The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-30
COAST ITEMS.


The grasshopper plague has reached Las
The Sacramento Bee has entered upon its
thirty-fiith year.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins Searles is the way
one country paper speaks of the late Mrs.
H0pkinS-SearleS.
The wheat crop of Nevada is said to be
very largely in excess this year of the
amount raised in that State last year.
The State Board of Horticulture win hold
It's next fruitgrowerS meeting at MaryS-
vile, from the 1lth to the Goth of November
next
The stove foundry at the Oregon State
Penitentlary is shut down for the annual
cleaning, and as a consequence nearly 400
prisoners are idle.
man was put in jail at The Dalles
Oregon, last week, for DEMONSTRATING. He
was the first prisoner that jail has contained
Tor several months
The Fraser River salmon pack is said to
be 80 per cent behind the two previous
years this season. The pack is also shoit on
the Columbia River.
George HlsSon ana Elias Duncan, two
boys from the orphans home. at Vallejo.
were drowned, while boating, on Lake
Chabut, Saturday afternoon.
One Of the most recent schemes in Wash
lngton Is for an electric car line between
| Seattle and Puyallup. to be butt in the near
| future at cost of about $4,000.
The Lake Earl mill, three miles from
Crescent City, Del Norte County. was
burned 10 the ground last week, causing a
loss of about $40, 200, with 10 Insurance.
August Carl Rost, German carpenter of
Seattle, committed suicide al that place Fri
day, by shooting himself through the head.
Anxiety over business prospects was the
cause OF his rash act
The Oregon and Washington wheat har-
vests are progressing finely, and 1t is esti-
mated tnHt fhnSR II
bushels OF fine wheat will soon be ready for
cob sumption and export.
A half-interest in the McGrath group Of
mines at Eagle Mountain, in the Morongo
district, has been sold to San Bernardino
| and Cotton parties for $4,000. The mines
are said to promise great things.
Fifteen thousand people went to Redondo
Beach to see the Charleston. while she lay
there, last week, but owing to the high sea
| being 100 much Tor the small boats, less
| than 1900 managed to get aboard.
| The thermometer fingered patiently about
| the 1852 mark, at Pomona, last Friday,
| while the residents of that place sat still
| and congratulated themselves that they
were not at Yuma, where the mercury reg
| istered i2l'.
Reports come from Montana of man
| who once year sheds his skin as does a
snake. Each year, in July, he is said to be
| attacked by sort OF fever. His skin loos-
| ems, and In ten days or two weeks ii can be
| taken completely off
Charles Frankish of Ontario has growing
| on his place, there, four young c0eoanut
| trees which he has grown from the nuts.
| The trees are so rapidly shooting heaven
| ward that the Observer says Mr.. Frankish
| viii soon have 10 take To raising monkeys to
gather the nuts for him.
A Los Angeles young man recently hit
upnn novel scheme for beating the Post
office out OF few stamps. He rented box,
| taking two keys, one of which he gave to a
| lady friend, and they exchanged letters
through the box. The Letters have been
| held for postage and one key has been
taken up.
A little boy of Spokane is on trial for
stealing, at different times, quantities of
cigars, tobacco, pipes, etc, which he de-
| clares he turned over TO a local dealer who
urged him to steal them, and on one or two
| occasions gave him money for bringing in
| the goods. The lad is very young and re-
specially connected.
The olo Mail wakes eloquent over new
| fg that is being grown there which it claims
| is of superior flavor and quality and prolific
| in production. The specimens seen, 1t says,
are OF the White Pacific variety, and were
| gathered from SiX-year-Old tree. The
color is a beautiful golden yellow, and the
size is large, the two circumfereuces seven
by nine inches. Twelve figs weighed two
| and one-half pounds.
The Astorian says that as Mr.. Alexander,
| of 10000 mutton sheep through Khckitat
| County to the Sound market recently, a
small canyon was reached which the herder
| did not see and when the front sheep came
| to 1t the rear ones pushed them ahead until
there was bridge formed with the strug-
| Cling and dying leaders. The rest of the
| band passed over and when the herders ar
rived they found $50 dead and dying she ep
n. W. Matherel of Hanford has great
scheme Tor poisoning jack rabbits. He
cuts watermelon III two and sprinkles
| strychnine over it, then smooths a knife
| over the sprtnkled surface. This tends to
send the poison through the fruit and the
rabbit partaklng OF any part of the melon
VIII surely die. By drawing a board or
scanning through field of alfalfa, thus
breaking road, the rabbits will follow the
trail. which. If supplied with poisoned mel
| obs, will result in death to all that eat.
The Albuquerque New Mexican says:
| The publishers who received the contract
for publishing the textbooks to be used in
| the schools of New Mexico are now prepar-
| ing special edition of their ography,
containing more full and accurate informa-
ton In regard to this Territory than is to be
obtained from the regular edition. This
Work VIII be used in all the Territorial
schools, and Will give the children OF New
Mexico good opportunity to learn some-
| thing about their own section OF the cou ntry.
AS reported in THE CALI, at tile time, in
| June last, Chinaman named All Quong
TAI was chopped to pieces by the Indians
| at bridgeport, Mono County, Cal. The
Poker Tom, sailed the body, and, it was
| alleged. led it to the indians. Now the
| Chinese Consul is having testimony taken
in the case, and is sending an agent to the
| Walker River Reservation to ascertain what
Indians were engaged in tho murder OF the
Chinaman, with view OF having them ar
rested and punished.
Really, some one ought TO get those
Fresno County editors to sign the pledge
| This time 1t is the Selma Enterprise that
| grayely describes creature that is fright
| ening the ladies and children of that fair
burg. The thing is said TO be "hiie0us-
| looking, half-bird, haf-reptile monster.
| which flew about in an excited manner, ut
tering shrlll cries. the like of which we're
| never heard BEFORE; and further that it
| had wings and and great, big phosphor-
| escent eyes nearly the size OF saucer,
| while the head WAS much like that of an
immense snapDing-turtle."