The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-15
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

There is not single vacant building In
Martinez, Contra Costa County.
The Oakland police are wagiug vigorous
war against the parades and street knee
driiP' of the Salvation Army.
Harvest in Lane County, Oregon, was thi S
| year nearly two months later than usual,
owing to late rains and backward spring.
j. Is. McDoLgall has presented six large
American flags TO the Seattle school board
TO float over the public schools of the city.
Outside capitalists are talking OF putting
up a lnseed-oil mill at Moscow, Idaho
A large amount Of fax is raised in that sec
ton.
Henry Wilson, after doing business al
Santa Cruz for a couple of weeks, has mys-
| teriously disappeared and his creditors are
locking for hun.
The Ventura Observer says: The Santa
| Barbara people are regularly supplied with
| fresh fish FROM the San Miguel Island. They
| must indeed be fresh fish if they are caught
| on the island.
The Northern Pacific is fencing its road
at the rate OF 5000 miles year. In the year
! ending June 30, 1891, there were killed on
its lines 42jS head of cattle, against 1902 il
| the previous year.
Libby Meyers, aged 10 years, shot a 400
pound bear on her fathers ranch, near
| Meyers Falls, Wash, last week. The bear
was killing sheep, when the girl went to the
| rescue OF the flock.
L lt newly ulSCONtTeu I1OI5b CEtth iron
fields of Laramie County, Wyoming, with
the principal deposit only 800 feet from the
| railroad, promises We'll. Active develop
ment work is in progress.
The San Miguel Courier says the citizens
OF Santa Barbara County are now ready TO
tender the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
| pany the rigat-uf-way from EIlwOod to the
northern liue Of that county.
! johnson Sides, the well-knOwn Sioux
! chief and interpreter, Is building hand
| some residence for himself at Reno. Tie
! Reno Gazette says johnson is progressive
! Indian and believes in q comfortable home.
A large body of onyx has been discovered
near Chewelah, Wash. 1t takes on a fine
polish, and the Puyallup Herald predicts
that guarrying the stone will in the future
! be one OF Stevens COunty's most important
| industries.
The snag-bo Skagt has finished it, la
| bOrS on the NJOnSack III Washington. The
river is clear 10 Lynden, twenty miles. The
people are anxious to have the upper river
| turned into Lummlbay, into which it for
| meIly flowed.
E nina T. Huffinaster, twelve-vear-old
| San Leandro girl, Is the principal claimant
/ OF S20,OUO,O9O estate IN London, England.
! There are sixty claimants besides herself,
| but she is nearest Of kin. Her share in the
! estate viii be about Sl,Q00OO0.
At the Chewewa (Oregou) Indian Train
| ing School the roster Of students contains
TINS year greater number of names than
during any previous year since the estab-
| lIshment of the school. There are now $40
youthful Indians in attendance.
Bret Harris debating society upon the
| Stanslaus has Il prototype in the Indian
! Flat Lyceum in Nevada County, at the last
meeting OF which the debate waXrd so not
that tie evening ended in row and several
OF the members were roughly handled.
Members of the California Press Associa-
/ ton are urging That the Na.lmlpufp
| Spanish word signifyIug nativity or
| D!rth, be given the great spring that gusheS
| from The base of Mount Shasta and IS the
! fountaln-head Of the Sacramento River.
One OF the largest rail shipments of sheep
| ever taking place from BIkeT City, Ore gon,
Is being arranged for now, and Will be made
as soon as the necessary ears can be OBJ
| tanned. The shipment consists of 1000 head
that Will 90 over the Union Pacific TO CHI
cage.
a. J. Glane, who has returned from an
! expedition INTO Alaska, reports that he To-
! Gated the source of the Alaska River about
eleven miles east of Mt. 81. Elias, and found
| that the whole OF the Country east of
| Schwa tka's expedition is available for pack
| horses,
Seventeen thousand cubic yards of the
| Lake Merritt boulevard have been laid
| Some mud-ho,es have been found during
| the progress of the work, aud now people
| no longer wonder that vehicles have fire.
quenuy miTed while going over the old
/ roads. One If the holes was thirty and The
! other twenty-six feet deep.
1t is the general impression among the
! farmers down the Los Angeles way, says
! an exchange, that the only successful
| method of raising sugar beets is by the CO.
| operative system. The experience of the
| best raisers at Chino during the season just
| closed has not been encouraging, compare
| lively few having done well.
J Robert Ii. Majors Of Santa Cruz WHO was
| shot through the thigh, nearly year ago by
| a drunken man named Harris, died on
! Wednesday under an operation for the AM
| putation OF his leg at the hip. Majors had
! been confined to his bed almost continuously
since last December, when he received the
! wound that finally caused his death.
When Llewelyn a. Powell killed Ra lph
| ). Smith In Redwood City few wears az O
George {, Ross, an attorney, claims that Dr..
| Solomon s. Stambaugh engaged him to de-
tend Powell on the charge of murder and
| promised TO pay him a fee of $1,000 A
| portion Of this money was laid and Ross
| has now sued the doctor for the balance,
| $685..
The Pleasanton Times says: 1t is now
stated on reliable authority that the parties
who have recently had an expert here ex-
| aiming into the possibilities of our natural
| gas-@ell have made satisfactory terms with
the owners of the well and Will soon begin
| to develop the property. 1t is rumored that
tbV u III pdu1 viii supply AG5 TO our CITIZENS
| In the course of a few weeks.
The owners and lessees of the bitumen
| mines near Santa Cruz have decided that
| unless the railroad reduces the tariff on bit
| umen the mines in Santa Cruz will be
closed, thus taking from S 'nta Cruz a
| monthly revenue OF about $4,000 in wages
and hauling. AT present bitumen from San
Luis ObisDo is placed in San Jose %
cents per ton aud in San Francisco for so
cents per ton cheaper than from Santa Cruz.
Time Is at standstill in Los Angeles
Courthouse circles. All the clocks in the
| building are Of the electric sort. Since
being put in they have not always worked
right so the Supervisors refused to pay for
! them until they are put in running order.
SO the man In charge of the electricity sup
| ply machine has rut off the connection.
| locked up the machine-r0om and departed
| and the Judicial Waterburys now time court
| affairs.
Harvey Walker, a K amath County Ore
| gon) stockman, was killed on the steep grade
| seven miles east of Parkeps station, on the
Ashland-Linkvlle road, the other dav. He
| was returning home from Ashland with hi :
| wagon and four mules. They were all
| broken this summer, and two of them were
| driven for the third time. Recent rains
nave made the road very slippery and his
team ran of the grade, the wagon falling
| on him and killing him instantly.
The Farmers Alliance of FlorIn. Cal,
of one of the potteres on the Stockton
road, above Guthrie. The sharp blasts
from the exhaust frightens farmers horses
| to such an extent that it is often dangerous
10 pass there and the alliance will try to
get 1T declared nuisance. 1t Is said the
owner OF the pottery maintains that the
matter cannot be remedied, but the farmers
| insist that If the exhaust were discharged
INTO the ground there would be no cause for
| plant.
The Soldiers Home at Orting. Wash, lar
rnwly escaped destruction by fire the other
day. The floor was ablazr, the fire coming
up through the steam pipes and around tn e
hrenen, ran out the hose and fought for
twenty minutes before the flames were ex-
tingulshed. The damage is not great The
hearth where the fire occurred has one layer
OF brick laid on an inch board with no ce-
ment Such work IS criminal, rsking, as it
did, forty lives. The water works proved a
| success.