The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-30
COAST ITEMS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States anC
Territories.

CblQTen ana SCuOUl property oStlulalcu a.
$3.50 600.
The snow was thirteen inches deep at Sis
son. Cal, on Tuesday morning Of this week,
but melted rapidly.
A new wagon road is to be opened and
graded between Selma, in Fresno County,
aud Hanford, Tular8 County.
Tie master caT-repairer at Sacramento
has received orders to construct 100 freight
cars for the Southern Pacific system.
The sales of a single real estate concern
at PerrS. Los Angeles County, have
amounted TO $4,000 SINCE January lst
The people OF San Jose are becoming very
much in earnest over q project to build a
railway 10 AlvsO from that city, equipping
it and building a freight and passenger
steamer to run 10 San Francisco.
An Alameda child took swallow Of
kerosene by mistake the other day and was
attacked by severe commissions Medical
aid was procured and tile child recovered
but viii not willingly repeat the experience.
Among the cases Of destiIutiOn this winter
has brought to light AT Oakland is one of q
young woman, aged - years, who has been
married for two years. Her husband Is out
of work and she, in delicate health, is des-
tltUte and helpless.
The authorities Of Boise City, Idaho have
arrested nine Chinese who entered the
United States from British Columbia via
hoGtena River. There Is evidence that
hundreds Of Chinese have successfully en-
tered the United States by this route.
A Sacramento boy found a small mush-
room the other day, which he planted and
covered with baTnyaTd compost 1t at once
started in TO grow, and in day or so meas
uTed inward OF foot across, having a tenn
about inches in diameter and weighed )
pounds.
The Calaver8s PT0specturges the orchard
lists OF that county TO set ont apple orchards.
The suggestion is a good one, as the fruit
does Well ID tie hills up that way, and
good apples viii always ind ready mar
ket Cd this Coast at prices that yield a
handsome profit TO the grower
4 concern to be called the Southern
California Olive Company" has been in.
cOIpOrated at South Riverside. The object
OF the company is TO engage in raising olives
and nursery stock and making olive oil.
Work on their place has begun and 125
acres will be planted to olives this season.
Hugh Morrison, a resident of Sacramento
whom a lame leg COmDes to 60 on crutches,
got into a state Of hilaTlty in a saloon there
the other night and. forgetting his lameneSS
began 10 dance. The eXertiOn Tuptured a
bl0OdYessel and only the prompt Offices OF a
physician saved him from bleeding to death.
About twelve men day are now taking
out naturalization pagers ~ the County
Clerks Office at Astoria. This Is IN accord
aDce with recent statute of the LEGISLATURE
notice Of his intention to be a citizen of the
United States. can fish for salmon in the
Columbia River.
a death from malignant scarlet fever Oc-
CURED at the Whitman College boarding
hall, Wala Walla, last week. The local
Health Officer forbade the removal OF the
remains to another city for burial, ordered
the burial to take place Immediately at
Walla Walla, and has placed the boarding
hall under quarantine.
4 Stockton Judge has decided in a case
brought against a liquOT-dealer, OF a charge
Of selling liquor TO minors, that a boy may
! buy beer If he does not drink Ii. 1t is
pose of the law, which was to prevent chill
dren from being sent 10 saloons to buy
liQUOT for others.
A Boise idaho report to the Portland
OregOni8n says: Thousands Of cattle are
slowly starving TO death in the hills Of
Southern Idaho. The loss to stOck-raisers
will be tremendous. Every blade of grass
upon the ranges is under from % to 90
inches Of snow. The present weather has
not been equaled in severity since 1870.
The Vancouver Telegram says the waters
OF the inlet there are now fairly alive with
| red herring. The boys catch them Indian
fashion, sitting IN a boat with q slender
! pole, about % feet long, into one side Of
which are driven a dozen or two tenpenny
nails. This pole is used IN padding the
| boat, and In passing through the water
| catches the fish on the nails.
| A day or two ago one Of a team of hOrse s
! being driven through a street in Oakland
| came in contact with a telephone wire that
| hung down in one place where some line
! men were making repairs. The wire was
! dragged against that Of the electric railway
/ aud a current connecting knocked the horse
| fiat on his back in an instant. The shock
was so severe the animal may not survive it.
1t used to be an old saying in the early
| days Of Oregon that when the tide was out
! over at Tillamook the table was spread.
! Now comes the modern Bay City Tribune
| with this item: The low tides of the past
! few DAYS have stocked the Bay City clam
! market. With big, fat sleek clans and de-
! licOus salmon for our tables, the bright sun
i shining above, and the green grass under
our feet, who can be happier than one who
! lives in fair and bOunteOus Tillamoo1?
! The Historian says: The hope that springs
/ eternal In the human breast auimates the
/ heart of Captain Gee, who IS fitting out a
! little schooner at Port Townsend to sail in
quest Of the treasure that went down on
! the steamer Brother Jonathan, near Point
! St. George, twenty-five years ago. She was
! bound from San Francisco to Victoria, and
! Is said to have 100000 aboard in gold coin.
! Thousands of dollars have been spent In an
! unsuccessful search for the treasure, but
1 Captain Gee thinks he has the correct bear
! ings. and will try The fascinating pursuit.
The item Of charcoal is a large one for the
Gamers on the Columbia River. They use
about $1,000 bushels Of it every year. 1t is
| made mostly on IOungs River, Lewis and
! Clarkes and at Oney. Fir is the wood
usually burned, though vine maple makes
| fine coal. There is a standard price of 1914
cents bushel, but just how much bushel
is has never been authOTitatively settled.
/ Some claim that a bushel is 200 cubic
| inches; others say 300 inches, and there
are few who think il is even less. Common
usage on the river has set $500 cubic inches
as standard measure for what is known as
| "bushei" Of charcoal