The morning call., 1891-12-01
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Whea land has a petition for prohibition
| before its Trustees.
The Martinez Fruit and Canning Company
| is talking of building a cannery at Nisaia
Hunting jackrahbiiS by moonlight has
! lately become a favorite paStime with the
! people Of Douglas. Wyo.
Ducks are growing very scarce along tine
| San joaquin, as the carp in the river now
eat the feed that formerly attracted them.
The Fresno Board of Trade has on exh-
| bitten sweet potato weighing 4494 pounds.
| 1t is believed to be the largest ever grown
| in the world.
| The trellis system for hop-growng is COM
| ing into popular use In MenduclnO County.
| Growers there have heretofore used low
| tent-poles and string.
The gross valuation of propc... n Multi
nomah County, Oregon, Tor 1891, as re-
| turned by the Assessor, Is S6l. 239 1885, as
| against S54, $50, 495 in 1890.
The discomfort In the San Joaquin Valley
| over the employment of Chinese on the rail-
| road is growing and an open demonstration
against IL Is said 10 be pending.
The law prohibiting the throwing of saw
| dust into the streams Of Oregon has been
| declared unconstitutional aud some of the
mill men have returned 10 the practice.
Tulare has gone largely into turkey-rais-
ing. The first shipment from there was
| made few days before Thanksgiving. and
cOnsis ed Of $4,000 pounds, for the San Fran
cisco market.
A large number Of farmers near Gridley
| and In the southern part OF Butte County
have purchased the Gridley Herald, and it
| will hereafter be run in the Interests Of the
Farmers Allianc-.
The State Agricultural Society of Nevada
| has received through the First National
| Bank at Reno the sum of $500 from the
State to pay all premiums awarded exhibit
| ors at the State Fair.
County, has been indicted by the Grand
| Jury of that county for taxes which he re-
| ceipted for when County Treasurer but
failed to give credit Tor on the county books.
Keeper Joseph Hodg-on of the Coos Bay
Lfe-Saviug Station, Oregon. has been pre-
scented with a gold watch and chain By the
| Oregon Coal and Navigation Company tor
| assistance in rescuing passengers and saving
u steamer stranded off Coos Bay.
The banking system recently introduced
| in the Mendocino public school is proving
very successful. During the three weeks it
has been in operation Sl25 10 has been
turned in By pupils aud placed to tue credit
of deposltors in tie Mendocino Discount
| Bank.
The subdivision Of lands and the planting
Of orchards Of citrus and declduOus fruits
on all the lands around Uroyllle has been
very active the last year, says the Register.
| Since il has been fully established as fact
that the entire country is fully adapted for
olives and oranges, great excitement has
prevailed.
The Colusa Herald claims that W. ]. King
Of Stony Ford, that county, this year graft
ed pumpkins and watermelOus upon peanut
vines, raising three crops. This is doubt
less the cold truth, but this grating business
is going too far. Some one may graft a
wicked, wicked lie upon the too truthful
stock Of the Herald one OF these days, land
what would poor robin do thenp
| NayU VorI trads al sava fhara 10
no market in this country for the imported
prune. The California prune has entirely
supplanted it There is. it estimates a con-
siderable stock of old. a portion Of which
has been cen polished ana put IN condition to
resemble new goods, but the reDOvating
process does not cunt for much, as the cry
Is general for the California product.
At a dance at Sulphur Creek, Colusa
County, the other night, a man named Cen
try asked his wife to dance with him. She
refused, but soon after danced with another
man. This 80 euraged Gentry that lie at
tempted to stab his wife Being prevented
he left the hall and soon returned with a
revolver which he fred at two or three men
| who had inteIfered with his first murder
Gus attempt. One man was burned with
powder, but no one otherwise hurt. Gentry
was arrested.
A farmer who has resided many years in
San Joaquin County predicts cold winter.
He bases his prediction on the facts that
hunters ma tne DlruS tney XIII provided
with unusually thick coats of feathers and
down, aud that all domestic animals show
unusually heavy coatings of hair This, he
says, is remarked by all who have observed
their farm stock, and is especially obserya-
BILE in the case of cows, whose udders are
especially hairy. These, he says. are in
falllble signs of a cold winter.
The Record Union says 1t has Information
that claims to large amounts will be made
against the Government by parties owning
toll-roads through a portion of the new
Yosemite reservation, and that as this por-
ton is Of no use for park purposes the Govern
ment ought to surrender 1t and seek ne W
selection for national park. The region
around Mount Shasta, 1t says, Is far more
deserving OF the attention of tourists and
the lovers OF nature than the six townships
under consideration. and it is n region where
private claims may be avoided.
Mrs. George III. Derby, the widow OF the
famous humorst, John PhGDix," who
made San Diego famous in the fifties, is liy-
ing at Fortress Monroe. She lately wrote
to Philip Crosthwaite, says the San Diego
Sun, whom she had known and whose name
she had lately seen as one of the surviving
''old-tmers" here, to inquire il San Diee
had any hotel accommodations. She wanted
to see the old place once more, but evidently
feared that she would lave 10 take an adobe
room and dispute its possession with the
feas Mr.. Crosthwaite supplied her with
some new IDEAS upon the modern adyan
tages OF the CT by the bay.
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