The morning call., 1891-09-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

The town Of Blggs Is preparing 1or Dooul,
The ST. Helena Star has just celebrated
lis eighteenth birthday.
Balltown, a suburb of Seattle, has house
which is reported TO be haunted.
Helena (Momt) mining men have con-
cluded to build Smelter at Boulder.
The Inyo Independent says the prospect
for tie local corn crop is very slender.
One million dollars of bonds of the Satsop
Railroad have been hoated in New York.
West Oakland has new journalistic VEN
ture, the Sun, which viii endeavUr to pene-
trate the fogS Of that region.
The Town Trustees of Santa Monica have
unanimously granted the Southern Pacltl:
franchise to build through the town to the
canyon beyond.
The Kern County Echo says there have
been fully 5000 fruit trees sold for next
years planting, in the Tehachap valleys.
OF these fully one-half are said to be apple
trees.
The San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern
Railroad Company has filed legal notice
of railroad construction with the Territorial
Secretary of Arizona, and is pushing on
eastward
About 800 Klckitat Indians are busy on
the ranch of the SnOaualm @ HOD-groWlng
Association in Washington. II is estimated
tie crop of tIS ranch will be about go tons
this season.
1t is reported that pottery works is to
be established at Wolf Postoffice, lew
miles below Grass Valley, where there are
immense deposits Of kaOlln. which is very
valuable in the manufacture OF such wares.
Judging from The experience of United
States recruiting officers all along the Coast
the service OF Uncle Sam is losing favor in
the eyes of young men. From Portland to
San Diego come reports of nOn-Success on
the part of officers in securing men.
Private jackson of Company G, Twenty
fifth Infantry, stationed ut Fort Missoula,
Wash, was the other morning awakened by
a hug and found himself IN the embrace o.
Il black bear. His cries brought number
of his comrades, who killed theianimal.
The report that Greene Bartlett former
owner Of Bartlett Springs, has been ar
rested and imprisoned in Trinity County
for killing deer out of season is publicly
denied by the Sheriff of that county who
says he has not seen Bartlett in two years.
Eight drivers on the Stockton horse-car
line quit work Sunday, because, as they
claim, the superintendent OF the road, APP
parenty doubling their honesty put extra
men On to collect fares while the drivers
still carried the registers and registered the
same.
The Stockton Republican points out the
fact that wherever there Is irrigation there
IS need Of looking closely TO the drainage.
II this is adequate there need be 0 malaria,
but without means, natural or provided, for
carrying of the surplus water, i'll must
result
A great many strange deaths" are re-
ported from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Agency, Indian Territory. The Indians are
| dancing all night and eating watermelons
| all day. which may possibly account for the
| rapidty with which they are becoming good
| Indians.
Like all good Christians, we hope war
| will not come, says the Grass Valley It'd
| inGs, but if it is to come, we pray that the
| carnage will commence at once while Cali
| fornia and the United States in general
| have such an immense surplus Of wheat TO
| dispose OF.
| ledge of stone has been discovered at
| ChectO, Oregon, which as vet no one has
| been able to identify. The rock is Of sand
| stone formation, having greasy touch, and
| is susceptible of high polish. 1t can be
| sawed or shaved with knife, but when eX-
posed to the action of fire becomes hard.
Parties who desire to locate silk factory
| at San ose say all they want is site for
| the same. They say they will put up the
| buildings themselves and provide all the
| capital necessary If the citizens will furnish
| the necessary land for the factory in some
| eligible location.
| y William +. Ward OF the Pomona Times
| has been appointed horticultural commits
| siOner, and the appointment Is approved by
! the papers of that locality, who believe that
Mr.. Ward will make it hot for the bugs and
will make it not for the fellows who don't
make it hot for the bugs. He is succeeded
on the Times by John WATSON, late of the
Chino Champion.
Arizona has woman mining expert In
the person of Miss Nellie eastman, a young
Miss in her early twenties. She came to
Tucson from Kansas nine years ago, and
then, working with her brothers in the
mines, she became wonderfully expert in
Judging ore. 1t is said her Judgment is so
good that the oldest and most experienced
experts are influenced by il.
A girl highwayman has appeared at
Astoria, Oregon. She is years old. The
other day she met a child on her way from
school aud with great GOODNESS forced the
little one to take off her shoes and stockings
and hand them over The Child reported
the robbery at home, but only after severe
threats could the offender be made to admit
her guilt This is not her first ofense.
The Sonoma Index says the celebrated
timber steals Of Mendocno and Humboldt
similar frauds in Fresno County. The
Michigan Lumber Company. an Eastern
corporation now, through dummy locators
and other illegal measures, has acquired
possession to over one hundred square miles
of the finest timber land in that section of
the country.
According to the Carson Appeal, the ex-
pertinent station at Reno is to experiment
on the cultivation of bunch grass with lrri-
CATION. Heretofore it has grown wild amoag
the sagebrush with no care, but it is SAID to
be one of the most fattening folders known
to cattlemen, and il the application of water
can increase its growth. Nevada can replace
the overstocked alfalfa market with it.
There are yet many important discoveries to
be made, and the rancher who experiments
is of priceless worth to the State of Nevada.
A few days ago, says the Woodland Mail,
the wife OF Woodland man alkei into a
prominent saloon where her lord" was en-
gagged In game of cards. He persuasively
asked her to leave. but she c0mDlacently
for him ought to be good enough for her,
and requested him to proceed with the game
as she wanted to learn something about it.
The interest in the game seemed to lose its
force all at once aud it was relief to all
the parties engaged when she returned
home, taking her errng chubby" with her.