The morning call., 1891-01-05
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states anC
Territories.

Territories.
Tie Red Bluff Sentinel was "a years old
| last Friday
Orange County farmers have 1000 acres
planted 10 cabbages.
San Diego ordnge-growers expect to snip
| fifty carloads this wmGer.
| j. j. Owen has changed the name OF the
Times of San Jose to The Better Times
The price of gas at jackson. Amador
County, has been reduced from 81 to S. %
thousand feet.
The track-walker of the Southern Pacific
now uses railroad-track bicycle between
| FL Monte, Ontario and Pomona.
The Colusa Sun was 29 Years old last FIJI
| day. W. s. Green has been connected with
the paper since September, 1868
A Shasta man made lot of wine and
! sampled it with so much guSto that he had
! the jIm-jams and blew out his brains.
| The engine-roOm of the Chino beet-suZar
factory VIII contain eight Corlise engines,
| with Il combined power of 1900 horses.
The friends Of Judge Croush, who recently
| retired from The bench OF Napa County, pre-
sented hun with splendid service of silver
The second flowing artesian we'll in New
Mexico was struck at Roswell, in Pecos
Valley, last Saturday. The well is only 297
feet deep.
The Mojave Miner wants football to be
introduced to the indians. on the ground
that it will kill them off quicker than the
Messiah craze
Says the Pomona Progress: The material
of the dead Los Angeles Tribune was offered
for sale at auction last Saturday. but there
were no bidders.
The Santa Rosa Democrat says: A large
number OF persons in that town were vic
tins OF the late firm OF Weaver IL Co. of San
Francisco, who operated in alleged timber
claims.
The Victoria CoIonist of Decemb r 9th
says the German ship Rudolf Won Banning
sen, bound from Cardiff to that port with
smokeleSs coal Tor the navy, is three months
overdue.
The City Trustees of Los Angeles began
the new year by cutting down salaries OF
clerks in various departments. BY this
means a saving OF $4,000 a yoar will be
effected.
"A boy named Tuffrer tried to put a caI.
Monday Mf,er tne eaposion hlS iS eit
hand was terribly lacerated and was minus
thumb.
S. L. Atkins of Newman, Stanislaus
County, imported some Scotch staguounds
recently. He tried his dogs III running down
coyotes last Monday, when three coyotes
were killed.
The tough element of Oleta, Amador
County, captured the town on Christmas.
Free lighting was INDUCED IN all night, the
water mains were broken, causing Hood
in the streets, and one mi ,cre INT cut off the
tail from a fine COW.
The managers of the agricultural station
at jackson, AmadOr County, have had so
much trouble with protecting Their property
from fire and mutlat on announce that If
another act of violence is reported they will
leave the county forever.
A leading article in the Willows Journal
recently had this 81 ring headline: 1t
does not grippe" 1he Red Bluff Sentinel
says: Well It may not, but then it makes
the cold chillo caper up and down the spinal
column, like unto troiicksome colt on an
| alfalfa patch. Put II somewhere else
The New Years issue of the Seattle Post
| lntelligencer took forty pages to give its
readers comprehensive report Of the sub
| Stantlal progress made in that thriving city
on Puget Sound. No better work was ever
done on the Coast in the way of getting uut
a specimen number Of great newspaper.
TIE Stockton Independent says a Stock
| ton man has made rough estimate that
| $4,000 feet Of walnut lumber could be raised
| on one acre IN fifteen years. This, at double
| the price of redwood, or, say $50 per 1000,
wouid be at the rate of $3.50 an acre for the
timber alone, with no labor whatever after
four years cultivation, if properly irr-
| gated.
The Visalia Delta says: Tulare has with
in its borders mole reserved land (mostly
timber land than any other county in tile
State. In the Tule River reservation are
4S,GG6.69 acres; in the Sequoia National
Park, 161, 59653 acres and in the south half
Vi ptuCAttt bidub lin, AIiCl 10 al eAi7
county, 1256.60 acres the total being Oil,
51j.S2 acres.
The Woodland Mail of January 1st says
TIE faithful horse Tony" who has been
used in the Fire Department for the rast
five years, was Yesterday given an exempt
ticket aud placed on the retired list with a
pension, as lie Is broken down and unable ia
work. Tony" was injured some time ago
while running to fire. The harness broke
and he was thrown violently to the ground
in1urmg his back.
In writing of the death of Superior Judge
Il. +. Arick OF Kern County, the Echo says
There was popularity about his law prac-
tee that is not often met with. He would
never under any circumstances appear 1ol
the prosecution in criminal case. His ser
vices were always at the hands of defend
ants, but lie would never assist the pubic
prosecutor. He was kind-hearted. whole
souied man, always surrounded by many
warm friends.
The Homer Index says: A short time agt
w. y. Lundy brought wild goose-a BIZ
gander-from Carson and turned II l00S'
with Judge Mattly'S poultry at Mono Lake
One morning last week hottie gander,. no
the Judge-hew away, returning az nigh
with mate. Next day he did the same
and has kept it up, until he now has quite
harem. The Judge looks on and remarks
~ on dreadful old Splay footed Mormon
Will you never let up?"
The Yreka Union of January 1st says
we received note from our Fort Joue
correspondent yesterday, which had beel
written at a late hour the night before. l
. says: - frightful accident is just re
ported TO have occurred at Kelsey Creek
where the California Bridge Company ar
constructing bridge over Scott River. Th
treste work gave way and precipitated fou
or five men into the chasm beneath. Tn
messenger left the scene so hurredly tina
he did not learn whether the men who Eel
were killed outright or only wounded
The Astorian says; Talking about 'gall.
the Sound papers are claiming pack o
over 100000 cases of salmon on the Sound
The fact that the Sound salmon pack is gen
orally only about 10000 cases, while th
Columbia River pack for the last year wa
over 4O0,O 600 cases, makes it look as if the
must include in their Sound estimate til
whole Columbia River and Alaska SALINE
packs. What's the matter with their In
, Guiding the seal fisheries IN Behring Sea
They might slip up through Behriug Strait
too, and get some of the whale fisheries {
the Arctic Ocean included in their Scum
, estimates.
Tried to Rescue His Pal.