The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-14
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.

ritories.
The Mayor Of Carbon, Wyo., is paid So a
year aud the Councilmen get 81 apiece.
Charles Y. Reed, editor of the Gridlev
Herald, died June 9th at Colfax, where he
had gone hoping change OF climate would
benefit his health.
The LemOore Alliance Company is the
name OF lruit-packing company that has
been organized at LemOOre, Tulare County,
with a capital stock OF 100000.
Charles Williams OF VIVA Colony, Tuare
County, last week lost four head of horses
from disease of the heart. The animals
only lived short time after the first signs
OF sickness.
j. Dunston Of Upper Lake, Lake County,
has little haf-acre garden patch from
which he has this year picked 500 pounds
OF gooseberries, and has about as much
more on the bushes.
New potatoes by the train load are being
shipped from Los Angeles and other South
ern California points for Minneapolis, and
the Western market-farmers receive lIom
5Oc TO 65c per GENITAL.
The largest cargo ever shipped from
humboldt Bay lett Humboldt June 9th for
San Francisco, the four-masted schooner
Ethel Zane sailing on that day with col, 900
feet Of lumber and l6 tons of iron. This is
the sehoonePs maiden trip.
The Farmers Alliance is gaining great
Roadway in Alameda County. There will
be county meeting Of the order at Niles
Town Hall on the day and evening of July
LIST, and Farmers Institute will also be
held there on the same date.
big irrigation enterprise Is afoot in San
Bernardlno County that Will water 10000
acres, and greater one in San Diego CUun-
ty that will render fertile tract of Isl, 900
acres. The productive capacity of these
tracts Will be more than doubled by irriga-
ton.
AS Robert Sinclair Of Healdsburg was
picking cherries in an orchard near there.
the other day, the limb Of the tree on which
he was standing gave way aud he fell a dis
tance OF Is feet to the ground, striking on
his head. and receiving injuries which, it is
feared, Will prove mortal.
Complaint is made through the Mariposa
Gazette that campers who desire to visit
Yosemite cannot do so. They find that the
United States troops will not allow them to
klndle a ire Tor cooking within the limits of
the PARK, ana as many OF them cannot
afford The prices charged at the hotels they
are obliged TO abandon the trip.
The West End says that experts have
decided that the network of prehistoric
irrigating canals about Phoenix, Ariz. must
have made arabic 100000 acres of land, and
sustained fully half million persons who
have left no other record of their existence
than ruins whose scientific proportions
equal any engineering of to-day.
There is said to be feeling of considera-
BILE uneasineSs among the settlers in the
vicinity of Tulare Lake. That body Of
water is rising rapidly, principally from the
great body OF water flowing into it from
Kern RIVER, and many Of the people expect
to be compelled to leave, losing their crops
and suffering great damage in other ways.
A desperate encounter between two Indi-
ans occurred near Horse Plains on Friday,
Samuel, FIathead Indian, stole the squaw
Of another named Japan Squea Tapan
swore to kill Sam when he saw him, and so.
seeing him Friday, he opened fire, shooting
him through both hands and the body SO
that he will die. Japan was arrested.
The Reno Journal says: A bicycle and a
horse aud buggy colIided on Commercial
row yesterday The bicycle struck the
horse broadside, and both wheel and rider
went over him. The man in the buggy was
simply astOunded, and, as the wheelman,
who was none the worse for his jump, re-
mounted and rode off, asked, "What was
tbat?"
The Livermore Herald, one Of the best
weekly papers in the country, has passed
from the control of w. p. BARTLETT, who has
for years been its editor, into the DO session
OF Il. j. LlVernash, an experienced news
paper man. w. Z. Bartlett has done more
through his paper for the development of
Liyermore than almost any other one in
tiuence.
Superintendent Stevens of the Oakland
Preserving Company estimates that cannery
prices for fruit this year will average about
as follows: Peaches, 1c to 1sc pound for
free-stOnes and &c for cling pears, 1Jbc 10
&c; plums, $50 to $50 a ton, and apricots
from $50 to $50 ton. The peach crop it is
said, Will be the largest ever known in the
history of the State.
A small boy and smaller cigarette, two
apparently innocent objects, strolled
through the grain-feld of John Owen. at Big
Dry Creek, Fresno County, Sunday The
boy finished his smoke and dropped his
cigarette, and in less than thirty minutes $40
acres OF barley and buuk-house valued at
several hundred dollars, were merely a
stretch Of black, smoldering ruin.
Since so many rabbits have been slaugh-
tered in Kern County during the past two
or three years it now transpires that the
worms, or grubs, so common in the rabbit
are found in the sheep of that section.
just why this should be is not easy to say,
but 1t is evident that since the rabbits are
becoming scarce the grubs infeSt the sheen.
and are becoming by far too numerous for
the satisfaction of the sheep-raisers.
A man named Porter borrowed a horse of
a Traver man the other day to 60 to Selma,
Arriving there he sold the horse for $50 and
bought ticket for Portland. Before leay-
ing Selma he wrote to the owner that he had
sold the horse for $40 and that he would
give him the money If he would meet him
at the Iraver Station on certain evening.
The owner has recovered his horse and
sworn out warrant for the lively dealer,
who will be followed to Portland.
A 2-year-old baby of Phoenix, Ariz, had
been suffering for several weeks from nasal
inflammation. 1t was supposed the little
one had fallen against a chair. until, the
haw Il the Inot hi 1T Al