The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-05
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Coyotes are doing great damage to the
sheep interests near Mount Vernon, Oregon.
Z. A. Struchfield OF MarySville, Oregon,
has the banner hog of the year. 1t now
weighs 600 pounds and is still growing
heavier.
George Livingston, a 14year-old boy of
Pomona Valley, died the other day in Ter
rible commissions from the effects of clSat-
cite smoking.
Some miscreant is killing the MOngOlian
pheasantS which General Rlglin some time
since was al great expense to Import into
the Coos country in Oregon.
A stockman al Walla Walla proposes to
slall-feed $50 head OF cattle this winter, on
which he expects 10 make "A handsome profit
in the spring. This system is new IL that
section.
". W. Foot of Monrovia bought eight
acres Of moist land asst fall and seeded it to
alfalfa. He has sIld hay fIOm that land
this year TO the amount Of $50 an acre. He
put but very little labor on it.
Deposits of meerschaum have been found
on Saptll0 Greek, near Silver City, New
Mexico. The principal vein is inches
wide, and cubical blocks with faces 10
inches in length have been obtained
Los GatOs is to have a Kelley institute
for the cure Of the liquor ana the opium
| habit. The doctor VINO is to establish it Is
said to have paid $4,000 for the exclusive
right to conduct such an Institution III Cali
foTnia.
The organization of the Cahuenga Co.
operative Company Tor the manufacture of
beet sugar is at last complete and the Di-
rect0rS elected. The second enterprise of
this nature at Anaheim is progressing
toward a completion of plans.
On the day before Thanksgiving an Oak
land young man, named Dolan, married a
young lady to whom he had long been at
tentive. He took her off for honeymoon
ana stayed TWO days, ana on the day after
his return home he eloped with her sister
The Shasta Courier says: Several pam
theirs have been seen near town Of late.
There are a couple ranging in the head of
Middle Creek, aud have grown so bold as to
visit the slaughter-hOuse at night, and we
hear that number of hogs have been killed
by the varlnlnts.
There has been considerable frost in An
telope Valley this fall. Work has been
commenced there on the Gull irrigation syS-
| TEN, which will include seventeen miles of
main bitches, from y to % feet wide and PA
TO feet deep The water is 10 be brought
from Little Rock Creek.
Sacramento is great temperance town.
III ut OF reform 1t passed an ordinance TO
compel the saloons to close their doors at
midn light; but now that requirement has
been modified by permitting the saloons to
keep open after midnight if they will pay
SO quarter for that privilege.
The matter of an electric road from Reno
to Virginia City is interesting Nevada par
ties. An electrical eng lneer has pronounced
such a road entirely practicable, aDd says
that considering the great results that
would undoubtedly follow, it would by no
means be an expensive undertaking
Speaking of the good results that would
follow irrigation in that section, the San
Diego Union says There is more hope Tor
San Diego with hundred thousand acres of
irrigated land added to her resources than
in, pa INN nf q bCta av,d
the building of hundred blocks of brick.
According to Harper's Weekly Mrs Har-
rison and the Princess Louise are the only
two women who have ever been permitted
to set foot within the clolsters OF the mon
astery Of Santa Barbara, in California.
And even after their visit the ground trod-
den by them was at once reconsecTated
| with solemn ceremonies.
A terrible wind-storm prevailed at Big
| Timber, Mont, one day last week, during
which the Congregational Church, about
half ompleted, was blown from its founda-
house, occupied but two days, had lis roof
and entire upper story blown off. Other
slight damage was done about town.
The people of Fresno and Tulare coun-
ties are agitatlng a proposition to get an
open waterway from Kings River TO the
head of navigation on the San Joaquin. 1t
is believed that the work would not he diff
cult, and that II 1t were accomplished it
would do more to develop the great Southern
valley than several railroads could do.
The work Of running the Western Union
Telegraph COmpany's wires into Aberdeen,
Wash, on that compaDy's own poles has
begun. The poles of the telephone COM
pauy were formerly used. The line will
cross the WiShuab by a cable under the
river. a similar cable Will BIZ laid under
the ChehaIis River and the line extended to
Ocosta.
TIC Cbiooro C.lfforrio ro1oau Co,,...,..
has incorporated in Los Angeles. The capt.
tai stock Of the company is $500, 900, OF
which SIG, 600 IS subscribed. The lands and
water rights Of the cunpany are in Los
Angeles County, and one object is to pro-
mote immigration to Southern California.
| An Eastern Office will be maintained in
| Chicago
a Cheyenne dispatch states that Wynm-
| ing ranchnen are becoming desperate over
the ruin0us trailing of sheep over the State
| from tie West, and are likely TO resort to
| poisoning. Hundreds of sheep are driven
to Nebraska and Colorado, leaving q wide,
| bare path on The range. All the st0ckmen
| have left SWeetWater Valley, and will be
| for ed to quit al along the Trail unless the
| nuisance Is abdteQ.
a young rancher Of Wyoming, who owns
| ranch and some undeVelODrd Mines re-
| Gently hal the following advertisement in
| Saratoga paper: ''Wanted-A wife; am
| net particular about her looks, her age or
her fortune; she need not be good cook,
as l am something of an artist in that line
myself and will soon break her in; | am
average height and not bad looking; rather
| slender build, dark hair, blue eyes and of
good temper; am 30 years of age and have
| only four false teeth"
San Bernardino County is to have fac
tory. for the manufacture Of fruit-boxes.
Ii the people appreciate their natural adj
| vantages San Bernardn0 should also esta b.
lish big cannery. There is plenty of fruit
there. large factory making the sugar to
sweeten it, iron ana tin enough in the
| mountains in the county to make all the
| cans needed. and plenty Of boxes made
within the borders of the county to pack
and ship all the fruit in. Truly San Ber-
nardino ought not to complain.
L OfficAra