The morning call., 1891-10-20
COAST ITEMS.

75-foot boulevard is contemplated AT
| Santa Cruz. along the river front, IIon
Sycamore fat to the beach.
The local lodge of Cdd Fellows at Santa
Cruz are contemplating improving and con-
sideraby eularging their present nall
The leading cit Zens of Blaine, WASH,
| have formed q company with capital STOCK
of $4,000 to prospect for coal, coal OIL anu
gas.
A Jackson County (Oregou) farmer, has
raised three tons ot onions on three rous o.
land. He found a ready sale Tor them at
| "a cents pound.
At the Bradford mines, in Lake County,
| all Of the Chinese employees nave Oesn DIS
| charged and big gang Of white men secured
to take their places.
| The PajarOnian says that cattle-0uyers
are showing considerable interest In PaJaro
| Valley herds, and are buying UP STOCK
about there for the winter
San Bernardiuo wants a chain gang to af-
| ford employment to the numerous tramps
who are now beginning to flock in TO escape
the coming cold weather
The largest propeller ever cast in Wash
! ington was turned out recently in Seattle.
! Il weighs five tons and its dimensions are
| IL IS feet in diameter, with II foot pitch.
! Lopez Island off the Washington coast. Is
said 10 be used as rendezvous Tor several
! bands of smugglers who are engaged In
| Transporting Chinese and opium INTO the
| United States.
Tie ore at the Temescal tin mines i'm
| proves as the mine goes down. The output
| is about eight tons a month, and with the
new machinery just put IN 1t Is hoped TO take
| cut one ton daily.
The Southern Pacific Railroad officials
! have been investigating the gap In the coast
| line, from ElwOnd to Los OllYoS, and II Is III
tmeted that the company contempiates
| building road to close 1t.
The Bedlng silk Company has decided to
| locate at Petaluma a factory that VIII give
| steady employment to at least $50 men, on
| consideration that tha merchants Of that city
raise bonus Of $4,000 for the factory
| This salmon run in the Suohomish River,
| which has been the largest tor several
| years, is about over. The banks along the
| streams are covered with dead carcasSes
| and the water is full OF dead and dying fish.
The Modesto Herald says the girls of that
place have adopted fad OF wearing black
stockings with small hole IN the ankle 10
| show the whiIeneSs Of their ankles in pretty
! contrast 10 the black color OF the stockings.
Is this Modesto. girls?
Mathus Wolfsklll, one Of Napa Cuunty's
Oldest citizens and sturdy pioneer OF the
| early fortieS, died at his home SIX miles
! north of Suisun on Thursday. Death oe-
| CURED very suddenly, resulting from an al
| tack of congestion OF the lungs.
There are only twenty-four cigar-makers
! employed in Tacoma, yet the number OF
| cigars sold in that city would, If manufac-
tuTed there, furnish employment for 5JO
men. support 1900 people and add $4,000
monthly to the bank clearances.
| Gustave Olson, young Swedish farmer
| living near 0rting, Wash, was thrown off
| his wagon a few days ago by his horses
running away. His neck WAS broken and
| he died almost Instantly Olson was to
| have been married the next day.
! A gentleman in PendletOn. Oregon, has a
! pear tree Oh which there are pears fully de-
| Yeloped, others little larger tAan an egg,
and still others the siza OF walnut aud
| blossoms still upon tile tree. The tree has
| borne thus for two or three years.
At Hobart, Oh Lake Tahoe. day or two
! ago, as Adolph Anderson and Nelson Al
| berg were engaged in Telling huge pine
| tree, owing 10 a high wind they nlSludged
| the course Of the falling tree ant were both
| caught under it and killed outright.
Dunham Wright OF Union, Oregon, has
! discovered a ledge OF unknown ore near
Medical Springs, Union County. Some think
| it zinc, others tin. Samples have been sent
| East to be aSsayed The ledge IS many feet
in width. Several claims have been located.
| The daily Astorian says: On dTaught
! of but 15I2 fret ths new whale-baek steaal-
ers viii carry 1900 tons Of dead weight The
| singular craft are likely to reyOlUtlonize the
carrying business, ana may by and by do
| away with the necessity OF the proposed
| ship channel to Portland.
The State Board of Examiners has passed
| on all the coyote scalp claims for the first
quarter and find that this Industry will cost
the State $4,000 for the first three months
that the law mas been IN operation. This
means that, before the law can be amended
OF repealed, a quarter of a million of the
peoples dollars viii have been Squandered.
The Horticultural Commissioners who
| were sent, a few days ago, to make official
| examination OF the Injected orange trees re-
Gently imported from Tahiti, and detained
at san Pedro have reported finding The
miners scale still alive on the trees, despite
| the frequent fumigations. Hall the trees
are dead, they say, and they recommend
! that all be burned.
The Hawthorne New Bulletin tsays: If
| some of the Indians who are hauling their
| produce from the reservation to this place
! do not stop using the railroad track aS
wagon ROAD they will find out some day tnat
| the momentum Of one Of the trains will
| have a special facility for pitching them in
| to the happy hunting grounds in very
! unceremonIous manner
a number of fires have occurred in San
| BernaIdin0 lately, all evidently of inceIl-
| diary origin, and the fre-bug has at last
been discovered in the person of George
| JeSsraDg Of that pl zee, Il prominent citizen,
| who has for some time past held the posi-
! tion Of Deputy County Assessor. He is also
| Secretary Of the local lodge If Odd Fellows
and has held high social position.
A Fresno vineyardist is experimenting on
| his second crop raisins. He ordered lot
! Of strong Iwine and with that he ties up the
| top of his raisin vines in such manner as
| 10 allow the suns rays to strike the grapes
| and Tipen them more rapidly. His success
was beyond expectation and lie got second
order Of twine to treat all his vines tnat
way. The idea seems to be good one.
The Deming (AriZ) Headlight says: All
| signs now point to the active and vigorous
| resumption of the work of construction on
the railroad from here into Mexico between
the middle of October and the 1st of No
| vember next. The half million dollars now
on deposit in New YORK will be sent out
| for that purpose as soon as the Directors,
some OF whom are still in Europe, can be
| got together, which is altogether likely will
be within the time named.
Mrs. Charlotte Lowell of Merced County
has brought suit against the Southern Pa
| cfc for 100000. She was on her way to
| Turlock some time ago when, as she alleges,
while at Point Keyes the conductor told
her and her husband that that was their
destination. They were getting off, wien
| the train started suddenly and threw Mrs.
Lowell to the ground, whereby she sus-
| tanned injuries that paraiyZed her right leg
so that she Is crippled for life.
|
John Nash's Generosity.
The will OF John Nash has been fled for