The morning call., 1891-12-18
COAST ITEMS.


w OOuIdIu SdlUUu-kttpSE ElOU inc OlneT
day.
A large white swan, the first,seen there in
years. was killed near Fairfield, Oregon, last
week.
Wolves have been killing full-grown cat
tie along the Platte River above old Fort
Laramie this winter.
One crew has been taken off the Carson
and Colorado Railroad in Nevada owing to
tie closing of the Candelaria mines.
A junction City Oregon man was fined
$40 for fiourshing gun so carelessly that
it accidentally exploded in the depot there.
The capital stock OF the Corvallis Oregon
Cannery and Ice Company has been in
creased to $4,000, most OF which is already
taken.
\ couple of punches of sheep are drifting
on the plains near Laramie, WyO., and it is
believed that the herder5 have persisted in
blizzard.
The starch factory at Hueneme, Ventura
County, is completed, and starch aker
from the East is daily expected TO take
charge Of it.
Valuation of property for taxation in the
State OF Oregon is about S15O.0OO.O00. That
of the State of Washington is about
$500, COO
Riverside proposes to complete the R0ubi-
dOuX Hotel, the foundation If which was
laid four years ago, and is endeavoring to
raise fund for that purpose.
Natural gas has at last been struck at
Salt Lake in volume sufficient to justify the
people in anticipating the use Of it, in the
near future, for light and fuel.
A young drug clerk at Sacramento the
other day stopped big dog night by pouring
ammonia on the noses OF the combatanis
He blinded both dogs, however.
Seventeen Chinese were landed on the
beach near Port Townsend, Saturday night,
from British Columbia. Customs officers
cd 70 Of than hlIf fba II
John \. Tehan, logger at Arlington,
Oregon, drank fifteen bottles of whisky, on
a wager, in three OF fours hours, the other
night, and was subsequently attacked with
commissions and died within n few hours.
The driver of an Oroville stage found a
set Of false teeth in the vehicle after trip
the other day. Passengers should maintain
fast hold of teeth and other movable prop
erty when riding over the roads up there.
The Inyo Independent says: 1t Is sur
prising to see how well stock is looking on
the outside range. Beet cattle are in good
condition; horses are doing particularly
well, md are in fine condition to stand the
coming winter.
Business is booming at COlfax, Wash. A
mill and furniture company has been or
ganiZrd there with a capital stock of $50, 00O
and the saw-mill, which has shut down for
the winter. will have its capacity doubled
before spring.
The Supervisors of Sonoma Comfy have
| asseI a rigid ordinance prohibiting the
taking into that county of trees, vines, cut
tings, scions, shrubs or grape vines without
Notifying the Horticultural Commissioner
or local Inspector Of thu fact.
A man named Chamberlain received a
sentence of $50 or 10 days at Marysvlle, the
other day, for stealing twelve oranges from
the orchard where they were growing. The
severity OF the sentence Is owing 10 the ex-
tent to which that vicinity has suffered
lately from the depredatiOns OF orange
thieves.
The Lemh Gold Placer Company of
Idaho has begun the construction of a
twenty-mile ditch to convey water 10 the
mines at Lehmi. The ditch is to be ten
feet wide at the bottom, will require 60OO,-
600 feet of lumber In Its construction and
will cost about $4,000. 1t is expected that
about six miles of the ditch will be COM
pleted by June ist next.
A man named Schaetzle is suing the
city of Helena, Mont. for responsibility in
the death of an infant child. On the night
OF September 25th he, with his wife and
child, were walking on a street where the
city had been cutting down the grade some
six feet below the sidewalk IL was very
dark and they all fell off the sidewalk, the
child receiving injuries from which IL died.
According to the Winnemucca Silver State
about fifty Cinnamon are now engaged in
placer mining in Rock Hill Canyon, south
of Dun Glen. The Mongolians work the
gravel in rockers, and must be making good
wages by this slow process of working MS
the heathens are focking to the camp from
all directions. There are three Chinese
stores in the canyon, all doing a rushing
business.
Recent jetty improvements at the mouth
OF the Columbia River have opened the river
to much larger vessels and much more val
liable trade. The largest ship that ever
sailed up the Columbia River crossed the
bar and arrived at Astoria week before last.
1t was the four maSted ship Afghanistap of
2231 tons, from Rio JaneirO in twepty-nine
days. Much larger ships from Australia. 10
load wheat up the river, are expected ia the
next few weeks.
While engaged in throwing one of the
large belts at the lower works at Anaconda.
Mont. recently John 1rekild was almost
instantly killed. The unfortunate man used
the handle of long shovel, which he had in
the pulley. He pried the belt on the wrong
side and it struck the shovel with such yio
lence as to throw Trekild headlong into an
ore chute, crushing his skull.
A young man of Los Angeles. who de-
sired to quit this vale of tears, recently
armed himself with box Of cough candy,
bottle of whisky, bottle of sulphate OF
morphine and box OF morphine pills. He
then stole into a lodging-house. tonk nos
session of a room he found unlocked and
having partaken of all his death dealing
agencies he laid down to die. He was dis
covered and sent to the Receiving Hospital.
where the vigorous use of a stomach. pump
restored him once more to the charms of
life.
The Marysyille Appeal says: An attempt
was made in Chico last Sunday norning to
wreck the sOuth-bound Oregon express.
William Chambers, a drayman, when re-
turning home about IL o'clock Saturday
night found a bar of iron lying across the
track at the approach to the Gu lvert across
OF the railroad employees, who tonnd that
the iron was connecting rod used to ioin
the frog ana signal staff at the switch. II
was about eight feet long and weighed
about sixty pounds.