The morning call., 1892-02-04
COAST ITEMS.
Interesting Notes From the Pacific States
and Territories.

and Territories.
Spokane, Wash, has sold her bonds at
par.
The Farmers Alliance of WatsonvilIe is
considering the matter of establishing al
Alliance Touring mill there.
The Folsom Telegraph has entered upon
its thjrty-siXth year. lis one OF the four
Oldest interior papers Oh this coast.
The Los Angeles Herald says that after
the recent rain down there it was easy for
jewellers in that city to hear the grain grow
ing anywhere ont il the country.
California ranks next to Japan in the
beauty ami variety Of her lilies. Besides
all which she has in common with other
lands she has eight distinct native species OF
her own.
The cultivation Of the licOrice plant has
been suggested for Southern California. 1t
thrives best in a rich, sandy loan, requires
but little cultivation and the manner of pro-
curing the extract is simple.
The Southern California Railroad has lust
completed a stone dixie one mile long and
Is feet wide, with wing dams, at their bridge
over the San Gabriel River, hoping by this
means 10 protect their property from future
floods
The region about San Dimas. La Verne.
AZusa. Glend0Ia and Lordsburg, in Los
Angeles County, will probably soon be or
gained into an irrigation district, its water
Il
a cost OF 100000
John Woolly, young ranch-h hand living
near Maxwell, Colusa COuatY, mas been
having a good deal OF trouble lately be-
cause OF his resemblance 10 one of the
Greenwood murderers. lie has been twice
arrested on susp.ciDn.
The ATbuckle correspondent of the COlusa
Herald attended leap-yeaT party the other
night and did not ike It. lie says: I'VE
attended the party and were compelled TO
play 'Walt0WeT' during our stay as not a
single lady asked rs 10 dance. We left in
disgust, yOWiug that leap year was a fail
ure.'
The Woodland Mail says: The County
Board OF Horticultural Commissioners have
condemned a box Of several hundred oranges
which were offered for sale by r. +. Hes
ter, and ordered the owner not to sell or dis
eposr Of the same. The oranges came from
Los Angeles County, and are infected with
fruit pests.
over %. Co., 600 feet of lumber were cut at
the Seqnoia Mills, Tulare County, last sea-
son, ana the company owns enough timber
10 keep their mills in operation for the next
ten years. A railroad seven miles IN length
Will be built this spring north of the upper
mill, which Will open large amount of
timber as yet untouched.
r. 4. Reynolds of Los Angeles, who dis
tinEuSued himself as a successful rain
prophet In the dry spell of last winter, saws
that those who are this year fearing dry
season should wait until February 18th,
than put on their gum-bOOts aud get out
their umbrellas, for 1t Is going TO rain. lie
aS0 predicts a good rain on March 9th.
Some bad boys climbed 10 the top OF a
church steeple in East Les Angeles the
Ctner day and pelted passers in the stree
below with pigeons eggs that they found in
the Steeple in large quantities. They were
out If reach, and enjoyed the sport thor
Oughly until policeman mounted to the
baliTy and took them in charge. They had
not ANTICIPATED this, and were a thoroughly
scared lot OF boys.
The town is full Of fish, says.the Salinas
Index. Not inst comfortably plethoric but
full to Overlooking, Every Individual in
town has caught more salmon IN the river
than he can possibly use or give away. SO
many Of these fish have not been seen in
the river Tor 10! these many years. The
Cause Is the rapid falling Of the water,
which left tue salmon, which had come up
to spawn, landlOcked.
Coal has been replaced by saw-mill re-
fuse as fuel at the power house of the Con-
sOIidated Street Railway Company of Sc
attic. The refuse, which has hitherto been
burned at the mill at a cost Of about $50
a month, is now conveyed by machinery
into a large box and from there dumped
into bOX-car, which is hauled over the
electric road to the pOwer-hOuss. The saw
ing to the electric railway company is esti-
mated at about $500 a m0nth.
The Kern County Republican SAYS: In
the office Of the Kern County Land Com
pany may be seen three hundred pampas
plumes that were grown upon two punches
or stalks of pampas grass by j. W. Austin.
These plumes sell in the market for twenty
five cents each. At that rate these two
would produce SIS, and as one hundred such
could be grown upon acre il will be seen
tina; the productive capacity Of pampas
grass in Kern County is immense.
f. f. Spencer of San Jacinto recentIy
mounted on the back of one of his swiftest
horses, and with a luriat gave chase To a
coyote that he spied a short distance away
A hot AID exciting chase it was for the first
three miles, and was more sport for Spencer
than for the horse or coyote. About this
point, however, The horse had gained enough
to allow its rider TO place a neat loop of the
lariat over the head Of his cOyOteship, and
with the other end OF the lariat smultane-
ously fastened around the horn of The
saddle, Mr.. Coyote was soon hurled into
eternity.