The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-11
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States ant
Tarrifnrias

| The cottony cushion scale has made It's
| appearance in great quantities about ST.
Helena, Napa County.
| Bunco-steerers and sure-thing men are
said to be doing thriving business in the
| shadow OF the temple at Salt Lake City.
The body of man with his throat cut was
found In Feather River, below Yuba City,
the other day. 1t has not, as yet, been iden-
| tilted.
Mrs. Alena J. Edison. former resident of
| Gold Beach. Oregon, committed suicide at
Requa the other day by shooting herself
through the head.
The ladies of Pasadena have formed an
athletic club and meet once a week for prac-
tice at the gymnasium OF the Gentlemen's
Athletic Club of that city.
The first County High School in San
| Diego County under the new State law will
be located at Coronado, the people having
| voted to establish one there.
1t is suggested that the opening of the
| great sugar factory at Chino be made the
| occasion Tor excursions to that place from
other points in Southern California.
Santa Monica is making preparations for
building q wharf at that place for the
| Southern Pacific Railroad. A large num-
Der OF engineers are camping there making
! a survey.
| 1t is reported at Stockton that Horace
DAVIS will soon visit that place with view
to finding suitable site for hour-mill,
as lie is contemplating locating his mill
business there.
| The Santa Barbara Press says: We shall
| have to ask the Governor to call out the
military to enforce the law requiring owners
| OIL lots to keep their streets and sidewalks
clean Of weeds Milder measures don't
| seem to avail much.
| OF woman who was present at the re-
| cent coloIed citizens ball in Sacramento the
| Bee says: She was fit to have been model
| for the artist and for the sculpto sight
| hav
turned her naughty Caucasian sisters green
with envy.
The Pajaronian says: There is promise
| OF vastly increased strawberry acreage in
falaro Valley next season. The crop, ex-
| cept with few growers, has not been as
| large as usual, but prices have averaged
| well, and hence the rush to 60 into the berry
| business next year.
| Hugh DOugherty. living near Dougherty's
Station, IN the Livermore Valley, was kicked
! Dy morse on Thursday evening. The blow
| severed the femoral artery, aud only by
| skililui bandaglng was Mr.. DOugherty kept
| from bleeding to death before physician
| could be summoned
The qua that wasn't loaded went off again
| Thursday morning, this time in the hands
| OF dealer in firearms at Pasadena, and it
| nearly lost him customer, the bullet pass
| Ing through the latter's clothing and passing
across his chest, inhicting flesh wound
| about five inches long.
iHilc 10 al ONO beauty CHERRY tree In the
! ola Bassford orchard in Browns Valley,
| says the Fruit Grower which bears from
| ll,00o TO 1900 pounds of fruit per year.
Inc Tree Is so large that each year big
scaHoldlng has to be built around it so that
! the cherries can be picked.
Two young men of Santa Clara. aspirants
| tor the favor OF the same young lady. had
an encounter on the street the other night
| In which one received a slight knife wound
IN the left arm. Let's see this is the much
| Wanted nineteenth century, and Santa Clara
! is civilized community, is it not?
| Mrs. Mary Martin, aged 81 years, living on
| Iancn near Los Angeles, committed suicide
| lew days ago by jumping down the well
on her place The body was not found till
wednesday. when it was discovered in the
| Wen by the AID OF lOoking-glaSs. She left
a letter saying she died in order to 90 to one
she loved FAR bett er than she loved the
| world.
Hearing noise in the corral where his
! goats were penned near Twin Sisters, New
| Mex, last Wednesday night, Captain Franey
| got up, took his gun aud started to inyesti-
! gate Int the cause of the row. 1t took but
lew moments to find that mountain lion
was inside the fence killing the goats, and
| put lew m0meotS more to put well di-
| rected bullet into him and lay him out dead
| Sixty-eight of the seventy-two members
of the Seattle Fire Department have re-
| sgned their positions as fremen, to take
effect immediately. The members base
| their action Tor such a course on the ground
| that the salaries which it is proposed 10 rive
| hremen as stipulated in the recommends
/ lions OF the Retrenchment Committee are
not suiilclent to provide themselves and
| families with the common comforts of life
The Austin Nev.) Advocate says: For
| many years prior TO the winter of 1SS9-90
| millions OF jack-rabbits were all over the
| State of Nevada. During that winter all
the rabbits disappeared, and since that time
we nave not seen but two OF these rabbits
in the country, where dozens could be seen
| at one view before. What has become OF
the rabbits. Did they starve to death,
freeze to death or migrate? Who can ex-
plain?
Mrs. George Roberts. San Jose spirit
ualist, has converted the parlor5 of her resi-
dence. into the temple of purity and
truth" The furniture and drapings are all
pure white, and all who enter must be clad
in white. The temple is for angels to come
and hold communion with man. She
claims to be member OF the Order of
Angels, and that Jesus himself has been in
the temple and approved of it. She says
she knew him in life.
This is h0w the Silver City New Mex.)
Sentinel puts it: Not a report of murder
in New Mexico for a week! What has hap
penet? Can it be that the murderousiy in
clined gentlemen and ladies among us fear
that New Mexican jurors are becoming de-
termined to hang murderefs and are afraid
to imperil their necks? Take heart, assas-
sins, we are still weak and cowardly enough
to shrink from hanging you.
While a sale was being hoisted to an upper
window in business block in Woodland,
the other day, the lifting-rope broke letting
the heavy mass fall to the sidewalk. The
wheels dug deep into the hard sidewalk, but
the force of the fall plunged the safe still
onward into the middle of the road. Fortu-
nately it fell in direct line, and no one
happening to be Immediately under il ii
killed snobody, but had it sweryed in any
direction it could not have failed to do great
damage.
The Portland Oregonian says: Mr.. John
Hopkins of Mill Switch, Wash, who says
he has raised 14S chickens from eleven hens
ana one rooster and only lost seven, sends
to the Oregonian the defunct remains of one
of the seven, which was quadruped hay-
ing four legs and fifteen toes. This chicken
which used all its legs and toes in walking
lived to be six weeks old, when it unfortu-
nately got entangled in the grass and died
Four-legged chickens are not as common as
blind kittens, but are not at all rare.
The Whatcom Reveille thus describes the
condition of things on the sound: Newspa-
pers have, within two years, sprung up like
weeds in neglected garden, and the mar
ket has been over-snpplied. AT the present
rate of mortality there will, within year,
be enough unused type on the sound and in
the Grays Harbor country to ballast all the
ships that leave our shores. A prominent
type-founder remarked not long since that
there was enough printing material in Wash
ington to last it ten Years. Yet the enthusi-
astic rush in.
1t Caused a Canard.
AT about o'clock yesterday morning one
of the large plate glasses in the Sub
Treasury Building crashed to the ground
and fell into a thousand pieces of no greater
dimensions than two inches square. 1t
was due to the glass expanding under the
morning increase of atmospheric heat. The
fact that about 100000 of small coin was
loaded on dray in front gave rise to
rumor that robbery had been attempted