The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-15
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
New potatoes are selling at Salem, Ore
gon, for cent pound.
Good barley hay brings 50 ton at Santa
Paula, Ventura County.
StocStOn's terra-cotta works are now in
successful operation with force of twelve
men.
Intoxicated men were conspicuous by their
absence at the recent celebration at San
Jacinto.
T. II. Doane of Stockton recently made
round trip to the Yosemite in four days on
his bicycles
San Diego has raised the S2oO,oOo bonus
for an Triumphant subsidy. and work will
begin at once.
A Monterey boy recently found valuable
diam0nd-pin, hunted up the owner and re-
ceived $40 reward.
Aberdeen, WASH, with a population of
$500, had only twenty deaths last year, most
OF which We're accidental.
A gang OF petty thieves and footpads is in
Testing Virginia City, New. Several citizens
have been despoiled of their vauables.
The Santa Ana Blade insists that a live
catfish at that place was treated to brandy
and died from the effects of delirium trem-
ems:
The Willows journal bewails the dilapi-
dated and unsanitary condition of the jail
conhne dog In.
Henry Leibhart of Tacoma, respondent at
being unable to procure employment, sui
cided on the 10th. He had been a severe
sufferer from eczema.
According to the Astorian the great herds
of cattle in Southern and Eastern Oregon
are being bought up, and there is danger
that the price of beef will shortly advance.
Mrs. |. n. Gilbert, Salem (Orcgon)
pioneer. was found dead recently with
broken neck, she having fallen downstairs
She came from Indiana in 1917.
A new channel has been discovered in
Humboldt Bay that is likely to prove OF
great benefit to vessels entering that port
1t is said to be eleven feet deep at low It'd 9
The assessment roll of Solano County for
1891 foots up S1S.39S.07l which is slight
increase over that of last year. There has
been decrease of $4,000 in the assessed
value of mortgages.
The display at the coming Oregon State
fair. saws the Salem Statesman, is expected
to be the finest ever made. A dozen horses
are already in training, and increased pre-
miums will be given to the tliers.
A sorely afflicted family is that o. John
Norris Of Stockton, who has lost four chill
dren from diphtherla. The two remaining
are dangerously i'll. Norris himself is
crippled by rheumatism ami unable to work.
The Monterey Cypress SAYS: Wednesday
fishing, missed his lunch, lost S5 gold
piece out OF his pocket, fell in the water.
broke his patent fsh-pole, had pair Of
shoes stolen, and when he returned home
found one of his valuable hunting dogs
dead.
new and splendid finds of coal, iron and
asbestos, all within eight miles of Hgmil-
ton, Wash. The samples of asbestos brought
in by him show fiber three to fine inches
long and as tough as cotton warp. 1t was
taken from beneath hugh bowlder. the
weight OF which gave pressure to the de-
post.
A Butte (Montana) merchant who adver-
tised bankrupt stock of shoes was totally
unprepared for the enormous crowd which
filled his store. Twelve clerks were utterly
inadequate to wait upon the rush of Gus
toners. Several women tainted in the
crush, and finally the doors had to be
locked. The merchant now believes in ad-
vertising
George Krath tells the Red B huff News
that there is twenty-six miles in length and
twelve in breadth of wheat field Oh the
Glenn possessions in Colusa County this
harvest, with the best crop ever grown on
the land, the average being fixed at fifteen
bushels an acre. Fifteen combined har-
vesters are now at work cutting through
this sea Of grain.
Satisfactory freight rates having been ar
ranged a cargo of bird's-eye maple is being
sawed by the Hamilton (NVash.) saw-mill
for the San francisco market, where it
commands high figure. II is rare wood,
but grows abundantly in the Skagit Valley
Though it commands 500 per 1000 feet in
New York City for ornamental woodwork
it has been extensively used In Washington
for wooden rails, for logging tramways and
for firewood.
There Is said to be spring In Mendocino
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