The morning call., 1891-06-23
COAST ITEMS.

A Chinese miner found a gold nugget
worth Sl60 near Rough and Ready, Nevada
County, the other day.
Burglars attempted to enter house at
Ballard, Wash, Monday night, but were
successfully wthstood by two women until.
summoned by the ladies' outrries, help ar
rived and the assSilantS were put to flight.
An exchange says: Mr.. J. P. Steward of
Winters claims to have new apricot OF his
own raising, which is very larse and hand
some and an early ripener. He has named
it Stewards Seeding and will propagate the
trees largely by another season.
The sixteen monthS-old girl baby OF Mr..
and Mrs. HIguerO of East San Jose got
hold of revolver Thursday. and putting
the muzzIe of the weapon, child fashion,
into her mouth, pulled the trigger, when
the pistol went off, blowing her head almost
entirely off.
Two Tombstone (Ariz) men found litter
of Young wildcats the other day, the old
cat being away, captured the youngsters
and took them away. Inc creatures maze
a fierce fight and the men were badly
scratched and bitten before they finally Sc
cured their uncertainty valuable prize.
James Calvert of Junction City, Lane
County, claims that plant known as the
gopher beam" which is an ornament to
garden, will destroy both moles and
gopheTs, although he does not say whether
whether their growing in the garden drives
the gophers away,
The Town Hall of Centerville, Alameda
County, which was built by the people Of
that place, having through some Dlunder
passed into private hands and been sold for
debt, the ladies of the town have dubbed
together Tor the purpose of purchasing IL AS
place in which to hold their social enter
tainmeuts. lectures, etc. They do not III
tend to let the hall get lost again.
A little boy who thoughtlessly set fire to
a small patch OF grass to Kill some grass
hoppers on a ranch near BiggS the other
day fired also some fifteen tons OF hay that
had been cut, but not racked into shocks.
He fought the IRE manfully aud prevented
il spreading TO the adjoining fields, but ne
will be more careful another time how he
plays with the dangerous element IN ueld.
Deputy Fish Commissioner Richardson
has made two large contracts for Matching
fish IN Nevada County. Joseph Sa0W Is 10
hatch 80, coo trout at Independence Lake
to be put in the waters there, and Stevens
e Mckinney are to hatch 200,000 for Bonner
Lake aud vicinity. The spawn viii be all
taken at Independence. This Will be good
work. as both lakes are hShed to great eX-
tent and need restocking.
The people of Reno were startled Tues
day morning by the appearance eta tiny
black Shetland pony on their streets, draw
"
girl It's said that this is probably the small
est horse on the continent and the GIZette
relates that QUE good citizen when he saw II
described il graphically by eXclaiming, Il
saw a little horse IN circus once, but this
is as little as two Of him"
1t is related as a curious fact that South
ern California potatoes, shipped to New
Orleans are thence sent to St. Louis and
Chicago and sold as New Orleans potatoes,
al higher prices than potatoes of the same
sort shipped to those markets from this sec
| ton. The explanation Is that New Orleans
! potatoes have an established reputation Ia
| the markets named, while Southern Cali
! fornia potatoes are as yet little known 10
! those cites.
The coyote, If the comments Of the coun-
| try press on the recently made law eStab-
| fishing a bounty on his scalp are 10 be be-
| lleved, has long been an unsupported ben
| efactor 10 the California farmer. He now,
so TO speak, like many another blessing,
! brightens as he takes his flight and 1t is
! now declared that il the coyote is eXter-
| minated the country will be Overrun with
! jack-rabbits and cott0n-tails, two creatures
! far more 10 be dreaded.
! OF Es-Kim-in-Zm, the Apache who has
recently been arrested in Arizona, Charles
! d. PoSt0n says, in the Silver Belt: " he
! vas always disturbing element among the
/ Apache5 and left5at large IS capable OF do
| ing great mischief. | know of his having
! partly buried an American with his hands
| and feet tied so that the ants and insects
| deyouTed him alive. He is a trcacherOus
| scOundrel, capable Of any atroclty, and l
| never would trust him.
The little son of Andrew Ferrin Of As
| t0ria, Oregon, was playing on pile OF lum-
| Der the other day, when huge timber
| rolled on him. The little fellow was thrown
| down aud lay, to all appearances dead, with
| the blood gushing from his nose and mouth.
| II look A number of men to lift tins timber,
| and the boy seemed fiattened out beneath it.
| He was taken home, where, to the surprise
| of all. it was found ne bones were broken,
| and he is now, though but few days have
elapsed since the accident nearly re-
| covered.
The Haywards Journal thus chronicles al
| improved order of things: IL is not many
wears ago when 1t was a common sight e
see large strings Of Cinnamon fling ia and
out of town during the fruit season, and
| every year carrying away thousands OF d0i-
lars This is all changed now; in their steal
can be seen hundreds of boys and girls and
white men and women, and only few Cal
nese are now employed. This shows how
the labor question mas been settled, and II
speaks well for our young people, VINO art
not afraid to Work.
A Mrs Hart came to Idaho Falls, Idaho
last week from Indiana, with two children
to Join her husband, who some time ago set
tied on unsuryeyed land in Custer County.
| The Times says: When she reached The
Falls she was met with the sad Intelligence
of the death of her husband, who had been
killed a day or two before in difficulty
over his land with one Pat kearney, whom
he killed after he himself had been fatally
wounded by Ke1Tney. Mrs Hart was with
out means and the good people Of the Fall!
are arranging to pay her way back TO hel
| home in Indiana.
Lewis Miller, a Fresno man, who wa
sent in September, 1884, to the insane asy
| Ium at Stockton, while under charge o as
sault to commit murder, giving every evi
dence Of sanity, now desires to be released
| IL only to stand trial for his crime. II nov
appears, however, tnat the man has beet
! practically forgotten. The Sheriff who hat
him in charge when arrested has but faIn
| recollection Of him, anu any one having an,
knowledge Of the case is requested to com
municate with Sheriff Hensley OF Fresh
County. This is a curious reflection on thu
way the records Of that Office must have beel
kept.
/. g. Eaton, Stockton's recently elected
| municipal clerk, was too Ill to take tn
oath Of Office last week, on the day appointe
for that duty. Feeling i'll, and thinking h,
needed tonic, he went 10 the family medl
cine chest and took what he supposed to b
thres Qunine pills. They proved to bt
morphine. Luckily the large dose pro
duced nausea, and the mistake was diScOy
cred in time for a physician an
stomach-pump to interfere and save Eaton
life 1t was the old, idiotic story. Tn
bottle had contained quinine pills, but, be
ing empty, the morphine pills had been pa
into it.
An Iryington (Cal.) party owns smar
mare that, with her colt is allowed the ruI
of the dO0r-yard. "Puss" is fed from
large iron bucket, night and morning, an,
at these times the neighbOrs' chickens
fOcking around, annoy her greatly. On
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: ment. The other night the mare was seen
after emptying her bucket. to have turne'
it bottom side UP. Nothing was thought o
, it, however. until next morning, when
was found that she had imprisoned beneat
, it, her torInentor, the black hen, who Wal
nearly dead from her long confinement i
such narrow quarters.