The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-17
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
TitOrieS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritOries.
Burglars are abroad at Suioun.
Sacramento is to have a large building for
swimming baths.
The ''wild man" of Salt Lake turns out TO
be the same precious old fake.
Judge Buckles of Benca has decided that
that town has not the right to impose a So
street poll tax
Tacoma Is to have a new pumping station
to increase the water supply of the city by
100000 gallons daily.
Headsburg is to have another large can
merry a company having been formed with
capital stock of $4,000.
The first carload of green fruit for the
Eastern market, of this season, was sent
from Facaville this week.
The taxpayers of Dixon and adjoining dis
trictS are talking of petit0ning for union
high school district IN that section, under
the new law.
A San Bernardino bow was badly hurt the
other day by playmate who accidentally
ran a rib from an umbrella through the
back OF his neck.
The new smelter at Lewiston, Oregon.
has been running one week Wednesday, up
to which time it had turned out S25, 900
worth of bullion.
Cal Boyd of Traver has a vine that was
planted last March which shows eighteen
Z /
punches Of grapes
John Hood of Monson took a stroll in his
sleep, the other night, and walked out of a
window, falling twelve feet, TO the ground,
and was quite badly hurt
The portraits of the three first settlers of
Port Townsend are to be cut into the stone
cap of one OF the arches in the new custom
house now building there.
Some one forgot a duty the other day in
Kern County and a funeral cOrtege was
kept waiting at the cemetery while the
grave of the man they had come to bury
was dug
A Chicago man is at Portland. Oregon,
looking for a stick Of timber 40 feet long
and four feet square. 1t is thought he
wants it for the center-pOle of a circus tent
Such sticks are rare.
While playing with a box of matches,
Monday, Bonita, the fiye-yeaT-Od daughter
OF w. 5. Stevens of Elko, New, set her
clothing afre and was SO badly burned that
she died next morning.
A Tulare rancher took equal parts of
white alkali crust and gypsum thoroughly
mixed, put it IN box and plapted alfalfa
seed IN the solution. The result was the seed
sprouted aud grew plants six feet high.
A Nacayllle correspondent Of the Dixon
Tribune claims that fruit is being shipped
from that station, grown and packed in the
surrounding orchards, yet bearing the labels
Oh the boxes of Southern California firms.
a Santa Clara teacher has been fined SIS
Tor attempting TO give a pupil too much
bOOk-iearuing. His plan was TO get the
contents of the book into the youngsters
brain by banging him over the head with it,
Last Monday as Amos Hull fourteen
yearold boy Of Crystal Lake, Nevada
County, was removing cartridges from a
rifle one II them in some way exploded,
killing the lads siSter-in-law, Mrs. Lille
Hull.
The editor of the Gervais Oregon Star.
having seen fit to criticize the Walla Walla
army outrage, has received a threatening
letter from Vancouver, the writer of which
saws the editor must apologize for insulting
the United States Army"
The Salt Lake, Haley and Puget Sound
Railroad has been incorporated at Salt Lake
The capital stock is So, 100000 The road
will run along the south shore, via Grant
vile, Skull Valley. Cedar Mountain, to Luz
Gen. thence to the Idaho State boundary, $50
miles.
The San Diego Sun is authorized to say
that the statement made in the morning
paper to the effect that San Diego mer-
chants would send shipment of provisions
to Callao or Peru is purely an imaginary
one, ana so far as Captain Davis is con-
ceTned he has no intention of becoming
interested in a vessel going to any such
ports.
The post-mortem in the case of Fred Pot
IeI, WHO ut6u WHlie DdbnlHR IN San Diego
Bay the other day, revealed the fact that
the young man, who was a confirmed cigar
ette-smokeT, ''had tobacco heart"-that is.
the valves of that organ had become so
hardened by nicotine that the unusual exer-
ton OF swimming caused it to cease beating
and death ensued, not from drowning, but
from heart failure.
While blowing, the other day. with an
eight-horse team, Dan Callahan stopped to
arrange something wrong about a harness
strap, and, falling, through horse stem ming
on his foot, he was thrown directly in the
way Of the gang-plow. while his team
started to run. With rare presence Of mind
he caught the beam of the pillow and escaped
the points, but was dragged some distance
and badly, though not seriously, bruised
Says the Portland 0regonian: The resi-
dents along the streets below the Lincoln.
street reservoir were somewhat astonished
q morning or two since to see that their
streets had been flooded during the night,
A regular torrent had rolled down some of
the streets, and on Fourth it had poured
down as far as Alder. 1t was found that
owing to the telephone to the Palatine Hill
pumping station being out of order the en-
gineer could not be notified when the respr-
v0lr here was full enough and so kent IN
pumping. The sewer with which the waste
pipe from the reservoir leads was not large
enough to carry off the overflow. which
poured out into the streets in torrent, AS
soon as citizens began drawing water to mix
their morning cocktails the trouble was
over.