The morning call., 1891-05-03
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
A Tin Cup (Ariz.) goat ate up S25 worth
of gold scraps.
A genuine case Of CHAMBERS in human
being is report ed from near Eugene, Oregon.
An indignant mule-owner thrashed the
Portland pOundmaster, who gathered IN his
stock, the other day.
The HealdSburg Tribune says the outlook
is good for an enormous peach crop In
SOnoma County this year.
Virginia City had fatal case Of black
diphtheria this week The victim was
buried at II o'clock at night.
The farmers about Prairie City, Oregon,
have subscribed a bonus of $1,000 for the
erection Of tlouring-mill there.
The eighteen months old child of ]. Crow
ley of SutrO, New, was drowned by accident
in half tub of water one day last week.
Last Sunday Plaeervile lady. while on
her way to church, picked up SO nugget
of gold from among the stones of the street.
Eureka, Humboldt County, is proposing to
annex tho adjoining rural residents, and
thereby become city as large as Sauta
Rosa.
Henry Lewis Mayor. native of France
and a member of the q. A. r., was killed by
train on the railroad bridge near Nevada
| City Monday.
California cabbages are being shipped by
the carload to Oregon to supply the great
demand for them in the logging and mining
camps Of the north.
The people of Colfax, Wash, have just
completed a fine new courthouse and now
propose to bond the city for $4,000 to erect
new schoOl-building.
Mrs. j. Lukes of Dixon, Cal, has an old
hen that left her nest of eggs TO hover a
litter of kittens, which she gathers under
her wings every night.
Wong Ark, the Los Angeles wife-killer,
was captured in one Of the Chinese dives Of
that city Wednesday, and will stand his
trial for murder at an early date.
An enterprising Dayisvile hen has
brought out spring novelty in eggs. The
White and yelk are in separate Sacs, con-
neeted by thin membrane. Neither has a
shell.
Minnie Freeman, the sehool-teacher hero
inc of the great Kansas blizzard. and
former. resident of Pomona, Cal, was mar
ried in Omaha, Nebr., April I'D, TO @. ID.
Penney of Lexington, Nebr.
A correspondent of the Nevada State
Journal has. scheme for the people of
Washoe County to obtain control Of the
water for irrigating the surrounding
country.
The substitution of the word such for
each of, in law requiring that dairy cows
confined in a stable should each have 500
cubic feet OF air, has rendered. imperative
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wholesome food in Portland.
Unprincpled parties are making a prae-
tice nowadays OF going to Bonner Creek at
night and catching trout by means of grab
| hooks. The trout are on the spawning beds
| now and perfectly helpless, so that sacks
| full may be gathered in night. Officers are
| on the lookout for the offenders, who will
| be jailed ii caught.
George W. Baxter wel-known news.
paper genius OF early days in Arizona, died
recently in the insane asylum at Steilacoom,
Wash. He was bright clever writer, but
erratic and dissipated. Ae was at one time
telegraph editor OF the Los Angeles Herald
but afterward took to preaching. His abil-
ity deserved better ending.
The Phoenix Herald says: Joe Gum and
seven Chinese e0untrymen left this after
noon for the Flowery Kingdom, having
been lucky enough at tan, faro. chopsticks
and other games of chance to secure a fiscal
wad that will enable them to spin opium
smoke rings and burn frankincense in the.
pagOdaS. of Hong-Kong for this life and
several centuries in the next.
At Verdi, New, Sunday evening. John
Ramsey and ID. Thompson had a difficulty
over Two DINER men who were engaged in
ngnt, When ramsey drew a poeket-knifo
ana plunged 1t into Thompson's neck.
shoulders and side several times. One
wound penetrated the chest between. tha
SrAtl ana seventh ribs, injurlng the lung.
me other wounds are not serious, being ali
nesh wounds. Ramsey was arrested
:, According to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Banker Whltmore, the man who was re-
Gently made the victim of gold brick
| SWlndle, visited in his cell man arrested
on suspicion OF perpetrating the fraud upon
Whltmore, and by twisting the prisoners
thumbs with thongs and an iron bolt extorted
from him a confession that he was the
guilty party and then took from him $500
that the prisoner had concealed. The trans
| action is being investigated in court,