The morning call., 1891-09-03
COAST ITEMS
Brief Notes From Pacific statee ona


Territories.
The Oregonian is advocating the building
ola dry-dock at Portland.
A Great Falls (Mont) farmer recently sold
COCO pounds of new oats at 81 70 peg hun
dred.
A ledge of fine galena ore has been struck
in the King Sullivan mine, IN the Upper
Gle Elum distrieI, Wash.
The Mexican Fiuancier says tlfat the Nor
mons are making wonderful progress ct
colonization in that country.
A. J. Lancaster of Salt Point, Cal. says
the coyotes and other vermin have just
about annihilated his sheep hocks.
One hundred and twenty-five new build
ings have been put up in Redlands during
the past twelve months, at o cost Of about
S374, 900.
Johnnie. the fifteen year-old snu OF j. K.
Moore Of Sans Valley, Oregon, was drowned
in Rogue River Sunday while trying to save
his brother Ben from like fate.
At Phoebe, New, recently, young man
named Pugh was fatally shot by acciden: by
young man named Alkey. The two. who
were warm friends were examining pistol
which went off unexpectedly.
The Santa Clara Journal thinks bounty
on the scalp of the careless camper who for
gets to extinguish his camp fires is more to
be desired than the mucL-taked-ot coyote
bounty.
There are 1880 patients at the State Insane
Asylum at Stockton. To look after these
and the buildings there are $50 employees at
salaries ranging all the way from $50 TO S29l
a month.
The Superintendent OF the Harvey Peak
Tin Mining Company says the rock Is very
rich and the tin of fine quality, but "the
company has not gone down deep enough to
find whether there will be sufficient tin to
pay dividends on the plant.
Plans for the Military College building at
| Aberdeen, Wash, are now being drawn by
Architect Swain. The building will be
| with basement, and will be surmounted by
o tower that will reach 66 feet into the air.
a few evenings ago the venerable editor
| of the GilToy Gazette was knocked into the
| gutter in front Of his Office door. The trou-
| bic arose out Of the aSsailantS falling to see
| the point of small editorial Joke. The
aggressor was taken before Judge and
fined SIS for his assault upon the editorial
| dignity.
H. Girard, aged 20 years, is in the Los An
| gales County Jail for highway robbery.
| For several years past he worked success
fully at holding up Arizona stages. was I'M
| prisoned, pardOned by the Governor, and IN
| July robbed a mail-carrier at Pine ole, for
which offense he is now paying the penalty.
Close calculation of the salmon pack on
| the Fraser River gives 10000 cases for
! twenty-One canneries. the largest single
| Dack DtIUR W6H D VI SO,OOU tdScSs L hCu
| paid fishermen 20 cents each for sOckeye
| salmon, which accounts for his large pack.
| The shortage on the Fraser this season is
146, 600 cases.
J. W. Pollard Of Reno has been sent to
| the State Insane Asylum. He is an old Ne
vada pioneer, OF whom the Journal says
| doc Pollard, as he Is generally called, is
about so years Of age and until the last few
| years could read without spectacles. He
| came to this Coast in 1849 and to Nevada
about twenty-seven years ago.
The Ventura Observer has the biggest
fish story for the week ending August 29th.
| 1t says A day or two ago, while Bay Web
ster and Roy Sheldon we're fishing from the
White Wings, about mile and half from
| the wharf, two large whales arose from the
briny, and lesurely disported themselves
| before their astonShed audience. Evidently
wearying of performing. they quietly swan
off toward the islands, leaving the boys
much relieved.
! According to reports the experiments with
ramis culture at Bakersfield are not an un-
| qualified success. The product of 71h
pounds of dry hber, worth cents a pound,
from quarter OF an acre of land, will not
| be regarded by farmers as satisfactory, con-
sidering the labor and expense involved in
setting the roots and gathering the crop. II
i would be only S14 80 an acre. A fair crop
of wheat OF barley would be worth as much,
and could be produced at less cost and
trouble.
Figs of almost every known variety, SAYS
the San Jacinto Register. are making their
welcome. appearance in market. Nearly
every Tancher in San Jacinto Valley has a
few fig trees which bear profnsely each
year, being particularly adapted to the
sandy soil. Several large fig orchards were
: planted last year in various parts OF the val
ley, and as the fruit can safely be counted
upon as being large, luscious and of i'm
mense yield, the proprietor RS will have reason
to cOngr atulate themselves upon the invest
| ment. :
Mary Cooke OF Sacramento was riding
with another woman near Auburn on Sun
day when one of them sme1led fire, and the
Cooke girl discovered hsr clothing to be
| burning, having been ignlted by match in
her dress pocket. She sprang out of the
buggy and her companion with great diff
| Guilty aided her in putting out the flames,
| but not until she was very badly bnrned
from her feet to her head on the right side
She severely but not thought to be dan
gerously injured.
The Evanston Idaho News of recent
| date says: A settler in Northern Uinta
County named Adams brought in yesterday
thirty bear hides. two mountain lions and a
number of coyotes and smaller animals.
Mr.: Adams lives ninety miles from the
nearest postoffiee, whichis Kaintuck Idaho,
| just east of Jacksons Lake, and seven
miles from the south boundary OF the Ma
| LlUutl no WAS -sbftu anu Il HAIL QdYS
| making his trip to the. county seat to get his
bounty, which amounted to over S175.
In the new. iron and steel works which
| San Diego has Just secured by raising a
bonus of 500, 600, the .'direct" process will
| be used, iron and steel being made from ore
without blast furnace operations. The ore
is to. come from the neighboring county of
| San BernardinO CT from Lower California.
Crude petroleum will be the fuel used. The
| plant is to be operated six months, and $780,
| 900 worth OF iron and steel turned out be-
fore the subsidy is paid. 1t Is claimed that
iron will be made and sold for not over 81 a
ton in excess Of the Pittsburg prices.
An: Albina (Oregon) man well along in
years, visited Portland Justice the other
| day with young girl of about 16 and
wanted the Justice. to draw up deed for
two lots, for which he was to receive S250O; !;
the cash and divide it between the old gem
tleman and the young girl, after she had be-
come the formers wife. The deed was pre-
pared, ready for the old mans signature.
when the Justice asked for his fee. That
broke the bargain all up. The old man
walked out, leaving his bride-elect, who. In
turn went her different way homeward.
It's not generally known, we believe. saws
the Montesano (Wash) Democrat, that a
woman contractor was engaged on the rail-
road work In this region, but such was tho
case. Sophia johnson is the name OF the
lady, and she rs now erecting handsome
two-story building in South Aberdeen with
the money she realized from her contract
ing. Superintendent Clayton gave her n
contract for fifteen stations, but seeing she
would not get 1t done in time, cut her down
to ten, which she completed in good condi-
tion. 1t was a little strange to see a woman
shoveling dirt on the railroad, but she
seemed to enjoy it. The limit for woman is
evidently not drawn here.
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For Malicious Arrest.
The unusual charge of malielously OBJ
tanning a warrant of arrest Is the one Will