The morning call., 1891-12-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
rItorieG.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
rItories.
Diphtheria is prevailing at Down. eville,
and has already claimed several victims
there.
The price of oranges has been raised 20 to
40 cents box since the great storm in
Southern California.
Some of the ranchers about Pomona say
they are receiving 500 to $3.50 per acre this
year from their hay crops.
Louis Depew, the leader OF the gang Of
boy burglars of San Bernardino has been
sentenced to three years in San Quentin.
Edward Brown of Woodland was found
on the floor OF paiut-shop the other night
dead from the effects OF a protracted spree.
An immense body of gray copper and
bromide has been struck in the Monte
Cristo mine on Shields Gulch, near OS
burn, Wash. j.
The Riverside telephone system is to be
connected with Los Angeles by direct
wire, independent OF the wire running to
San Bernardino.
A company has been formed at Santa
Paula with capital stock of $4,000 for
the purpose OF manufacturing printers ink
from crude petroleum.
Salt Lake City is overrun with footpads.
Scarcely night passes that from six to ten
men are not held up somewhere in the resi-
dence portion OF the city.
A Seattle editor named Carson is in
trouble. His business keeps him cut late
nights, and in going home the other night
policeman arrested him for being on the
street at such an unscemly hour.
Up at Winters. in YolO County, orchard
lists dispose Of orchard cuttings by building
fire on sled, which Is hauled through
the orchard and the brush piled on it and
burned as the sled is hauled along.
A Stockton well-bOrer recently found the
tooth of an animal at depth of 1l24 feet
sAnth hn Tooth nf
other tooth. apparently that of an nerbace-
Gus animal, was found at depth of 800
feet
The Catholic school on the Umatilla Res
ervatlon In Washington now has eighty
four Indian pupils Ill attendance. 1t Is the
intentions OF the managers to build a brick
structure next spring for the use of the
school.
A man became intoxicated and fell asleep
in Woodland saloon the other night and
some other ha5itueS of the place. for fun,
set lighted candle close to his foot, SO
burning that member that he will have to
90 OIL crutches for some time to come.
The Stockton Board of Public Works has
declared war on the cork-e!m tree. 1t is
charged against these trees that they de-
stroy sewers and cement sidewalks by
means of their roots, being, in this respect,
worse than the blue gum or the poplar.
A tree that was being felled at Rainier,
Oregon, the other day was swung around
by the wind, fell across the head OF one and
the neck OF the other of a team of horses kill
ing them both, and then sprang back and
now stands about eight feet above where
the horses stood.
Dan Dunn OF Bakersfield recently pre-
scented to Supervisor E. NJ. Roberts nap
kin ring which was made in Libby Prison
from wood out OF the limb of a tree under
whose branches General Pemberton sur
rendered to General Grant in Vicksburg
days. The wood resembles that of an apple
tree.
A lady writing fIom Pasadena says that
lust before the recent great wind-storm
there sixteen rooms on the upper floor of
her residence were in state of Quaker
like order. A few hours later the dust and
wind-blown debris lay so thick in every
room that the pattern could not be seen on
single carpet.
Perhaps the most novel craft ever sailed
on San Diego Bay, says the Lower Cali
forniau. was one launched by j. ID. Palmer
the house-mover, the other day. The craft
IN question was fve-room cottage which
Mr.. Palmer had taken contract to move
10 South San Diego. 1t was loaded on two
barges and drawn by naphtha launch.
The award of the English court at Victo-
ria, Is. O., to the steamer Zambesi, says the
Historian, opens uD new field of industry
If their Interpretation of marine law be
sound, steamer can alter her course cut a
schooner down and then get salvage I'm
Victoria) for Saving" the vessel and bring
ing her into port. 1t may be justice, but it
looks like bunko.
Thomas Hopper, one of Sonoma County's
wealthy citizens, who has made all his
money there, recently declined to contribute
TO the fund Petaluma Is raising to establish
silk factory in that town, saying, it is re-
ported: II Will not myself give cent, but
think the railroad company did well. As
for myself, am not interested in silk mat
tiers at all. raise sheep and wear wool.
don't want any silk in mine. i was born in
Missouri, and nobody ever wore silk in my
county.
Apple and pear trees which the Russian
settlers planted at Fort Ross, Sonoma Coun-
ty, in 1S4l, are still living and bearing fruit
at the age Of fifty years. They are much
the oldest horticultural specimens in Cali
fornia except 1t be some olives and other
specimens around the old missions. Proba-
bly, the Oldest fruit trees planted by Ameri-
cans are near SebastopOl also in Sonoma
County, where colony from Oregon estab-
lished Itself in 1S47, bringing nursery stock
with it.
A consignment Of about 600 barrels of
brandy Is now being forwarded from the
Natoma Vineyard In the Sacramento Valley
to Germany. heavy shipment was made
last spring to Germany by the same COM
pany, which is good indication of the favor
with which the product is regarded. The
total output of brandy during the last fiscal
year reached 1904, 712 taxable gallons, of
which ,620 gallons were produced in the
Fourth District including twenty-eight
counties constituting Central and Northern
California.
Indigestion. Dizziness Take Beechams Plls