The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-13
COAST ITEMS.

On the 3Jtn OF y une there 14O6 patients in
the asylum at Napa, as against 1874 the year
before.
The women employed in the Sacramento
canneries earn, on an average, dollar to a
dollar and a half per day.
San Diego has succeeding in raising the
100000 bonus, which will bring the great
Eames Iron Works to that city and is hold
Ing Jubilee over the fact.
The Redlands motor line is reported to
have been sold TO the Southern Pacific, W hicll
will widen it to abroad-gauge and run their
cars over it directly into San Bernardino.
The San Diego Union says that the crew
OF the Charleston have organized base ball
nine, and hope to come ashore sometime
and teach the local land-lubbcr nine how TO
play ball.
Sufficient money having been raised by
subscription and State appropriation, Suffer
Fort is to be repaired and put in shape and
the grounds restored to their condition as in
early days.
A fruit-drying establishment is building
at Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County,
with capacity of ~ tons every II hours.
Such an industry has been a crying need in
that section for several years past.
"A number of farmers around Lovelocks,
New, have combined 10 build an irrigation
canal to Big MEADOWS. The canal will tap
the bed of the Humboldt River near OreDa,
and do away with dams altogether.
0eO!Se Il. Ram, q 1OlO county morse
breaker, while standing in front Of the hotel
at Blacks St1tion. last Tuesday, was seized
with violent fit of coughing, during which
he fell dead. 1t is thought he ch0ked to
death.
Lassen County has now eighteen storage
reservoirs for the purpose OF Irrigation, yet
IT Is proposed 10 construct still another ON
Long Valley Creek which will cover 1909
acres of land, with an average depth of
thirty-one feet of water.
The little daughter of Mrs Evans of
Riverside being left alone in the house the
other day got hold of some matches and set
fire to her clothes. She was terribly burned
before help arrived. but fingered in agony
until the next day, when she died.
Livermore, Alameda County, is about the
first town in the State to secure union
nigh school under the new law. The dis
trict is established, the teacher engaged and
ali will be in readiness for operation with
the end of the present summer vacation.
J. W. Weiborn, a Salt Lake City gambler
who has had hard luck lately, committed
suicide this week by taking morphine. He
left note dated July 4th, in which he said
that he had found Lille failure and that the
morphine route was the shortest way out
of il.
One hot day this week crew of men on
a Napa County ranch, working with single
press, beginning work after 6 o'clock in the
morning and stopping before sundo wn,
showed as the result of their days work,
l6l bales OF hay, principally alfalfa. They
moved the press once daring the day.
The statistics of the Northwestern wheat
crop for the year ending June Goth show
the surplus TO be 1S,c00,0 600 bushels. of which
the Willamette Valley produced 5000 COO
and Eastern Oregon and Washington, with
corner of Idaho, 100000. OF the whole,
100000 went to Portland, 5000 600 went
East by rat, and 100000 bushels went to
Seattle and Tacoma.
According to the Lower Lake Press recent
applicant for teachers certificate IN Lake
County wrote, in answer to question, that
the vegetable kingdom OF Australia was
divided into two grand divisions, known as
the animal and mineral" and in answer to
the question as to how our laws were
enacted answered that they were
enacted by the Grand Jury"
Herbert NJ. Wilson, G. E. of the United
States Geological Survey, who has been
making q tour Of the world, inspecting the
irrigation work Of foreign countries, visited
San Diego In February last and spent day
in critical examination of the Sweetwater
dam, OF which lie now writes to Mr.. Schuyler,
the engineer of the dam: ut is certainly
most creditable work and by far the finest
OF Its KIND in the country, if not in tine
world"
The sea-serpent has been caught at last
at Long Beach, Los Angeles County. The
capture was made by Judge Widney-after
the beast was dead and rolled ashore by the
surf. 1t Is described as having an immense
body, long neck and large head. The
body is adorned with a great many dippers
and stub tail. and the whole animal is
about fifteen feet long, The head only of
the animal was secured, as the surf washed
IT ashore, but anxious watchers are on the
lookout for the rest Of the animal. 1t is
said to be boDa-fde curiosity.
Here is the way they felt about it up in
IN h,.
Tribune: Thank God was the fervent
ejaculation that assembled from ten thousand
hearts when during the latter part of the
past week the wind changed to the south
west and was soon blowing fresh and cool
from the broad Pacific For DAYS we had
blasting heat, and now the 0mnipotent had
seen fit in his Infinite wisdom to lift the
curse, and We humbly kneel In gratitude for
his forbearance. He had grown tired of
roasting us and We were awfully glad of 1t.
p. V. S. Bartlett of Oakland, of the Geo
logical Survey Corps in Death Valley,
writes home that remaining behind the ex-
peditlon, In order TO do some Typographical
work. gave him and companion narrow
escape from death. Their animals had be-
come useless through exhaustion while at
Saratoga Springs in Death Valley, where
they were compelled to await fresh animals.
Alter leaving this camp they went to Owl
Holes to do some work and thence to
Calico, where they arrived July 9TH. 1t was
IN this latter journey that they broke down
in the middle of the desert while travelling
during the night 10 avoid the at. Their
water had become SO hot as to be totally un-
fit to drink and they were nearly insane.
The next day, when the mercury stood at
from 123 TO Ia in The shade, they were COM
PEELED to walk In order to get out before
death from thirst overlook them. They
finally reached DaGgett and rested up, but
suffered much from theil experience