The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter


TiiOTleS.
factory for making lubricating oils has
been started at Stockton.
Farmer Gillespie OF Elensburg Or, owns
six ewes that have dropped fourteen lambs
this spring.
A logger named Mccullough was knocked
from boom at Ballard, Wash, last Wednes-
day and was drowned.
A number of Italian fishermen were ar
rested in Tacoma last Wednesday for VIC
latng the new fishing laws.
J0ln JuTgenS, farmland on Roberts
Island, fell under large roller last Thurs
day and was instantly killed.
a big catfish was caught in Solsipuedes
Greek, near Watsonviils, the other day. In
its NAV were found i've small trout
The Astoiian says the insurance compa-
MES talk of getting even on rates. They
are 100000 ahead Of the town now.
The combination of Puget Sound steam
b0at-owners has been broken by the with
draWal OF the Pacific Navigation Company.
An immigrant train of fifteen cars passed
through Pendletgn, Oregon, one day last
week. 1t required four big engines TO get
over the mountains.
The Assessor of Union County, Oregon,
has recently discovered the owners of $1,000
acres of land who have escaped taxation.
Their names are all ON his books Tor this
years roll.
The Victoria Times says: An order has
been issued by the Steamboat Inspectors OF
Puget Sound ~ the effect that stern-wheel
steamers will not be allowed to run to Port
Townsend.
Judge Gray of Oroville is handy man.
Last Monday the court business was slack,
but the principal OF the public school was
i'll. His Honor adjourned court and took
charge Of the school all day.
Work was begun last week at Grays BAR
Dor on the largest vessel ever built there
for the lumber trade. She belongs to A.
NJ. Simpson of San Francisco and viii carry
one million feet, with depth of II feet.
The Yuma Times says: We are at pres
ent located on the Quartermaster's reserva-
tion, in room 60 feet wide and 100 feet
long, which though somewhat cramped will
do until our three-Story brick block is fin
ished.
The Pomona Times says: Gall is gall,
but when set of men try to patent the
moonlight In which to tight scaiebugs, they
develop an immensely OF cheek which is
rather ahead of the usual style of things
Tustin has developed these curioStieS.
j. II. Brown has been collecting material
Tor twenty-five years to write a political
history of Oregon, in which State he has
lived Tor more than forty years. The first
volume is ready, and brings the history
down To the Inauguration OF the State Coy
eminent
The Homer Index says: 1t requires about
three seconds TO transmit an electric signal
through the Atlantic cable, q distance of
nearly 1000 miles, and it takes from seven 10
fourteen days to get Intelligence from BOdie
to Lundy by United States mail, but it is
twenty-five miles, you know.
Some Porterville boys started out on a
competitive race few days ago to see
which could plant out an acre of vines
quickest. Wallace Welbon got there
first, having performed the feat in four
hours, planting the vines eight by ten feet
apart Welton is only Is years of age.
The Salinas Index says: Quite an in
dustry is growing up in portions of the coun-
try gathering bones for sugar refineries.
They are worth $40 a ton, and in some
places, where anthrax rayaged the herds
some years ago, the labor of gathering is
well paid. The bones are calclned before
use, and all danger from infectious faint is
burned out.
The MERGED Sun says: Not many men
live TO tell the story after leaning over and
touching of dozen primers and blasting
caps aud two hundred pounds Of giant pow
der with discarded cigarette; but Francis
McEweD, who was on our streets Saturday,
was the victim OF just such an experience at
WatSon's camp, on the Turloek Canal. last
November. While the force of the expl0-
sion was so powerful as to kill horse and
scatter buggy to atoms and also severely
wound a fellowworkmon and throw Nc
Even distance of fifty feet, yet he escaped
without serious injury.
Says the Tombstone Prospector: Since
the duty on eggs has been the rule many
devices have been thought of for manufac-
turing them. The idea of Nogales man
is, however, the only feasible scheme up to
date. dis proposition Is to feed hens on
the cheap grain Of Mexico and have them
lay in the United States. For this purpose
a long building will be placed on the line,
half in Mexico and half in the United States.
They will feed and water in the Mexican
end, anu when they want to lay they go to
way escape paying the duty. The protector
of this enterprise came from Maine.