The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-04
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.


ritories.
Whelan, who was convicted of numbering
David Fee at Victoria, has been sent to Jail
for life.
The spring meetings of the San Jose
Blood-ho Association will begin April 4th
and close on March ID
The Supervisors of San Joaquin County
nave sued the Southern Pacific Company to
recover S17,Q46 taxes due for 1887.
Railroad Commissioner Rea has sued
Urlah Wood of San Jose for alleged SLAM
der. He puts his damages at 100000.
The public school at Carlin, New, has
been closed permanently on account of the
second appearance of dlphthera in town.
Heavy snow-storms in the mountains of
New Mexico last week caused serious trou-
bic In making prompt time Oh the railroads.
A Mexican named Moyala was convicted
of manslaughter ut San Andreas on Mon
day and was sent to STATES Prison for two
years and six months. His victim was an
Indian.
The Victoria Colonist of Saturday says:
News from Ottawa makes it certain that
the Dominion Parliament will be dissolved
on February I'd.
Michael Landers was picked up on the
streets of Marysville two weeks ago with
fractured skull. He never recovered con-
seriousness and died last Saturday.
James G. Swan of Port Townsend, Wash.
has secured and published number of af1i-
dayts from well-knUwn seal-hunters who
state that pup seals are able to swim as
soon as they are born.
c. n. Reed, who for more than ten years
mas mas I peen proprietor and editor OF the Grid
ley Herald, has been forced by ill-health to
give up work for time. He leaves his
paper In charge Of d. j. Feley.
The Lower Californian says that over
100000 worth of cloths made by the Ense-
NADIA woolen-mills have been shipped to
and fhA hi
with imported English and French cloths.
A laborer named Silva was instantly
killed in a mill at Candelaria, New, last
Thursday by being caught in a belt. He
was thrifty, having $500 on his person, be-
sides owning a ranch in California with
bank deposit of 5000.
A decision was rendered by three Superior
Judges of San Diego County on Monday
that there is no legally existing police
court in that city under its new freehold
charter. The salary has been reduced to
ST year by the City Council.
The Reno Gazette man sent the following
letter from the State Capital: This is the
worst you ever saw. No session ever opened
so dull, and you never saw a gang So COM
pletely lost in your life Most of them
crawl into their holes at night and pull the
holes III alter them. and the Assembly has
held about a half hour session and done
nothing. The Senate is little better. The
streets are deserted.
The Porterville Enterprise says A de-
| tachment of Yaqui brd-catchers passed
| through town last Saturday, consisting of
| one buck. one buckess aud three little bucks,
| four JOhnasses and three dogs. The APP
| pearance of this cortege caused much merri-
| ment among the sidewalk surveyors, and
| considerable excitement in the ranks of our
| local dogs, which the buck had to keep off
| the caravan with whip.
| The Astorian OF Thursday says: gentle
| man who arrived in this city from Portland
| last evening stated that there is deep. dark
| mystery at present connected with the
| Ainsworth building in that city. On top of
| the building is skeleton. whether of a man
| or woman, however, he is unable to state
| lie said, however, that the CHASTITY object
| had been bleaching on the tin roof for sew
| eral days, and that neither the coroner's
| deputies, the police or the reporters ap-
! pear to have any use for it. So far as he
| knows. there is no anatomical museum or
| medical college in the building, and he and
| others are anxious to have the matter in
| quired into
Says the San Diego Sun: A prominent
| young attorney was not semper idem when
he got out OF bath.tub in Hunters parlors
| one night this week. The sweepers had
been cleaning the chimney, the flue-hole of
which was directly over the tub that the
attorney used. Having a key to the estab-
lIshment, he had entered after the BARRIERS
had LETT. lie did not turn on the gas, but
crawled into the basin by the light OF the
ineonstant moon. Several gallons of SCOT
had fallen into the tub. The water felt
slippery. A match revealed n horrible state
OF affairs, He was painted from intellec-
tual to pedal eXtremties. SCOT is one of the
most difficult substances in the painting
line to remove from the human body and
the rest may be imagined