements this year.
Selma's citizens are discussing the ad-
visibility of Incorporation.
Ripe cherries We're picked April Goth at
Green Valley, Solano County.
Horse-thieyeS are committing their depre-
dations in the vicinity OF HalfmOon Bay.
An enormous acreage of Ventura County
is being set to English waluuts this year.
Riverside is working to bring an extern
sion Of the Southern Pacific road to that
place.
Within the past six months there have
been two hundred new buildings erected in
Redlands. Cal.
y veritabIe building boom has struck
Santa Monica, aud every body is busy and
happy thereat
The wheat yield of Stanislaus County this
year will, it is estimated, probably reach
1900, 900 bushels.
Santa Clara is to have large new mill
ing machine tops.
c. Hopkins Of Pasadena is putting out
ninety acres OF blue gum trees on a tract of
nearly worthless land.
Yolo County growers are bargaining
peaches and apricots for 23s cents a pound,
delivered in packing -sheds.
Oil has been struck a short distance from
Los Angeles, and the boomer of Boomtown
will at once proceed to boom it.
Mrs. August Eikerenkotter, one of San
Mateo County's pioneer ladies, died at
SearsVille last Wednesday morning.
Mabel erase Of Grass Valley, aged 16
years, has sued her nineteen-year- old hus-
band for the support of herself and Guild.
At Dusway, near Deep Creek, the new
mining camp in Utah, hay is $50 II ton, oats
3 cents per pound and water cents per
gallon.
The tannery at Mendocino, operated for
the past two years by Lawrence q Park
hurst, has shut down, owing to the scarcity
of hides.
The river at Linkvire Southern Oregon.
was so low last week, that boys went fish,
ing with clubs, with which they killed the
trout Topping about in the water-holes.
W. l.. Call, owner of a shingle-miil near
Forestville, was caught in belt of his mill
the other day and drawn up against shaft,
decorating his shoulder fearfully.
The Italian-Swiss Colony north Of Heads
burg. Sonoma County, has enlarged its
storage capacity from 10000 to $780, 900
gallons, and now has the largest winery in
the county.
Woodland has encountered difficulty
common to other places much larger. The
Democrat of that town says: There are
100 many people IN NO0Qlanu VINO nave no
trade no money nor no sense.
As Joseph Cutting, foreman of the Berry
ranch, near Fresno, was driving horse the
other day, the animal reared and fell over
upon him, crushing some of the bones of his
face and otherwise injuring him.
Frank Wilson and Joseph Thorn, two
boys under IA years of age, were caught
prowlng around the San Diego Postoffice
the other night Thinking they were not
WATCHED, they attempted TO open the win
dOws of the money order department but
were promptly gathered in by the constable
who observed them.
Thomas McVittie, surveyor who has
been over the land reserved in the valley of
the Kootenay, British Columbia, for the
Grohman Colonization and Reclamation
Company, says that in surveying 43, 600
acres of land lie TO ind less than 1000 &C res
fit for cultivation. He is of the opin on
that the only way the land can be reclaimed
is by dyking it.
The Gait Gazette says: The farmers on
the West Side this year will suffer an almost
total failure of their cereal crops OF course,
this is to be regretted, but the reverse will
only stimulate them to greater efforts TO Sc
cure irrigation facilities. The land on the
West Side is surpassed by none in the
State, and only the lack of water prevents
every acre of it being brought under cult
walton.
L. c. Wood of Ontario, CAL, has novel
idea by which he hopes to enjoy the protec-
ton of a wind-break for his orchard with
ont suffering the land to be sapped by the
trees He has dug trench five feet in
depth between his windbreak and citrus
trees and filed the same with concrete. In
digging the trench all the roots running into
his grove were cut off, and by the interpo-
sition of the concrete he hopes to prevent
them from growing any further toward his
trees.
Charles Bronson informed police off,
cial at San Jose, Cal, that he had been ap-
preached to fire a building of person who
wanted the insurance on it. The officer
told him to 60 aheat and do so. so that posi-
tive proof could be obtained. Bronson
made an arrangement with the owner of the
property and fired il, but the work was so
well done that adjoining property was de-
stroyed. Bronson was tried for arson, and
jury has just acquitted him.
At Orange last week, during the visit of
the Presidential party, Baby Mckee was
presented with little cane, tasseled with a
bow and ends OF red. white and blue rib
bons. Attached to it was plain white card
inscribed:
Orange. Orange County. Cal. VIII Baby Nc
hee at Washington please accept 1t as a me-
mento OF the Presideni's,vist
ROBBIE E. TENER Gage 81
Baby p. NJ at Orange.
A Pomona man sent large box of young
orange blossoms to a Cincinnati florist last
week for decorations at the wedding of
Dillionaires. The florist paid SIS for the
blossoms, and has telegraphed that nearly
three-fourths OF them arrived in Cincinnati
in fine condition. The stems of the bios
SONS we're carefully placed in potatoes, and
wax put about the stems to keep the moist
ure in the vegetable. The juice of the pota-
toes will keep flowers or blossoms fresh and
fragrant for over a week sometimes.
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