The morning call., 1891-07-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


Territories.
Ukiah, Mendocino County, is to have a
gas plant.
The first bale of new hops was shipped
from Wheatland last Thursday.
A Polk County or man has netted $500
this season off one acre of gooseberrieS.
San Jose has Chinese detective agency
whose business is to detect aud capture
Chinese criminals.
The Salem (Oregon) Statesman says an
unknown disease has broken out among the
hogs of that locality, large numbers OF
which are dying.
There We're only 142 arrests in Walla
WalIa, Wash, for the year ending June
3Oth last. OF these 60 were dranks and 40
for disorderly conduct.
The work of building fifty miles of road
through Yellowstone Pass, Mont, will be
completed this season under the direct SUI
perviSiOn of the Government, Contractor
Partillo having given up the undertaking.
chicken was Matched out of its she'll at
San Lucas the other day by the warmth of
tie suns rays. man living there also
found new-lald egg lying in the sun hard
boiled, or baked, at all events, by the same
potent influence.
Some specimens OF mangel wurzel beets
grown at Santa Ana have been sent to tile
permanent exhibit at Chicago. The largest
beet weighed Go pounds. One measured
teet inches In length. and six Of them
weighed 1913 pounds.
c. E. Norton of Portland is searching
anxiously for his seventeen year. old
daughter, who is thought to be mentally
deranged from overstudy, and who dSap-
peared mysterlouSly week ago and has
not been heard from since.
The Salton sea has now received its vim
dicatlon and letters patent. The sea SER
pent has visited its waters and disported
therein. The creature is described as being
nh.
tonal yellow scales, yawning mouth and
great flpperS.
A Tulare County rancher recently took
equal parts OF white alkali crust and gyp-
sun, thoroughly mixed, put in box and
planted alfalfa seeds i'll the solution. The
result was the seed sprouted and grew plants
SIX 1eet high. This certainly proves beyond
doubt that gypsum will redeem alkah land
II 1t Is only applied.
A kind-hearted rural landlord advertises
for boarders in a paper in the northern part
OF the State in the following enticng man
ner: "a lew bOarders wanted by private
family. Can dress as you please" and the
Red Bluff Sentinel says: III the present hot
spell continues much longer we propose to
engage quarters with that good, kind man
ST lie or no style.
The Dixon Tribune says great many
Solano County farmers are using sacks
made in San Quentin, and find them salts
factory as TO make and material, but claim
that they are short in count. They are put
up in bundles said to contain fifty each, but
the farmers say they do not average forty
eight, considerable Of a shortage on every
lot of one thousand.
Some one recently sent the editor of the
Visalia Delta description of the local jars
interior. The editor suppressed it as unfit
Tor publication, though couched in good
language" What that editor should 90 is
TO hnd out II the description is true, and If
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function of the newspaper to expose every
description OF municipal abuse.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars
has passed over the counter of the Bank of
Nacavllle, according to the statement of Ed
ward Fisher. the cashier, In payment for fruit
shipped to Eastern points, as against 500 600
to the same time last year. One hundred
and slxty-one cars of green fruit and four
cars OF dried were shipped East this year,
against ninety-three at the same time last
year.
The Mendocino County papers are all
busy denying the existence of that famous
poison spring up there. regarding which
an Examiner reporter wrote so eloQuenty
few Sundays ago. The Ukiah Republican
Press says of it: This same legend proba-
bly, had its birth in the fertile brain of the
reporter. If nothing else, it was a fine ex-
ample OF rambling, incoherent mess Of
nonsense.
A Georgetown (Eidorado County, boy was
riding a gentle horse. harnessed, into town,
hall mile distant, just after dark the other
evening, when a California lion sprang
from pine woods by which the road passed
and leaped upon the horses hips. The
horse started on a run for life, the lion
cinging to his back for 100 feet or more,
but was finally shaken off Near town the
boy fell off, whereupon the horse slackened
his speed and both came into town together.
While j. Scott Of Rio Vista was milking
COW in corral on tile May field Il inch,
where 225 head of cattle were confined, the
herd, for some unknown reason, stampeded,
and breaking down fitteen-foot gate, es-
capped. Mr.. Scott had time only to throw
himself upon the ground before the cattle
rushed over him. and he was soon rendered
unconscious. Several Of the cows lost their
horns, and a number were badly wounded.
Scott was severely bruised, but otherwise
uninjured, but says the experience was not
pleasant.