The morning call., 1891-10-02
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States ami Ter
ritories.
There is talk of establishing large
cracker factory at Stockton.
The editor of the Kern County Caiifor-
MAN declares he has lost all faith in news
payer reports.
Tacoma merchants have decided to ex-
pend S15O,00O in the construction Of new
Chamber of Commerce building.
A nugget of gold weighing 202 ounces, and
valued at about $500, was found in the
Ruby mine at Forest City the other day.
Gala Mendoza, young married woman of
Red Bluff, gave BIRTH few days ago, to
three girl babies. They are all dong
nicely.
A cabbage weighing nineteen and half
pounds. and measuring four feet 2 inches in
circumference, was on exhibition in San
JacintU this week.
III 1877 there were in Montana 79,2SS
sheep. How immensely the business has
increased may be judged by the fact that
there are probably 100000 head in the
State to-day.
a spark from thrashing engine in a
field at Union, Oregon, day or two ago,
destroyed the entire thrashing outfit, two
stacks of grain and about $40 bushels OF
thrashed grain.
At Douglass, Wyo., the other day jury
of women who heard the case brought by
the Douglass hotel returned verdict in
favor of the girls.
A peculiar bird was captured few days
ago near Cheyenne, Wyo. 1t has the head.
beak and talons of an eagle, but its
plumage Is shaded green and blue. reSe;n-
bling that of parrot.
So much trouble is being experienced with
the water works at Sacramento, revival is
proposed Of the artesian well system, which,
1t is believed, would give purer water and
better service at reduced cost.
A Los Angeles paper complains that the
Chino beet-sugar factory has not made
sugar any cheaper there, owing to the fact
that only three firms handle the output ami
no one else can get it in carload lots.
An undertaking is being talked of to con-
struct an electric railroad from tdp-water
at Napa to Calistoga, distance of twenty
eight miles, with cars running every hour.
The trains will carry light freight besides
passengers.
Rev. John L. Erickson, formerly Meth
odist Episcopal minister of Portland,
preached his farewell sermon in his church
there last Sunday, he having renOunced the
Methodist faith and become an adherent of
the Unitarian faith.
A Truckee saloon-keeper has curiosity
in the shape of couple of big trout joined
together like the Siamese twins. The body
OF each Is perfect. but they are unilei by
membrane attached to their bellies. Tney
are alive and frisky.
A shipment of pig tin has been made from
the San Jaclnt0 mines in San Bernardiao
County, 20 the n. & g. Taylor CO., Philafel-
phia, Pa. This urn now announces that il
will supply American tinplate, made from
American materials, by American work
men, from start to finish.
A few mornings ago C. F. Byrne of
Truckee was found in an alley, there, dead
from the effects of drink Byrne WIS a
Justice of the Peace at Truckee in 1SSj-S7,
and at that time was accounted one OF the
brightest and most promising yOung men in
the town, but he took to drinking and the
habit gaining on him, dragged him down
to death al last.
little girl of Los Angeles, while visiting
the ostrich farm with her father the other
day. had her thumb bitten off by one of the
bears kept confined there. The father
dared not let 20 the child to get help or
weapon, but beat the brute over the Jaw
with his fist till his Knuckie bones were
barred before brun would release his hold
on the child's hand.
L. n. Billings OF Sacramento, though
acquitted by jury of the murder Tor which
he recently stood trial, was expelled from
the Old Fellows Lodge to which he be-
longed on account OF the crime he was H.
cuSed Of He appealed TO the Grand Lodge
of California and then to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge OF the country. but both these
bodies sustain the local lodge in its action.
A Tuare candy-seller agreed the othe-
evening to sell stranger AL tue candy b.
could eat'' for 10 cents. To the amazement
and CONSERVATION Of the dealer the man ate
three pounds OF candy and then stopped,
not because he had enough, but because the
dealer would not let him take a drink OF
water and go on again. The candy fiend's
throat was so sticky he could no longer
swallow.
The Antelore Valley Times says: The
eastern part of Antelope Valley is enioyin
a small-sized boom. New settlers are ar
irving every day. The land is being cleared.
plowed and prepared to plant in trees and
vines. Residences and barns are going uD
on every hand, and ere long nearly every
quarter section of land in this part of the
valley will be occupied and improved. Or
chards ard vineyards will take the place OF
sage brush and yucca palm.