The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-24
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Spokane is to have brewery with capt.
tai of S150,0o0.
A bank has been incorporated at Red
wood City with capital stock Of 100000.
The people of Tucson, Ariz., are working
| for the better enforcement OF the Sunday
! law.
Arizona stan ds third on the list of lead
| producing States and Territories on this
| continent
a spark from thrashing engine at Chico,
Monday, destroyed 100 acres of growing
| grain, 200 rods Of fence and lot of farm
machinery.
a broken camera lens thrown on en- ash
| heap at San Gabriel the other day started a
! fire that destroyed drugstore and nearly
! burned up the town.
| Despite the game law and the efforts of
| the Commissioners to enforce the same, it
| Is reported that young grouse are being
| served up in Seattle every day.
A number of Tacoma people were all
| made violently ill the other day by eating
| cOrned beef which, tits supposed, must have
| been POISONED IN some way, though how Is
a mystery.
Weasels are being used about Riverside
with excellent results for the extermlnatlon
of gophers, rabbits and field mice, which
are rapidly disappearing before the
onslaughts Of these fierce blood-suckerS.
Los Angeles has six Superior Judges. but
| all except one of them are off on a summer
ton proceedings in the matter affecting the
Terminal Railway are delayed and over 500
| men thrown out of work.
William Findley, a well-known borseman
OF Grass Valley, New, during fiji of insan-
ity attempted suicide by shooting himself
last Sunday afternoon. The bullet aimed at
his heart struck rib and detected. causing
only slight wound, from which he will re-
cover.
The Austin New Revellle says: a con-
tract has been let for hauling anthony from
the Big Creek mines TO Austin Junction,
| whence 1t VIII be shipped by rail to Battle
| Mountain, thence by way of San Francisco
to New Orleans, thence by steamer to Liver
| pool, England.
The Mint at Carson City, New, had
narrow escape from destruction by fire Sat
| urday night. The Waterman smelled fire,
| and, investigating, discovered that plank
| by II and 10 feet long, over the boiler near
the refners, had burned in two. The flames
we're eXtnguished and the building saved.
Miss Edith Bevan, young lady travelling
! from Los Angeles to Ogden, left her seat in
| the train at Lathrop Tuesday morning to
| get drink, and returned t. mud that dur
| ing her absence her hand satche had been
! opened, so removed from it, and other of
| its contents StrcwD about the seat and floor.
| "0d john Brown" a Stockton local
| celebrity, died Monday night at the Insane
! Asylum, where lie had been committed Sat
| urday. Brown was injured in the notable
| boiler explosion at the head of Stockton
channel on Washington's Birthday, 1879
and never recovered his shattered intellect.
Ira Mehrin of Dalles, Oregon, was cut
ting down tree recently when the top of
the tree flew back and crushed him into the
earth, pinninG him there face down.
| When the tree was pried off it was
| found that Mehrlia's nose and cOiar-b0ne
were broken and his face badly dishgured.
The last of the Riverside orange crop was
shipped last week. The total crop this year
amounted to 1875 carloads, which, consider
ing The shortage in the crop all over South
ern California, is larger shipment than
ever before. The total value of the River
side orange crop for the season of 1S90-9l is
| put at S1,230,000.
The EScOndido Times says: It is quite
| evident thai the MuScat grape crop is going
| to be very large this year. The vines are
| loaded, and the fruit is maturing in excel
| lent shape. a great many new vines are
| coming into bearing this year, consequently
| our raisin output will be largely increased.
| The company vineyard of 100 acres is love-
! ly sight.
The Galloway Canal, near Rosedale, Kern
| County, burst Its banks Sunday afternoon,
| and IN short time the water was flowing
! through crevaSse 200 feet wide, aud over
| flowed the adjoining land, including about
| thirty acres of the most promising vineyard
| in ROsedale, before the headgates could be
| put in. The accident must have been caused
| by gOpher-holes.
Francisco Pico, wealthy resident of San
Jacinto, is about to build an elegant adobe
| residence on Casa Iona Hill. A reaction is
setting in in Southern California in favor of
this humble material for house building.
| The adObes are now said to be the most ap-
| propriate of ali residences for that climate,
| being cooler in summer aud warmer in
| winter than any others.
According to the Nevada Transcript the
Digger Indians in some sections of the State
| are living high this year on grashoppers
| that are infesting the fields and orchards.
| The Indians thread the insects on a string
| and roast them, or dry them in the sun,
| grind them in mortar to fine -four and
| make them into cakes, which are cons dered
| by The tribes great delicacY.
| In answer to complaints Census Superin-
| tendent Porter has written the people of
| Reno, New, that the reason the population
| of Reno was not stated in Bulletin 81 is
that owing to the way the enumerators in
| that locality made their returns it was i'm
| possible 10 separate Reno town and district
The schedules are to be returned to the
| enumeratorS to be properly marked.
The slang phrase 'In the soup" will al
ways have sad significance to Christian
| Klavano of Endicott, Wash. The other day
his daughter, girl Of ID, in attempting to
| hit large kettle of soup from the stove,
was compelled to set it on the floor, and
| turning away from the kettle moment. the
little child fell into the kettle and was so
badly scalded that it died in a few hours
! after.
Joe Simmons and Charles Fishbeck of
| Pasadena made the ascent of Mt. Wilson,
! Saturday last, in carts of their own manu-
| 1aeture. The wheels of the carts were only
two feet apart, the seats resting on the
axles, so that the occupants could readily
step to the ground at the narrowest portions
! OF the trail. Simmons desired to make the
| ascent but is too stout either to walk or
ride, SO contrived this method of travelling
He and Fishbeck may claim the honor of
being. the first to travel this trail on a
| wheeled vehicle.