The morning call., 1891-03-28
COAST ITEMS,
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter


ritories.
The thermometer registered 800 at Healds-
burg last Friday.
One mounted policeman now graces the
department at Santa Rosa.
More than 10000 books were taken from
the public library at Ventura last year.
During the past two years IL 300 feet OF
cement sidewalks were put down in Ven
The business men of Fossil. Oregon. have
raised $1,000 to start tiour-mlll at that
place,
There are twenty-one saloons in Pendle-
ton, Oregon, which town only has 1000 pop
ulation.
The first smelling of tin ore from the San
Jacinto mine took place on Friday and was
successful.
Thirteen Indians on the Rockford Reser-
walton, Washington, died last week with
pneumonia.
j. w. Smith who killed Percy Williams at
Fresno, has been sentenced to serve ten
years at San Quentin.
There are 1880 stands of bees kept in
Ventura County, and the yearly output OF
honey is worth $4,000.
a train of forty-fye freight-cars went
through Santa Rosa last Friday carrying
produce raised in that fertile valley
On April 9Th a special election will be
held at Astoria to decide whether or not
bonds shall be issued for building sea-
wall.
Stockmen in the John Day country, Ore
gon, are meeting with serious losses by
| reason of long continued snowfalls aud a
scarcity of hay.
Mayor Gum has declined the offer of be-
ing renominated chief executive officer of
San Diego. An election for city officers will
be held on April It'll
Work at the Borax mine near TeaPs
Marsh, New, was stopped last week on ac-
count OF the grippe, which hoored twenty
six Chinese laborers.
Olympia Tribune: What becomes of all
the chaps arrested for smuggling opium?
Are they ever convicted?
An Oregon farmer tried to help his good
| wife fry some dOughnuts the other day, but
lie got one hand so badly scalded that he
may have 1t taken off by surgeon.
Two schoo-boys at North Trehalem,
Oregon, went on hunting trip one day last
week after a heavy snowfall. They came
| on drove OF seven elk and killed them all.
The Folsom Telegraph says SONS profit
able cleau-ups were made last week by
miners around town. The demand for
orange trees is SO great that nurSerymen
cannot fill orders.
a jury at Suisun awarded Brakeman
Dixon a verdict for $4,000 damages against
the Southern Pacific Railroad on Friday.
He lost leg while in the employ OF the
corporation In 1886.
Captain Murphy left the schooner Active
with one sailor il Il small boat recently
when OFF Cape Spencer. Alaska, and were
never seen after. The vessel trades between
Sitka and Yukatat Bay.
Last fall the farmers of Willamette VAL
ley, Oregon. could have sold their big crop
Of potatoes for 60 cents bushel. They
ScOrned the money and held for ST. Now
the same can hardly be sold for 40 cents.
Farmer Axtell OF Woodbridge, San Joa-
Quin County, is the Oldest of seven children.
The combined ages OF his brothers and sis
tiers are 4S4 years, months and 10 days,
which record he thinks is hard to beat for
longevity.
Fred Kaprisso. a thrifty farmer, was
crushed to death in his cabin, near Chehalis,
on Wednesday night, by the falling of q
large FIR tree. He was alone at the time and
his remains were found a day or so after by
party of elk hunters.
Says the St. Helena Mist: Sturgeon is be-
ing shipped eastward from the Lower CO.
lnmba. 1t will return to us some of these
days in boxes marked "Boneless Goldfish !;
very fine" Our Oregon prunes are sent to
San Francisco, put into hogshead, a
French stamp put on the tieree, and in a
week we are offered Fine French Prunes."
The following neat item is from the
Shasta Courier: A fire broke out in the
Mott Postotfiee one night last week, de-
stroyed that building and three others. In
one of the buildings barrel of modern
whisky was stored; the head and slaves OF
the barrel were burned, but the CONTENTS
stood upright as monument in the ashes, q
solid block of ice.
The Lakeport Democrat has appeared in
q new dress and is now printed on fine
power press. Editor Cook has done Won
ders in repairing the injury to his property
| by the recent tire, TO say nothing OF wrest-
| ling with severe illness that lasted three
he Tho plupEy editor va1
three fires and says he IS now proof against
| that kind of business.
Says the San Benito Advance: The
| characteristic meanneSs Of the average San
| Jose man has again come TO the front by a
| resolution introduced in the Assembly by
Lowe, OF that place. Several Assembly
men attended the funeral of the late Sena-
tor Hearst, as mark OF esteem. Now, Mr..
Lowe rises to ask that the State pay the ex-
penses of the mourners.
The Genoa Courier says: "a few weeks
ago a snow-siide occurred near the site of
the old Bemis mill, in Alpine County, in
which a woodman lost his life. A dog was
missing, and few days ago, while one of
the woodmen was digging out some of his
I lost goods he found dog sitting on his
launches in hole just large enough for his
| body, under six feet of solid snow. After
| fifteen DAYS of Imprisonment, without food
or water, the little dog came out all right
The San Diego Union of Saturday says:
| The growing preference East for California
| wild flowers Is constantly being Indicated
| by orders through the mails or from friends
here. A shipment for Palm Sunday decora-
tions of a Laramie (Wyo.) church was
wholly of magnificent palm leaves. Palms,
callas, smiax and brodeas wild hyacinth)
| have followed for Easter Sunday in a Wy
| oming church. To-day more flowers, in-
GLIDING the lavender brodees and smilax, 60
| to Laramie, and an order is also to fill for a
| Leadyile sanctuary'S Easter Ornamental