The morning call., 1891-02-21
COAST ITEMS.


briet Notes FROM racine states and Ter
ritories.
The walls Of the new City Hall at Los An
geles are settling, and fears are entertained
for its safety.
The first batch of news paper was turned
ont BY the mills at Salem, Oregon, last
Thursday.
An Astoria Chinese blew off one of his
thumbs last Monday night while celebrat-
ing the New Year.
The settlers in Antelope Valley want to
be divorced from Los Angeles and be
joined to Kern County.
p. W. Parker and wife and G. c. Fulton
have incorporated in Astoria with $4,000
consolidating the Astorian and Columbian
newspaper offices.
Eight miles of cement water-pipe have
been laid In San JacintO Valley, San Diego
County. 1t will easily furnish enough water
to irrigate $1,000 acres.
The Trustees of the James Lick estate
have sued G. r. Shuttle and others in Los
Angeles 10 foreclose mortgage of S115,-
lS5 "A on Catalina Island and TO have re-
ceiver appointed.
Island that the steamer Karluck had to put
TO St and heave-tO for sixteen hours while
two large barges at the landing were smashed
Tito kindling wood.
boiler in a small feed-miIl at Rtzville,
Wash, exploded last Thursday. The build
The boiler lodged on the top of a big pine
tree, forty feet from the grOnud.
Among some freight recently left at the
railroad station on the Colville Indian Reser-
spring beds and parlor organ. Who says
- Lo is not getting civilized?
George II. Nefh of Ocosta. Wash, shot a
genuine bald-headed eagie last week that
measured nine feet from tip to tip of wings.
The bird was in the act of bouncing upon
IL han, hr,Yr a H. a.
bail.
The following neat item appeared re-
Gently in the Whatcom Reveille: A num-
Der of the elite are discussing whether they
shall go and hear Emma Juch or give their
money to the churches. We recommend
they go around and pay their debts.
The Needles Bazoo says: We congratulate
| the editor of the AZusa News, who has re-
| Gently given birth to twins a boy and girl
| 1t is unnecessary, we presume, to announce
| by way of explanation, that the editor of
| the News is the accomplished Mrs. Bentley
OF Glendora.
Peter JOhanson of Port Crescent was shot
| by his br0ther-in-law last week, who mis-
| took him for a deer. The ball passed
through his left forearm, seyerng a small
! artery, splinterlng bone and cutting the
| ligaments at the wrist, and then pierced the
| fleshy part of the left thigh.
| An aged man named Patterson died sud-
| denly at his brothers ranch in Ventura
| County last week. His clothing was given
| to a servant to put away. In one of the
| pockets was found diamond jewelry worth
| $1,000. Upon returning the vauables to Mr..
| Patterson he rewarded the man by giving
| him line horse.
TIE Portland Oregonian says: A few
| days ago some of the members of C
Company, o. n. G.. of Eugene, circulated
| petition asking the Captain TO resign his
Office, being displeased with his manage
| pfApf Now tbp Ifant1tu aha
against them and they will be called before
the court of discipline.
Last Sunday night, at Port Townsend.
| Safe-crackers blew open the safes in the
offices of the Port Townsend Saw-mill and
| tire Puget Sound Engineering Company get
ting but $40 out of both safes. There were
two watchmen at the saw-mill, bat thew
| slept through the whole business, and did
not know Of the burglaries until told the
| next day.
There are several cases of diphtheria al
| Warrens, Umatilla County. case of
| books which was packed up twelve wears
| ago in the household, where there were sew
eral cases of the disease at the time. was
opened recently. and the persons who are
| afflicted now handled them, and it is sun
posed the disease was contracted in this
| manner.
Says the Astorian: 1t pays to "kick -
sometimes. Washingtons Surveyor-General
kicked" and wouldn't make contracts for
surveying because, as everybody knows, the
rates were not high enough for a surveyor
to make decent wages. The result is,
Washington gets an increase of $1,000 in
the appropriation for surveys Oregon's
Surveyor-General went on, let contracts at
the old rates; result, despite hard effort for
increase on the part of Congressman Her
mann, Oregon gets no increase
The Marysville Appeal says: A promi-
Dent farmer of Suffer County remarked
that since he had been farming he had tried
nearly everything TO make money. He had
raised fine horses, cows, hogs and sheen.
lis last venture had been Augora goats.
They were dying off very fast, and when
the last one was gone he was going 10
raise Maltese cats. Ii they did not prove
i profitable he was going to rent his ranch
and devote the remainder of his life to
studying the subject of wasted opportuni-