The morning call., 1891-11-11
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
William McGinnls of Douglass, Wyo., has
been sentenced 10 four years i'm prlSOnment
Tor cattle-stealing.
The rear wall of the new City Hall at
Port Townsend was blown down by high
wind the other day.
Surveys are being made along the Stilla-
guamlsh River for a railroad to the Monte
Cristo mining district, in Washington.
Charley HertZinger of the Redding Ii r.
aid varies his editorial duties this winter
by teaching ncin9-schOol in Alturas.
A. c. Bassett, former Superintendent of
the Coast Division OF the Southern Pacific,
is establishing extensive coal-yards at Mon
terey.
Five Indians from Indian Territory passed
through Reno the other day, on their way to
Walker Lake, in search of the Great Mes
siah."
Thomas Barmby of Winnemurcs cap
tured alive a porcupine weighing fifty
pounds, in the Harmony Mountains, near
Winnemucca.
A number of fruit-growers of Niles, Ala
media County, have dried their fruit this
year, chartered cars and shipped it directly
TO Chicago to be sold there.
The Reno journal says that the demand
for eggs in that section is so much greater
than the supply that grocery-men have 10
import them from California.
lump of coal weighing a ton has been
sent to Denver from Rock Springs, Wyo.. as
an advertisement. One lump broken up
there last week filed seven cars.
Twenty-Five sailors and marines deserted
from the British war-ship Garnet while she
lay at Vancouver, Is. c., recently, and
walked across the line to Whatcom.
A complaint has been lodged with the
Fish Commissioner of Nevada against sew
eral parties for violating the fish law by
catching troutin the Humboldt River.
The Chino beet-sugar factory has sus-
pended operations until it can learn from
Washington whether it will be permitted to
hold its syrup over until next season bef OF q
reducing.
The land on which the Shoshone Falls. in
Idaho, are situated has been selected rs
school land, but will not be solG, as other
lands are IL IS proposed to rent it SO as to
secure perpetual income.
Reuben Herrod of Rough and Ready lit
forms the Grass Valley Tidiugs that deer
are more numerous about his place than
ever known before, their tracks in places
covering the ground as thickly as hog tracks.
Work has been resumed on the gas we'll
at Salinas, which, when operations were
suspended year age, had reached n depth
Of 1850 feet. 1t is now down 1888 feet, but
as yet the expected flow of Q IS has not ma
terialized, though tue stream Of water has
a vigorous effort is being made by the
county officials Of Wyoming to collect taxes
on the large bands of sheep being driven
across that State by non-residents The
Treasurer and Assessor of Laramie County
Overhauled band oil 5000 owned by a Dem
yer man, and collected taxes of him.
While the Penitentary Commissioners
were IN session at the Santa Fe IN Mex
prison three prisoners, with wooden re-
yolVers' wrapped with tin foil, held up the
guard, and succeeded in escaping in a car
rage which was in front of the building.
Tho nf io 70 1, -.
exhibits at the Worlds Fair dish-washing
machine invented by woman. 1t is said
TO be the first machine of tho kind that has
ever proved a real success Dishes will be
washed and wiped in the presence of the
public.
A few days ago, says the Oakland Times,
San Jose grape-groH er ordered 1000 boxes
from firm In this city in which to ship
grapes East. Thursday morning telegram
was received countermanding the order,
stating that the rains had destroyed his
ripening crop.
The body of Colonel William Hakes, one
of the best-knOwn contractors on Puget
Sound was found floating in the bay at
Port Townsend Tuesday. 1t is believed he
was murdered. The deceased was one OF
the sos who voted for General Grant at
the Chicago Convention in 1880.
The Grand Jury for Lane County. Or. In
session at Eugene, has indicted Fred Reed
the timber-iand man, who has been In Jail
several months, five times for obtaining
money on false pretenses. Lane is one of
the most notorious timber swindlers on the
entire coast. His victims can be found all
over Oregon, Washington and California.
The Farmers Alliance, Colored Farmers
Alliance, Patrons of Husbandry, Knights
of Labor, Federated Trades, Citizens ALI
ance, Nationalist, Veterans Alliance.
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Woman Suffragists and Book-keepers' AS
ISOLATION were all represented in the recent
! convention Of the Peoples party AT Los
| Angeles.
A number of young people at Lovelock,
New, set out to have dance the other
night, but were unable to hire a hall. So
! great was their desire to trip "the light.
fantastic toe" that they finally invaded the
butcher-shop, rolled away tie blocks,
| packed up the meat and whired till broad
| daylight to the music of a three-strnged
banjo, Good for the young people Of Love
lock. May their lovelucks never grow
| thin or their toes weary.