The morning call., 1891-10-24
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories

Territories.
Sacramento is agitating the question of 6
new city charter.
The Sonoma Democrat has entered upor
its thirty fifth year.
1t is reported that Boston capitalists are
trying to buy the Temescal tin miness.
1t cost S2300 recently to secure flowing
well 300 feet deep, in the Yakima Valley.
Several counterfeit greenbacks have been
offered at Santa Cruz during the past few
days.
The Williams Farmer is bemoaning the
lack OF interest that town displays in re-
ligious matters.
Oakland is scon TO vote upon the PROPOSE
ton 10 issue S800,00 bonds for the purpose
OF beautifying the city.
young boy of Sweetwater County, Wyo..
has been sent to the Reform School for live
years for horse stealing
A recent report of the State horticultural
Society shows that citrus fruits are grown
III thlrty-elght counties in the State.
The Farmers Alliance of this State is
conducting its convention meetings at Los
Angeles this week, behind closed doors.
The citizens of Marysyiile are preparing
TO spend $1,000 for the reception and enter
tainment of the State Horticultural Society,
which meets there next month.
Three new stations are to be erected BY
the local road at Alameda. They will be
placed at Willow. Grand and Mastick ave-
nues, and will cost $1,000 apiece.
Parties who have been experimenting with
sorghum IN Iulare County, claim that on g
acre OF land there will produce more sorg
hum than three acres in Mississippi.
Freight rates from Cheyenne to Douglas S
have been increased from 20 to 30 per cent
by the withdrawal of The Union Pacific ser
vice from Orin Junction to Douglass.
A melon weighing S0A pounds, grown on
adobe soil without irrigation, was sent to
the Sacramento News Office recently. 1t
was raised by +. A. Striplin OF Nic0laus,
Sutter County.
North Bloomfield, Nevada County, will
soon be depopulated if the present exodus
continues. The people are leaving at the
rate OF two or three families week, seeking
homes beyond the reach of the Anti-Debris
Association.
j. o, Bouse, q Chico young man, who
graduated at the State University, has
started for Paris, having been employed by
capitalists of that city to 60 TO madagascar
to supeTintend hydraulic mining enter
prise. He will receive $4,000 year.
The outlook for the Riverside raisin men
appears rather gloomy. No raisins in that
section have yet reached the sweat-b0xes,
1t IS SAID, and fogs and clouds Obscurng the
sun so that the fruit cannot dry. Prices are
also very low, the best offers being not eX-
CeeuiLS 072 cents.
A novel method OF fishing is being carried
on at San Diego. 1ncandeScent electric
lights are lowered into the water at night
and large net is placed below them. The
fish are attracted by the glare and are
plainly visible. When sufficiently full the
nets are hauled up and the catches are said
to be enormous.
The Ast0rian says the Australian ballot
system adopted by the last Legislature is
a ~ iva E.fn nfl lNt.cf
ness for the different counties. Every forty
voters must have wooden or steel booth,
to be provided by the Sheriff. The observ-
ance Of the law will cost each county from
$500 TO $1,000.
The annual report of the Governor of
Alaska shows tnal the exports of that Terri
tory during the year were valued at SIS, 94I,-
5l5. When 1t IS remembered that the price
PAID TO Russia for tine entire country by the
United States in 1867 was only 1920, 900,
says the Los Angeles Times, we compre-
hend what great bargain Uncle sam
made.
The DOwney Champion says that Cap
tam James, quiet Tancher in the foothills
of Sierra County, has been experimenting
with the olive, and now makes the sensa-
tipnal announcement that olives can be
grown on our native willows by the ordinary
process of grating. He makes good the as
sertion by exhibiting willow branches with
clusters OF the fruit growing upon them.
A Sacramento police officer, who struck a
woman on the mouth and distorted her
already too repulsive cOuntenance, fired
three shots into the ceiling of the diSreput-
able house where she lived and played the
hGodlum generally, has been punished.
His penalty, says the Stockton Independent,
ls characteristic of highly moral city. He
has been transferred To another beat.
Why he was not promoted does not appear.
Sunday morning, says the Reno Gazette,
when the west bound overland train arrived
at Wells, Elko County, a passenger named
Parker j. Ashford, who was on his way to
San Francisco. was discovered in his berth
in the Sleeping-car With a bullet-hole in his
back near the spine. He was conscious, but
could give no account of the shooting aud
did not know how it occurred. A pistol
was found in the bed with one of the cham
Ders empty. His wife accompanied him ard
they were left at Wells, where he was
placed under the care of physician.
A few months ago Chinese section men
employed on the Southern Pacific at DelanO
struck for higher wages. and their places
were immediately filed with white laborers,
who have continued to discharge their duties
since that time. Last Sunday evening word
was received that the Chinese would again
be employed and take the place of the white
laborers. The people became indignant
over the matter, and crowd of white men
called on the Chinese ami told them TO take
their baggage and leave town, which they
did at once without further ceremony.