The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-28
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.

| Brief Notes From Pacific States and
| Territories.
COlusa County wheat farmers are antlcl-
| pating a season of unusual prosperity thls
| year.
Tulare County wants more rain. The
| total rainfall to date at Hanford is only 5.5o
| inches.
Santa Cruz now has bright new daily.
| the Evening Herald, E. w. NethertoD, editor
and proprietor
Burglars entered the store of F. A. Gaines,
| at Briggs, the other night, and secured
| about $500 worth of cutlery.
Arrangements are being made in Sacra-
mentO to organize an order to be known as
the Order of Sons and Daughters Of Pho
neers, to go into effect about May 9Th.
The Native Sons of Santa Cruz have de-
| cided to purchase lot on Pacific avenue on
which they will erect a hall. A joint stock
company is to be organized with capital OF
| $4,000
Gualala, Mendocino County, has been un-
dergoing siege of la grippe SO severe that
the mill, which is principal industry OF
the place, could only be run occasionally
| last week.
a six-weeks-old grape vine is on exhibit
| ton in Hanford IL was set out on the
| Bonanza vineyard, near Lueerne, not long
| ago, and now has nVe punches Oh ralSlh
| grapes on It,
Through trouble with the electric light
| company, whose contract has now expired,
| San Diego has been in the dark lately and
thieves and footpads have Piled their trade
| industriously.
a double headed calf was born the other
dav on the ranch of {. L. BOardman, near
Reesvflle, COlusa County. 1t died. 1t had
TWO well. developed heads, each with eyes,
nose, mouth, etc.
Jack Russell, an o,d-time milling expert,
and the man who discovered the first pay
| dirt on Grasshopper Creek, is said to have
found some fine carbonate ore in large
bodies not far from Helena.
A little green worm is making havoc
among the pear orchards about Petaluma,
destroying the leaves and finally the fruit.
1t is said that thorough spraying at this
| season will destroy the worm.
The TWO sons, aged respectively and 5
years, of Frank Marshall were poisoned the
other day by drinking the contents Of
bottle of throat-gargling medicine. Prompt
| measures alone saved their lives.
The Salem (Oregon) Statesman says: A
man homesteaded peach orchard near JEFF
feTson, the other day. and now Portland
lady clerk has bought fine farm as school
land in Linn County, at So an acre.
The editor of the Corning Observer has
been wrestling with la grippe, and says
anybody can sweat it off in TWO days. That
depends. The Observer editor must be
very thin-skinned. Most editors are not.
So many travellers visit Hauford, lately,
| that the hotel accommodations of the place
are pushed to their utmost capacity and the
| owners OF the leading hotel are cOntem-
plating adding third story to that structure.
James Sandusky and family, living on
Reeds Creek, near Red Bluff, we're poi
soned Sunday by eating toadstools, believ-
| ing them to be mushrooms. One of the
| children, a girl of II, has since died from
the effects of the poison.
! According to the local paper it took about
| seventy-fve men, thrty-siX boys, several
clubs and 200 feet of rope to ship seven wild
| steers en- route to San Francisco the other
| day. One unruly brute laid down and was
| dragged inch by inch up the gang-D plank.
A vein of coal has beer found on North
| Cow Greek, Shasta County, which is said to
| be twenty three feet thick, cropping out
| shallow on the side of the mountain and
| quite accessible. 1t Is said TO be good for
| all heating purposes, but not for cooking.
Despite the fact that there is State
| bounty of So per scalp on the coyote and
county bounty of Sc sheep-raisers in Mendo-
elmo are so annoyed by coyotes that call Is
| out for meeting of sheep-owners to take
measures for the destruction of the depre-
dators.
California has at least one writer who is
| gloriousy optimistic. He sees a blessing to
the State in the numerous pests that infest
| the fruit orchards, because fear of them
prevents grasping orchardists from invest
| ing too largely IN enormous orchards that
they could not keep clear of bugs.
The champion mean man of the week
halls from San Jose, where he was building
fence recently Some blocks Of wood fell
on the sidewalk as he worked, and a little
nne-year-old girl picked them up for waste
| firewood, whereupou he SwOre out war
rant and had her arrested for stealing. The
Justice promptly dismissed the case and as
sessed the costs to the complainant.
Those who are accustomed to think of
| Arizona as q waste wilderness and desert,
should read this from the Phoenix Herald:
Everywhere one sees the evidence OF coming
greatness in the orange, fig, olive, grape,
| apricot and other products that fairly
swarm with fruits so prolific are they in
bearing this season. 1t is great valley OF
prosperous homes and ere long will be a
land of unexrelled wealth-unexcelled upon
| the American continent.