The morning call., 1891-10-17
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and



The Fl Caion raisiD crop will go about l25
carloads this year.
A movement Is on foot at Seattle to have
all the saloons in that town close at MD
night
According to the Territorial Enterprise
dphtheria has been succeeded at Carson Dy
scarlet fever, which is claiming number OF
victims
Of the 113 men employed In the Tenn
escal tin mines only twenty are COrnlsnmen,
and twelve OF these have lived IN Caulorhla
from ten to thirty years.
The heavy winds of October 81, Attn and
9TH are said 10 have damaged the Hueneme
bean and corn crops, the former In some
cases about 30 per cent, especially the small
white bean.
Despite the rigid liquor laws in the anti
saloon town of Alameda, News reporter
has succeeded in unearthing a number OF
places in that city where liquor IS sold with
out a liCrnS'.
A representative of the Marysville APP
peal went into the local police Office the
other evening and fOund the entire DEPART
ment sitting around in chairs discussing
matters Of foreign Importance
a whole carload of imported gods from
China W ere received this week at Sacra-
mento, where they will he set up in the
new iosh-house now building. there to re-
ceive the alteration OF the faithful among
the CeleStlals.
1t seems to be quite generally believed
that inside of six months work will be COM
menctd on a line of railroad from Rattle
snake Island to Salt Lake City, and the edi-
tor of the Planning Herald says that he has
assurances that this road VIII be quilt
| through Banning.
The Prescott (Arjz.) Courier relates that
when, in 1873, the Fort Whippie reservoir
was built, Phil Richardson pumped water
all night 10 fill it, went up tine next morning
to look al the water aud found dead soldier
in the reservoir, who had wandered up
there in a state of IN toxicatl0n, fallen IN and
| drowned.
Tuesday morning of this week, Lille, the
! hve-year-Old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. I.
| p Cross of Reno, was shot and fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge of a
! Winchester rife which her uncle, Granville
| johnson. lad about 10 years OF age. was
! unloading. The child died from the wound
| at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
! John Boxer OF Norwalk was attacked the
! other night by a vicious horse which was in
| a corral. Boxer entered the corral for the
| purpose of feeding the animal. As re was
| about to put halter on lis mead II made
! vicious grab for his arm. Boxer jumped
| back and the horse followed. grabbing him
| by the shoulder. The flesh was badly LAGER
| aIed.
DR.. Baltman, fruit-grower of Pomona,
| always removes One-half Of the fruit when
| trimming out his peaches. This year his
| man did not thin out enough to suit him, so
| lie aiterwaTd went over the orchard himself,
! leaving the fruit from four to SIX inches
| apart 90 the trees. As result he has this
season the fines. Salway peaches IN that part
| OF the country.
Marysvlle has an Improvement associa-
! ton Just organizer. Its first official act
| was to advise its one bachelor member to
| marry. That, now, IS something like en-
/ oil tRa haa 81 ~ Mart rSKFfl .
| would at once proceed to marry and set up
| housekeeping the result would be a hTSt-
! class boom in town lots an increased popu-
latiOn and prosperity in the near future.
| A man was found lying on a sde-track
near kingsbuGg, lulare County, the other
morning with both legs nearly cut off below
the knees. 1t was found necessary to am
| putate them. and this was done by the local
surgeon. When the man recovered con-
| seriousness he gave his name as William
| Pierce of Biddeford, Me, but could Temem-
Der nothing Of how the accident happened.
The highest dam in the world is being
constructed by the Lake Hemet Company
| 10 the northern part OF Los Angeles County.
| 1t is being built Of blOrks Of granite weigh
! ing from five to ten tons, set closely together
| in beds of Portland CEMENT Ii IS 100 feet
| thick at the base ana viii tower 80 feet in
the air, and will flood an area twice as large
as that of the Swretwater reservoir and VIII
| have double the capac ty.
There is a bounty in Idaho on the ears
Of jackrabbts. and, like the coyote scalp
| bounty of California, II has created a new
industry. The discovery recently of several
! live Dummies" minus their ears has de-
veloped the fact that active bOunty-w0rkcrs
are trapping the jacks, clipping the.r ears
| and then turning them loose to breed a
| future crop from which bouBteS can be OBJ
lained till the end of time
man named Roach. who owns land over
| o.,
Cotton has run until recently, some time
ago ran barbed-wire fence across the road,
and put up no sign TO Indicate its presence.
a number of horses were injured by being
| driven up against this wire in the night, and
| w. r Spence of Riverside has just recoY-
| cred Judgment against Roach for $3.50, the
| value of an animal thus injured.
While a large ire-log was being cut up at
the West Shore Mills, Astoria, the other
day, a large toad poked its head out Of a
hole that was exposed in the trunk by the
saw. The log was the third from the butt
of the tree, 80 that the creature must have
been fully sixty feet up in the trunk, and
the growth of the wood showed it had been
confined there several hundred years. The
toad hoped off and made its escape before
the astonished WOrkmen could secure it.
At Los Angeles, the other night, couple
OF young biOOds invited some companions,
male aud female, to their room in lodging
house, where they proceeded to make night
hideOus with their caruusing. The landlady
called the police. but the door was locked
and the officers declined to force il, so the
landlady c0OllY entered window and with
whip s0undly thrashed the whole party,
and then unlocking the door admitted the
policemen, who took them into custody.
The Historical So"iety of Los Angeles is
receiving subscriptions to publish in
pamphlet form two original letters of
Father Junipero Sierra and tho original re-
ports Of Almirante Viscayno to the King OF
Spain Of his explorations on this coast as
early as about 1882. These are to be pub
ished both in English and Spanish, the
translation of Colonel Griffin. The docu-
ments were procured out of the archives OF
Seville, Spain, for Adolph SutrO of San
Francisco, who presented copies Of them to
the Historical Society.
The success achieved by the Native Sons
In saving Suffers Fort. remarks the San
jose Mercury, has led to the PROPOSAL that a
similar effort be made TO save Bolton Hall
The building is an historical landmark OF
some importance, as it served as the meeting
| place of the first Constitutional Convention
and was the early capitol of the State. IL q
determined effort to save it we're made by
the citizens Of Monterey the people gener.
ally and the Legislature would doubtless
assist in preserving it from destruction.
Howard Gospel Mission.
Nightly, at 7:45 o'clock, ana every Sun.
day, at O'clock holiness meetings are held