The morning call., 1891-05-13
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Items From Pacific Coast States
and Territories.
The acreage planted to beans in Ventura
County this year is $4,000. Boston (Mass.)
papers please copy.
A prophecies of the Spokane tribe of In
dams predicts that the world Will come to
an end on December 30th of this year.
Fresno is to have new cannery, to be
constructed on very large scale. Work
was begun on the buildings early this
week.
John Townsend, Port Townsend lawyer,
YVES arrested last week on a charge OF aiding
Chinese to enter, unlawfully, the United
States.
Clyde, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Smith of GTeenvlle, died recently from
poison, having got hold of some YitriOled
wheat which he ate.
During a thunderstorm near Grass
Valley, last Wednesday. a telegraph-pOle
was struck by lightning and reduced to
Spl,nterS. A bus was passing at the time
and one IF the horses was knocked insensi.
BILE.
A block of redwood cut in one of the for
ests of this State has been sent East to be
used at Chicago in constructing building
of California redwood i'll the Worlds Fair
grounds. 1t Is Is feet square and inches
thick.
Fresno County is fast becoming great
turkey-raising section, and the industry is
said to be most profitable. One raiser, who
uses large incubator in place of the old
fashioned hen, has already Matched out
700 turkeys this season.
A subsidy of $1,000 for steamer line be-
tween Portland and Coos Bay has been
raised, and first-class vessel, with freight
capacity of 500 tons and accommodations for
seventy-five passengers, will soon make
weekly trips between those points.
The Nevada City Transcript says: Two
little girls went into j, j. Jackson's poultry
house the other day and took all the eggs
out of the nests. "We got every one of
them," explained one of the little girls to
Mrs j. I'VE didn't even leave one for
pattern
A San Jose man was annoyed by moles
| and gophers destroying his plants, and put
ting out poisoned meat TO kill them killed
his neighbours dog instead. The testimony
| in the lawsuit that followed brought out the
fact il fact it be, that mOleS and gophers
are carnlvorous.
Reports from Yolo County say haying has
commenced, but the crop will DE small
though of good quality; that wheat will not
be as good as anticipated, heads being very
short considering the large amount of straw.
This is attributed to the dry spell that pre-
vailed early in March.
The Bellingham Bay Bee says: The
steamer Lucy Lowd, recently engaged in
bringing coal to the bay, is missing, with
fifty immigrants and their earthly goods
and chattels. Not having been heard from
for some time. Messrs. Redfield and Fred
Pettbone have gone up the sound to look
her up.
Mrs. Phila Gregory, a Seattle woman. at
tempted suicide Tuesday by taking choral
hydrate. This being her third attempt, she
has become an adept in the act of how no
| TO do it, and did not get so far toward the
other shore ere discovered as to be beyond
| the aid OF a stomach pump, so she still lives
to try it again.
Last Wednesday morning can Of oil
| left on the weigh-house stove at coal-mine
near Glenrock, Wyo., boiled over and set
the building aiire. The c0nflagration that
| followed is described as terrific, and only
| the most heroic efforts on the part of the
| men saved the entire plant and the mine it
| self from burning.
| At Carson Friday morning, the wife of
! Captain Josephus, an Indian policeman,
| during her husbands absence secured his
| revolver, shot her son and beat her daughter
| oyor the head with it, When she thought
| both children were dead she shot herself,
! dying instantly. The children were both
alive at last accounts, though the boy may
| die.
Mrs. Julia Shank of San Diego, while
lying upon her bed Saturday, being in poor
health, was assaulted, gagged, bound hand
and foot and drugged by some fiend who
! entered the house in broad daylight. Mrs.
| Shank was in critical condition at the
time, and was very dangerously hurt. A
warrant is out for the arrest of her assail-
ant, who Is as yet unknown.