The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-13
COAST ITEMS.
Interesting Mates From the Pacific States
and Territories.

| winter.
A colony OF 1000 people, from the Middle
| States, arc soon to locate in Linn County,
Oregon.
The San BernardnO County Poultry AS
ISOLATION Is trying to arrange for an exhibit
ton this year.
Twelve cars for the Alameda County
electric railway are being built by Carter
Bros, at Newark, Cal.
The Vina distillery, in Tehama County,
has shipped eleven carloads or brandy tnlS
winter 10 Bremen. Germany.
Samuel Goodwin of Quincy, Lass en-
County, caught 200-p0und cinnamon bear
In a steel trap the other night.
The city of Visalia does postoffice busl-
! ness OF $500 per annum, and alter April
LIST Will be entitled to free delivery.
The Virginia City Chronicle of January
9th says there can no longer be any reason
able doubt but that the Klein party have
persisted in the snow.
The Visaa Delta has just celebrated its
thrty-fourth birthday, and is still carrying
on lis good work for the advancement OIL
tile section 1t represents.
The Walla Walla (Wash.) penitentiary is
already OYercrOwded, and the next Leglsla-
tuTe will be asked to build one west Ot the
mountains. Tacoma wants it.
The Salvation Army in Stockton is hav-
ing hard time Of II, not being able to make
mucd of an impression on the stony hearts
OF the Stiil-necked Stock tonians
a nugget of pure gold was found one day
last week at the Spanish Gulch mine, on
Rogue River. in Oregon. Its value is $40,
aud 1t had evidently been broken, BY some
CONFUSION of nature, from larger piece.
The Santa Maria Times says that cattle
on the San Marcos rancho are dying by the
hundreds of starvation. They go stagger-
ing along the stage road devOurlng every
thing In the shape Of straw OIL litter drop
ping from passing wagons.
Emma Crowley, little cOlOred girl OF
COusa, while playing with burning sticks
few days age, set fire to her clothing. Be
fore the flames could be eXtinguished, the
child was so terribly burned that she died
from her injuries day or two alter
A Philadelphia paper says that immense
focks Of crows have eXterminated the grass
hopper pest in some parts OF California.
Californians will be pleased to learn that
that there has been grasshOpper pest out
here, aud that the crows have eXterminated
the insects.
An indecent newspaper having appeared
in Spokane Falls the City Council passed 2
resolution 60 suppress 1t. No doubt the
councils intentions were good. SAYS th3
Oakland Enquirer, but the Government has
moon to suppress newspaper.
Leander Eiwrads, a farmer Of Wasco
| County, Oregon, was riding on the cars the
other day and wanted the train stopped
Being angry that the conductor would not
stop It he got off anyway. He struck the
| ground pretty heavily. was badly bruised,
and now sues the company for 5000 dam
ages.
The cleverest fake Of the new year comes
| from Tacoma in the shape of a column arti-
| Gle in newspaper about the establishment
| Of a goose" cannery in Alaska, says tie
Lot IN Of ltn
| Yukon are to be canned in great share.
! The story reads well, and will 90 tbs
| rounds.
Several prominent fruit-growers of Santa
| Ana and vicinity were interviewed as to the
per cent of damage done to the crOp.
| and their estimates were from five 10 fifteen
| per Cept on oranges. The lemon, beng less
hardy, had suffered somewhat more thtn
! this. In no instance were the trees Of either
| the lemon or orange found to have been in-
| juTel.
While cleaning out Gn old we'll one day
| last week, on the Baker ranch, seven or
! eight miles north OF town, says the Auburn
| Herald, the homes of human being were
| found. On further examination a China
mans cue and transportation pole were
| found. 1t is supposed to be the remains
of a Chinese tish-peddler who held forth
| in that nelghborhood some fifteen years
| ago.
a petition directed to the Second Assist
! ant Postmaster eneral is being circulated
| at Woodland TO establish a new mail route
over the California Pacific Railway between
that city and Marysvile At present all
mail has to be carried via Sacramento. 1t
! is to be hoped that the request will be
| granted, as II will establish much closer and
more direct communication between the two
! places.
A Victoria (B. c. Chinaman recently
| married "a Mclean woman" But he soon
wanted a divorce, In his plea he COM
plains that she has too muchee talkee with
| neghbors, too muchee paint face and eye
| blows, too muchee Yulepean blandy, too
| muchee fight, too muChee snore, too muchee
| boss. too muchee dean, too muchee say
! kiliam husband, and too muchee no good"
But the court held the Chinaman to his con-
! tract.
A portrait Of Joaquin Miller Is on exhl-
/ btion in Oakland. Tue poet sits by camp
! fire, in a redwood forest, with gun across
! his knees, evidently telling hunters yarn.
| The scene, campfire and all, is painted
! from life. The poet sat at night, the artist
| swinging lamp from branch Of one Of
the redwOOds to get light enough to paint
! by. He says the unusual and weird effects
! OF the campfire hight are an exact repToduc-
! tion'Of the original scene.
The snow has driven down some big game
| to the foothills, says the MERGED Express.
| Three bears were seen this week near
| Coultervle A California lion showed up
| on the MaripOsa townsite last week. and a
herd of five deer, two gray wolves aud sew
| eral catamounts were seen at the head Of
| Catheys Valley. The Federal law keeping
! sheep of the mountain pastures has short
! ened the food supply Of the predatory anil
mails Of the mountain forests
1t is rumOred that Santa Barbara is soon
! to have a new evening paper. 1t is said
| that negotiations are pending to purchase
the Weekly Herald plant aud convert that
! paper into daily. w, r. Mcintosh, late Of
| the defunct STAR is to be it's editor. E. w.
| Gaty, late of st. Louis, Mo-, the beacon
| light of the Democratic party In Santa Bar
! bara, who is reputed to be candidate for
| Mayor at the coming city election, Is said to
| be the principal financial hacker.
OF the much-talked-of steam-sleigh, which
! Is now nearly ready for its trial trip, the
| Truckee Republican says: The machinery
has all arrived and Is nearly all in position.
! One or two days more will finish the work,
| and she will go bounding along over the
snow. George Schaffer thinks that by Tues
day or Wednesday all will be ready. Much
! interest is manifested by the people of the
| snowy country, and hopes are entertained
that 1t viii prove a success. The inventor
is sure that 1t will go, and we can see no
feasible reason why 1t should not
An unknown disease has just become cpl
! demic among the horses at Swauk Prairie,
! eight miles east of Gle Elum, Wash. Many
valuable animals died within twenty-four
! hours. William Mack has already lost
seven, and thirteen more are dying in the
| neighborhOod. There is no veterinary sur
| geon nearer than Tacoma, and the disease
is hard to combat as nothing like il has APP
! peared among the horses before. Governor
| Ferry has been teegraphed to furnish i'm
| mediate relief through the State Board OF
| Health. If the ravages of the disease are
not checked Immediately, it will work in
calculable hardship to every rancher in the