The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-21
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific states and Ter
ritories.

at RIVERSIDE TIE OlitI ud9 lOA SAo,NVS'
RellandS has now q telephone exchange,
lust started, with thrty-nine subscribers
Pasadena's recent election to raise $1,000
FOR school purposes defeated the measure.
Tie Caldwell plauing-mill of Woodland
is about 20 transfer its operations TO VII
lows.
Tie Farmers Alliance at Pullman, Wash,
has q warehouse holding 100000 bushels c1
grain.
Growers in Nye County, New, say they
have more APPLES this year titan they KNOW
what TO do with
Klickitat County, Oregon, has shipped
betve cen SOC, OGO to I,GOO, 600 bushels of wheat
to the Sound this season.
The public school building, corner OF
1wenty-first and l. streets, IN Sacramento
has been condemned as unsa e.
The weekly wage bill of the raisin-har-
vesters in the INN adlate vicinity OF FRESNO
is estimated TO be about $4,000
The oil shipments from Santa Paula are
said to be now fifty carloads per month in
excess of what they have heretofore been.
Suffer County now has absolute prohibit
ton. By an ordinance OF the Board of Su-
pervisors no saloons are allowed within the
county.
The Reilands Citrograph claims, on the
authority of the Southern Pacific engineer,
that that rtai has decided to extend Its line
TO Grafton.
Redlands will pave its principal streets
this winter, and Will also expend about
$4,000 on storm drains and other public
improvem ents.
There are large numbers of hawks flying
about the country near Riverside. one
was killed the other day and lis crop found
to be full Of grasShoppers.
Humboldt County has pioneer whose
period of residence in that section dates
back for five years previous to the exist
euce of the State itself.
A breakage in one of the large German
pumps caused 4 stopping OF work at the
Chino Sugar Factory. the damage has
been repaired now and the factory Is run
Mug again.
Santa Barbara Is to have a fine boulevard
wherein owners of fine teams may exhibit
the same. IL is to be so to 100 feet wide,
and Ihree-quarters of mile long, and will
cost about $4,000.
Spokane is to have a regularly organized
medical college, a maternity hospital and
clinical lectures three times week, with
free prescriptions to all who may wish 10
avail themselves Of the benefit.
Miss Cherle Bender of Carson, New, got
FRIGHTENED at a mouse the other day, and
in Aer effort to get away sustained severe
fall, cutting an ugly cash under heTlIeft eye.
\ doctor sewed up the wound.
Three students from ClaremOnt, says the
Los Angeles Express, recently made an eX-
cursIun u the TOP OF 'Oid Badly" and by
testing the boiling point Of water determined
that the mountain Is l0,050 feet hig!.
The Sioux are not particularly slow, says
the Seattle Telegraph. They have put in a
claim of ten millions for ''glme destroyed"
No game is being interfered with in Seattle,
SO our city government Is safe from any
similar claim.
Pad Rody and John Eide, of San Bernar-
dino, have been arrested on suspicion of
being the parties who attempted to set fire
to and buTglaTIze the store Of a. 2. MOrs e
there the other day, and ale held TO answe
in the sum OF 5000 each.
Little Florence Backus of Riverside had
a narrow escape the other day. She was
playing in the yard and fell headfrst into
tub OF water. A Chiraman coming along
saw some clothing floating in the tub and
pulling it out found it was baby Backus.
Two Chinese capitalists, Chu Lai and ING
Sun, who arrived In Victoria, Is. G.. from
Hong Kong recently, are to erect big sal
mOn-canneTy on the Fraser River Ali ar
rangemeuts are comp eted, and the cannery
will be built in time 10 begin packing next
season.
Douglass Tillen. the sculptor, has finished
q statue of Tired Pdgilist." If he wants
to send his fame scGOtlng along the kite
shaped track of Time at a 2:O6 gait, says
the Sacramento Bee, he should fashion a
statue of heroic SIZE shO wing US the Tired
and Disguised Public.
A woman of Nevada City, who is charged
with theft has taken TO her bed, and ever
herself too sick to appear IN court. The
officers, as well as knily ueighbors who
have been carrying food to her, are begin
ming to think they are being fooled.
j. II. McGee Of L7mpOc, Santa Barbara
County, STOPPING TO pass under a barbed
wire line the other day did not bend over far
enough, and one of the barbs, entering the
and penetrated the bone. The blood
spurted from the wound distance OF ten
feet.
According to Edward Everett Hale the
beautiful name Calf ornia" was the cred-
ton of senior Don Ordonez de Montalvo, in
his Spanish romance entitled "Lergas de
Esplandian," published III 1870 in which he
mentioned the Island of California OIL the
right hand of the Indies, very near the ter
restrial paradise"
The Santa Barbara Independent alleges
to have discovered that swearing is becOm-
ing habit am ong the women of this coun-
try, and attribute it to the fact that the gen.
tier sex have taken so largely to wearing
shirts and collars like unto those of their
sterner brothers. The connection IS close
between colIar-buttOns, stlrched fronts and
profanity, the Independent thinks.
According to the Arizona Silver Belt
seven Indian boys of tender years, sent to
an Indian school at Grand Junction, Colo,
recently graduated without the knowledge
of the faculty and gravtatsd in the direc-
ton OF san Carlos on foot, thousand miles
through 90 thPm) an unknown country,
reaching the latter place last week, appar-
emily as fresh as daiSes, just kissed by morn
ing dew.
The Riverside Enterprise SAYS: Rain-in
Mountains and Whiskey Jim, four able
bodied red men from the classic precincts Of
Banning, visited this city the other day
They informed a reporter of this paper that
their errand here was to secure work pick
ing grapes. Their easy manners and cold
attire was commented upon quite freely by
our peoi lie.
A bold theft OF horse occurred in San
Diego the other day. a gentleman tied his
horse in front of a house and went in.
Presently, when the train on the motor
road passed a man sprang from the train,
ran TO the horse, united him, and springiDg
into the saddle rode off. AS he started lie
was joined by 4 Mexican on horseback and
the two headed for Tia Juana at q gallOp.
Officers are in pursuit.
The meanest man in the State lives in
Woodland. He went home one afternoon
last week and found his wife Just about to
take drive with handsome young man,
and not only made her get out of the buggy
but he got into it himself and took the drive
that vas intended for her The man who
would do thing like this would swap his
wife's best beau off for yellow dog and
then trade the dog for drink.
The average height of the water in the
Colorado River at Yuma on Septemb Der 18th
for thirteen years has been 16 feet 81 inches ;
highest, 10 feet 3 inches in 1878; lowest, 10
feet 10 inches in 1879. The average tenn
perature Of the water in the river during the
same time has been IS. Highest, 81 in 1878
Is In 1879. The average temperature for
thirteen years has been $50. Highest, Jog in
1879 and 1888; lowest, 90 in 1885.
The Arlington (Wash.) Times puts il
about right when it says: Chinese wis hing
to get into this country go over to Victo rid
and take out naturalization papers. swear
ing allegiance TO the Queen of En-
gland. Then, as naturalized British sub
iects, they jauntily step across the line into
the United States, whistling, What are
you going to do, brother, what are YOU
going to do" as they pass the customs off,
GERS.
Biologists will be Interested in the strata
brought up by boring operations in 300.
foot level well on the Wilson place, nine and
half miles on the mesa north of San
Diego. Work has been temporarily sus-