The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Items From Pacific Coast States
and Territories.


The Farmers Alliance is making rapid
progress in Washington.
The first society OF Quakers ever organ
lied in Washington has been formed at
Bucoda.
The Queens birthday will be celebrated
| with great style at Nanalmo, b. o., on
May 25th.
The Grass Valley Telegraph has come out
in an enlarged form and presents very at
| tTactive appearance.
W. III. Adamson, for some time editor OF
the Clear Lake Press, has severed his con-
nectOn with that paper.
John Scarlctt of Colona has probably the
largest ranch barn in Ventura County, it
| being 100X60 ieet and 20 feet high.
A party of FIVE Alameda heavyweights
made the trip by bicycle last Sunday from
| Alameda to San Jose in less than Tour
| hours.
In San Jose. Monday, at midnight, two
men were garroted and robbed at the corner
| of First and Santa Clara streets, the very
| heart of the city.
An irrigation canal is in course Of, con-
| struction at ella Bend, AriZ, to be conf
| pleted In SIX months, from which 200, 600 TO
| 100000 acres will be irrigated.
| The West Shore, a publication that has
| probably done more for Oregon than any
other one thing, has suspended publication
| because 1t could not be made 10 pay eX-
| penses.
Woo Den, Seattle Chnaman who lost a
| leg by being run over by an electric railway
| car, is bringing suit to recover $4,000 dam
ages therefor. Pretty stiff price that for a
| Wooden leg.
| The jacksonville RuStler has decided to
| discontinue its Semj-weekly publication I'M
| til such a time as jacksonville is large
| enough or enterprising enough to sustain
| more Than weekly issue.
The life-saving station at Meath Bay is to
| be closed, the keeper having received orders
| to pack up the station property and have it
shipped to Shoalwater Bay, where a new
station will be established.
l.. w. SullinS and wife, of Port Town
! send, received 500 last week and proceeded
! TO have a good time. They went ON pro-
| tracted spree which ended on the third daY
! in the woman shooting the man, probably
| fatally.
| Carp, weighing from three to five pounds,
are very plentiful in the river aud irriga-
| ting bitches about Harmony, Tulare County
! All one has to do to get hundred pounds
| or so Of fine carp is to turn the water eli of
| small !rrlgating ditch.
General Manager Mallette of the pros
! pective Port Angeles Southern Railway
! has been in Victoria, b. c., trying to inter-
| est holders of Angeles property in raising
bonus for the road. He has succeeded in
securing about $4,000 for this purpose.
Walla Walla County warrants to the
| amount of $4,000 are outstanding and draw
| ing interest at the rate Of 10 per cent per
| annum, because they have been presented
to the County Treasurer and by him in
! dorSed mot paid for want of funds"
The contractors who built the Columbia
| ank K0otenay Railroad are unanimous in
| declaring that they will never again under
| take a contract If Chinese laborers ara
| thrust upon them. This is because of their
| 1, Of aa iai,o
A terrific thunderstorm prevailed near
Lake Labigh Oregon. May 9th. Lightning
struck large fir tree under which man
| had stopped for shelter, and the man was
knocked down and so stunned that it was
| some time before he was able to proceed
on his way home.
The Olympia Tribune is in a state OF dis
| gruntlement with its constituency. The
| paper has spent $4,000 in Olympia in the
last year in trying to run good daily news
paper, giving the worlds news by telegraph,
| and 1t says that city that doesn't sup
port one good newspaper will die, and de-
| serves to-
The latest electric improvement, the
| Westinghouse gearieSS motor, is now in sue
cessul use on Seattle street railroad. The
| gearless motor is f0ur-pole motor. In
| other words, the power is applied from four
points instead of two. as in the old-style
motor. 1t is irOnclad and noiseless, and
ISquieS very lew ItphlIo'
On Monday John Brceland of CARRIER
| vile went to MendOli nO, putting UP at the
! Caspar Hotel, and on retiring at night
| placed bis purse, containing 500, under his
| pillow. He got up in the morning and for
got all about his purse until about o'clock.
| He at once went to his room but the purse
| and money were gone and nothing since has
been heard of them.
a new saw-mill is in process of c0nstruc-
| ton in the mountains about q mile east of
| Bronco, New. 1t will be completed about
June 10th and will have cutting capacity
of about $4,000 feet of lumber per day. A
dam $50 feet long and 90 feet wide at its
handling logs, and fume will be built to
convey the lumber down the mountain to
the railroad at Bronco.
You Bet, Nevada County, has long been
known as tough place, and it seems that
even the cows OF that euphoniously named
hamlet are tough. One of them found its way
| into an unused shop recently and got into a
closet the door of which shut upon her with
a spring latch, and she was shut in. She
was there twenty-eight days without food OF
waterSand when found was still alive and
could eat and drink, but was reduced to a
| skeleton.
Homer Kester OF Tehama County is hav-
ing considerable experience in what the law
demands of witness. He was a witness
on tile Goodwin case and returned from
Redding just in time to be called on the
Dixon case at Susanville. Getting through
here, he went home, and was immediately
summoned for Goodwin's second trial. He
will probably get through in Redding in
time to take in Arthur Selvester's trial al
| Susanville.
A stray mule wandered upon the premise;
of San Bernardino man the other day. The
man caught and harnessed him, got into the
cart, gathered up the reins and urged the
1 rad tO yhora lie
muleship planted his heels in the driver:
face, tipped the cart so as to spill him 0u
and then ran the wheels of the vehicle owe
him two or three times. That man may
hereafter monkey with a buzz saw, but h'
will give stray mules wide berth.
The Sonoma Times-Index says: "Ever
since the planting OF ramie in Sonomt
Valley for experimental purposes was urged
In these columns, several months ago, nu-
merOus inquiries have been made in regart
TO the same by capitalists and manufacturer
both in this country and Europe, who ar
anxious to purchase the product. which
proves concluslyely that If ramie eultur
turns out success in this valley that
ready and profitable market awaits thu
product"
That Fresno Exposition man has been see
ing snakes again. This time the reptile wa
chased nine miles, end when killei pr0Yet
10 he blush brown in color, with yellow
belly. Ii measured exactly feet inche
in length and feet inches in circumfer
ence at the largest part of the body. 1t ha'
SIX horns, the points being as sharp a
needles. The foremost horns, set just bacl
Of the eyes, were so inches in length
Another set of horns just behind these wer,
about inches long, while still another Sc
measured about an inch. Following thes
in order were quite number of horns les
in length. gradually tapering down unit
they formed very rough surface on thu
back about 10 inches from the head Fo