The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-13
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Daniel Murphy of Gilroy believes in
olives, for he is setting out 5000 trees.
A quicksilver mine in Colusa County Is
yielding ore that smelts 70 per cent, says the
Sun.
Jack Smith, who shot Percy Williams at
Fresno some time ago, has been convicted
of manslaughter.
NJ. G. Foster, a compoSitor on the Eureka
Sentinel for twenty years, has LETT his case
for trip to California.
Charles w. Casseil was blown to pieces ut
lso, Tehama County, last Tuesday while
thawing out giant powder cartridges.
The Supreme Court has made an order
changing Fresno County from the Los An
geleS district TO the Sacramento district.
A train of freght-cars going north from
Tehachapi were ditched at Pampa. Ten
cars were injured aud five were smashed.
Work on the Roseburg and Coos Bay
Railroad, Oregon, has been stopped, as the
subscribers did not respond Literally with
their money when the calls were made.
a man named Earn was dangerously hurt
while plowing on the Briggs vineyard, near
Woodland, last Monday. He was caught by
point, which tore his body from the hip to
The neck
The Republicans of Sacramento came near
making clean sweep at their city election
On Tuesday. J. NJ. Morrison was the only
outsider elected. He was on two tickets for
Fire Commissioner for the short term.
The Nevada Legislators refused to appro-
| pirate any money for travelling expenses of
the District Judges. The Chronicle says
Judge Rising has bought bicycle so as to
make his trip between Carson City and
Genoa.
Frank Roger died in Portland hospital
last Sunday from injuries received on Janu-
XIII, ths. az. IF A han a
VINO not only knocked him down, but jumped
upon him and kicked him so that he never
regained consciousness.
There has been so much friction between
the stockholders of the Bank of San Luis
Obispo and the President that thsy have
taken the matter into court The latter Of
fieer is James l.. Crittenden, well-known
lawyer of San Francisco.
A drunk was picked up on the streets of
Seattle last Sunday morning. When
searched at the police-station he was re-
lieved of $4,000 in drafts and $40 50 in coin.
He gave the pane OF j. j. OCoDnor, but
refused to tell where he got the money.
A special session of the Grand Jury of
Tulare County was held on Tuesday at
Visalia to investigate the case Of the Dalton
brothers, now in Jail on suspicion of being
| train-rObberS. Several articles in their Dos
session were bought by them the day previ.
| Gus to the robbery.
Says the Free Lance: Fair exchange is no
| robbery. Our HOLSTER butchers, twice a
| week, ship veal to San Jose. In return they
are supplied with mutton. Our sheep ranges
| adjacent to the county seat are now compar-
| atively unproductve, but HOLSTER veal
| nearly rivals the celebrated ''Holister hay"
The Olympia Tribune says Representa-
tive TiilOtsOn, who has been appointed
United States Consul to Kauagawa, Japan,
is the tallest man in the State. He crowds
feat vary nlnsa and the little brown m, on
of the kingdom over the water will wonder
if he is fair specimen OF what Washington
can do.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: A great
deal Of attention Is being paid to the new
country in Southern Nevada, through
which the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Rail-
road is being built Rich mines have been
discovered all along the line. The old town
of Phoebe is beginning to boom, and the
mining interests are also making things
lively.
The new Convent of Mercy, built by the
Sisters, will be dedicated at Snohomisb,
WASH, on Easter Sunday. This school will
be the most important of its kind in the
State for it will be what is known in
Catholicism as a Novitiate, or Mother House,
for the apprenticeship of young ladies wish
ing TO become sisters. Already there are
two admitted on these terms.
The MERGED Evening Sun man has had a
serious attack, and this is the way ne got rid
of it: "Mercei, the starlit city of amphibious
commerce-in summer paradise and in
winter flower garden-possessed even now
of the bones aud sinews and arteries of a
mighty city-the pride of the State and the
apple of every eye-shall assume all the
charms of rarest beauty with the power and
luxury that wealth can give. She sits to-
day at the feet of her own possibilities, while
passing stars sing together Of her coming
QlOry"