The morning call., 1891-07-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter.
Iii riLa

ritories.
The Oregon Penitentiary is so full that
the superintendent says that more prisoners
would exhaust its capacity.
Judgment has been rendered against a
San Jose Chinaman who deals in pork 'on
the hDOf" for selling as all right hogs in
fected with cholera.
Jackrabbits are very thick in Yuba and
Butte counties, and people are beginning to
talk about bounty being needed on their
ScalpS to insure their determination.
The sky east of Fresno was dark with
smoke nearly all day Thursday, caused by
the burning of 20O0 acres of grain belonging
to Frank Billiard, the Woodland capitalist.
Tie American River Land and Lumber
Company has over million feet of lumber
now in the river, making an average of
three miles day IN It's progress toward the
boom.
The citizens of Sprague, Wash, are nrgo.
tiatng with the proprietOrs OF WOODEN
mill at Knoxville, La, with reference to re-
moving their plant TO this Coast and locat-
ing it at Sprague.
Major Handbury, of the United States
engineers, expects To have the jetty at the
mouth OF the Columbia River run out to the
required distance, four and Il half miles, by
the end of August.
Tramps Committed to Butte County Jail
having contracted the practice OF destroying
their clothes in order TO be furnished with
new outfits when discharged, the Sheriff is
having regular prison suits made for these
gentry, and their own garments will be care
fully preserved for their exit from durance
vile.
A man brought an infant, in valise, to
the City Hotel, Sacramento, nearly TWO
weeks ago, ana asked Mrs. Brooks, wife of
The proprietor, to take charge of il Tor two
days. paying her So in advance. He then
went away. he said to look for work, and
has not returned. He said the child's
mother was dead, and that he was its father.
Commenting on the widely published
statement of Elwood Cooper that the festive
graSSbopper would disappear from this
State on the 9th inst, the Oroville Register
says: On that night our ola friend Babe ock,
who lives near Moore Station, had fifteen
acres of fine corn destroyed by grasshoppers
and he Is inclined TO believe that MIR.
Cooper don't know any more than the rest
OF US about grasshOppers.
The little sX-year-old daughter of Jasper
McCull0ch of Wheatland, Cal, stumbled in
running Thursday. and fell directly,in front
of the wheel of heavily loaded fruit
wagon, which was moving. Before the
driver could stop his horses one huge wheel
went completely over the child's head,
crushing 1t to an unrecogniZabe mass and
killing her instantly. Tue child's mother
was In the wagon. ana is nearly crazed with
grief.
The Pomona Valley Horticultural Society
south OF Iehachap, and every one of these
is to the effect that the 'prune crop in that
part of The State will be about one-thrd of
the full crop and fully 20 per cent less
than that OF last year. Many prune or
chards that yielded crop worth $500 an
acre will not yield over $50 an acre this
year. L he damp and cool spring weather
caused the failure of the crop.
n grizzly bear and her cub made visit
Thursday night of last week to the apiary
nf lllrr E1,..g s
near the head of Marengo avenue, Pasa-
dena, and totally destroyed five hives of
bees The hives were covered with sec
tons, and were nearly filed with honey,
making royal feast for bruin aud her
baby, the Star says. This makes ten hives
destroyed during the past six weeks, totally
clearing out Mr. Elms' stock.
Many people, says an Oregon exchange,
mistake the green aphiS that infestS tie
rose bushes and other Towering plants for
the genuine nop-louse, and indeed the diff
ference Is slight Professor Meredith of
Slaughter, who has been investigating with
tho aid OF powerful microscope, says the
only difference discernible between tue two
insects is that thuse found ON the rose
bushes have black eyes, while those secured
from hop-Vlnes have red-colored optics.
Chinese circles in Grass Valley are greatly
excited over the alleged elopement of a
woman named en- HO, who left town the
other night with an unknown Cninaman.
The w0man's husband and his brother are
cooks at Grass Valley, and with her dis
appeared $500 or 5000, JOINT savings of the
two men, and also their wardrobe. 1t is
rumored that the man that she went with
was former owner, and it is thought by
some 1t may be case of kidnapping instead
of elopement
The Portland OregonIan says: A few
days since Mr.. Kahn, the fur-dealer, while
driving out of Empire City, Coos Bay, met
young lady riding into town with a rifle in
her hand and the carcass Of bear strapped
across the horse behind her saddle. The
young lady was Miss Charlotte Nichols of
Empire City, who had started out to visit a
place her father WINS in the country and
took her rifle along. aud meeting the bear
shot it. She is quite an expert with the
rifle, having killed number of deer Mr..
Kahn purchased the skin as a souvenir,
A contract marriage took place at Fresno
the other day, the bride being under age and
unable to obtain the consent of her parents
to the match. The contracting rites were
John Hoffman, aged a years, and Florence
May Rice, aged 15R years. The former is
a resident OF Selma and the latter of Watts
Valley. They agree to take each other as
husband and wife. and to immediately.
publicly and mutually assume each toward
the other all marital rights, duties and OBJ
legations. Ii she so desires, the woman's
contract may be yoided when she attains
her majority.