The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-04
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

territories.
There is said to 5e perceptible fallihg-off
In the shipments OF oranges from Riverside
this year.
1t is thansht that the grain yield Of San
Jacinto Valley this year will be about
h2O.ooe sacks, the product of some $4,000
acres.
Nine and half dollars to $40 ton is
spoken Of as the probable market price of
wine grapes this season. No money for the
grower in that.
Eddie Sullivan, aged years, son of NJ.
Sullivan. hotel-keeper Of Port Costa, was
drowned Sunday evening, while bathing in
the straits below Port Costa.
The Willows Athletic Club wants the
coming Sullivau-Slavin contest badly
enough to be willing to put up purse of
$4,000 to induce the pugilists to come there.
The people of San Luis Obispo are highly
scandaliZed over the assertion freely made
there that during the present heated term
numbers Of people have used the city drink
ing water reservoir for bathing purposes.
The hop-growers of Washington are now
taking comfort i'll the announcement that
the supposed hop louise that has been caus-
ing them so much anxiety is not the real hop
| aphls, but sOms far more harmless insect
that can readily be exterminated.
The Banning Herald says: There are
large numbers OF quail around Banning
THIS year, and the ralSln men lear that their
crops Will be injured. The quail is dainty
bird. and Will pick seven or eight grapes
before lie will find one TO his taste.
Miss Alice Hamilton, daughter of an
| eVangellStlc preacher, who resides in Suffer
| City, while working in the cannery at Yuba
| City died very suddenly Tuesday evening
OF heart disease She was at her work up
| till O'Clock in the afternoon, and her death
| occurred at 40.
A young man aud woman, both clerks in
| Chico dTy-goods store, have been detected
III purloning and secreting iii the girls
| room large amounts of goods for ladies' and
| genllemen'S wear. the stolen goods were
| all recovered and, on account of their
| families, the pair were allowed to 20 with
| out prosecution.
| The principal feature of high social
amir given recently by family residing
| III Seattle was the administering to the
| guests VI the evening of shots" from a
| hypodermlc syringe. This is a unique and
| startling innovation in the unvarying round
| oil social intercourse and great run is pre-
| dicted for 1t among the Seattle Four Hun
| dred.
According to the National City Record,
| queer case Of sunstroke occurred in the
| Otay Valley the other day. A young brood
| OF chickens, numbering seventeen, were
| placed in box beside the house. On going
| to feed the little chicks in the evening it
| was found that fifteen of them had been
Killed by the rays OF the sun. which beat
! upon them all day.
The Biggs New Era says; The eight-acre
| tract of French prune orchard, belonging to
| the Rio Benito Co., presented a novel sight
to Passengers on the Blggs stage on Mon
day. Each OF the trees is covered by
large brown paper sack, tied at the ground,
to prevent the ravages of the festive hopper.
These swayihg and dancing in the high
north wind looked like a myriad of diminu-
tive ghosts.
Joseph johnson. prisoner in the Kings
County (Wash.) Jail, while being conveyed
| to the black half last Tuesday evening as
| a punishment for furnishing the other pris-
| oners with weapons to attack the turnkey,
| drew pocket-knife, which he had somehow
managed to secure, and attacked the taller.
| threatening to cut his throat. He was over
| powered and diSarmed, but not till after a
desperate struggle.
| A big leopard seal came mp in the midst of
| lot OF bathers at Santa Barbara causing
| a good deal of alarm at first, as some thought
the creature shark or sea serpent. Some
OF the boys barked like a seal and the
visitor seemed Tor a time TO think it was
among friends of its own kind and kept
| coming closer. until, finally taking in the
| situation 1t turned tail and fled out to sea
| again.
Miss Belle Price, a summer visitor at San
Mateo, went down to the beach from there
| Sunday with party to battle. Several
hundred feet from shore she was taken
| with cramp and would have drowned be-
| fore human aid could reach her, had not a
| huge pet maStlff, belonging to her. who had
| never before been known to enter the
water, plunged in and swan to her She
| seized his shaggy coat as she was sinking
! for the last time and he bravely padded
| back with her, till relieved of his burden by
| the young lady's brother.
| The Marysville Democrat reports proba-
| bic case Of Chinese abduction that took place
| there last Sunday morning. A Chlnaman
| came down from Nevada City bringing with
| him Chinese woman and one or two chill
dren. At Rough and Ready he made the
woman and children lie down in the wagon
while he got suppar. They drove into
| Marysville about . o'clock Sunday morning
| and at Nelson's stable the man hired a CON
| veyance to go to Chico, paying $50 for it.
| The woman and children were transferred
from one rig to the other and proceeded on
| their way. Nothing more has been heard
| of them.
The Portland Oregonian says: Reports
| from all along the river in regard TO the
| salmon pack continue to be discouraging
| and the prospects for an average pack look
that there are a big lot OF fish outside wait
| Ing for something to occur to induce them to
| come in. Just what they are waiting for no
| one knows, but whether it is fine weather,
| or falling river. or warmer water, or what
| ever 1t may be that the fish are waiting for,
| 1t either has not come yet or the fish are not
| there. 1t is feared that when they do come
| they will come with such rush that the
| fishermen will not be able to catch as many
| OF them as is desirable.
The Portuguese Government is deyising
measures to check emigration to America.
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