The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-07
COAST ITEMS.
Interesting Notes From the Pacific States
and Territories.

ana leTTiIOrle6.
Fresno is preparing for another rabbit
drive.
Suffer County is to have new hall OF
records at cost Of S4l00.
Over 1000 acres of sugar beets have been
contracted for in the PajAro Valley this
year.
Miss Lizzie Miller, Southern California
evangelist, Is holding revival meetings al
Fresno.
A new caunery and packing establish
ment is building al SebastCpol SOn0ma
County
James Walter. a Mexican and Indian
haif-breed of Nisalia, is in jail at Fresno
awaiting trial Tor an assault On an ll-year-
old girl.
The merchants of jacksonville have or
gained a protective association TO protect
traders against deadbeals and mo goOd"
customers.
From fifty to sixty tons of coal are being
taken cut OF the Eisin0re mines daily. Most
OF the product goes TO Riverside and San
BernaTdI.O.
Red Bluff has a 13-year-old girl who is an
expert with an axe. For three weeks at q
time SIZE has been known to cut and cord d
tier Of wood a day.
+. A. Chamberlain of Cape Lookout,
lIRmo0k County, shot bald eagle tht
other day that measured feet inches
from tip to tip of the wings.
The County Jail at OroviHe is now 50
overcrO Wded that many OF the tramps ar
rested have 10 sleep in the corridor. The
Supervisors are to be asked 10 put the prls-
OneTs 20 work.
Frank Wilson, 12-year-Old San Di 20
boy, who has already served two or three
terms IN tie County Jail for Olfcnses against
the law, has at last been sent 10 the Whittier
Reform School
In tie northern part of Cook County,
Oregon, great many horses are sick, with
symptoms Of poisoning. Ii IS claimed that
they have eaten weed called rattle
weed, >" which renders horses insane.
The California DdiTymen's Uai0n are
about to turn little attention 10 the cleo
margarine dealers IN Los Angeles anu ether
places in the southern part OF the State,
where they are said to be doing cool busi-
ness IN bogus butter.
The Ontario Observer publishes state
mtut from some one, whom IL describes as
"a gentleman Of uudoubted yeracity," to
the effect that orauge-grOWers OF Pomona
are aCklng their frosted oranges under
Riverside brands for hi yment.
The demand created in the East for WASH
ingtCn cedar shingles caused by the recent
reduction in trciE KIT rates viii put new life
into The single industry. Besides tie mill
to be started soOI at Arlington another IS to
be erect ted at Me- bourne, a station on the
Lake Shore rogl, about ten miles from
there
The residents q san Leandro propose 20
build, at a cost = about $4,000, Il main
sewer through fine town. Tie proposed
sewer viii be i1ut three miles long and
VIII extend to tse bay. 1t will have fall
of about nnety.feet from san LeaudrJ to
the bay. The hsgal right OF the town 10
make the IMPROVEMENT is now being looked
up by lawyers.
Captain JamGs quiet rancher in the
foothills OF Placer County," says the
D0wuey Champion, has been experiment.
Ing Wild The OllYA, and now makes tie SEN
satOnal announcement that olives can be
grown on our native willows by the oTdj-
nary process Of grating. He makes good
the assertion by exhibiting willow branches
with clusters OF fruit growing on them.
The men who weut through a Dakota
blizzard aud lost their lower limbs were in
town last week. says the Watsonvile Paja-
roman, soliciting subscriptions 10 purchase
artificial limbs. They nave been canvass
ing the country for this object, and they
ought 10 have alb ut enough by this time 10
gel the limbs. They appear to be a "squarer
game than The fellows VINO have burned
arms.
Stockton has a sensation lust now In the
person of young street preacher who is
we'll dressed apparently an educated man
and a good Bible student and thPOlO9ian,
who breaches and prays on the streets in
the evening, Induces his hearers % adjourn
TO one Of the churches, where revival meet
lngs are being held, while he himself re-
pairs to tue saloons Of the town, gets drunk
and conducts himself in every way ike a
depTayed man. He is thought TO be in
sane, as such depths of hypocrisy seem
Incompatible with any but an unbalanced
mind
The Kern County Echo says: Last sum-
mer when Charlie Maui aud H. c Park
found they had a lot Of peaches not fit for
shipping East they bought a still aud went
into the peach brandy business. As re-
suit they now have about 800 gallons of
very fine Ticker" In the start they lost a
large amount OF Juice-enough to make 300
or 400 gallons of Drandy-by the Hardness
Of the revenue officer. Their experience
leads them to believe that the business is a
something better than refuse peaches.
Over 100000 orange trees are said to have
been planted in Mexico last year by Cali
fornians. The oranges grown In Mexico
are excellent Labor and land are cheap.
Ali that has stood in the way of the devel-
opmcnt of the industry has been the sloth-
fitness and lack Of enterprise OF the people
1t will not do, says the Los Angeles Times.
for Calfornians to lose sight OF the neces-
sity of retaining the duty on oranges, al
though the Mexican orange, Tipening at n
different time, does not come into direct
competition with the bulk Of our crop.
Professor Mayer has calculated that. il
the motion Of the earth were suddenly ar
rested, the temperature produced would
be sufficient TO melt and even Volatilize IL :
while. If it fell into the sun, as much heat
would be produced rs results from the