The morning call., 1891-10-09
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
HOLSTER is to have O new $4,000 school
house.
The total value of property at San Jose is
placed at Sl9. 472,2S5
A new County Hall of Records is to be
built at Ukiah to cost S1l, 800.
Camel coal of first class quality has
been discovered in klamath County, Ore
gon.
A stock company has been formed to
huild an electric road between San Jose and
Los Gatos.
The San Jose Better Times has passed
under the control of g. NJ. 0Sgoodby Jr., a
New York journalist.
A band of elk is said to be roaming the
timber on the Nasel flats. between the Ne
nah and Nasel rivers, in Washington.
It is estimated that the raisin output of Ell
Cajon Valley will be 1000 boxes this year,
just three times the output Of last year.
A clam cannery is to be located at OcOsta,
Oregon, in the near future. 1t will cost
about 1000, and will give employment to
sixty hands.
1t is reported that number of capitalists
at Eureka propose to build steamboat to
make the run between that port and San
Francisco in sixteen hours.
Mrs. Ann Fernbach Of Independence,
Cal. dropped dead in the street in Santa
Paula the other day OF heart disease. Over
$4,000 was found on her person after her
death.
The Assessor of Pierce County, Washing
ton, made little mistake of S13, COO 900 the
ether day, in footing up the assessment
rolls, and the assessment was too much by
Just that trifiing amount.
The Uuited States Coast Survey steamer
Hassler is now engaged in taking soundings
and a survey along the coast from Cape
Flattery southwark for the purpose Of Sc
curing data for new Government chart.
The Alhambra Review is no more. The
editor has come to the conclusion that the
munifcent sum of SIS month advertising
patronage and $50 year for subscriptions
will not justify any further attempt at pub
fishing paper at Alhambra.
At Portland, Oregon. last Saturday night
an attempt was made TO wreck an electric
car by placing two-inch plank across the
track. The car went over it all right only
giving every one bad shaking up. Had
the plank been placed diagonally the train
would have been demolished.
The Portland Oregonan says: A mon
strosity in the form OF man born like a
bear was on recent train from RoSeburg TO
Los Angeles. He is over 90 years old. His
name is Phillips and his parents, who are
well off, are deeply attached to their unfOr-
tunate offspring. He is an idiot
The Native Sons parlor at Truckee pro-
poses to erect monument on the site rem
dered historical by the death of the MEM
bers of the Bonner party. IL is the purpose
to erect monument to cost $1,000. The va
riOus parloIs of the order throughout the
State will be asked to contribute toward
tie project.
The Marysville Appeal thinks the alleged
expose now going the rounds of how Whit
tier of Los Angeles was trying to ruin
young Fuller, his present partner, and son of
his former partner in the firm of Whittier,
Fuller u Co., looks, on close inspection, like
O move on the part Of the Standard Oil Com
pany, to kill off the only successful opposi-
tion which they have ever run up against in
their career of monopoly.
The Tacoma Call says: Passengers on q
cable-car the other day saw an odd sight. 1t
was at K and Eleventh streets, and the car
had stopped for passengers coming on the
West Tacoma car Crossing the street to
step on board the cable was stout. moth
erly-loOking old lady, followed by two little
children, and in her Iear was a younger wO-
man, presumably the children's mother, with
q short black clay pipe in her mouth, putting
away like veteran smoker and oblivious OF
the comments made by the passengers.
Considerable attention is now being paid
to the seedless raisin, which 1t is said can be
pr0titably grown in this State, and which
will in all probability take the place of the
Corlnth grape, known as the currant oil
commerce. From some f0ur-year-Old vines
OF the seedleSs grape grown near Yuba, an
average OF 100 pounds of grapes was taken
from each vine One of the advantages of
the crop is the economy Of handling it. 1t
can be stemmed by machinery, does not
need TO be faced in packing and can be mar
keted either in sacks or boxes.