The morning call., 1891-05-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Oakland has new newspaper, The Oracle,


Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
Oakland has a new newspaper, The Oracle,
published every Saturday.
Eleven hundred carloads Of oranges have
been shipped from Riverside this season.
Large quantities Of hedondilla. or grease
wood are being sent East, from Yuma, for
| medicinal purposes.
Santa Barbara boasts of hotel waiter
who can take an order for dinner in seven
different languages.
San Jacinto, warned by her recent severe
experience, is moving in the matter OF or
ganizing fire department.
A number of Tacoma capitalists have
formed stock company, with $4,000 capt.
tai, to manufacture all kinds OF paper from
wood pulp.
One Of the largest shipments of brandy
ever made from Sacramento has just been
shipped TO Europe, $4,000 gallons going from
that place to Bremen.
New Mexico has passed a law providing
for the Inspection of orchards. with view
to the determination OF scalebugs and other
fruit pests in the State.
The farmers living south of Sacra-
mentO, in the vicinity of the city, have
notified the Trustees that they must have
more and better sewagefaeilities.
Footpads, tramps and midnight providers
vi tNEIl oUIb df6 DuIntiOuS III CdEIdDIcHlO
just now, and are constantly plying their
various occupations in the streets of the
city.
Spinal meningitis is so prevalent among
the children Of Upper Valley, Grant County,
Oregon, that the leading physician there
says it looks as if the disease would become
epidemic
A Lun, the we'll known Chinese doctor of
Los Angeles, was assaulted by "China
Jake" a notorious sport of that city, Satur-
day night, and his head smashed IN by a
blow from heavy cane.
a Jewish Rabbi of Russia has written a
quaint letter TO Virginia City, asking the
Jewish people to use their influence in per-
suadlng one Abraham Fred resident OF
Virginia City, TO send some mo ney TO Rus
sia to support his wife and children.
Rev. Frank Dixon. a Baptist Minister of
Oakland, having been charged with heresy
by DR.. Morse, formerly at the bead of the
Baptist theological Seminary there, his
congregation took the charge under con-
deration Sunday, and voted TO sustain Mr..
Dixon in his position.
The Spokane jail is hardly what might
be called arrisoner-tlght structure, as nearly
all the culprits arrested the past month have
escaped from the Jail. Last Thursday night
at about $50 five prisoners opened the trout
door by some means and walked out One
was captured, but the Others IN ade good their
escape
The new bounty of S. per scalp On eoyO-
ties is awakening some enterpriSing minds
TO the great possibilities involved therein,
and according 10 the Express OF that place
young man of MERGED has eight young
coyotes shut up in pen, and is feeding
them from bottle There will be money
in their scalps in time.
A few days ago the station agent at Snm-
nit, Cal, sent to San Demanding drug
store for prescription for his infant child.
BY some means bottle of chlorOform was
sent instead OF the prescription which had
been prepared The father poured out
dose OF the liquid In teaspoon for the child,
bur fortunately he noticed the label on the
bottle before 1t was too late. 1t was q mar
row escape, both for the child and careless
druggist.
Walter Z. Turner and Clifton Knkel were
ranehing in partnership on the Qninainet,
in Washington State. Last Saturday even
ing while asleep in their cabin Turner
heard a noise in the brush. Turning to his
partners bunk lie thought he saw the latter
lying there. Through the cracks of the
cabin he could see some one prowling
around outside, and, taking aim, he fred,
and shot his partner, KinkeI, who was out
there, killing him.
Planked shad is an Eastern Coast delicacy
which those who have tried it recommend
enthusiastically to Pacific Coast epicures.
Here are the rites attendant upon It's pTepa-
ration: Dig trench, build fire, and when
1t has burned nearly to Goals set the shad
before it. The shad is split, its backbone
removed, and the two fat pieces tackled to
plank, whose lower end is sharpened and
thrust into the ground before the fire.
While the fish siZZles and browns the cook
6astes it with melted butter, and when it is
done, carved, as it lies on its own plank,
ana set before the consumer, with half n
lime, gastronomy can offer nothing better.
The PLANK, by the way, should be Of some
hardwood, as either pine or redwood i'm
parts foreign flavor not desirable.