The morning call., 1891-01-09

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The Oregon States prison at Salem now
holds 324 eonYicts.
Two inches of snow fell at Albuquerque,
n. Mex, last Wednesday
The people of Fossil, Oregon, have raised
a fund of $4,000 to start a fiour-mill.
\ chain gang was started at Santa Cruz
on Wednesday with twenty-five charter
members.
Five shingle-mills at Chehalis. Wash, have
been kept running for months, turning out
100000 shingles day.
During the last ninety days the shipments
OF flour and grain from the port of Astoria,
Oregon, were invoiced at S1,S00,000.
During 1890 the fees collected by Harbor-
master Of Stockton amounted to S1l,276 So.
Of this sum, 1929 10 was for wharf rents.
The tariff for disturbing members of the
Salvation Army in Santa Cruz streets is $40
for the first ofense and the chain gang for
the second.
KaIakaua Rex and suite attended the in
augural ball at Sacramento in company
with Admiral Brown, General Gibbon and
several invited guests.
The Reno Journal says the State of Ne
vada has saved $4,000 in the past three
years by caring for It's insane people instead
of sending them TO California asylumS.
On January 9TH the warehouses at Ia
coma, Wash, held 1862, 800 bushels of
wheat waiting Tor vessels, that are scarce.
Only two deep-water ships were 10 port.
Superintendent Gibson of the indian
School at Carson City went through Douglas
County recently, and got wagon-load of
pupils who were anxious to attend school.
The output of the RoSlyn mine of Kittitas
County, Wash, for 1890 was 45O,669 tons,
against 23S, 431 tons in 1889. TIE pay-rolls
for many months called for $4,000 a month.
The State Board of Equalization OF Wash
ington recently raised the rate OF taxation in
klttitas County36per cent all round. The
result is howl from every tax payer and
many are paying under protest.
The Reno Gazette protests against Dr.
Bishops boys using eggs to peltthe patients
with, when they are worth 80 cents dozen,
and would suggest that they use potatoes
for which the State is only paying 125 cents
per hundred pounds.
A Healdsburg man went to Santa Rosa
on Wednesday to be sworn in as deputy
Sheriff He could not stand the prosperity,
so he went on big spree and was run into
the town cooler for the night The next
morning his resignation was demanded and
the man walked home.
Frank GlencrosS. a wealthy farmer of
Downey, Los Angeles County, has been
held for trial on Oh re OF manslaughter,
with bail fixed at $4,000. He got into a
fight on November 23d last with Martin
Regau and struck him on the head with
fence post Regain died sooa after from his
injuries.
The Chico Enterprise tells quite good
joke on a Justice of the Peace, recently
elected at Wheatland. He imagined that
his term OF office commenced with January
LIST, and on Iast Thursday, at the residence
of the brides MOTHER he married Miss Liz
Zie Gardner and Joseph Holinghead. The
mistake was not discovered until next day,
aud we understand the mistake will be
rectified by going through the ceremony
again.
The Holsters spoken of some time ago as
being planted in the Sound have been heard
from. The kitsap Pioneer says: A former
employe of the United States Fish Commits
sion steamer, the Abatross, stated that he
had recently found some of the Holsters in
the bay of Utsalndy, across the Sound from
where they were planted, and that he found
them in several other places. showing that
they are rapidly propagated. Several other
persons have reported finding Holsters at
various points on the Sound.
The garbage scow, according to the Seat
tie Times, seems 10 Oe the main support of
the seagullS. Never have so many of these
storm birds been seen on Elliott Bay as
there are at present. They are coming from
all directions, and once they arrive they
make this their headquarters. The main
attraction is the garbage scow. Whenever
this is towed out from 1900 to 1000 follow it
to its destination, and the men on it claim
that they scarcely have room to work, as the
gulls cluster around them in swarms, all
hghting one another to get on the scOw and
select their food. These birds are very use
full as they generally eat about one-quai ter
of the garbage that is dumped.