The morning call., 1891-11-12
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

out OF the sound at Por. Townsend last
week.
The ficials of San Jose are fighting the
evil which prevails in that city OF liquor
selling to children.
Glass organizations have all been per-
fected and an athletic association formed at
tile Leland Stanford Jr. University.
A gang of horse and cattle thieves has its
headquarters somewhere In StaniSauS, and
Is preying upon the farmers of surrounding
districts.
Pasadena has a club of devotees of spur
and saddle known as the Valley Hunt A
number of ladies connected with 1t ride
with the crOss-Saddle.
Three Eastern parties, whose names are
withheld, have donated $4,000 to the Endow-
ment Fund of Pomona College and S25,0O0
for building to be erected during the conf
ing spring.
During the past year $4,000 has been
subscribed to the Portland Library Asso-
clatlon. the interest on which is to be APP
Piled by the Directors to the maintenance OF
the institution.
The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce has
decided TO solicit the Cooperation OF COM
mercIal bodies all over the State In an ell
Tort to secure a reduction in freight rates TO
Eastern points.
Buffalo Jones" of Wyoming is now on
ms way across the Atlantic with ten BUT
faloS, fol which,if he delivers themsafely TO
Banker Charles Leland of Liverpool, he
VIII receive $4,000
The Aberdeen (Wash.) Herald is urging
mat town to own the public water WORKS.
The charges for water are so excessive that
the least sum for which a small Aberdeen
family can keep clean is S33 go.
In truth the Chnaman is becoming Ameri-
caniZed. At the Portland Chinese Theater
the other night Chinaman showed his
dislike OF the work of one OF the actors by
pellinG him with too-ancient eggs.
The Free Lance of Hollister, San Benito
County, says there are more sheep in that
county this year than during any year since
1887. when the drought virtually ruined all
the prominent sheep men of the San Juan
Valley.
young lobster was caught on Anacapa
Island the other day, and is now on exhibit
ton in Ventura drugstore. 1t is the first
propagation of the LOBSTER in { at section,
and comes from stock recently placed in
the water.
The Governor has not made Thanksgiv-
ing proclamation yet, but the Slnta Cruz
Native Sons have got their tickets out for
ball notwithstanding - settling the date
themselves. The Governor will please take
notice and govern himself accordingly.
As young man named Hayden was out
hunting the other day, shooting from
wagon, near Linkville, Oregon, he care
lessly drew his gun from the bottom OF the
wagon, when the weapon exploded, tearing
shoulder was necessary.
Speaking of train-robbers, says the Ham
lord Sentinel, friend of the Sentinel sug-
gests that they are not all flesh and blood,
nor do they all wear masks. He further sug
gests that warrant be Issued for the arrest
of the eating-house at Latnrop as the arch
traln-robber of the age.
The editor OF the Red Bluff Sentinel, hav-
ing lived with his wife nearly forty years
and raised family of seventeen children,
considers that enough to justify him in run
ming department in his paper discussing
what women ought to wear. 1t ought to,
Brother DJdson! 1t ought to!
A party of drunken hoodums went out
on raid in the northeastern part of Sacra-
mento Saturday night, and for several
blocks on q street laid fences. ornaments
ana lawns IN rum. The amount OF damage
done is very great, as none of the fences
broken up can he repaired, so thoroughly
was the destructive work done.
Six miles from Roseburg. Oregon, day or
so ago, landslide exposed in hillside the
jawbone OF huge prehistoric beast. Scien-
lists describe II as the left anterior portion
of the lower jIwbone of mastodon, or
dinotherinm. The Smithsonian Institution
has been notified, and will doubtless COM
mence systematic search for more dis
cOveries.
Special Agent Lounsberry of the Oregon
| General Land Office has received nStruc-
tons, says the Oregonian, to investigate he
| charges that deputy surveyors are extract
| ing blood money from squatters in order to
secure n survey. He wishes it understood
| that deputy surveyors are paid in MAXIM
| surveys, and no compensation is required
| from squatters.
A young man named Bert Hare was badly
| injured last week by the explosion of his
| gun, near Edison, Wash. He had a single
barreled breach loader called a Zulu"
with an iron lug that opens aud shuts 10
| keep the shell in position, which few open
| and the shell was discharged from the butt
| of the gun. The stock was spinterrd and
| the hunter received the charge OF powder in
! his eyes.
A new use for electricity has been devised
| by fishermen of San Diego, 1t is said. Sew
| eral incandescent electric lights are lowered
| into the water with large seine beneath
| them. Fish are attracted by the mysterious
| glare, and when the operators above see
| that they have good haul they heavs away.
| The catches are reported very large. This
reduces the catching of fish to something
| like an exact science.
An Austrian was refused citizenship
parers by Judge Van Vleet of Sacrament to
the other day on the ground of extreme ig-
norance. He could not read or write knew
nothing Of the institutions of the country,
| and the only reason he desired to become
! citizen was that he could vote and take up
land. He was told by the Judge to apply
again IN year or two, or at some time
when he was better informed
DR.. Clarke OF the San Jose Chamber of
! Commerce has suggested a scheme to utilize
the waters of Coyote Creek for the cleo
| trical motor force at San Jose. He esti-
mates the generation OF force Of several
thousand horse power at point some
twenty-five miles distant from the city aud
the cost of transportation at $3.50, 900. The
| chamber has appointed a committee to de-
| wise methods toward It's realization.
A large body of silver ore has been dis
covered near Almaden. Santa Clara County.
Specimens OF ore which assay Sl4 20 in sill
yer, with traces Of gold, lead and arsenic,
were brought to town by Charles
Schaeffer of San Jose. who has located
mine on Llagas Creek, near New AL
MAIDEN. A body of ore twenty feet
thick is in sight. If 1t pans out as the assay
indicates the mine will be worth an enor-
nous sum, and Santa Clara will enjoy big
| mining hnnm.