The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-06
COAST ITEMS.
Interesting Notes From the Pacific Slater
and Territories.

Interesting Notes From the Pacific States
md Territories.
Santa Cruz is to have new union de-
pot
A football eleven is to be organized at
Stanford University.
An $4,000 brick block is to be built this
season at Santa Cruz.
Annie Rooney is dead. She was a Nevada
race-borse Of considerable local fame.
The dressmakers and factory girls of
Sacramento are 10 organize alab0r union.
The Los GatOs Board of Trustees have
passed an ordinance regulating the sale OF
Opium.
Snohomish and Skagit counties in Wash
ington are reported ~ be flooded with spu-
TOuS coin.
The number Of employees at the navy
yard, according 10 the Vallejo Times, APP
proXImateS 80.
Ninnemucca, New. claims to have the
handsJmest and most conveniently arranged
po5uiice building in the State.
Since the late rains robins are said to have
entirely disappeared from the orchards
around Saratoga, Santa Cara County.
Horse-thieves have become so thick
ground Helena, Mont, that gang of citi-
Zens has organized TO hunt them down.
The Bear Valley Irrigation Company has
called for bids 10 run tunnel 6600 feet
through rock. Bids to be opened March 1st.
Since January 1st five applications have
been made by Cinnamon IN different parts
Of this State for licenses to marry white
women.
A Carson New hen recently laid an egg
which, according to the Appeal, measured
So inches in circumference, the long way,
anU 63 inches the other.
w. ID. Mandrieh of Fresno has been held
in the sum of $500 to answer a charge of
criminal libel for causing fictitious death
notice to be published in Fresno paper.
The town of San LeandrO in Alameda
County is getting up petition asking tue
Southern Pacific Company to run half
hourly trains between that town and Oak
land.
San Jose ministerial circles are much ex-
ercised over the refusal of the Trustees of
the Normal School located there tn reinState
Bible reading as part Of the daily opening
exercises.
One and half inches Of rain fell in Ari-
IONA during the last storm, and the hearts
Of sTockmen are greatly rejOiced thereat.
The price Of range cattle advanced 20 per
last Friday.
prospectoT has discovered within five
miles of Riverside a vein of collaborating
ore which assays from Sc to $50 per ton. 1t
is free milling and the vein Is from three to
five feet IN width.
An effort is being made by a number of
DdLAleS lubcIoSbtu III ~ pibpUScu SIbttElC
railroad from CucamOnga to San BernardiDO
to secure Eastern capital 10 prosecute tie
building of the road.
The horticultural officers of San Bernar-
dino and Los Angeles counties report That
a close examination of the orange trees of
Riverside that have been treated with gas
shows that the scale are all killed.
The laboring element of Colfax, Wash,
held meeting the other day and formulated
a demand that the street grading work of
that city be give to them, and not as con-
tractors are doing, TO imported foreigners.
The Chinese have just dedicated new
joss-house at Los Angeles. The building
is of brick and expensive. The carvings
cost $4,000, and the altar and its furnish
ings $4,000 Two flags imported from
China cost $500 each.
man applied for naturalization papers
at MERGED the other day. who, after thirty
years residence in this country, could not
speak word of English or answer a single
question put to him by the court regarding
our laws and institutions.
The Visalia Delta says that a fruit-grOwer
of that section, whose trees were infested
with red spiders, used tobacco dust and
threw the ground-up weed all over the tree.
The remedy proved efflcacious The insects
disappeared and the tree leaved again.