The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-29
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Portland, Or, is to have a bicycle factory.
During the year ending June 3Oth the city
of Cheyenne, WyO., has gained S560.00O in
taxable wealth.
Work has been begun to improve the
entrance to Humboldt Bay by extending a
protecting wall along the north spit
rattleSnake was recently killed in
Orange County that measured 20 feet in
length and feet in circumference. IL had
y rattles.
An orange tree only four inches high at
Yu6a City has borne this season perfectly
formed orange about the size OF an ordinary
currant.
The Signal Service officials at Portland
say that Thursday of last week was the hot
test day # which any record was ever made
by the Weather Bureau in Oregon.
a trusty in the Territorial Penitentiary,
Utah, received terrible flogging at the
hands OF the Warden one day last week for
an attempted outrage on thirteen year-old
girl.
a young lady of Woodland, while on a
picnic the other day, killed ratteSnake
whose tail was ornamented with seventeen
rattles aud button. Thus the veterans
Of the State are passing away.
GrasShOppers are said to BE- so thick along
Soldier Creek, Camas Prairie, Idaho. that
large numbers have persisted in the stream
aud their bodies nave So polluted the water
that stock will no longer drink it.
Ten acres of Sultana grapes were recently
sold, near Cucamonga, for $500. Only ten
years ago the land was sold for 50 an acre,
and the man who then bought it was called
a crazy Dutchman" Tor paying such Il
price.
As Henry Gardner was separating cattle
il corral near POrterville the other day,
one COW suddenly jumped into the air and
kicked him In the face, breaking his jaw
bone, severely cutting his face and driving
one tooth into the jaw.
a little Berkeley boy, aged years. was
thrown from a wagon, last week, and badly
hurt; Unable to rise, he was carried into
neigborng store, where the first words he
spoke we're: Don't tell my mamma; she's
sick, and it would hurt her.
a man got drunk at Woodland 4 few DAYS
ago, and in tpsy fracas had "A piece of his
ear bitten off. He went to Sacramento, had
the piece of ear sewed in place, aud now it
is nearly well, and apparently as firmly
united to his head as ever it was.
The Shasta Courier gravely states that a
Shasta County lady recently fell into the
Sacramento River, and when pulled out,
half drowned, Il i've pound catfish was found
entangled in her hustle. Her hui band
wanted to set her again. but she didn't see
it.
Memo Rock. at San Luis Obispo was
blasted last week to furnish rock for the
new breakwater at that place Three tons
of dynamite and gunpowder were used, aud
the blast was fired by electricity. About
10000 tons of rock were loooered and broken
up
The MADEIRA County Review says that
chastnus grated on trees grow and
flourish in Fresno County. That's nothing.
We have seen chestnuts grow and flourish
and become too big for any earthly use lust
by being grated i'll the columns of a news
paper.
A. Victoria 3D. c. man visited Seattle
Wednesday and went into a saloon to take
his drink. He took his s.imuiant and ilnme-
diately dropped dead in front of the bar.
Seattle liquor must almost equal the whisky
OF early mining days that ''killed at forty
yards"
A member of thrashing crew at work
near Madison, Cal, last week had a S75
gold watch snatched from bis pocket by the
derrick-fork and run through the separator.
The latter was not hurt, but the chruuomet-
Tical qualities of that timepiece were per-
manently impaired.
SciO, Oregon, put State convicts TO n god
use the other day. A respected citizen Of
that place being very ill and unable to at
tend TO his farm work, his neighbors pro-
cured the services OF the chain-gang. and.
going to his bayfield,. shocked up about
50 acres of hay for him.
dust storm rolled over the East River
side plain last Friday and gave the town of
Cotton visit. 1t travelled fast, rose, ap-
parently, 200 or 500 feet saws the Riverside
Press, ana presented a suffucating appear
ance even IN the distance The storm was
accompanied by thunder.
The Spokane exposition will open on Sep
TENDER I'D and continue until October 18th
The managers have made an appeal to the
citizens for 5000, necessary to carry out
the work tempated, and no difficulty
VIII be experienced in raising the amount
The exposition promises to be the most
successful one yet held.
Eastern Oregon and Washington will raise
for export 100000 bushels wheat. At 6s
cents per bushel, which is not an overesti-
mate, this means SI4 100000 Add to il the
wool clip, and the sale of fruits, and il is an
easy matter To figure out that farmers OF
Eastern Oregon will b. able to keep the
wolf from the door for the next year with
out much wear or tear.
At Riverside recently a wagon in which
two men we're riding caught fire and was To-
tally consumed, together Wit, its contents
which included clothing, foo, bedding aud
vallse containing a $50 iii. The men,
who barely escaped with IL ir lives, were
on camping expedition. Ii is thought
that some matches In the Gpttom of the
wagon became ignited by jCStiDg over the
road.
Rotert Grimey, boy employed at the
Leland Stanford Jr. University, sustained
severe injuries few days agb while bath
ing in the lake back of the University. II
seems That III jumping into the water he
struck board with nail pro iecting out of
it. which nearly disemboweled him. He
was taken to Mayfield, where a physi-
clan attended him. 1t took twenty-seyen
stitches TO sew up the wound.
AT Otay, last Friday, wildcat came up
into town, visited one place and made a
scatter among poultry, cats and dogs; went
TO another place and attacked little boy,
biting and scratching him severely before
the other boys could drive aim off. BE
then made for another ranch and sprang
upon young man, who defended himself
with grub hoe until he could procure a
gun and shoot the animal, which measured
over four feet in length.