The morning call., 1891-12-27
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

There are now 100 students in the Wyo-
ming State University.
The Santa Paula Chronicle announces
that laboratory is to be established there
for analy ENG cOal-oilS.
Scarlet fever is so prevalent at OakSdale
Wash. that children under 10 years old are
not allowed on the street
A Plnkerton spy was chased out of Car
bon. Nyo.. the other day by coal-miners
He was looking for missing property of the
Union Pacific Company.
A Philadelphia firm recently offered 500
for the finest potato grown in the United
States Benjamin Longley of Eagle Valley,
Oregon, captured the prize.
Town Marshal Bechtel of Cnur d Alene
City, Idaho, has been fined fer breach of
peace In having struck one Fred Palmer
over the head with his club.
Capay's wild man" who has created so
much excitement up there lately has been
captured, and proves to be deaf-and-dumb
fellow, who refuses to reveal his identity.
Fifteen years ago there was not single
orange exported from California. Last year
there were over 1000 carloads shipped away
In 1873 the Southern Pacific suipped 5OS
| pounds of raislns; last year over 70, 600, 600
| pounds.
Eastern experts who have tasted the
| product of the new brewery at Laramie
| Wyo., say the beer is too pure for the
! market and advise adulteratiOn with rice
anu SuEdi' w phlN 4Ol ilC mar AL Is u
| curious commentary.
| The Oregon Weather Bureau has collected
| statistics OF the crops of that State for the
| year 1891. The wheat reports represent
| 635, 900 acres, which show an average yield
| oil twentyfour bushels per acre, making Il
| total yield of over 1900, 900 bushels.
The stamps of the Monumental Mill, in
the Granite Creek district. Oregon, COM
menced dropping last week. The mill is
| supplied with several hundred tons of ore
| from the Monumental and Buffalo mines in
! Granite and Morris mine in the Greenhorn
| district.
There seems to be a fair prospect now for
the completion of the Oregon Pacific over
| the Cascades. And then if they will run
! their line through Salem and on TO Astoria,
| Oregon's principal seaport they will event
ually have the trunk line Tor this State east
ard west.
Isaac Pea of Kelso, Wash, while out
hunting with his brother the other dag, was
| shot by hs brother, who mistook him for a
| deer and fired twice at him. One bullet
struck him in The head, the other in the hin
| The wounds are dangerous and may easily
| prove fatal.
/ One of the largest elk that has been seen
in that vicinity for years was shot in the
| mountains near PhilipSburg Mont, last
" eek by Harry Morgan. 1t was a buck,
over six years old, and weighed 1900 pounds.
! 1t carried 4 magnificent set of horns, which
| bllS iuChy tCl oOiu AOA S1O.
The millennium is not comng-it is here,
| says the Pasadena Star Read and j',dg )
for yourself. A palace-car porter was
Saturday observed to be carefully doing up
and addressing to its owner a fine um bre la
| he had found i'll the car. This is hard to be-
ieve, but we have it from the lips OF a
prominent citizen who we know would not
| ell story about little thing like that.
The house of Cash-Cash, an old and we'll
known Indian, formerly Judge on the
| Umatilla reservation, was, with all its con-
tents, destroyed by fire last week. The fire
is said TO have resulted from a red-hot
| stove. The house had five rooms, and was
| the best one ever built on the reservation by
an Indian. There WAS no insurance, and
the loss is quite severe one for Judge
| Cash-CaSh.
A fruit grower in Umatilla County, Ore
gon, claims to have discovered means of
doing away with the destructive Goblin
moth. He floods his orchard every spring,
| and his theory is that the moth is drowned
| when ready to leave its winter quarters in
the ground. AS proof that this is eflicacious
| he states that his orchard Is not troubled
but his neighbors are obliged to spray their
trees repeatedly.
| The Northwestern climate is severe ON
jawbones, says the Historian. Four or five
| years ago Washingtonian yawned SO
| pasSionately that he dislocated that useful
| member Now a Portland man has fractured
his jawbone by coughing. Muscular con-
traction, explained the doctors. Politicians
who expect to do considerable talking be-
tween the present and the date of the next
| election should take warning.
The venerable Chaplain of Sacramento
| Grange, No. r. r. Davenport, aged 9O
years, died of la grippe at Sacramento on
Monday of this week, and ere he was
| buried his wife, aged 81, followed him To
the great beyond. They were buried To-
gether Thursday. The couple had been
l .,.xlF for nfxrfr nrr-lNf
ago the old gentleman worked regularly at
his trade of cabinet-maker, earning "a a
day.
The Rancho Carne Humane, in Mana
County, is said to derive its singular name
from the fact that portion of it was once
occupied by tribe Of Indians who ate
| human flesh. Another tradition is, how
ever, that some Spanish explorers who came
into the valley Just after terrific battle
between the aborigines found it SO strewn
with dead and mutllated bodies that they
named it Vale Carne Humana, the Valley
of Human Flesh.
A Cotton correspondent of the Los An
geles Express says: The Southern Pacific
| Company is sending operators from almost
every town on the Yuma division of the
road to take the places of the striking en-
ployes OF the company between Yuma and
! Ell Paso. A great many boys have passed
| through here from points west. Boys who
have been learning the business, and who
were receiving SIS per month, have been
given offices and raised to SIS per month.
Trains, SO far. are running regularly.
John Davies. one of the best-known min
ing experts in the West, died in Chicago
| this week of pneumonia. Davies made and
! lost several fortunes in Colorado and Cali
fornia. He died almost penniless. Cards
and speculatiOns are said to have been the
main cause OF his losses. The story is still
told in Colorado of a poker game in which
he lost $4,000 in one night, aud the next
night won it back and $4,000 more. He
gave great sums to charitable objects At
one time he owned considerable property on
the Yuba River, in California