The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-23
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

The town of Suisun is to be lighted by
electricity.
Spokane's Main-street sewers have cost
the city $4,000.
Large numbers of bogus greenbacks are
rel orted to be in circulation in Salem,
Oregon.
Isidor Alexander, formerly the Sacra-
mento correspondent of the San Francisco
Examiner, was arrested last week on a
charge of forgery. His relatives have made
good the money he obtained.
State Fish Commissioner Schnitzar of Wy
0nling has lately distributed 25,000 fry in
Horse, Pole and Bear creeks, Laramie
County, and proposes 10 stock Green River
and Harris fork with 1000 more fish.
The Santa Paula Chronicle states that the
recent increase in the salary Of the Post
master OF that place shows relatively
larger gain in business than that Of any
other Office in the State except the Redlands
Office
OF tine 5219 pupils registered in the Port
land (Oregon) public schools during this
year, 1903 were born in Portland. OF tho
rest, $40 were born in the State, outside of
Portland, and the balance in other States
and countries.
While engaged in that favorite pastime of
the small boy, walking picket fence, an
Evanston (Wyo.) lad slipped and fell the
other day, and one picket of the fence tore
the flesh on his leg from ankle to knee, lay
ing the bone bare.
A demented eoolie was found by officers
IN miserable little room in Sacramento
alley the other night, handcuffed and chained
to the floor: He was in an indescribably
hlthy condition and evidently half famiShed.
He was in charge of native friends
The TemeScal tin mine, says the San
Diego Mercury, has orders ahead for $500, coo
worth OF block TIN, and is working three
shifts OF men or go. A new ten stamp mill
was recently put III operation, aud $1,000 to
$1,000 worth of block tin is being turned out
daily.
A Chinese vegetable peddler, attempting
to drive across the track in front of the
Southern overland train at Fresno, Monday,
was struck by the engine, his wagon de-
m0liShed and he himself thrown n consid-
cradle distance, sustaining injuries that will
probably result fatally.
There is a Mexican family living In the
town of Santa Clara who, il is claimed, sys-
tematically entice young boys of the town
into the house they occupy for the purpose
of smoking opium. 1t is said that half a
dozen young men of leading families there
have been thus rendered slaves TO the drug
San Bernardino young lady was taken
out to drive the other day behind a young
horse. She thonghtles>ly dropped her open
parasol upon the animals back. which
frightened Tim SO that he took TO kicking,
and the young lady paid for her foolshness
with broken arm, sustaining two fac
lures OF the same.
The Reno Journal says: General Evans
and associates think they have discovered
the Comstoek lead within a few miles of the
Irnckee River, about eight miles below
Reno. They have found a lead-whether
the COmstock or not remains to be seen
thirty or forty feet wide, that assays fairly
well in silver and gold.
San Jose lover of the national game"
owns horse that is said to show almost as
much interest in baseball as does his
master. He is observed to follow the play
ers as they run to bases, to watch the flight
OF the ball, and will stamp and neigh when
agood play is made, as if joining in the APP
plause OF other spectators.
The Iulare Advocate says: The water in
Tulare Lake continues to rise and the roads
both ways around it leading west to the
Coast Range Mountains have become i'm
passabe. Cabins are floating off and grain
and vegetable crops are under water No
little loss of property is threatened by this
unprecedented condition of affairs.
A waterspout burst on Snake River near
Sileott ferry, Idaho, Friday, doing great
damage. On some of the lower lands the
water stood fully one foot in depth. A num-
Der OF cattle were drowned, many young or
chardS, raspberry patches and straw berry
beds were destroyed. Parties who wit
messed the destructive scene estimate the
lJss to be not less than $1,000 OF $4,000
The little three-year-old daughter of Rev.
Mr.. Hoffman If Alameda elm bed to the top
of water-tank Sunday and walked out to
the edge of the platform She toppled over,
but her dress caught on projecting board
and she hung there. high in air, until a
couple OF young men. attracted by her
screams, went to her rescue, which was ac-
complished with considerable difficulty.
large electromagnetic, which has been
in use in running a combined harvester
around San Jacinto, has been abandoned
after fair trial, as impractical, because
the driving wheels, though "a inches wide,
sink such depth into the soil that too much
power Is lost in running the engine. An
other is to- be built with 36-inch wheels. and
further attempt made to use these engi mes
in that vicinity.