The morning call., 1892-08-06
ALONG The COAST.
New sewers are to be laid in Stockton.


New sewers are to be laid in stockton.
White River Democrats have organized a
club with starter OF ~ members.
Nisalia young people are about to organ
iZe a combined athletic and social club.
The apricot crop in the country around
San jose is not so large as was expected.
Campo, San Diego County, Is having
earthquakes at the rate Of two to six week.
A Rebekah lodge has been instituted in
Santa Barbara with 81 members as a starter.
There is at liberal estimate about !, 5O0,-
600 gallons OF wine on hand in Sonoma
County.
The Indian school at Perris Is very nearly
completed, and has very substantial ap-
pearance.
The Sebastopol canuery. near Santa
Rosa. has started up In full blast, employ
ing 800 hands.
There are no less than 90 tramps in the
Alameda County lookup. aud this number
Is being added TO every day.
4 Chicago capitalist named Stimson has
made arrangements for the construction of
fine six-stoTy block in Pasadena.
Antioch High School is to have a COM
mercial course introduced in its curriculum
IN addition 10 It's usual course of study.
TIE falling Of two lighted lamps at re-
ligiOus service in Garfeld-park Tabernacle,
Santa Cruz, came very near causing panic
An old time prospeetor recently unearthed
gold nugget Oh Feather River, shaped ex-
actly Ike a heart, and valued at about 500.
The Houeyeomb Mining Company of
Marysyille, Yuba County, has lately been
incorporated, with capital stock Of $780,
000.
The MADEIRA Fresno County, Mercury has
been enlarging its paper from % to "a col
umns. This speaks well for that part of the
State.
The prune crop this year on the Briggs
orchard al Visalia is alleged to be the best
ever seen in California, the yield netting
$3.50 an acre.
The Palouse (Wash.) News has recently
issued n supplement, in which the fruit and
grain growing advantages OF Whitman Coun-
ty are "boomngly" detailed.
A mass meeting was held recently at
Grangeville fer the purpose of taking some
action against the employment of Chinese
In the vineyards and orchards of that
| vicinity.
On Thursday the Escondido Times was
issued under new management, Charles
| Is. HolnbuTg having assumed charge of its
editorial chair. The paper has q bright,
newsy appearance.
The people Of Vallejo think that the
| springs near that place is the most con-
venient and cheapest location for the pro-
| posed Masonic Home for Widows and Or
| phans, TO be erected at cost Of S25O,OOO.
A fishing club at Stockton recently went
| on an excursion on the San Joaquin and re-
turned the same day with 1000 pounds of
| fish. The story does not say whether or not
this piseatorial trophy was caught with q
silver hook.
A contractor in Los Angeles who agreed
1 to INT the courthouse up with a guaranteed
| clock system has failed TO do so. and the
| Supervisors have decided to tear down the
| system and put new clocks in at the delin-
| quent contractors expense.
Chico people came very near being as
| phyxlated on Tuesday night through some
| thing going wrong with the gashoder The
| lights all went out and the smell of escaping
! gas became almost unbearable before me
| damage was repaired.
Michael Roach, bather at Santa Cruz
| took cramD while swimming on Sunday
afternoon. and but for timely assistance
would have been drowned. Over a thousand
| people witnessed the rescue, ana as NAV be
| Imagined the excitement was intense
Professor Hazel, a Humboldt Comfy
| aeronaut, started up in q balloon at Eureka
| recently, but when about 30 feet up the
balloon caught fire. He held on until about
| 100 feet high, when the whole business COL
| lapsed. The aeronaut escaped with bad
| shaking up.
Riverside is complaining of the careless
ness OF campers near that vicinity i'm leav-
Ing campfres burning. Owing to this cause
forest fire has been raging for some time
| In the woods around Talmadges Mills. and
being destroyed.
The California Bnzz-saw. the newspaper
| which was burnt out at San Jose on ,JiiIy
2, has again bobbed up serenely. and il
| Boosting OF having obtained 800 new sub
scribers during the time it was silent This
| Is one OF those cases evidently where
| silence is golden.
a would-be murderer at Grass Valley
| Tired both charges of don bile barreIed shot
| gun at tie head of man two yards away.
put either through excitement or the inter-
| terence OF fate he missed his aim On ouet-
Ing down the shooter discovered lie had
biaZed away at the wrong man.
a movement Is on foot, says the San Diego
| Sun, 10 manufacture water-pipes ont Of
redwood strip four inches wide with
asphalt In the seams and patent wooden
bands holding them immovabie. These
| Will be much cheaper than metallic pIpes
| and viii revolutionize things In the arid
land region OF San Diego County.
A footpad named Hurd attempted to hold
up superintendent kinkhead of the Occi-
dental nina near Gold Hin No,