The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-05
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritnries.

The pruue crop is said to be a failure in
Southern California this year.
Spokane has new high school building
just completed, at a cost If S1O2 600.
a number of Salt Lake capitalists have
organized the First National Bank in that
city.
a man named Armstrong was kicked so
that he died, at PeTrIS, a few days ago. by
j. w. Vance. The latter is under arrest.
A cold-blooded fiend, having something
against Vancouver man, the other day cut
the tendonS of The foreleg of fine trotting
horse owned by his enemy.
A large firm in Germany has sent to a San
Diego dealer Tor 600 cactus plants of many
varieties. They will he gathered from CIl-
ifornia, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and CO..
OradO.
The Los Angeles Produce Exchange has
been considering the butteT-TOll nuisance,
sold by members of the Exchange shall be
by net weight
Some malicious person placed a Chinese
bomb IN the hallway of an apartment block
at Salem, Oregon, tie other night. 1t ex-
ploded with terrific force, and created a
panic until the silly trick was discovered.
Valentine Walthers of Huntington Valley.
New, has a curiosity 10 the way OF a
young goose with four legs. That bird
should be saved Until Christmas, wien, if
there are four little Walthers, each may have
a 'drumslick'' for his portion at dinner.
Nine-tenths oil a railroad bridge between
Clifton, AriZ., and Guthrie, was burned last
week, Thursday. This is the second bridge
burned in that neighbOrhOod within the last
fortnight, and the railroad com pany is offer
ing $1,000 reward for the detection OF the
supposed incendiaries
Dr.. Koehler of Baker City, Oregon, one
day last week removed a snake from the
Ill.
reptile was about twelve inches long, and
the woman has carried it about for ten
years, having swallowed Il in drinking that
long ago, and until now it has been ImpOs-
sibe to dislOdge it,
Tuiare County raisin- growers have de-
clared war against the honey bill, which
they say IL nuisance, aud ia a petition
signed by l23 grape-gToweTS ask the County
Board OF Supervisors TO DO likewise. ! he
busy insects, however, have IN my friends
aud protectors, the honey business being an
important industry OF that county.
A valuable young horse belonging to
David Steiner of Salem, Oregon, was turned
loose in the barn the other day, and pulled
a milking stool from a nail on the wall.
Then in lying down he got on the upturued
stool, one leg Of which penetrated his flank
to the depth Of about ten inches. The legs
were made from brOOmStick handles, and
the wound was severe one.
Crescent City is moving in the matter of
High School, under the new law, and
everybody is Interested. The Record tells,
in this connection, that Indian Pete, a local
character. was few days ago. clearing off
ground 10 build him house when passeT
asked him if he was making a garden.
Turning around ScOrnfully Pete replied:
Garden? No! Him High SCHOOL, 'Spose
no like learn all same white man?
The Spokane Review claims that Spokane
shippers are charged by the transportation
companies rates greatly in excess of those
SAID By terminal hrmS, and maintains tina
such discrimination against Spokane works
such peculiar hardship both upon the city
and the consumers OF the surrounding cOun-
Try as TO warrant the application OF the
interstate commerce law in its original
sense, and that such application would be
sustained by the courts.
c. II. Bennett of Aspen, Y. Mex, while
employed in the Dubuque tunnel, the other
day was struck on the back by falling
piece of earth, causing paralysis of the right
side and of some of the internal organs.
Bennett was engaged TO very estimable
lady, who, on learning that he had doubtless
a long and painful illness before him, had
him brought to her house, sent for clergy
man and was soon married TO him, and in
| stalled herself as his nurse.
For quick WORK commend US to Butte
| County justice. A man was arrested at
| Gridley last Wednesday for Drunkenness.
| The authorities put him in Jail at that
| place, which he tried to burn. He was then
charged with arson and taken to 0rOVile
He had his trial, aud on Friday Judge Gray
sentenced him to one year in the State
Prison at Folsom, to which place Sheriff
Anderson took him Saturday morning. This
was all done within three days.
The San Diego Sun thinks the new COYOTE
scalp bounty law likely to turn out bad
one, and says: The coyote may lift
nf,i md kt,f h.
enemy of the rabbit aud keeps that prolific
pest of the orchard and garden within
bounds. The Australian rabbit curse is
due TO the absence from the hermit con-
tinent OF any natural enemy of the hare
tribe, and we may easily reproduce the same
condition here by DISCRIMINATING the little
dog wolf.
Several weeks ago a young man in the
Sierras caught butterfly, and sent it on to
the Smithsonian Institution as a curiosity.
He was overcome to receive in return
check for $500, with a request TO send on
all he could find at that rate and of that va
Tiety. This particular butterfly belonged
to tribe of that gauzy family long sup
posed to be extinct, and great was the sur
prise in scientific circles to see that one Of
the lost tribe had been recently spreading
his wings in California.
Sitting on an Arizona jury is not without
elements OF danger. a man named Shank
Willis because the latter did not pay the
fcrmer several hundred dollaro the Old
Guard Mining Company owed him, and of
winch company Willis was resident agent.
a jury was unable to agree ON a verdict,
eleven being for Shankland's acquittal and
one for conviction Of murder. Then the
friends OF Shankland mobDed the one juror.
Little Tommy Maher. aged years, living
near Tustln, Cal, stepped upon a rattle
snake last Saturday and was bitten In the
middle toe of his right foot The snake
held on until he kicked it off. Then he
killed 1t with club and ran and told a lady
at the nearest house that he was bitten.
With great presence of mind she bound a
strong string tightly around his ankle, and
killing chicken cut it open and placed
part Of the raw flesh on the wound and
bound II securely. TOmmy's parents were
then notified and his father brought him as
soon as possible to the doctors office, where
he received skillful attention. He is still
very Ill. but 1t is thought, will recover.