The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-08
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


OF the 600 varieties Of cactus found on
this Coast only 80 kinds are indigenous to
California.
San Francisco parties have leased ground
within the city of Los Angeles for coal-Oil
development.
Mrs. HOllenbeck of Los Angeles has given
to that city ten acres of land to be used for
park purposes.
A saw-mill with a capacity of $1,000 feet
Of lumber per day will be erected on Coos
Bay this summer.
1t Is rumored that the Fresno Expositor
has been sold to iOint-stock company for
S35, 900. and that j. NJ. Mcclure of MADEIRA
is to be the editor and manager
Three hundred coyote scalps on file in the
County Clerks Office at Fresno are begin
ming TO make their presence so nalodOr-
Ously evident that the officials want to move
out
The railroad officials report 1900 acres in
potatoes near Los Angeles, the lowest esti-
mated yield of which is 1000 carloads.
Shipments to the East are now commenc-
ing Ut the rate of sixteen cars daily.
Boys at Santa Ana are engaged in pick
ing mulberry leaves to feed The silk worms
at the San Diego cOcOJnery. One hundred
aud fifty pounds were shipped last week
Monday and another lot on Wednesday.
Edward Brooks of Laguna attempted to
kill himself. the other day, because his
father would not let him have a team to
take girl to dance. He took an over
dose of poison, however, and his life was
saved.
A colony of Dunkards has settled in San
JacintO. They are religious body, with
peculiar notions concerning kissing at meet
ing. wa hing each others feet, etc, but are
industrious and shrewd and make excellent
citizens.
A MonToVla Orange-grower, who recently
shipped a box Of oranges to friends in
Edinburgh, Scotland, has received word
that they arrived there In good shape, and
were considered by the recipients the best
they ever eat.
A Chinamau suffering from paralysis was
found by the Tax Collector in hut on the
outskirts of Stoekton's Chinese quarter the
other day. He had become helpless, and,
according to Celestial custom, had been
abandoned to die.
in the valley north and west Of Eugene, Or
egon. Hunters kill them by the hundreds,
parties bringing in sixty or seventy after a
days hunt. The birds are attracted by
newly sOwn grain.
A Pomona woman has perfected
process for drying rose leaves so as to retain
their fragrance, and has secured a market
for all she can prepare with New York firm
that makes business of filling pot-p0urri
jars and pertaining household appliances.
Calvin Sweet of Bean Hollow, San Mateo
County, is the inventor of process by
which lie is said to be making fortune out
of black sand. Tie sand contains gold
which, after being separated from it, is
amalgamated, restored and cleaned with
acetic acid.
A tramp entered house in Tulare the
other day, picked up the baby and began to
tend and fOndle it very unpleasantly. He
then began 10 undreSS IL, and the terrified
fl,aE had 70 aaif irst ha pairrl ,ipr 70
cue the child FROM the wanderer. who was
evidently crazy.
A short time since DR.. S. M. Jones of
Santa Ana discovered a California QuaiPs
nest of five eggs, Mrs Jones placed the
eggs in an incubator and the result was five
little quail. Two or them died. but the
three that remain are lively, pretty little
birds and seem quite cOntented.
An adventurous young man of Enum-
claw, Wash, intends, II possible, to climb
Mount Rainier on the Fourth of July, next,
and plant upon its peak the American flag.
The banner for the occasion is 10 be 15X20
feet in size, and will float from a sectional
pole about thirty feet in length.
Mrs. de Rock, an Oregon lady who lives
In the Clatskanie, was at home the other
day when she was hsnOred by a call from
young bear. Mrs. de Rock had never
handled gun, but she took down her hus-
bands rifle and fired at the Intruder, strik-
|. a. Anderson of KelsO was burning
slabwoCd at a mill there when a piece of
cordwood fell from pile beside him, knock
ing him into the fire. Before his companions
could rescue him he was shockingly burned
about the face, neck and arms In such man
ner that very little chance exists for his re-
covery.
The grip is said TO be working great havoc
among the Indians of Alaska. Hundreds
have died at the rate Of a dozen per day.
There are no doctors on the Island no
medical stores, and, owing to the poor
catch this year Of sea offers. upon which the
Indians depend for their living, there is
great hardship among them.
The San Diego Union says: In the final
wind-up OF the hay cutting on North Island
the four moving machines surrounded
small space from which an immense wild
cat spraug out. A well directed blew with
a monkey wrench, thrown by one of the
men, disabled the cat. Its weight was found
TO be 63A pounds and its length 3 feet Az
inches.
The perch IN California streams are being
destroyed by the catfish. that is to say, the
perch work their own ruin by attempting to
swallow the catfish. The ''cat" has two
spikes or horns projecting from the sides of
his head, and when caught by the perch
these spikes catch in the later's throat. He
can neither swallow nor eject the catfish and
is starved to death.
A Stockton young woman. being i'll with
diphtherla at her mothers home in that
city, crowd of indignant neghbOrs sur
rounded the attending physician on the
street and insisted that the patient should
be removed, the men threatening that unless
this was done they would themselves enter
the house and convey her off forcibly. A
guard was placed about the house by the
police office.
A prospector operating in the Mingo
Maintains
few days ago, came across a peculiar ami
NAL with three small cubs. He struck the
old one with rope, whereuDon she ran
away, and he captured the cubs, which he
brought into town. They have the form of
a cougar, with the head of a bulldog. They
attracted considerable attention, but none
who saw them were able to determine their
species.
A Santa Rosa fruit-packing firm have con-
tracted with G. A Maui of Bakersfield for
all his orange cling peaches Of this years
crop at $40 per ton, but will take no peaches
that measure less than two and a half
inches In diameter. The orange clings
ripen in August. and they expect to get at
least TWO carloads that come within the
contract They will be put up in glass Jars
for the fancy Eastern market.
At one of the Navarro Mills Company's
shops, at Uklah, locomotive cab has lust
been constructed zen and half feet long by
eight feet wide solely of California laurel,
or pepperwOod, prepared by hand from the
rough trunks. The sides, ceiling, coruices,
etc, are beautifully carved and decorated.
The architect, L. c. Buell.. says this pepper
wood is very valuable for joiner and eabi-
net work and takes high polish.
Score One for the Proof-Reader.
An editor tells story to show how the
most glaring errors can be made, can be
overlooked and almost get into print.
correspondent, probably writing hurriedlv