The morning call., 1891-10-06
COAST ITEMS.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
The Carson Appeal has entered upon its
thirty-ninth volume.
The public schools at Reno are closed on
account of diphtheria.
paint-factory has been established in
Seattle, with daily capacity of $50 gallons.
The San Jose scale is doing great damage
to the orchards in the vicinity of Grass
Valley.
Wyoming rancher has cat which has
been trained to drive the cows to and from
pasture.
The Governor of Nevada has called State
Irrigation Convention to be held at Carson
ON the 9th inst.
The Times-Index estimates that the inl-
provements made in San Bernardino County
this year amount to about S4, 000,000.
Two hundred and fifty tents were pitched
at the great eneampment Of the AdyentiStS,
near Healdsburg, which has just closed.
The Blaine (Wash.) eannery is again In
operation putting up the fall catch of
salmon. Indications point to large run
of fish for at least another month.
A watermelon raised on ranch in the
Oasis District, near San Lucas, measures
4 feet 10 inches in length, 2 feet 9 inches in
circumference, and weighs 571s pounds.
Peter Levens of GraugeyiIle this year
secured 5000 pounds of grapes from one
wears old. This is just ten tons to the
acre.
Two horses afflicted with CHAMBERS were
discovered at Salem, Oregon, the other day,
and the Domestic Animals Commission OF
tine state ordered the County Stock In
spector to kill them.
Farmers along the Columbia River, in
Kllckitat County. Wash, have built chute
from the top of the bluff, at Rocklaud, to
the river and here the wheat grown in that
section will be shipped.
The new oil we'll at Coalingo, Tulare
County, is down 800 feet, with a flow of
twenty barrels daily. The company is ar
ranging 10 bore ten wells 1900 feet deep in
different localities. The wells will be III
inches in diameter.
DR.. John Dickens of Blggs, Butte County,
has on his place coffee tree raised from tIe
seed. The tree Is now about three feet high,
and has already borne berries of fine quality,
which ripened aud Drowned made eUffee
which is declared to be first-elass.
The young ladies of Carson some time ago
pledged themselves not to associate with
young men of TOO cOnyivial habits. They
anticipated that the effect Of this course
would be salutary on the young men. but
it's said the girls ara becoming very lonely.
The Union Pacific Railway Company has
made contract with the Northern Pacific
Coal Company for 600 tons of coal daily.
This will give employment to at least 1000
more men at Roslyn, Wash, and increase
the output OF these mines to about 1900
tons daily.
The ice manufacturing company at Bel
| bingham Bay is freezing up about 800 salmon
ger day, TO be shipped to the New York and
Chicago markets. At the mouth of the
Nooksaek River is great fishing ground.
and the establishment of the ics factory has
developed new industry.
The sale of the Cortez mines. containing
the books of the company. is locked, says
the Silver State, and has not been opened
since the death, recently, of the manager,
Colonel Mills. Besides him no one had the
combination save one other officer. VINO is
now en- route home from Europe.
The Elsinore Press says the terra Gotta
works there will be rebuilt within the next
sixty days. The destruction by fire Of this
industry short time ago was sad blow II
Eisin0re, deprlving the town, as II cid, OF q
revenue of about $500 per month and
throwing number of men out OF employ
ment.
A Mrs. Parker, living on a ranch near
Visalia, discovered a large jug marked
"poison " hidden away. Thinking it con
tanned whisky. and had been so market by
the boys for joke, she INDUCED in liberal
p0tatou from tue contents. IL was not
filled with whisky, however, but corrosive
su Ultimate, from the effects of which the I'M
fortunate woman died, after great suffering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Witsr. living near
Riverside, are the parents Of a six-week-
old infant that now weighs less than three
pounds with its clothes on Its head is nu
larger than a peach, its waist about the
size of lead. pencil and the fingers. which
are about half an inch long are said t. be
about as large round as wheat straw.
The little creature, which is u boy, is in
very precarious health.
The Ventura Democrat relates a curious
story of u boy at ths HueDeme Wharf the
other day, who by dint of industrious ang-
ling secured fine string of hSb, of which
he was Justly proud, but at the height of
his triumph down SwoOped a big pelican
and Snatched from his hand the entire Catch,
string and all. swallowing them as he sailed
away over the blue waters with the most
compliment ease and satisfaction; and the
wonder is that he didn't take in the boy,
too
The Oregonian says: The Government
locks at the Cascades are going up at the
rate Of foot and half per day. The
lower gate will be completed by the middle
of next month. Heretofore the work has
been slow, as it was all under water, but
now they can hurry it. The south gate is
completed and the north one is up probably
third of the way-twenty feet The
building of these great locks IS a nagnifi-
cent piece Of work. which, when completed,
will stand as monument to the engineer
ing skill of this age. The gates. when
hung, will be the largest lo-k gates in the
world, being 93x40 feet and weighing $50
tons. They are Of steel, and are to swing
upon giant hinges.