The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-23
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Government agents are camping on the
trail of the shake-makers up around SlSSOn
and some seizures have been made.
The Indebtedness of Lassen County, Cal,
does not exceed $40. which amount is all
that remains unpaid of the bonded debt of
1867 IS.
Saturday and Sunday nights of last week
four member Of one family died of la
grippe at Lewisburg. Oregon. and were
buried side by side Monday.
The first through shipment of freight
ever made East from Petaluma left that
city last FRIDAY, being about thirty tons of
potatoes for the st. Joseph MOI market.
William Wallace Kerr, aged % years.
clerk and law student of Seattle Wash,
died on Friday night from the effects of
dose of morphine sold him for sulphauol by
a drug clerk of that city,
Work on the survey for the contemplated
mine at MlsSOula, Mont, was begun last
Wednesday, The dam will be at the mouth
of Hellgate Canyon, and the canal is to
carry at least $4,000 inches OF water.
Tom Hennessy, the pugilist who recently
fought Hall, the Australian, while in Salt
Lake City last FRIDAY arranging for match
with La Blanche, was arrested at the tele-
graDhed request If the Denver (ColU) Chief
of Police, on a charge of highway robbery.
Lieutenant-COlonel IvanhOe of the Oregon
National Guard has been found by court
martial guilty Of misrepresentation of money
belonging TO his company and OF conduct
unbecoming, etc, and dismissed from serV-
ice, the sentence taking effect last Monday.
The main building of the new Utah sugar
factory. near Salt Lake City, Is now COM
p,eted, and it is expected that the plant will
be III full operation by the middle OF Sep
TENDER One thousand acres have already
been seeded to beets on the company big
farm.
Baker City, Oregon, will soon be able to
Tive on the interest of what she owes"
| The city'S indebtedness is now 500, coo, and
its population only 5000. The floating in
debtedneSs of the city is over $50, 600 and
the debt is increasing at the rate Of $1,000 a
month.
Mrs John Freilinger of Los Angeles went
back to her people, in Germany, on visit
last year, and, returning, recently, found
her husband had taken to his bosom a new
love, and had no other reception for her
than an invitation to depart Size will sue
for divorce.
San Diego has the smallest police force of
any city in the United States, having but
one officer to every 1000 people, and for sew
eTal weeks past has had no city jail, nor so
much as place where the municipal va
| grants or peace-disturbers may be slowed
| away for night.
A Sacramento engineer has about COM
pleted the survey for a dam and reservoir
site in Long Valley, New, with a view TO
retaining 10000 acres of land in the lower
end of Honey Lake Valley. 1t is expected
| that eighty men viii be put TO work on the
construction of the dam in May.
The Roseburg Oregon Plaindealer says:
The lynching of Rose and Edwards at Oys-
terville seems to have given general salts
faction TO the people Of that region. So
| much so, that 1t Is impossible for the Au-
thOrities to find any person that participated
| in the killing of the muTdereTs.
Mrs. Kate Bartle, accompanied by her
Ill
first rig from Bartle, Siskiyou County,
| through to Fall River since the blockade.
| a number of parties were waiting at Bartle
| for the road to open, but she did not wait,
| but drove right through the snow, getting to
| Fall River in the afternoon.
| The Exc Free Press says it is reported
| that an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad
| Company is travelling along the Central Pa
| cific trying to get sheep men to ship their
wool East by his line instead of by the
| Southern Pacific. He says Union Pacific
| men will buy Nevada wool rather than
have ii taken East by the Southern route.
| Reports from the Snake River district in
| Garfield, Columbia and Asotin countless
| Wash, are to the effect that the grain acre
age there this year is enormous compared
| with that of previous years. Nearly all the
| farmers have planted wheat in preference
to any other grain, and it is confidently pre-
dicted by many of them that large as was
| the yield for 1890 the crop of 1891 will be
two-told larger
The ambitious traveller in that direction
usually finds plenty OF available roads lead
ing to the devil, but Baker County, Oregon,
is soon to have one road leading to Seven
| Devils. The route to be taken is not yet de-
| cided upon, but ten days are allowed the
| builders in which to make road by which
a four-hOrSe team may travel from Baker
| City to Snake River and the point with a
| sulphurous name.
| - ,s-cf, e
| County, Wash, are considering the PROPOSE
| ton of building wagon road from Sank
| City to the Silver Creek and Monte Cristo
mines A delegation of mining men have
| offered to build the road aud TO give sub
| sidy of $1,000 provided the county will in
demnify them. IL is more than likely that
the proposition will be accepted The roa
will cost about $50, 900.
A Campbell correspondent of the San
! Jose Mercury says Of the coming fruit sea-
son: For the past few years canning and
! drying establishments have multiplied faster
| than the acreage of orchards, and as the
| fruits have attained maturity there has been
a general scramble on the part of buyers TO
possess themselves of the crop. So many
| are preparing to dry this coming season that
there will probably be sharp competition for
| the crop. however large it may be.
| A writer in the Central Californian de-
! scribes coming home from the Office at night,
| along FreSn0'S streets, and seeing great
| grasping, crab-like creatures, fully six feet
| across, some of them, bobbing around, be-
fore you, to the right and left and all around
before you know it; now advancing, with
! great lobster-like jaws a-working as though
about TO chaw you ~, and then retreating-
! hundreds of them" These phenomena, he
| explains, were shadows OF numerous beetles
ana bugs lowering around the electric lights.
| We do not dispute his explanations, but is
he sure he was coming right home from the
Office?
A journal published In so solemn a place
as Tombstone, Ariz.. ought to have consid-
cradle regard for the yerities Therefore,
when the PrOspector of that place v0uches
for the following, who are we that we should
not hold our peace? Says the Prospector:
very bright young lady of Tom bstone,
who is loyal to Cochise County, claims that
the poor condition Of the stock in winter is
due, not to the scarcity of food, but to the
| magnificent distances of the watering places.
| This gives the cattle no time for rest, where
as in the summer they can eat and drink
without exercise To remedy this dep!ora-
BILE state of affairs she wants each "bossie"
provided with a canteen OF water when it
| starts out iu the morning. She claims that
| this is perfectly feasible, as, having been ter
roriZed every summer by the Huachuca
| Water Company's threats Of drought. she
! taught her horse to drink out of tumbler