The morning call., 1891-06-01
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
A new bridge is to be built acress Salmon
Creek, at Whitesboro, Mendocino County.
Ventura has 7S5 school children between
the ages of and II, and 226 under years
of age.
Corn is in tassel and green corn nearly
ready for market in Paradise Valley, Lake
County.
Riverside School District has 1914 children
enrolled on the census this year. an Increase
of ia over last year.
A whale 30 feet long and feet high was
shot and killed in the Big SkOokum Bay, off
Shelton, Wash, May 22d.
weekly paper, independent in politics.
Will make Its appearance IN Fresno about
June 1St. 1t is TO be called The Rooster.
After the rains in Petaluma, Tuesday, the
sidewalks and roads IN some parts OF town
were covered with tiny frogs, about as large
as dimes
Henry Hessy was shot and probably
fatally wounded by NJ NJ. Williams at Ste
vensville, Mont, Saturday. The shooting
was the result Of quarrel.
Steamers are now making tri-weekly trips
from Moss Landing, Santa Cruz County, 10
San francisco. The Pajaro Valley Railroad
runs from WatSOnVllle to the landing, con-
Meeting with the steamers.
A cyclone passed near Arlington. Oregon,
Thursday. large store was reduced to a
pile of ruins under which several people
were buried. A great deal of damage was
done throughout the section.
The Moiave, Yuma and CocOpah Indians
had big cry for their dead at Powell,
Nebr., last week. About 800 Indians were
gathered there, and the bowling mob kept
the place hideOuS with their yells and antics
for several days.
j. F. Sturgeon, a civil engineer, has
rIp Of ha.
quartz about thirty miles from Yreka, in
SiskyOu County He has several specimens
OF the rock, which is very rich, and, he
says, will yield about $500 to the ton.
A board fell from the scaffold on the front
OF new building in Portland the other
day, striking on the head of lady who was
passing. She wore large hat, which alone
saved her from serious injury which the
carelesSneSS of the workmen might have
produced.
The largest and richest anthony mine in
the world, 1t is claimed, is al present being
worked In Big Creek Canyon, 100 miles
south OF Battle Mountain, New. 1t is owned
by three Austin parties, VINO have twenty
men at work extracting ore and preparing
TO carry on extensive operations.
a Lander (Wyo) dispatch says that an
unknown hunter was killed at the head of
the PopO Agie by silyer-tip bear, the
hunter also killing the bear. The bodies
In death grip. The bear was killed by
knife thrusts, while the man was crushed
10 death by the silyer-tip'S powerful ana
fatal hug.
Score another dock accident for Benea
Last week as heavy team from the Agri-
cultural Works was going along the plank
road, leading To the dock, one Of the ami
mails crowded against the other, forcing him
over the unfenCed edge, the other horse ana
wagon following, and it took several hours
work on the part of fifty men to pull the
horses out by means of ropes around their
bodies.
J. B. Haynes, who is logging on the Mox
Chuck, Wash, put in pretty good tree Fri
day, says the Aberdeen Bulletin. The first
cut measured "a inches and 25-foOt sticks
were cut ana hauled from the tree, the last
cut measuring 81 inches at the top end. The
tree was fir and was sound at the heart,
straight as an arrow anu clear timber. The
bark Oh this tree was 10 inches thick, which
would have made it 104 inches in diameter
CricketS are said to be destroying nearly
all the crops and gardens ON the Indian
reservation at Warm Springs, Oregon. The
army OF crickets made its appearance week
before last, and is travelling toward the
Cascade Mountains, where the insects will
doubtless be frozen to death. The army is
eight or ten miles long and two or three
miles wide, it is said. The Indian Agent at
Warm Springs says this raid will leave the
indians without provisions for the next
year.
The other day lady living near Winters
threw out into the yard several jars of
branded cherries, She had a flock of
turkeys running about, and soon after her
little boy came in and told her the turkeys
were all dead. Sure enough, they all lay
stiff and still. She had them all carried In
the house, where she pucked the feathers
from each one and the plucked birds were
then thrown into a corner of the yard to be
buried. In an hour or two the lady was
Mortified to look out and see the nude
turkeys walking about, seeming very much
embarrassed. They, however, are not the
first unlueky birds to be plucked after ge-
ting drunk.
Garrett FitZmaurice of TualcO, Snohomish
County. Wash, is said to be the oldest man
in that State. lie is 80 years old, well and
hearty; has never been sick day in his
life; has all his faculties; can read without
glasses, write legible hand, and walk to
the neghbOrS' without feeling the least
wearied. He is a good c0nversationalist
and can converse on any subject. He took
the pledge from Father Matthew, the great
temperance advocate, siXty-eight wears ago,
and il all that time, not even for medical
purposes, has he ever broken it. His wife
died in California three Years ago at the
ripe old age OF 90.
NOBODY will suffer from liver disease if they take
Simmons Liver Regulator.