The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-09
COAST EXCHANGES.

The sausalito Netos is agitating the PROPOSE
ton of building a railroad over the hills to
Bolinas.
The Church Eepte,0. Monday paper that was
started in Stockton about year ago, has
preached its last sermon. Lack OF sumclent
support is cited as the cause
1t doesn't take the Stockton Independent
more than three minutes to automatically
calculate that the rise of wheat to 81 so means
better times for the farmers OF this country.
The Hawthorne Bulletin remarks that
''wnisky is four bits drink in the Alaska
gold fields" days wages there ($15) will
buy thirty drinks. A days wages in Esmer-
aida ($3) viii also buy thirty drinks. So
what's the use of going to that remote regionP
The Los Angeles Express thinks that Prince
Henry of Orleans, who is scheduled to fight
"duel" with General Albertone, has an excel
lent press agent. Obviously the Express has
added itself 10 the long list of papers whom
this press agent must, according to its theory,
have visited.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel whose editor is a
poet declares that the resort to the sea by
young couples intent on matrimony is "sim-
ply case of throwing up 10 see which one
shall provide the living" Is Poet Mcpherson
prepared to affirm that only couples that are
young "throw up at seat
According to the Mail, the citizens OF Stock
ton are alarmed over deficien water supply.
They claim that the local water works do not
furnish half the liquid needed and that many
people have had to bore wells and put in
pumping plants of their own. 1t speaks well
for a community when dearth OF water as a
beverage is looked upon as public calamity.
The Pllmas Independent regards from afar
the outputting OF tons of powder from the
Santa Cruz mills on orders for the Klondike
gold felds-a safe place. by the way, to regard
it from. 1t seems that enough explosiveness
is being keyed down there to blow the whole
Klondike region over the north pole. AS we
have the example of Professor Andree to gilt
teringly attest the importance OF discovering
the north pole this possible solution of the
problem is not altogether an uninteresting
prospect.
According to the Contra Costa Gazette there
Is likely to be an increase in the attendance at
the Martinez High School. Negotiations have
been going on for some time by which it is
hoped to get reduced fare over the railroad
from Walnut Creek, SO thai pupils can go from
there to the school at Martinez, there being no
high school at the former place. The i'm
preston of the railroad gentlemen, to the
effect that because their passengers want to
go to high school they must pay high fare,
is evidently an error.
The pockets Of Visalia residents are being
emptied into the eyer-circulating hat with a
view to amassing sufficient loose change to de-
fray the cost of celebrating the arrival of the
Valley Road at that town on or about the Goth
inst The Times cheerfully shifts many good
thing in the breeze. An OK will be barbecued
to fifty distinguish the occasion of mans
emancipation from his bovine yoke to the
more rapid means of Iocomotion Afforded by
rails and steam, and everybody who applies
will be sIeaked for good time.
An important discovery of petrifed wood,
says the Ontario Record, has been made by Mr..
Gillespie on the mountain range about four
miles from Lyle Creek. few hundred
pounds, which appear to comprise many diff
ferent kinds all OF them valuable from a SCI
entific standpoint, have been brought in.
Professor N. A. Richardson of the San Bernar-
dino High School secured the most of what
Mr.. Gillespie brought in and will make a
more thorough investigation OF the place and
petrifactions Mr. Gillespie states that there
is q stump two feet in diameter, that appears
to be completely petrified, and if it is wanted
for the schools he will try to bring it in. 1t is
stumped Presidential candidate who disap-
peared up north from here long time ago.
Those ingenious mental acrobats who claim
that times have not improved might profitably
place the Lake County Bee in their bonnets.
Hear it slug: The wave of prosperity has
struck Lakeport with such force that there is
not an Idle man within her borders WHO'S
willing to work. All of the carpenters, paint
ers, masons and day laborers are employed.
The hotel boom coming right after the carni-
val has kept them busy all summer and will
for some time. The thousands of dollars that
are being spent in Improvements make the
merchants smile all over their faces, for now
old bills are being paid and new goods are
purchased But the town people are not the
only ones being benefited. The farmers have
better prospect ahead OF them than for some
years past. 1t is true that some crops are short,
but what there is sells for as much as a large
crop did during the Cleveland administration.
The new tariff will help our wool-growers,
fruit-raisers and quicksil yer mines"