The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-07
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Tor.

| Brief Notes From Pacific States and Tor.
ritOries.
Ten thousand dollars is to be appropriated
| for repairing and strengthening the leveeS
| at Sacramento.
Portland citizens have subscribed $4,000
Tor an Endowment Fund to the Portland
Library Association.
Since abe Suffer County Supervisors put
the saloon license at $500 it is said nearly
every saloon in the county has closed up.
1t is claimed that more new land has been
| put under cultivation in San Diego County
| in 1891 than in any other county in the
State.
Francis Murphy, the great temperance
lecturer, is still at work in Seattle, where
he is persuading many OF the people to don
the blue ribbon.
Emma Thursby has sued the Tacoma Ex-
position Company for $3.50 and 5000 dam
ages for violation of her contract for sing
ing on the last day.
Julia SanteZ, handsome Portuguese
| girl, aged Is years, and Manuel Oliveria,
aged 81, also Portuguese, were married at
Santa Clara Thursday.
There is only one saloon in Danville.
contra Costa County, and the people OF the
town have pettioned tie County Super
| vlsors not TO renew its license.
The frequent occurrence of robberies by
women In the L-street dens in Sacramento
| Is becoming matter Of serious cOnsidera-
Siou puIIC6 CiICltS III ludl
Auburn wants the State Citrus Fair for
Northern California held in that town in
stead OF IN San Francisco, which is now be-
Ing talked OF AS the proper place to hold it.
The Oakland Enquirer charges that the
Southern Pacific is pursuing a systematic
policy the object Of which is to build up the
town OF Port Costa al the expense of Oak
land.
Howard Herring only son of Judge Her
ring OF Tombstone, Ariz., died the other
day from the effects of an overdose of CO.
! caine, administered while undergoing q
dental operation.
The Marin County Jail is said to be
haunted and tramps give that section a
| wide berth. 1t might be we'll for some of
the other tranp-infested counties to set up
sp0ok or two in their jails.
The Los Angeles Express of Tuesday
prints an interview with ex-Mayor Morse
man. in which assurance is given of the
early construction of a railroad connecting
Los Angeles with Salt Lake City.
Charles Happersett Of Roseburg, Oregon,
Is ABOUT TO publish volume OF poems and
at the same time manufacture an improved
| railroad switch which can only be kept open
by man with crOwbar, or by blocking ii
with stick of wood
The works of the San Antonio Electric
COMPANY Will. it is thought, destroy the
falls in the san Antonio Canyon. The
waters OF the creek are to be taken out just
ridge to develop the power
The Carson Appeal says: The brother
OF the man who was recently lynched in
Reno is in the riverside town looking for
the man who put rope around his
brothers neck. The Remedies say that If
he gets too inquisitive they will give hun
| the same kind of a deal.
On Saturday of this week the golden spike
| will be driven on the Terminal road at Long
Beach ana the citizens will celebrate the
| completion OF the road with grand barbe-
! cue. People from all the surrounding conn
try will be present and the event will mark
] "a new epoch in the history of the place.
| / Carl Ilbbals, aged 10, brother Of the
| Mayor of Port Townsend, Wash, stole $3.50
from his mother the other day. and going to
Seattle and Tacoma proceeded to dye those
cities brilliant crimson. Four days later
he was found IN saloon in Tacoma with
only Sl2 left, having Squandered the rest
| The Supervisors of Santa Clara County
| have not yet granted the franchise for the
| proposed electric road between Oakland
| and Santa Clara, via Haywards and certain
| of the San Jose papers are opposing it in so
| marked manner as to lead the Santa
! Clara Journal to speculate MS to the possible
| presence OF an African in the fence.
| A prominent sporting man of Baker City,
| Oregon, received recently letter sent
| through the pOstOffice, announcing to him
] tEat unless he placed $500 in the First Ma
| tional Bank to the credit Of a friend of the
person whose name was given in the letter
! he would be killed. The man has not yet
deposited any money and he still lives.
According to the Marysville Appeal there
is bear roaming the river bottom in the
vicinity OF Linda that, when it sees man.
rises on its hind legs and begins to dance
| 1t Is thought the creature must have es-
caped from some gypsies who recently
living near there are so frightened that they
sleep in their wind-mlls at night
The steamer Stockton, plying between
Stockton and San Francisco, has lately stuck
IN the mud number of times, and the
Stockton Republican says there must be
something done with the river at once. Il
viii be some time before the water rises 10
any great extent, and in the meanti II
soma measures are not taken to deepen the
water, all heavily laden steamers will be
preclu1ed from going to Stockton.
The Secretary of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce. basing his figures upon what he
| considers reliable reports from the entire
! whsat-growing section of Eastern Wash
I lngton, estimates that within radius of l25
miles of Spokane there will be marketed
| this year Is, 900 bushels Of wheat, $780,
900 bushels of oats, 8. 5S5, 900 bushels of bar
| ley, and So, 900, 900 is considered a low esti-
mate of the wealth that this enormous crop
will bring to the people.
a couple of weeks ago Mrs. McClennan,
wife Of CAPTAIN McClennan, who IS inspect
|
War Department, was robbed in a Pullman
car on Santa Fe train near The Needles
Her satchel was taken, which continued
about $1,000 in jewels and cash. The thief
has been captured at Albuquerque, \. NJ,
with all OF the booty except one or two
minor articles OF jewelry. The thief was
Sectinn-hand, who managed to enter the Car
as being railroad man.
An English company has agents in South
ern California looking over the field in the
iron region of The Minarets with a view 60
the development of the mines. A prominent
featnre of the working plan is to bring tbs,
iron ore down from the mines into Fresno
on an endleSS cable. It is estimated thai
there are 20a0eo, 900 tons of iron in sight al
The Minarets. The ledge stands up above
the Surrounding mountains about 1900 feet
1t is 800 feet thick and IL, 600 feet long Thi>
great mass of ore is nearly pure iron. In
purity it ranges from GA per cent To 90 per
cent. The best of this is 10 per cent purer
than any other iron deposit known in the
world. The quality is superior to any other.
not falling below the best that is produced
in Norway and Sweden.