The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-26
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

Territories.
Pasadena is to have an olive-ol mill.
The hot weather is causing prunes to drop
from the trees in Tulare County orchards.
Green-goods men are said to be attempt
ing extensive operations In SOlanO County.
The people of CastrovIIe will vote on the
| proposition to incorporate on August 31St
next
A Josephine County or farmer was
beat ont OF SI75 the other day by the green
goods game.
The Telegram is the name of bright
little tri-weeklY paper that has just been
started at Eureka, Cal.
A new bank is being organized at River
side called the Orange growers Bank, with
a capital stock of S250.00O.
According to the Helena (Mont) Herald, a
bride aud groom of that place are making
bridal trip to Chicago on bicycles.
a forty-tive foot pole has been erected by
the Celestials in Grass Valleys Chinatown,
from which flies a largo dragon flag.
The Santa Ynez Argus says the Santa
YneZ River is completely dried up from its
source down as far as the Lone Pilona
Creek, something that has not been known
for great many years.
According to the Monterey Cypress fish
are scarce in the bay there. Instead Of fifty
or sixty boxes of fish being shipped every
day from there, as was the case last year at
this time, only six or seven boxes daily are
shipped.
From the summit of Mount Rose in Ne
vada, 10, 800 feet above sea level, the waters
of tweniy-One lakes may be seen glistening
among the forests of the Sierra. The snow
on Mount RUse is now from four to eight
feet deep.
A little two-year-old Chinese girl died in
San BernaTdino Wednesday morning and
Was buried the same day. According 10 the
Chinese custom the relatives gathered some
ina hafo no hon Of ht,ria ii and oil y.a
long ana earnestly TO the corpse.
a Reno man who had been imbibing too
freely was around the railway station
Tuesday evening when a passenger train
came in, and it was all the by-standers
could do TO prevent him from attempting to
butt the moving engine off the track with
his head.
Frederick Rease, an employe In the Dixon
four-mill, was caught in the main shaft of
the mill the other day, whiIled around and
instantly crushed TO death. When his body
fell from the shaft every shred of clothing
had bsen torn from 1t, except his shoes and
stockings.
Last Saturday morning. says the Hum
boldt Times, an overland mail arrived in
this city bringing San Francisco papers of
Thursday morning. We believe this is the
first time since 1888 Except Sundays that
mail has arrived In the forenoon that was
only two days old.
Travellers to Alaska are very numer-
Gus this summer and accomm Odations scarce.
The Oregonian says gentleman who forgot
to engage passage before arriving in Tacoma
recently offered bonus OF S175, but 1t
would secure nothing more than standing
room on the steamer.
Henry Stone, one of Dixon's oldest and
most respected citizens, fell from the plat
form of windmill there, recently. He
landed upon his feet, fracturing one hip
bone and receiving a shock from which he
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accident about forty-eight hours.
The Pasadena Star claims that the i'm
preston prevails in Southern California that
girl students are not wanted at the Uni
Versity of California, are rudely treated by
the male students and Disseminated against
in many ways. The Star says this im-
preston Is causing many Southern girls to
enter Eastern Institutes of learning.
Mrs. A Head of Santa Rosa was on her
way TO san francisco last Saturday, when,
at Tlburon, some unknown scouudrel threw
Vitrlol IN her lace as she was leaving the
car. The wretch made his escape in the
crowd. Mrs. Head was taken to san Fran
cisco for treatment but is now very i'll at
her mothers home III Santa Rosa.
The Grass Valley Tidings says: Ex-
Sheriff Tompkins is now Marshal of Ne
vada City, and despite his age and rheuma-
disputed his authority and wanted to paint
'er red, whereup0n TOmpkins knocked one
of them down with his list, then put all of
them in their buggy and started them out of
town.
The Tombstone (AriZ) Prospector says:
The continued trouble along The border of
Arizona has compelled the State authorities
to put in operation Article 80, which is SIM
ply an order giving notice to all foreigners
who have no visible means OF support to
leave the country forthwith. This is in
tended to hit Apaches aud a few white out
laws who make their living by questionable
means.
Mrs. d. Van Benthuysen, who lives on a
ranch near Nevada City, was some distance
from the house Monday when large rock
rolled from height upon her. She was all
alone and was pinned to the earth and could
not eXtricate herself till she had removed
the shoe from the leg on which the rock
rested She tainted several times while
crawling to the house, and it will be long
time before she will be able TO walk again.
The mild climate OF Fresno County pro-
duces either surprising amiability among the
hens OF else corresponding mendacity among
the editors. Readers of the folio owing, from
the Selma lrrigator, may draw their own
conclusions as to Which fourishes best:
Judge Fowler has two hens at his barn
that found large nest full of eggs and d.
vlded the eggs evenly. made a nest each.
and rolled the eggs into the new nests and
went to work turning them into chickens
When the eggs Matched there was one extra
chicken, and to decide which hen should
have that chicken the hens ran race across
the barn floor, best two IN three The
black hen won, and has kept the odd
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