The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-15
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DTiei NOleS StateB
Territories.
An armory is to I've built for the Hum
boldt Guard at Ninnemucca, New.
The Uinta County (Wyo.) Jail is at pres
ent empty, for the first time in many years.
Work on the Salinas gas well has been
abandoned and the pipes are to be taken up.
The company has spent $4,000 in boring for
gas.
Oregon had more rain during the months
of October and November this year than
during those months III any other year since
1t became State.
The mail route from Fort Steele to Sara
toga, Wye, has been discontinued, leaving
the line from Rawlins the only one in the
Upper Platte country.
E. J. Baldwin proposes to build $4,000
barn on his Santa Anaita ranch, and has
given Los Angeles architect orders to con-
struct plans for the same.
The operation of removing a part of
mans lower jaw was performed at Victoria
this week, the subject being hypnotized in
stead Of, AS Is customary, anesthetized.
The lima bean ranch of Dixie Thompson,
IN Ventura County, Is said TO be the largest
in the world, 22O0 acres being planted to
beans. The crop this years was about 103
carloads.
wild goose flew against one of the big
electric lamps on the tower at Alameda the
other day with such force as not only to
break the globe, but bend the brass rods
that supported it.
The annual report of the Oregon Fish
Commission shows that during the past
year there have been packed in Oregon over
100000 pounds of salmon, valued at
81, 5OU, 600. There are 80 canneTies in the
State, and 1870 men are employed in the in
dusry.
II hydraulic mining continues, the great
dam al Fresno will, according to the Sacra-
mentn Bee, prove menace instead of
blessing. In the language of Judge Mathew
7. Deadly of Oregon, the people of the valley
beneath that structure are living Ill the
direct pathway OF an avalanche"
The New York Press says: Where there
are flowers bees do congregate and honey
is the result. The two leading counties OF
California, Los Angeles and San Diego,
shipped last year, as near as can be learned
from the reports of railroad companies and
steamship lines. upward of 100000 pounds
of honey.
During storm at Salem, Oregon, this
week the wind mixed a telephone wire, a
fire alarm wire and wire on the electric
road. The accident turned in false alarm
from the WOODEN mills vicinity, and at the
same time burned out or damaged the tele-
phones on the State House and asylum cir
cult and few other instruments.
OF the $4,000 taken by Albertson, the
Tacoma bank Tobber, about $4,000 of
which was taken in currency at the time of
his departure, $500 is still missing, and it is
believed that the amount or portion of it
has been cached, although the prisoners de-
clare that all except what was found upon
them when captured had been spent.
The san Diego Union says that the
japanese cericulturist, h. Tanaka. recently
inspected some silk exhibited by the Cali
fornia Silk Culture Association, and after
studying it carefully pronounced it the best
quality Of silk of commerce.. saying he
would not be ashamed to send itanywhere
1t will be sent to the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce.
\ novel feature of the State of Washing
ton photograph exhibit will be the pict ures
Of cabins made by settlers without the aid
Of even whip-saw. There are many cabins
along Puget Sound made of Shakes split
from cedar logs, and the cabins look as neat
as if sided with the finest rustic. These.
with the old-fashioned log cabins, will
make an attractive group of scenes.
AT Monterey. Mexico, couple of Amsri-
cans keeping saloon put up picture of
George Washington as a sign. Whereupon
General Reyes, Governor of Nuevo Leon,
has ordered the likeness removed. saying
Washington was too good and too great to
have his picture used as beer-sign. The
proprietors of the saloon claim damages,
and say Secretary Blaine has been ap-
pealed to.
1t begins to look very much like business
along the line of the Oakland and Hay
wards Electric Road. Ties have been de-
liyered aud are lying scattered along the
line. The Pacific Rolling Mills. which has the
contract for furnishing the iron, is not
obliged to furnish the rails till January 1st,
but it has given notice that it can deliver
some of the rails the last of this week or
the first of next, and it has been asked to
do so.
The Grand Jury OF Calaveras County has
returned report in 800 words. The jury
visited the Jail and found no one in it, they
visited tne hnSDItal and fOuud il well man
aged; they heard the testimony against
persons accused, and found no one to in
dict; they looked into the county offices
and found no money spent illegally. That
is about the extent of the report, except
that they recommended the painting of the
Courthouse.
A Spokane newspaper man was the other
day eXpatiating to an Eastern lady on the
matchless climate and mild winters of SpO-
kane. well, L remember" spoke up the
oldest inhabtant at the other side of the
table, IA winter here when for twenty
seven days not train could get into the
city, Very true answered the news
paper man without looking at the reminds
cent inhabitant, but, madam, | assure you
that those were days before there was
railroad into Spokane"
We are informed. says the jacksonville
JajarOnian. that an effort is to be made to
restore 10 this Supervisor district strip of
territory in the Calabasas district which
was taken from the district and added to
the Sequel district several years ago. The
man object in the change would be the con-
venence of the residents OF that section.
They do all their business here, their mail
is directed to this place, and to make them
go out of their way to vote at Aptos is
hardship. The land in question formerly
belonged to this Supervisor district and
should not have been taken from it.
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