The morning call., 1891-07-31
COAST ITEMS.


IerritOrtes
There are now between 700 and 500 post
offices in the State of Washington
Now that Alta California is no more, the
CalaveraS Chronicle is the oldest paper In
the Stale.
About seventy-ive women and girls are
husily employed in the cannery at Eugene.
Oregon, this season.
A carload of peaches, pears, plums and
apric0ts was shipped to Chicago last week
from Wawami, Wash.
= handsome, plump. six-pound shad was
found in Fraser River the other day, the
first ever caught there.
The recent fire in Sanger caused damage
to the extent of about S37, goo. 1t is believed
to have been OF incendiary origin.
So far the Whittier Reform School has
had two prisoners. says the Stockton lnde
pendent, both of whom have escaped.
1t is reported that at least 80 per cent OF
the apricot crop was seriously damaged by
the intense heat in the Vaca Valley this
season.
Since the burning of the Rowena rrestle,
recently, sixty watchmen have been put on
the Union Pacific road between Troutdaie
and The Dalles, Oregon.
The present rasin crop of Fresno is esti-
mated at 100000 boxes, the same as last
year. The recent hot wave is said to have
injured the crop somewhat
A $4,000 contract has been let by Skagit
County, Wash. for the construction Of a
ditch twelve miles long through about 90, 900
acres OF fine agricultural lands.
Oregon papers are casting reproach at
Salem, the STATE capital, because in that
fair city of fine churches and schools there
is not single public drinking fountain or
horse trough.
A tramway is to be built at Dalles, Oregon,
to bring logs from the mountains west OF
the city. 4 regular tramway motor will be
used. capable OF pulling six carloads of logs
five or six miles an hour.
A young woman of Nevada County who
desires to get married has caused her pic
ture to be inserted in the Nevada Tran
script, with the announcement that the
original Is in the market
A large syndicate of Eastern capitalists
has bought tract of 6I0 acres near Pomona
which they propose TO plant in figs. They
expect to set out 1900 trees, and will equip
the orchard with irrigation pipes, dtches,
etc., and put up extensive drying-houses.
A couple of Pasadena boys are travelling
afoot to the Yosemite during their school
vacation this summer. They have their
food and "kit for camp packed on the
back of a burro, and have between them S1f,
which they calculate to more than meet the
entire expense Of the trip.
Six boys were arrested at Baker City,
Oregon, recently, for brigandage. The
young rascals led the officers to two caves
concealed, but none were found, and it is
supposed they were removed after the ar
rest by youthful accomplceS.
The Albuquerque Democrat says: Two
prominent members OF the Silver City med
ical fraternity came 10 blows in Il discussion
over patient the other day. They were
separated before any harm happened TO
the Doctors aud are now good friends again.
The patient is progressing as well as can be
expected.
A Mexican sheep-herder got drunk and
started to run amuck through Reno Sunday
morning. 1t was very cary, and but few
were about. and those who were did not
linger near the Mexican, " no had a clear
field for some time, until plucky Deputy
Sheriff appeared and gathered him in TO a
place OF safety.
A valuable bird-d0g owned by a Grass
Valley man was recently shown parrot.
He immediately pointed" when Polly
marched up in front of him and said
You're rascal" The terrified dog turned
tail and ran away, and is ruined for hunt
ing as he cannot now be induced to point"
at any sort of bird.
Several specimens of curious, rare fish,
lance-like in shape, with no eye or verte.
bre, have been found lately in San Diego
Bay. DR.. Eisemann says it is the branchi-
ustoma, and is much elated over the find.
The creature swims only at night. burrow-
ing in the sand during the day and wrig-
Sllng OH II any one approaches.
A cioudburst visited Genoa last Friday
accompanied by the most terrific rainstorm
that place has known in thirty years. The
water rushed down Genoa Canyon into
town in torrents, doing grestdamage. The
| canyon was Quilted to bedrock, and the road
| leading through it is impossible. The pipes
| were all broken and the entire water supply
| OF the town cut off.
A Washington (Yolo County, woman went
| to the railroad shops Monday, where her
| husband is working, called out Dave Knox.
| one of the men, aud beat him with a raw
| hide whip until it was taken away from
| her. Recovering it, she called out her hus-
| band and gave him a dose of the same med
| icine. She claimed to have heard that
| Knox said she was not rearing her children
| properly.
Blackberries is a principal crop about
Banning. San Bernardino County, Indians
| being employed to pick the fruit. Recently
| the industry was brought to a srandstill for
a day by the Indians quitting work and
| fleeing to the mountains TO avoid predicted
destruction of the world by water. Next
day, finding the earth still firm and food
scarce in the mountains, they descended
and resumed work.
Speaking of the recent reports OF animals
| killed by eating Egyptian corn, the Shasta
| Courier says: That kind of corn is nc
more poison than any other variety, and any
| one having sense enough TO put adGZen eggs
| under a setting hen ought TO know that cat
tie eating gorge of any kind of green fruit
| are liable to blOat up as though they had been
| poisoned and die unless relieved of the
| superhn0uS wind and gas generated.