The morning call., 1891-11-25
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States an


| A stage line has been started from San
| Ramon, via Dublin, to Haywards.
A sturgeon, weighing 900 pounds, was
| caught in the Columbia River one day last
week.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Will next spring build a $4,000 hospital at
| Tacoma.
The unusual phenomenon of frost and
| fog on the same morning was noticed at
| Chino recently.
An attempt is being made in San Ber-
nardlno to form company TO build an cleo
trio road to Ontario.
The Lyon County (Nev.) Times says ex-
! Governor Adams is feeding 1000 head of beef
cattle in Mason Valley.
The farmers of Garden Grove, Los An
| geles County, are discussing the advisa-
| bilty Of cooperative beet-sugar facto ry
| there.
a couple of Eastern sugar manufacturers
| are In san Diego looking over the field with
a view to starting a large beetsugar factory
| there.
| MERGED County has adopted the colony
| plan In earnest. and her big grain and stock
ranches are being rapidly converted into 20
acre home places.
=, 1t is said on pretty good authority that
there are to be nineteen weddings OF proml-
1 nent young people in San Bernardino be-
| tween now and January 1st.
| The largest bell in Oregon has been pro-
| cured by the people of the Christian Church
| IN Turner, and it will soon call the worship
| ers from its position in the church belfry.
| South Sea island guano is being intro
duced as fertilizer at Riverside this sea-
| son. 1t contains 30 per cent OF phosphorlc
| acid and is therefore especially adapted to
| orange groves.
| ID. c. Hughes of Winlock, WASH, raised
| nne cabbage last year. and left the stalk
In. the ground. The other day he cut from
| this same stalk cabbage weighing twenty
two and half pounds.
passed an ordinance that boys under - years
| of age, found alone upon the streets after
| 30 O'Clock at night, shall be arrested and
| nned 81 each, or sent to Jail for not to exceed
thirty days.
| The Petaluma Packing Company has
| shipped East, from this years pack, about
| forty carloads of Its canned goods, which
| nave gone to Denver, Chicago, St. Louis,
! New York and other Eastern cities. 1t is
now shipping two carloads every day.
Three years ago resident of Grass Val
| ley turned loose In that section three En-
| gilsh sparrows. They have multiplied rap
| idly, and are said to be death on tree bugs,
and have driven off other birds that former
| ly ate the fruit. The sparrows also eat some
fruit, but prefer the bugs.
| A number of farmers of Morrow County,
| Oregon, formed a q, 0O0-bushel wheat pool
| at Lexington recently, selling out to the
| highest bidder. Prices ranged from s1A to
| 1874 cents. the elevator company being the
| buyer. The prices paid were cents above
| Portland quotations, including freight.
| The Santa Barbara Press says: A couple
| OF young Englishmen. one Of them son of
| Henry Labouchere, the London Journalist,
| have leased the house at Home Station and
| VIII conduct 1t as huntingdon. They are
| lifting it up in elaborate style and will con-
| duct the house In a first-class manner.
| The MarvSyille Democrat saws hittarly.
| The Board Of Supervisors in session re-
| Gently allowed the regular quarterly grist of
| slickens bills, amounting to S15lS 81; yet
| the condition of finances is in such low
| state that they cannot see the way clear to
| appropriate SIS a month to place Yuba
| County in membership in the State Board
| of Trade.
| Thomas Netting and Marv Jones were
| married by Justice at San Diego the other
! morning, the ceremony being performed
| while the twain stood in the doorway of a
| prettily furnished cottage ON Columbia
| street, between Ash and Beach, which the
| groom had just completed for the woman
! OF his choice. The idea is novel one, but
| not without its merits.
A few nights ago the boldest robbery ever
| committed in Redlands took place near the
| Sloan House. The victim was the venera-
! BILE Professor Brooke, ex-County Superin-
| tendent of Public Schools He was walk
ing along the street about 9 o'clock when he
| him down, presumably with sand bag, and
! then stole his gold watch and made off.
Leon King, mill-hand employed in the
| saw-mill at Buckley, Wash, met with ter
| rible accident one day last week. In pass
| ing a large revolving belt his shirt caught in
| one of The wheels and he was hurled around
| at terrific rate. Before the machinery
| could be stopped he had received injuries
| which will prove fatal He was taken to
| Tacoma aud admitted to ST. Joseph's Cath
lie is h
| entire muscular system is paralyzed.
| The proposition of constructing q naviga-
| ton canal into the valley from Antioch to
| Tulare Lake, says the MADEIRA Mercury, is
| meeting with Endorsement so far as heard
| from. The interests of the people in this
enterprise are identical, and what helps one
| is an aid to the other. No people prosper so
| well as where plenty of opposition in trans
| portation facilities exist. Carriage by wa
| ter is far cheaper than by rail, and this re-
suit should be the object OF every one in the
| slightest interested.
A new whaling station has lately been
| built on the coast at poiut between Santa
| Barbara and Point Conception, where kelp
| is found in great abundance. The station
is equipped with two large whalebUats, guns
| and a cooDerage outfit The variety of
| whales that it is expected to secure is the
| California gray which is also known by the
| name of ''gcose-bilP' and ''mud-digger."
| These whales are only good for oil and run
from IWeHtN w eiSHly barrels apiece, with
| thirty barrels as general average.
The town of MERGED is making great i'm
| provement. The capacity of the electric
| light works las been doubled in order to
! supply the increasing need of the city. A
| CorliSs engine of 240 horse power, with new
| steel boilers to run 10l6 candle-light dy-
| namo, have been substituted for the old
| plant, and new brick building 29x36 feet,
| has been added to the works. The gas
| factory plant has been rem0deled and en-
| larged. A cannery is new project con-
! templated there.
| A large deposit ofgypsum has been found
| in Fresno County. 1t is said TO be an anti
| dote TO alkali, 1t being claimed that, on land
almost valueless on account of alkali, the
| therefore, redeems the land. For this pur-
| pose alone it would be worth a great deal.
| but it IS also stated that it makes frst-cass
cement. If this be so its value is surely
| great. Many are working claims and selling
| it for S25 a ton. Others are inspecting with
| the intention of filing. 1t can be mined for
almost nothing.
In regard to the depredations Of cattle
| thieves in Wyoming Mr.. Ijams, Secretary
| of the Stock Commission, makes some very
strong statements. He says the thieves up
there have a good working majority over
the legitimate cattle-raisers; that at least
two county officers are identified with
crooked work; that the new organization
OF farmers and stock-raiser5 In johnson is
for the protection of rascals; that rustlers
have sworn to kill head for head of honest
outfits to even on stolen beeves confiscated
at market. The Cheyenne Sun saws it is
known that rustlers have threatened the