The morning call., 1892-01-10
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
IhrrItnrles.

Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.
Perris San BerrardinO County, is to have
a new 5000 railroad depot.
Sacramento is making an effort to secure
q new theateT. One is badly needed there
Suffer County has appropriated 500 to
make an exhibit at the Auburn Citrus Fair
next week.
A comm ttee has been appointed at Santa
Ana TO organize beet-sugar corporation at
that place.
A pay-car ran over and killed a China
man near M0utecitO, Santa Barbara County,
one day this week.
William Stevens OF GlenwoOd, Oregon,
was found dead in his bed a few days ago.
with fallen tree across his cabin.
The contracts for the completion of all
work in the Perris Irrigation District have
been let and dit VIII soon fly. The district
viii be funI shed with steel pipe instead Of
Whitfield, and STEEL pipe manufacturing eS-
adjustment viii be running in full blast IN
a few days.
There are about 1900 miles Of Puget
Sound shore for half-a-dOZen men 10 guard
and patrol, and though a few of the Chinese
who attempt TO smuggle themselves into
the country are caught, majority OF those
who leave British Columbia Tor America
make the trip IA safely.
The PERCEPTIONS mountain crags around a
large lake near The Columbia River, in
Idaho, is said 10 be one Of the finest fields
for sp0rt.in hunting the large white mount
ain goat and black bear That there is IN the
world. So white are the goats that 1t takes
days Of practice hunting them to detect a
band moving over the snow.
a DaYisyille merchant made an expert
men: recently. says the Dixon Tribune, in
giving a number Of boys credit for small
amounts. His selection embraced five hard
frrra a h. . 10 4
paid promptly, Of the last only two came
forward with partial payment and the bal
ance he considers lost. Are good boys good
for nothing?
The C0usa Sun says that some twenty
head Of glaudered horses were recently
placed on a bar in the river and the water
raising around them, some have been flOated
of. One hung on snag in the river, just
above the town, for several days. If this is
true tie circumstance must be pleasant for
those 10 contemplate who have TO use the
waters Of the Sacramento River.
There is an idiot boy at Woodland, YOlo
County, who has long been the butt Of ridi-
cule among the more fortunate boys OF the
town. Recently a number Of them sur
rounded him and t0Tmented him by throw
ing dirt in his eyes and otherwise maltreat-
ing him, until be finally fred a stone from
a slung-sh0t, striking one OF them in the
cheek and iuhicting an ugly and serious
wound.
The Fresno ExDOsitor says A decided OBJ
lection exists with the Fire Department OF
this city against the custom of drug-st0res
keeping venOmOus Tattlesnakes in glass
cases ia the stores. The objection is based
on the fact that In case Of fire the cage in
which the snakes are tued are liable to
be broken and the reptiles escape, and in
the hurry and confusion Of the time they
are liable to bite some Of the fremen.
The pFonripforg Of tho Urarriac ~ fTapfuo
Wash, have set their machinery at work TO
get out block of stone which is four feet
square at the ends and 100 feet long. to be
sent to the Worlds Fair A block twice as
big and twice as long could be got out in
good shape if there was any way 10 trans
port it. but there is not. 1t is believed,
however, that this block can be delivered on
the grounds in good shape, though there is
some doubt about it.
The Portland Oreg0nian says: Ships are
now going in and out Of the Columbia X yer
at the rate Of half a dozen a day, and the
blockade at Astoria will soon be an hist0ri-
cal Renaissance. The past month has been
singulaTly stormy, and il is apparent that
the weather must bear a large share Of the
blame for the delay. There be navgatOrs,
however, who insist that more powerful
tugs could have taken ships in and out safely
on many days during the past month. But
this is question for maritime experts.
w. r. Porter Canvassed the town last
Saturday, says the jacksonville Pajaronan,
tor signatures to a memorial to Congress in
favor of the completion of the n Nicaragua
Canal with Government aid, and as speedily
as possible. The people Of this Coast are
much interested in the speedy completion Of
this canal, and they want ii under the con-
troll OF the United States Government. 1t
Will open a new waterway TO this Coast,
and Will quickly give the people the freight
carrying competition for which they have
so long wished.
Cross-Couniry Club.
The Gentleman'S Cross Country Club will
partlcipaie today i'm q run from Sansalitn