The morning call., 1891-11-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The starch factory at Santa Ana is run
ming day and night.
OF the $50 students at Stanford University
302 are native Californians.
Forty thousand acres of the San Joaquin
Ranch. in Orange County, are TO be leased
in small tracts.
The State Board of Trade is arranging for
a store in London for the sale of California
fruits and wines
Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara has
shipped two carloads Of Japanese persim-
mons to New York.
The Cotton c0nstabulary ran in as tramps
the other day couple OF tourists who had
$500 between them.
sequel lively spiritually is the way a
Santa Cruz paper heads the account of re-
yigai meetings in that little town.
The Ventura County Grand Jury has de-
manded that the Sheriff return to the Treas
ury $3.50 wrongfully taken by him.
The State Teachers Association will meet
in Riverside December 2Sth. Eight han
bred members are expected to be present.
The Sunset Telephone Company proposes
to spend Sl50,000 in putting its wires under
ground and in erecting buildings in Los An
geles.
The merchants Of San Diego. Los Angeles
and Fresno express Willingness to join the
Traffic Association recently formed in San
Francisco.
Last Saturday. near Challender, Ariz.. a
stranger, supposed to be miner. commit
ted suicide by placing dynamite cap in his
mouth and biting it.
The largest brandy still in the world is
located about two miles from Stockton on
FL Pinal, the pioneer vineyard and winery
of San Joaquin County.
A few nights ago Redlands young lady,
who was returning home in the early even
ing, was chased for some distance by two
tramps, and only escaped them through her
fieetness of foot
The Shasta Courier says good hay is SELL
ing for SO ton in Big Valley. A Fall
River Valley firm recently purchased large
amount Of loose barley in Big Valley for
70 cents a hundred.
The cooperative movement Is gaining
favor in this State. A company has been
formed III Oakland that proposes to estab-
fish and conduct cooperative stores and fac
tories on large scale.
4 tramp confined in Jail in Idaho Falls
fired the building in three places one night
last week, and was pretty well smoked
when taken out Part of the Jail had to be
chopped away in order to extinguish the
fire.
A man named Newton Arnold was
brought to Missoula. Mont. last week from
Grantsdale with both feet badly frozen He
was found in the big Hole" and had been
wandering about for ten days. He is Of IN
sound mind.
In view of the expected visitation of grass
hOppers in some parts of the State next
year, the State Board Of Horticulture has
arranged for supply of parasites from
New South Wales, t. be ready for distribu-
tiOn in March.
The $4,000 appropriated by theilast Legis-
lsture for that purpose is to be expended in
repairs and improvements on the interior Il
the Capitol Building. One of the improve
mentS planned is to have the entire building
lighted by electricity.
The AstOrian thinks that somebody be-
sides the fishermen must be making consid-
cradle money out of Columbia River star
geon. 1t sells readily in New York and
Boston at % cents pound, while on the
Columbia it is worth at most cents.
The Postal Telegraph Company has been
stopped in its construction In San Diego. the
Western Union claiming an exclusive right
to 100 feet on either side Of the railroad
track. The courts will settle the question,
but building is suspended in the meantime.
The Grand Island and Northern Wyoming
Railroad Company have filed a certificate Of
their line OF extension over several school
sections in Cook, Weston and Sheridan
tary of State. This is a Burlington extern
sion in the direction of Buffalo.
Labor organizations in Butte, Missoula,
Great Falls and other cities of Montana
have commenced strong fight against the
Chinese. All the members of the various
unions viii not patroniZe Chinese and agree
to boycott all merchants, saloon men, hotel
men and others who employ Chinese in any
way.
The old adobe house built by Captain
Stephen Smith in 1873 and known as the
Bodega-ranch house, in Sonona County,
was burned last Friday. The only thing that
remains to mark the spot that was once an
important Russian settlement is the flagstaff
erected by Colonel John c. Fremont Ia 1876,
The loss is estimated at about $4,000.