The morning call., 1891-10-30
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Grape-picking is about finished in the
Santa Clara Valley.
The price of Nevada range cattle has in
creased SO per cent in the past two years.
A move is afOot to run the San Jose cleo
trio road from the Vendome corner to AL
visO.
Scarlet fever has again made its appear
ance at ElkO. New, where number OF cases
are reported.
The Idaho State Board has equalized the
valuation of sheep for taxation at s. %,
an Increase Of 90 cents.
The expense of running the State Prison
at Carson is 81 cents head per day, the
highest III this country.
Mrs. Thomas Wampler of Walla Walla
was thrown from wagon during rama
way the other day and killed.
The South Riverside Bee saws that an un-
usually large acreage will this winter be
put into grain in that section.
Mrs. Sarah Davis, now an inmate of the
COlusa County Hospital, is 101 years old,
having been born in 1892 in Tennessee
The Pasadena Board of Trade is now get
ting out 10000 new illustrated pamphlets
giving information regarding that locality.
Cotton is enjoying mystery in the form
Of $4,000 mandatory being established
there, OF the nature of which the public has
not yet been informed.
Those who have experimental claim that
the leaves of the new plant, rame, are a
satisfactory substitute for mulberry leaves
III feeding silk-wOrms.
Tacoma iceman, being arrested for
fast driving the other day, pleaded that his
horses were running away, having taken
fright al a lady's bonnet.
An eating club, whose members are all
fat men, has been formed Mt Cheyenne under
the suggestive name of Skin and Bones"
A recent sport of the boys of Santa Rosa
has been to drag a captive coon about the
streets and fight it against all the dogs they
met. A branch Of the Humane Society
seems needed in the City of Roses.
Richard White. cOmpoSitOr in the Nevada
Transcript Office. while quail hunting the
other day, was seriously, perhaps fatally
wounded by his gun exploding driving the
breach of the weapon into his breast
Nearly three teaspoonfuls of carbolic acid
was given by mistake to three ear-old
child in San Jose the other dav. Only the
promptest and most vigorous efforts on the
part OF a skillful physician saved the child's
life.
At Butte, Mont, the other day some
malicious fiend poured croton oil into key
of fathers nails. The fathers, taking the
nails in their mouths as is the custom of the
fraternity, were all seriously POISONED by
the burning stuff.
Forty letters addressed to Tacoma eiti-
zenS from the Province of Qaebec Lottery,
were sent to the Dead Letter Office the
other day by the Postmaster Of Tacoma, as
that class of mail matter cannot be delivered
through the Postoffice.
A recruiting officer in an Indian Reserva-
ton was met by an old patriarch who re-
marked: Twenty years ago the white man
wanted the Indian 10 lay down the gun and
use the pillow; now he wants him to let go
the pillow and take up the gun"
A INn, Of 81 nF
gon, have organized reform league. which
has for its object the improvement of the
cty's morals by the suppression of gam
bling and other vices. A number Of gam
blerS have already been arrested and fined.
The Santa Maria Times predicts that in
1900 the ideal forty acre farm in the Santa
Maria Valley will have twenty acres in or
chard, ten in alfalfa, five acres in sugar
| beet and five for other summer crops; the
two five-acre lots will change off every year
to rest the ground.
There is great discrepancy between the
figures in POrter's census of Wyoming stock
statistics and the assessment rolls of the
State. The census gives the number OF
horses in the State as 5109; the assessment
roll shows S4,51S. The number of range
cattle is given by Porter as 24S,097; the
assessment roll shows 522,9S3.
A ohildren's bank account has been
started at Mendocino. Arrangements have
OetH Hlduc lOl HlOutIHy uepOS!lS Will tue
Bank OF Mendocino, and every Monday
morning in the public school the roll is
called aud each pupil can hand to the prin-
cipal the amount he wishes to deposit,
which is received, and the pupil given
credit for it in book provided for the pur-
pose.
Judge Bridgford OF Colusa was standing
at street corner talking, Saturday, when
negro janlt0r Of an adjacent building placed
some rubbish i'll the street ami set fire to it.
1t had only burned a few seconds when an
explosion occurred, and what is supposed to
have been a bullet whzzed past Judge
Bridgford's head Just above the right ear
1t just grazed the skin. The Judge was
pretty badly scared.
DR.. A. J. Anderson of Walla Walla has
received box of butternuts picked from q
tree growing in the yard around the house
in which DR.. Marcus Whitman passed his
boyhood days in Pla'nfield. Mass, by Rev.
j. Z. Walker, son of Rev. Elkanah Walker,
one of the missionaries who accompanied
DR.. Whitman on his second journey to this
coast. The butternuts will be planted in
Whitman College grounds.
A peculiar disease is manifesting itself
among cattle at HamptOnvile. Fresno
County, which battles the veterinaries.
Mich cows seem most susceptible to the
fatal malady. The symptoms are sluggish
ness, inactivity, refusal of food, farure to
chew cud, uncommonly thin passage from
the bowels, cold bloodless TAIL CLASSY. I'M
easy stare from the eyes. and finally q weak.
staggering motion Of the hinder limbs when
walking, aud a disposition to lie down most
of the time. The disease proves fatal with
in two or three days from its first appear
ance.