The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-12
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and
Territories.


LOggerS' wages in the PUGET Sound coun-
try have been reduced.
Nevada County girl Of % has just mar
RED Taneher OF that section aged 65 years.
Sacramento authorities are instituting
vigorous warfare against the dives Of that
city.
The tule farmers of Tolo County arc re-
jOicng over the recent rains, but say they
want more yet.
Mckenzie, the murderer of c. Murillo at
San Diego, has been committed 10 the H.
sane asylum at Napa,
The farmers Of Bennett Valley, Santa
Rosa County, want to see Wsnamaker's
idea of a rural postal delivery carried out
Lewis GTeenslade Of Los Angeles, who,
as Lewis the Light" has long been a we'll
known character in California, has at last
been sent to AgneWs Asylum for the in
sane, GTeenslade claimed TO be Jesus
Christ.
Presley Bruner, a brother of ElwOOd
Bruner, has just been appointed attorney
for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
BruneT was for some years an attorney IN
Idaho, and Is SAID TO be a man or brilliant
attainmentS.
Wicked Fresno is to have an opportunity
to improve. The EXpOSitOr says it has late
" received a deluge Of articles on religion,
written Tor lis columns when IL proposes 10
hang on hooks IN It's office with a view 10
the moral Improvement Of Its stall This
would 60 a long way toward reforming
| Fresno.
The Willows Canyon In Oregon from the
bridge on WallOwer Rjver to its junction
with the Grand R0nde River is said to b.
tie hunters paradise. The recent SHOWS
In the mountains have caused the deer T.
come down into the small raylnes and brooks
that lead into the canyon, and tiey are very
plentiful
The Retail Jeweler SAYS: A hitherto I'M
/ known stone has been found in the mining
district OF CaEdelaria, in Nevada. 1t IS OF
a dark green color and takes on very high
polish and Is cassed by the State G-ol0gIst
as 'SaTiscite," Several beautiful ornaments
have been produced from it, but so far II
has not been found in any considerable
quantity.
1t is an I'll wind that blows nobody any
good The Grass Valley Telegraph says
that the recent heavy storms IN the SIerras
have benefited TTuckee by causing con-
siderable money TO be placed in crcula ton
! through The SaOW-ShOveleTS. Many men
have been brought from Sacramento and
other points and large fcrces have been en-
gagged on the lee-pOnds and railroad.
On lands belonging to Richardson Both
eTs OF Grass alley IS a quarry of one Of the
most remarkable and valuable building
stones known 10 the Coast. 1t IS unlimited
ID quantity cropping out Of tile surface Ike
an immense ledge, JrdCea5le for long dis
lance i Is so soft Just underneath the
surface OF tie ground that II can be cut
with knife, clipped with Ratchet, or
planed with a CARPENTERS plane.
The Riverside Press SAYS: The action Of
certain road ia preventing tie reduction
of freight rates on oranges from 81 > to 90
cents on the hundred to Eastern points, VIII
make 1t Impossible to ship ordinary fruit a
present prices. This means heavy loss u
fF1 ra yrall = H. . thu o. 9
u tie latter do not make up their minds to
give their trade TO lines mora literally in
c.lned they will act very unnatuTally.
The Iulare Il sister has grievance and
says: Tie people Of the upper San Joaquin
valley should make an organized ana de-
teTmined effort to reopen 20 entry the 1000
1 square miles Of timber lands in Fresno,
Kern and IulaTe counties which the Presi-
dent has recently seQuestratrd Uy virtue Of
an act 81 Congress. BY uniting and making
vigorous protest the people Of this valley
may be able TO avert the great wrong about
10 be inf cted upon them.
a. J. Holland Of Oakland, Grand Master
OF tie cOlOTed MasJu5 OF California, has
been In Fresno recently, says the EXpOsitOr.
lie Is manager Of the COlOIeQ Colonization
! Corporation, which has for its object the
! setting or cOlOred people on Fresno land
! Mr.. Holland says that it IS the purpose to
! settle no Objectionable person, but only the
/ IdUStr lOus. They Will come mostly from
| Texas. Mr. Holland is one Of the pioneers
! Of California, having came here in 1919. He
! Is confident that the cOlonlZing scheme Will
be for the good Of the country.
Pete Marker who is working out at A II.
| Smiths saH-mill On R.fl; Creek, set a large
| trap, thinking to catch monster bear, whose
! tracks we're seen in the neighbOrhood, says
! the Myrtle Point (Oregon) News. Several
/ days after he went out to look at his trap,
! but instead Of the bear he found a large
! eagle, the largest perhaps, ever seen in the
! Rocky Mountains The eagle had been
! caught in the powerful jaws Of the trap by
! one leg just above tue claws He had
| dragged the immense trap which was Sc
! cured by q log, into some brush more than
! twenty-five feet from the spot where trapped
! and was dead. So large and strong was his
! leg that il was not broken. The EAGLE was
! too large TO carry, 80 the trapper cut both
! legs off as trophies. he measured the huge
| bird, and it was twelve feet from tip to tip
! Of its outstretched wings.