The morning call., 1891-03-23

COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

ritories.
The County Jail of Kern has been empty
for some time.
The MERGED Sun says every tree is the
abode of tuneful mccklng birds.
Work was begun on fine opera house at
Port Angeles, Wash. last week.
On April LIST portion Of the Umatilla
Reservation will be sold at auction.
A special election will be held at Spokane
Falls on March oath to decide for or against
adopting Il new city charter.
j. L. Bittick Of Modesto has planted forty
acres in cotton seed He intends to give tie
experiment thorough trial.
There are forty-five patients in the So
mona County hospital, the largest number
on record. Eight are women.
The estate OF the lete G. J. Cressy of San
Jose is valued at $3.50, 600. He left it by
Will TO his widow and children.
Frank Myett was drowned in Fresh
Water Creek, near Eureka, Humboldt
County, last Saturday by the capsizing of
his skiIf.
Last year thirty train-robbers in Mexico
were shot as soon as they were arrested.
Now the article is hard to find in that
country.
Thirteen new houses are being built at
L0rdsburg, and contracts are being pre-
pared for dozen more, says the Pomona
Progress.
The MERGED Express says: The Holland
Colony will be increased soon by the arrival
of several hundred Immigrants from the
ola
Solozzi, the Italian fisherman, has been
held for trial at Santa Rosa for numbering
his partner, ISABELLE, recently. His bail was
fixed at $50, 600.
A farmer in San Jacnto Valley, San
Diego County, recently turned loose a flock
of Japanese pheasantS and dozen prairie
chickens that were sent from Nebraska.
A local insurance company of Stockton
had to pay So many losses last year in
Washington that its Directors Lave been
forced to levy all assessment of $50 q share.
A Woodland Chinese labOrer went to the
Assessors office on Friday and offered TO
pay his poll-taX. The shock was too great
for that official, for he tainted and had to be
taken home for treatment.
recent number OF the Port Townsend
Leader gives a list of eleven American seal
ing schooners which have gone to Victoria,
Il. c.. to be entered under the British flag
There are three more on the way.
A heavy freight train on the Great North
ern line was ditched near Poplar Creek,
Montana, last Saturday by running over
cow. Two men were killed, fifteen cars
were ruined and traffic was delayed for
twelve hours.
The mysterious vine disease which played
havoc with the Orange County vineyards
seems to have died out in that section. The
before Orange County will be recognized
as one of the best and largest raisin produce
ing sections Of the State.
The Pomona papers arc making vigorous
protests against Eastern physicians that
send patients in the last stages of consump-
ton to that city to die almost as soon as they
are landed from the cars. Last week two
young men were left there among strangers
who should never have been permitted TO
board the trains.
Life in Fullerton is not without its met
ropolitan disturbances. The Fullerton Jour
nal says editorially: We have been told on
good authority that the visits of the barber
to this place on Sunday, from Anaheim,
would be discontinued on account of the
threatened boycott Of some OF the business
men of that place.
A Woodland scientist asserts that twenty
different varieties of the species are infest-
ing that pretty little town. They come
from the tule swampS in such swarms that
sometimes the electIic-light globes have to
be cleaned. Chinese are employed for the
work and they pack the beetles into sacks
and use them IN compromising medicines.
The Santa Maria Graphic says: A tramp
stopped the down train the other day across
the river by waving his blanket. Upon in
quiry it was found that the tramp had dis
covered about four feet of the rail broken,
and the train # not stopped would have
been dtched. Fillmore ought to pension
that tramp, or make him agent at Los Ber-
roS.
Says the San Diego Sun: We must COM
plimeht the Council on its proposal to give
the Government site for its military post
on the city park. Nothing could be wiser.
The park as it stands is an eyesore, and
is so large that if this were a city of 100000
people we should hesitate to improve so
much as half of it. In fact, we have 1900
acres-750 more than Central Park in New
York possesses, aud about 600 acres in ex-
cess OF the Prospect Park acreage in Brook
Ign.
The Petaluma Imprint of Saturday says:
Yesterday George McNear scld to gentle
man from Washington a Pointsman colt
coming years old for $1,000, even money.
Mr.. McNear purchased the colt of E. G.
Gibbs of this township on tire 10Th of Janu-
airy, 1890, tor $500. He then weighed 1900
pounds. He was weighed again yesterday
when sold and scored 1900 pounds. The
last weight shows that the colt has gained
since Mr.. McNear purchased him, 1A
pounds day for fourteen months, or 80
DOuDdS n mOnth