The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-10
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
A MERGED jury has decided that 1t is not
a crime for a man to steal meal when he is
hungry.
Riverside, Cotton, Chino and Ontario are
reported in favor of having san Bernardino
County divided.
Mrs. NJ. n. Fuller has purchased the
ColuSa Daily Gazette. and is now sole editor
and proprietor.
Ontario, San Bernardno County, will
vote November 2lst on the question of in
cooperating as city of the sixth class.
Fitty-one coal declarations were flied last
week IN the United States Land Office for
coal lands in Crook and Weston counties,
Wyo.
The Cathlamet Gazette publishes table
showing the number of logs cut in Waikiki
kun County. Wash, i'll 1891. The grand
total is 81, $4,000 feet
The Dayton New Times says there are
now 300 head of cattle being fed in Mason
Valley, and 1t is believed that fully 5000
head will be fed in the valley this winter.
Santa Ana paper having asked theques-
ton, Why does spinnIng-top stand?"
Santa Ana schOOl-boy answers that 1.-The
top stands up to spin because it cannot sit
down TO spin"
During the past ten years there has been
a marked increase in the fishing interests o {
Washing t0n. notably In the oyster fishery.
the weld of which has adVan eed from IL, 600
to 60 1913 bushels.
Great quantities OF herring are being
caugh. daily from the wharyes at Santa
barbara. When properly cooked the flavor
| OF this fish fresh Is said to be almost as
delicate as that OF trout.
5. h. Walker of Menifee, while digging a
well recently on his farm, found a number
of fine specimens of quartz, containing flour
| gold IN large quantities. assaying several
| hundred dollars to the ton.
Manual training is a feature in the public
schools of Portland, and one mother has
written to the Oregonian protesting because
! her daughter is to be required to make a
maIlet, as part of her training in the use OF
! tools.
The AZusa Pomotropic says that a
| raucher near there this year took from one
hill sixteen sweet potatoes, one OF which
| weighed eight pounds and measured thirty
| inches in circumference. The entire product
| OF one hill OF potatoes weighed about forty
| pounds.
Henry Patton of the Banning Herald, one
| OF the first navigatOrS of the Salton Sea, still
| declares his belief that the sea has come to
| stay, and insists that, with the ordinary
| rise of the Colorado River the lake will be
| tenfold greater IN extent, this winter, than
| 1t has ever been.
The uprising of the Yaqus in Sonora is
| explained to have been caused by the set
| tlement by Mexican families of land out
| side their reservation, but which they lay
claim 10. The properties of these families
| have been destroyed by FIRE, and the YaQuis
| have retreated to the mountains,
The Dalles Chronicle tells OF wagon
| load OF produce recently brought in there
| that consisted OF but six heads of cabbage,
| the half dozen filling the wagon-bed. These
| mammoth cabba9es were raised on the dry
! hills near the DeS ChuteS River and were
the admiration of all who saw them.
i'm
ance Company at Tacoma has been de-
| clared lns0lvent. and its officers will be
| crmluaIly Indicted, the company appearing
| to have been run in their interest The
| concern ran behind $4,000 the past year,
| but pad dividends every three months
The Cowlitz County (Wash.) Courier has
fallen upon hard lines. The editor says
| We were ''held UP" last Monday night By a
| hiShwayman who demanded our money or
! our life. All we got out of him was four
! dollars and a Winchester rifle. Some of
| these highwaymen are almost as poor as
| editors.
Ricardo OTozc0, the Mexican civil en-
| gineer, formerly of San Diego, is again To-
| Gated In Mexico City and has made propo-
| sltion to the Mexican Government TO drain
| Iezcoco Lake, the work to cost ST, 000-
| 900. About $1,000 acres of land will be re-
claimed, and over 100, 900 irrigated. A navl-
| gable canal will be dug around the City of
Mexico.
On the Heinzen ranch Of Livermore is a
small held OF seven or eight acres of alfalfa
winch vas sown in 1864. The only thing
| done to 1t, except the regular cutting of hay
was last year, when it was plowed and the
| ground sown to wheat This year there is
a fair stand Of Alfalfa again, which is thrift
| lily growing and spreading, so that it will
soon be as good as it ever was.
The Port Townsend Leader says: The
| Government has been trying to get some OF
| the SlWaSnpS tn enlist N ha Dnt
| there is 1ust about as much military spirit
| ana valor in a SiwaSh as there is Ia a
! Chlnaman. Neither Of them possesses suffi-
Client hghting quality or any other quality
for soldier, aud Uncle Sam must be hard
up Tor soldiers when he tries to enlist ST.
| washes in the army.
a terrible explosion occurred at the
works of the Judson Powder Company,
near Clipper Gap, several miles north Of
| Auburn, Placer County, Friday. Two
| white men and one Cinnamon were killed
and boy about fifteen years of age was
seriously, probably fatally, injured. The
cause OF the explosion is unknown, as
neither oil the men who were at work where
1t occurred live to tell the tale.
The HALEY Qdaho) Times says: This
morning 5. Nj. Tucker, the well-kn0wn
rancher Of Indian Creek, turned his cows
into field Of alfalfa stubble. A couple OF
hours later, on looking across, then over the
Held, he was SURPRISED to find one OF his
cows dead and three others in commissions.
AS he had heard that the dew OIL alfalfa
stubDle was poisonous frosty mornings. be-
fore the sun shone upon it, he at once ad
ministered mustard antidote, and sue
ceeded IN saving the three sick cows.
The Ontario Observer thinks that in pass
Ing The jack-rabbit county ordinance the
Supervisors Of that county should hav,
made the ears Of the rabbits legal tender
for taxes. Then" says the Observer
Ontario would cease TO kick about the ex
cessive levy, for with such provision SHE
| could wipe out her debt-to the county and
still have enough of the pests left to raise
big crop next year. In Offering bounty oil
% cents per head on jack-rabbiis it appears
the Supervisors are trying to hedge on the
new courthouse proposition. by enabling
the people to get back all the cash paid in
for that purpose.