The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-23
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter


Riverslde's city tax is 50 cents on the 500
A new pest has appeared In the beet
fields of Alameda County.
San Fernando Valleys wheat crop is esti-
mated this year at 1000 sacks.
The California raisin crop is this year
estimated at 1900 carloads, $50 more than
last year.
The Orange growers Bank is the name
OF a new Institution at Riverside, with
$4,000 capital
Yucca blossoms 81 feet long from base to
tip, are said to be abundant in the San
Gabriel Canyon.
Alter years cessation the Salinas people
have decided to resume boring for natural
gas. They stopped at 1900 feet.
Ii is claimed that it costs cents pound
to manufacture beet sugar at Chino, and the
same sugar is sold at 8 cents a pound net.
Thirty-two hundred dollars was taken in
by the manager Of the Barton Opera House
at Fresno on the night Bernhard played
there.
Dr. Eames, the big iron plant man, of San
Diego, is reported as saying that the san
BernardlnO iron ore is the best he knows Of
anywhere.
Santa Cruz is to have an outfit of song
birds. Five sorts of teathered singers have
been ordered from Observation-Disclosures, gold
iuches. nlghtingales, buiihncheS and sky
larks.
At San Bernardino the ether night Willie
Passmore, young boy Of that place, in the
course of a dispute stabbed a companion,
Johnnie Vertress, in the SIDE inflicting a
painful, though not dangerous wound.
1t is stated that at the lower end of the
Salton Lake the steam ls not over % feet
wide, and not more than feet IN the MD
die and that the water is subSidlng. One
of the largest mud volcanoes, or geysers, has
ceased activity.
C. f. Croker of the Southern Pacific
Company SAYS California was never in so
healthy q financial condition. Formerly
empty cars had TO be sent East to bring
west-bouud freight; now as many full cars
60 East as come West.
George Dayton of Portland, aged 13
years, boarded a train Mt Waco recently TO
speak to a friend. Being ordered off The
moving train by train-hand, he jumped
from the car-step, striking his head on the
ground and breaking his right arm.
Two special agents for the United States
Treasury were in Seattle last week looking
for counterfeit money, OF which consider
able is in circulation IL the State. After
leaving the city they went up into the
mountains, where, it is believed, they have
the counterfeiters located.
Silas Cox, who lives in San Timoteo
Canyon, Southern California, says he has
taken horse To the summit OF Grayback on
there are two trails by which a horse can
make the ascent. Ga one Of these trails he
rode horse TO the summit without dis
mounting.
According to accounts there is an imbecle
woman in the \ una prison who had batter
be elsewhere. Several years ago child
was born to her in the prison. Whether the
woman is liberated or not, 1t is certain that
the child should be taken away, and not be
allowed to grow up among such asSocia-
tons as abound in the prison.
The San Diego Union says: 1t is now
reported that the New York steamers will
not put in here, though having freight on
board consigned to San Diego parties. 1t is
understood that they VIII sail direct to san
Francisco and the San Diego freight be
brought down by Pacific Coast steamers.
The shippers have signified their intention
of returning to railroad transportation II
San Diego is to be ignored by the steamer
line in that manner,
With considerable acerbity, but, doubt
| less, with all truth, the Arizona citizen says
judging from the number of applications
now being filled with the Secretary of the
Territory, it appears that about every sec
ond man in Arizona is anxious to build Q
railroad and be railroad king. As rule,
however, these appli ants for railroad eX-
emption are perfectly harmless and will build
as many railroads through the territory as
they will build bridges across the SaltoI
Lake.
A five-year-old son Of Rev. Single, who
lives sixteen miles north of Oakland, was
probably fatally injured last Thursday. He
was telling large fir tree, and his two
| little boys were standing at an apparently
safe distance watching him. The tree in
falling struck tall dead tree, breaking the
top of it and hurting it with great violence
to the spot where the children were stand
ing. Both we're struck. but the younger
was not seriously hurt. The elder boy
| however, was struck squarely on the head
and is hardly expected to recover.
The Nelson d. c. Miner says: A man
named Brown, who halls from near Port
land, Oregon, drove 100 head of horses all
the way from Oregon to the Hagwilghei
Valley, near the headwaters of the Skeena
River. The animals were sold to the In.
dians and brought high prices. He was ac-
cOmpaned by his wife, who rode the whole
distance lover 1000 miles of wild conntry) or
horseback. Brown reports having passed
through some beautiful valleys, suitable
for farming and Stock-raiSing. He left Ore
gon early in May, and reached Hagwilghet
Valley in July.