The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-29
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The citizens OF Sacramento have made ar
rangemeats for a series or open-air concerts
this summer.
The Carson River is reported over its
are running tull.
G.. w. Holmes of Shoshone, Idaho, caught
three sturgeon in one day recently weighing
over 500 pounds each.
Charley Miller. the Cheyenne CWyo.) muir
derer, is very i'll. having suffered relapse
after severe attack of la grippe, and is
likely to die.
There is SAID to be already as much travel
from California to Lake Tahoe as there was
late in June last year, though the hotels are
not all open yet.
The Salt Lake Herald has been bought
for 100000 by a stock company Of Salt Lake
capitalists, and will hereafter be conducted
as 4 Democratic organ
Santa Rosa man, who has made thor
ough trial Of il, recommends for work oxen
harness very much like that used on horses,
with brides, bits aud all.
j. b. Hitler of Kingston, n. Mex, shot and
killed DR.. Charles l.. Mason of that place
Friday last. There is considerable mystery
surrounding the cause of this sad affair.
The murderer has been arrested.
This coming Saturday Tacoma, Wash,
Will fOtb Ou ~ pAOpUoilIOu W ISSUE LlOU,UUU
z per cent school bonds for school buildings.
OF this sum $4,000 will 60 to relieve that
amount OF 10 per cents.
A carload of sea-lons formed part of
frelght-traln that passed through Reno east
ward the other day. The Gazette says the
animals appeared very thirsty, and did not
seem to be provided with drinking water.
Five OF the leading papers of our interior
towns and cities have within the past year
bought large new perIectng presses and
greatly enlarged the facilities of their eStab-
liShments. This looks like solid prosperity.
There is talk, now, of another new sugar
beet factory, to be located at Knights
Landing, Yolo County. The land there
abOuts Is said to grow DeetS yielding an I'M
usually large percentage Of saccharine
matter.
The license to sell liquors in Fresno is
only S120 per year, but there is movement
on foot there to reduce il to $50, and to Offset
the reduction by the requirement that each
saloon-keeper give bond of $4,000 to keep
an orderly house.
The students of the University of the
Pacific, at San Jose, are very much opposed
TO the President, DR.. a, {. Hirst, who has
made himself exceedingly unpopular with
them, anu a repetition of last years diff
culties among them is feared by some.
A ladYbug is said to be appearing in
Sonoma County vineyards that attacks the
vines and then exhibits symptoms of the
greatest eXllaratloB, as an effect Of the
juice. This creature may be ladybug, but
such conduct is certainly not ladylIke.
There was exhumed. in mine near Rail-
road Flat, Calaveras County, last week, a
bone about inches in length, evidently the
bone of some animal. 1t was imbedded in
what is commonly called lava, but not petri-
fied, and was in a good state Of preservation.
j. A. Miller, a Deer Lodge (Mont.) book
keeper, committed suicide Thursday by
hanging himself from hook in the ceiling
OF his room by small cord. The cord
broke and let him to the floor, but the Jerk
had broken his neck and death must have
been instantaneous.
Maurice Lopateek, Russian political
exile, residing at Tacoma, has just received
news of an inheritance of S10,000,0 100 in
Russia. Lopatecki is SO years old and had
been seven years in exile. He is married to
Mi IS Sparrow Of Victoria. He says he
viii ! not go to Russia 10 get his fortune if he
can get it here.
The fruit men are beginning to kick lit
tie about the continuous cool weather and
the unusual lack OF sunshine which pre-
vents the ripening of fruits, but the grain
grangers are laughing all over their anatomy
at what they call glorious weather that adds
daily 10 the fullness of grain, while the
market price stlffens up almost equally we'll.
A Chinese beggar does not often appeal
TO white families Tor aid, but one came to a
Portland (OregCn) residence the other day,
was taken III and given lunch of chops,
potatoes, bread and coffee. The meal over.
he produced the vilest kind OF a vile Chinese
cigar. calmly lighted it. and cooking his
feet on the table, filed the kitchen with
smoke. When told to 70, he said: mo
wantee go; heap likee here; heap enjoy
sell" In one minute and a half afterward
he was kicked out of the house,