The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-12
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Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
ritories.
On tree In front of farmhouse gate, in
| Ventura County, is sign which bears the
warning inscription: " No traispassin on
| this parster, bewar ov the dog"
A unique tandem team may now be seen
at work any day in the vicinity of The
Needles. The wheeler is q tiny Mexican
| burro, while the leader is a huge Mojave
| squaw.
The Oroville News asserts that some one
| Is using giant powder in the river up there
and killing the fish by hundreds, so that
every day scores of salmon, weighing all
| the way from 10 to 90 and 60 pounds, float
down the river and land along the shores.
bruised ard mangled.
A. J. Lloyd of Oroville, who owns young
orange orchard near town, covered his
grasshopper rald to protect them from the
voracious insects. Upon removing the
sacks, however, he found that about 900 of
the trees had been killed.
Wednesday of this week was the day fixed
for opening bids for the contract of erecting
Stoekton's new Jail: There were no bids.
however, for the 5000 worth of per cent
bonds which were TO have furnished the
building fund have not been sold, no bank
| or private capitalist being willing to accept
per cent interest.
A small insect resembling ladybug has
| doing considerable damage in the gardens.
| A leading nurseryman says it belongs to the
| family Diabotica sonofa bistica ana is
| troublesome Insect. We don't blame it. A
worm would turn and do damage if called
| such name as that.
The Mountain Messenger says that John
Fesser, who has been for years working a
profitable pocket ledge recently noticed
place in the roof of his tunnel that showed
sgEs Of coming down. He went outside to
get post to shove 1t up and when he re-
turned he found that the place had fallen,
| and in the midst of it was thirty pound
chunk OF gold.
About $50 Washoe Indians assembled
near Bjou, New, recently and decided that
they want reservation. The Washoes
number about 700, 200 OF them being able
bodied men. They are the only tribe left
without resery alton, and the demand for
one grows out of the fact that they are pro-
hibited from spearing fish, on which they
depend for living.
When John Pen berthy, saloonkeeper OF
Virginia City, went TO close his place Satur-
day night he found William Angoye. ia
military known as Uncle BILL" apparently
asleep in his chair in the card-room. At
tempting to arouse him Pen bel thy discoy-
cred that the man was dead. Angove was
an old Pacific Coast miner, aged IS years,
and leaves widow, but no children.
A Sebastopol rancher drove home last
pocket OF his buster. In some mysterious
way the powder exploded, and for a mo-
ment he was at loss to know whether he
had been struck by a cyclone or swallowed
up in an earthquake. Very fortunately he
escaped uninluTed, though his clothing was
burned and his hair and whlskers singed.
Concerning the recent killing of the Chi
naman at Bridgeport by Walker Lake In
dams, the Homer Index says: Yesterday
we had long conversation with an intelli-
gent Indian who was present at the affair.
He speaks English fiuently and is quite
competent to form an opinion. He said:
The reservation Indians were bound to
nave that ChinamaD, no matter who got
hurt, and the squaws nagged them on.
Most all had guns and plenty of amnup-
ton. If the Sheriff had started a fight the
squaws would have set fire to the Town in
hundred paceswhile the fight was going on.
Cody couldn't do anything. The whole
town couldn't do anything. That's all
there is to it,
Suys the Virginia City Chronicle: Henry
Slingerland, young man Of DAYTON. is en-
gagged in hauling wood from the Como range.
While on his way for load Of wood, few
days ago. he noticed three wood-rats plod
ding along beside the road with a straw in
their mouths. There was rodent on either
END Oh the straw and one in the center. In
spirit OF fun and desire to see what thew
were doing, young Slingerland jumped from
MS wagon and ran toward the rats. At mis-
approach the two Ion g-tailei animals mapip-
ulatine either end of the straw ran away.
The one in the center still chung In the
straw. and Slfngerland experienced no diff
cuity IN catchlng 1t. An examination re-
vealed the fact that tue animal was stone
blind, and its ompanions, with the aid of a
straw, had been engaged in leading it to a
place Of safety.