The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-31
COAST ITEMS.

bTibt NOIob rom dNiiiO DNaAOS anu
ritories.
Oranges are cheaper than apples just now
in the Sacramento market.
a whale fifty feet long was brought into
the port Of Santa Barbara Sunday.
The town of Haywards proposes to i'm
prove its plaza, for which purpose 1t Will
eXpend $780,
J.. ". Webster of Beckwith, New, at
tempted to kick horse and while doing SO
broke his own leg.
Twenty-seyen carloads Of beef cattle
were shipped from Reno to San Francisco
one day this week Theashipments are I'M
USUALLY large this winter
The coyotes are bold at Phoebe, New. Ono
man there killed one close by his back door
a day or two ago. The animal was making
a breakfast of the refuse that had been
thrown out from the kitchen.
Some wOTkmen engaged in putting up
building at Oakland found q little pile of
bogus coin buried In the dirt beside the
brick wall they were working Oh. There
were nine halt-dOllaTs and one dollar in the
stack.
Senator Dolph, jocularly, no doubt says
that Oregon could furnish all the land force
necessary should war with Chile occur.
50 she could, says the OTegonlan, il colonies
and brigadier- generals were all that were
/ required. We are long on officers and short
on privates, according TO telegraphic ad-
vices.
A cement manufacturing company has
been formed in Suffer County. The con-
Germ has $50 acres Of land containing the
materials for the manufacture of Portland
and Roman cement, terra Gotta, pottery
sewer-pipes, bricks, lime; also QuaTries of
sandstone ana granite, and about eighty
acres containing good quality Of btumin-
Gus coal.
Some thoughtless boys cruelty tied tin
pail to the tail of large and valuable dog
at Grass Valley the other day. The dog
reached home, after a long run, so frantic
with pain ana fright that even his owner
though he persisted, in spite of receiving
several bites, could not take the pail off his
tail, and the poor brute had to be shot TO
put him out Of his misery.
A lot Of hob0s, fifty or sixty in number,
cOngregated at ColfaX, Wash, last week
They refused all offers of work, but man
aged to live some way, and fires and burg
laries took place constantly, so that inSur-
ance companies threatened TO raise rates.
Finally the whole police force was mustsred
and the hObos were rounded up and driven
out of town. Not one Of them VIII be allowed
to return.
st. Helena has passed new saloOn-license
ordinance, putting the license at S25 quar-
ter and requiring saloon-keepers To preSenta
petition to the Board of Trustees, signed by
two-thirds Of the owners and tenants OF the
houses situate adjoining and Immediately
adjacent to the saloon, giving theiT consent
to nave the saloon there. RumOr has it
that the saloon men propose to fight the
ordinance, as, IL II stands, 1t VIII close some
of the saloons.
The little towns at either end of Alameda
Canyon, that have heretofore derived con-
siderable profit from the campers that have
spent the summer there for several years
past, are greatly excited over the recent
order Of the Spring Valley Water Company
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of The creek This virtually shuts the
campers out, as camping privileges are OF
no use without the right to obtain water
from the stream.
A note from Salinas says that never in
the history Of Monterey County has there
been so large an acreage sown tG cereals,
and never has the same been put In better
condition. The ground on account of the
Decent Der rains has been placed in a condi-
ton to enable farmers TO pillow and sow.
The land being seeded under such favor
able auspices, the soil being thoroughly pull
.,erlzed, less moisture is needed than when
the ground broke up badly.
Irish coonists numbering 400 families are
soon TO form colony in Inyo County. These
people, coming direct from Ireland, Will
settle in the vicinity OF Owens Lake, and the
development Of Inyo will be greatly accel-
Grated. Fifteen thousand acres of land have
been purchased by the orignator3 of the
enterprise, and this tract will be irrigated
by waters taken from Owens River. The
Inyo canal runs along the valley distance
of twenty miles. The first lnStallment Of
these new settlers is expected next month.
Thomas MuIligan, reservation raucher,
two miles south of PendletOn, was digging
a well and using dynamite to facilitate mat
ters. The dynamite having become frozen,
he placed one Of the sticks on the stove TO
thaw 1t out. The house was completely
demolished, and it is said that careful
search failed to find a piece of the stove
large enough to throw at dog. Thomas
was badly shaken up and lost some large
patches Of skin and flesh on various parts of
his body, but no bones were broken He
was taken to the Pendleton Hospital. and
hopes to be able to walk in a few days
A pipe burst in the power-houSe OF the
North YakimaI (Wash.) electric light and
water works the other day. The family of
Engineer Spriersters bach lives in the power
house, and at the time of the accident his
two infant children were playing in one of
the rooms. The flood Of water demolished
the partitions, caught the children and
swept them against the opposite partition.
The younger one was drowned and the other
almost persisted. The plant was damaged
$500. and it was necessary TO send to Tacoma
for new castings. Meanwhile the city was
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