The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Petaluma now has new daily, the Cour-

r1tor1ea.
Petaluma now has new daily the Cour-
Ter.
The thermometer crawled down to 100 be-
low zero at Truckee the other morning.
The press of Tacoma are urging the estab-
lishmeut of Il Mining Exchange in that city.
MarySvtlle has just organized a Typo
graphical Union OF twenty-seyen members.
Sacramento stripped more hops this year
than all the balance of the State combined.
woman named Salberg. a grass" widow
with several children, lett ElgiD, Oregon,
last week with Chinaman
During these cold nights the 5. p. K. X.
Company have hard work to protect their
Vallejo yards from coal thieves
The Chico Chronicle Record is urging
that town to invest in an electrical plant
and own its own lighting apparatus.
Peter Marchant of Redwood committed
suicide in brewery there few days ago
by taking STIR chime in glass Of beer.
Three years ago there was not a single
free kindergarten in Sacramento. There
are now three large ones and several private
ones.
The Truckee Republican says the first ice
crop there is now In such shape that if
heavy snow-Storm came 1000 men would be
wanted TO save The crop.
Butte County tramps who are arrested
and sent to the Jail at OrOVllie Will here
after be made 10 wear striped suits and
work On the roads and streets.
About 100000 bushels of wheat and 49,
600 bushels of barley have been shipped
from Oakesdale, Wash, So far this season,
most o! which las gone TO the Sound cities.
Rev. Maxwell Phillips, Superintendent Of
the Indian schuOl on the Fort Limcoe Res
eryatloD, las been suspended by the agent
on account Of immoral conduct. He is be-
lieyed TO DO insane.
f. PenrOd of Carson, who has lived in
Nevada since 1852 ami paid particular atten-
tion to the weather, predicts heavy falls of
show for that State this winter. He SAYS
the heaviest SHOWS will be In February and
that there will be twenty feet of undrifted
snow on the level in the mountains.
At Sacramento the tug Of-war craze has
seiZed the town. Six young ladies the
other evening were tugging away in the
parlor Of a fashionable residence in this
city when one of them pulled 50 hard that
she burst blood vessel in her breast. The
family physician fears an abcess will result
from the injury.
The local Women's Christian Temperance
Union flied Petition with the Common
Council of COlusa, the other night, asking
that the retail liquor license be increased
from $40 tn $40 month, and that the sa-
looms be made TO close at midnight. The
petition had over 1000 signatures. 1t was
laid Oh the table.
Old Queen Angelina, daughter Of Chief
Seattle, after whom the city of Seattle was
named, is now supported by the county,
though allowed to live outside the poor
house. One item of grocery bill foI her
recently received by the Board Of Commits
sioneTs was cigarettes 10 cents. the Queen
having adopted the vice of the dudes in her
old age.
Mrs. E. b. Crocker has contributed more
books TO the library of the California Mu-
scum Association, in addition to the extern
sive donation made by her a few days ago.
All the books are to be labeled as soon as
possible and the volumes submitted for the
use OF the members of the association. The
books form quite nucleus for a library.
and an effort will be made to add TO it.
The Cheyenne Tribune relates that three
carloads of horses stopped there recently
en- route from Nevada to Chicago. The AMI
mails had been without food or drink for
fOrty-eigbt hours, and were unoaded and
allowed to fill up Oh alfalfa and water, the
natural consequence being the death If
fully one-third of the lot. The others were
doctored until believed out of danger and
sent Oh to Chicago.
a thirteen-year-0ld girl living on Lower
Powder Creek. IN Oregon, the other day
borrowed considerable SUN OF money from
different neghb0rs, saying that her mother
wanted to use it. From one neighbor she
also borrowed q valuable horse and ran
away, going 10 Baker City, where she tried
to sell the horse. She was tracked and
found at Baker City by parties from Lower
Powder and returned to her parents. No
reason is known for her escapade.
The aversion Indians have for Cinnamon
was illustrated at Sacramento the other
day. The managers of the tug Of war con-
test had arranged for pull between team
OF Yuma Indians and Chinese, but the
former backed out when they found out
that they we're matched against the Mongo-
lianS. The only time an Indian will have
anything TO do with a Chinaman, says the
Silver State, is when he wants the latter to
procure him bottle of whisky.
A citizen of Salt Lake City sued the city
last week for $1,000 damages for injuries
sustained in falling on defective sidewalk
In the city. Ghe citizen was pretty drunk
at the time he fell. and he admitted the fact
to the Court. The city set up the defens
of c0Dtribut0ry negligence. The plaintiff S
lawyer laid down the very plain and pluusi-
BILE proposition that "a drunken man is as
much entitled to good sidewalk as a sober
man, and is much more in need of it"
There is a bear skin on exhibition In Hud-
sons gun-store, says the Portland Ore
goniap, that takes the cake. 1t is 9h feet
In length and 81 feet across in the widest
place. The bear that wore this skin was
grizzly and he lived in far-off Alaska.
Judging from the size of the skin he must
have been as large as two ordinary cows,
and could not have weighed less than $500
pounds. 1t is by far the largest bear skin
that has ever been seen in Portland. and
even old bear-hunters who are told of its
dimensions shake their heads in an incred-
ulous manner until they See it with their
own eyes.