The morning call., 1892-01-24
COAST ITEHS.
Brief Notes From Pacific States and Ter
rifnrina.

ne Etm0I6 lIQaIDl bulletin reports lUJ
cases Of grip at Rocky Bar last week.
great number Of olive trees are being
set out in the Pomona Valley this winter.
The question Of licensing gambling houses
is agitatlng the citizens Of Rock Springs,
Wy0.
Seattle is said to be flooded with counter
felt niCkles, dimes, hall dollars and 50 and
SO bills.
The Alameda County Infrmary is said to
be badly managed, and Ogerrun with bed
bugs and Other yeImiD.
Two silver salmon, weighing nearly forty
pounds each, Were caught recently IN the
Sk0OkumchucB River, Wash.
Z e city Of San BernarduO has voted
10000 fer a wafer system, 500 coo for a
high school, and $3.50, 0o0 for a courthouse.
san BrrnaUdno County is ont OF debt, aud
had on hand IN the county ire sury on the
frs. Monday In January. 1892. S29J, 356 %
Mnutc-guns were fred at Y Gloria. B. c.,
on W edues1ay last as Tribute OF respect
to the. memory OF the Duke OF Clarence and
AvOudale.
Whitedsh are now caught in Klamath
Lake, Klamath County. Oregon. The spawn
were brought out IN a Government h,b-bUat
four years $50.
F. kIasS, q prominent olive-grower Of
Northern California. is Of the opinion that
CaillIna may Yet supply tile word with
olives and olive oil,
The Belmont Nevada Courier says thata
number Of deer have been seen in Monitor
Valley in tie past week, evidently driven
from The mountains by tine recent big SuUW-
storm.
A Tacoma firm Of railway contractors
have been awarded the contract to build ten
miles Of Irrigation ditch near hlOna for
10000. Water will be- taken from the
1aklma River.
Sacrameut0's recent success in closing up
the dI,ge utt be dives Of that city enc0uc-
ages the Stockton papers % urge the under
taking Oh Nucn work there, where IL Is
greatly needed
Two Chinese miners were frozen to death
during the recent heavy snowfall near Hun
cry Creek mining section, about fifteen
miles south Of Ashland, Oregon. in the
SskiyOu Mountains. They were Of 2 party
conveying provisions TO the camp.
The San Lucas Herald says: During the
salmon fishing at this place fully 200 II the
FISH we're captured. Al various other points
along the river catches equally as large
were made. Such ! number Of salmon has
not been seen in the Salinas for many years.
The Los Angeles Express says: The Sal
ton sea has been almost dropped outof sight
lately, but il is still there, and from appear
ances Is beginning to assume larger proper
lions again. From some II The higher hills
north of Banning 1t can be seen distinctly
every morning at sunrise.
Antoine I3itlencatt, a Portuguese who owns
q farm near Hanf0Td aud several thousand
sheep, went 20 bakersfield recently to pur-
chase feed taking with him several hundred
dollars. On his return he was waylaid by
three men, who, under threats OF violence,
relieved him Of $3.50 in com.
The Tacoma Call which stated what was
/ generally thuught TO be fake yarn about a
! gOOse-cau cry 10 be established up In
! Alaska. declarea that there is no fake about
! the story at all, that Captain de Hass, the
Alaskan explorer, IS SAID TO be the orig
iuator Of the scheme, and declares It to be
| feasible.
a farmer living near DOwney, in Southern
| California, has cut several crops Of alfalfa
! hay this season from field planted last
/ spring. The seed WAS sOwu broadcast on
| top Of the slCkcns deposited by last win
ter's overflow when the ground was too
bOggy TO admit team upon it. No cujtiYa-
ton was required to produce the crops.
The strike Of the stonecutters employed
! on the new Government building at Sacra-
mentO remains unsettled Caraw Bros,
| the contractors, offered to pay the men 81
| day for eight hours work, provided the
| men would work nine hours a day for six
/ weeks first. This offer the men declined as
/ being unfair, as they claimed they could
cut all the stone necessary to complete the
| building IN eight weeks.
! The assistant manager OF the Southern
/ cC.ut 1Uu any say tItL one OIL the Ied-
sons why il cost his company more 20 carry
/ freight than similar service cost Eastern
! roads IS the arge amount OF land held By
! single individuals here. THUS, our line on
! the western side Of the San Joaquin Valley"
/ says he, passes for thiity-twO miles through
! the lands Of one man" Naturally it does not
! pick Up very much freghtin that thrty-two
/ miles.
The Olympia CWash.) Tribune reports a
! curious phenomenon there. The brick wall
| # an old we'll between twenty and thirty
! protruding through the ground, until now
/ it sticks up into the air like funnel to the
! height OF ten or fifteen feet. The bricks
/ have not been disturbed, and but for the
| clay That adberas TO them they present as
| fine a piece OF workmanship as the day
they were laid. The bott m of the well
| has risen with the brick wall, for the depth
| Of tie water las not materially changed
| BY using lldder bucket can be let down
and flied with water
At Riverside San BernardinO County,
5. Il. Herrck, A. Martin and Dir. c. Diver
| the OTHER day brought IN a sack If gold mug
| gets, valued at S73J, which was washed out
By three men ia six days. using the ordinary
| mining pans. The GOLD was discovered
| while laying the foundation for a water dam
in a canyon in the Eagle Mountains, about
100 miles east Of Riverside and about fifty
miles from the railroad. The nuggets were
Of all sizes, some weighing as high as SO,
| and were obtained from a space not more
than ten feet square.