The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-21
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


Fresno is to have a new $4,000 high
school building.
The Provincial Parliament of British
Columbia will be prOrogued on April Goth.
Work was begun last week at Port An
COLES, Wash, on an opera-house that Will
seat 1000 persons.
d. j. Foley will locate In Yosemite Val
ley, where he will publish a small paper
called the Tourist.
Several hop-growers of Washington have
signed contracts for this seasons delivery
at Is cents a pound.
The searchers of record for San Bernar-
dino County have formed a corporation
with 100000 capital.
The Truckee Republican says the name
given the new town to be built at the mar
bic works is Marmol.
The Supervisors of San Diego voted to
| spend $50 of the Taxpayers money in well
coming President Harrison.
George Hanson wound up spree at San
Jose on Sunday, by getting shot in the leg
while fighting hotel-keeper.
The Chinese cook Of hotel In NaHpa,
Idaho, was dangerously shot last Thursday
by waiter named Graham.
A fine deposit of slate was discovered near
| Grants Pass, Oregon, last week. This is
the first of the kind in the State.
A Shasta boy took prospect in Gamblers
| Gulch, near town, last Friday afternoon,
| and found nice ehispa worth S21.
Mrs. George Hager died at Colusa on Sun
day night with pneumonia. Her husband
| is President of the COlusa County Bank.
While trying to make a landing at Seattle
recently the steamer Umatilla crashed into
the dock and caused $500 worth of damage.
The AttOrney-G General Of Washington has
| given an opinion that the census must be
| taken by counties this year as well as in
| 1895
Business on the Columbia and Willamette
rivers must be profitable, for the Oregonian
says 2S steamers are being built in that dis
| trict.
son of Judge Hanna had three fingers of
| his right hand sliced off by buzz-saW in
| lumber-mill at Jacksonville, Oregon, last
| Friday.
The Times says the expenditures in Los
Angeles this year for street railroads, m-
provements and buildings will reach
S5,000,000
A company is soon to be formed fer
operating the remarkable flowing gas well
| recently discovered in Odd Fellows Gene
terry at Pleasanton.
J. NJ Sullivan of Santa Monica has 40
stands of bees. His average crop year in
and out is sevenly-ive pounds Of honey to
each stand besides the wax.
Three ex-Aldermen of Tacoma are de-
PENDANTS in suits brought by the City to Sc
cure money drawn from the Treasury while
in Office The sum asked for amounts to
S333S.
Governor Torres of Lower California has
sent troops to the Guadalupe Island 100
miles southwest of Enseuada, to put stop
| to the wholesale killing of wild goats by
| poachers.
The British steam tug Lorne was seized
| by the authorities of Port Angeles, Wash.
| on Saturday for towing an American ship
| between two home ports. The vessel is
owned by L. Dunsmuir Sons Of Vic
toria, 3. G..
The Riverside Press says there is fine
| apple orchard of twenty-five acres on top of
| Smiths Mountain nearly 1000 feet above
| the sea. The trees are thrifty and last
! season bore their first crop. The promise
| for this year is splendid.
savage lynx attacked two men walking
| on the county road near Fosters Station,
| San Diego County, last Friday afternoon.
| After fierce struggle the lynx was beaten
| to deIth with stones One of the men was
badly injured in the left hand.
Several women of Santa Cruz are expert
on painting on china, but they have been
| bothered by having TO send their work to
| San Francisco to be fred. Recently they
concluded to do this part of the work, and
have ordered complete kiln.
| A gravel mine company at Myrtle Creek,
| Wash, made partial cleanup last week
and took from the sluices a jar full of fine
| gold. In one month they expect to have
four giants at work day and night, and they
figure on clearing $4,000 each month.
Growers in the vicinity of Santa Ana are
| being annoyed by Orange-tree thieves who
visit the groves at night and take up trees
| that have just been planted. If any of these
midnight maraudeIs are caught they will be
afforded but short shrift by the indignant
grangers.
The Prosecuting Attorney of Pacific
| County, Oregon, declares he will take no
| steps to ferret out the parties concerned in
| ri-a mt han ufpu affa Of
says public sentiment approves the act, and
it viii be useless to try and find any one en-
gagged in it.
A peddler entered the home of a farmer
| in Williams County, Tenn, and the house.
| wife was So alarmed that she fainfed and
fell to the floor. The farmer entered as the
peddler was lifting the woman, and, Selling
| a billet of wood, crushed his skull, killing
him instantly.
The wine-grape growers Of this State are
complaining that there Is no longer any
money in their business owing to tile com.
bination of the great wineries. while the
wine-makers declare that their industry is
| going to destruction, owing to the combina-
ton of the leading dealers.
John d. Langenour, one of California's
pioneers, died at his home in Woodland
| Saturday. Mr.. Langenour arrived in this
| State in 1850 with capital of % cents. At
the time of his death he was one of the SUBJ
stantial citizens of Yoo County, and left a
| large fortune to be divided among his heirs.
The Columbia River salmon fishermen are
anticipating great things from the present
season, which opened last Wednesday. This
years fish are said to be the latest ever
seen on the river. Some of them weigh over
ninety pounds and are rolling in fat. They
also have brighter, livelier color than
usual
Passengers through the Cajon Pass last
| Friday were treated to curious experience.
| At the summit there was furious snow
storm, the fakes being dry and driving in
the wind. AS the train descended the snow
grew more moist, until 1t chung damply to
| everything it lodged upon, and lower down
it turned into heavy rain.
The Riverside Press says: A site has been
selected fer the new Indian school at Perris
1t is to be located on an 8O-acre tract four
and a half miles north of the town. and
work will probably be commenced within
thirty days. The sum Of S25, 600 is to be ex-
pended, and the school will probably be
opened in October with about 100 pupils.
The Weston Leader tells Of a girl babe
born to Mrs. Mcdonald of Lone Pine, Una
tilla County, with six dgits on each hand.
Instead of permitting the malformation to
| remain, skillful surgeon amputated the
two extra fingers, and the wounds have
healed, leaving no trace of what would have
been in after years n constant source of an
QQyance and modification,