Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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Il is desired to disincorporate Hollister.
| New .street-lamps are being put up in
Napa CITY.
| The Sch, -oder case has cost Alameda
county 81, ,50l.
The fears of small pox in Davisville
prove groundlea ..
The recent election cost Humboldt
county, New, 81. 8 w.
Butte county farm. ers are plowing; not
an idle man is to be- f. und.
A youth of 26 masYi. d widow of Y a
few days since in Red Eh III.
| A large new school kouA has been built
at Anderson, Shasta coTsty.
Two women in Candefsria, Nev., have
matched to wrestle for S26g side.
The horse-cars between OAKLAND and
Alameda have discontinued sunpi. ng.
Three white men and five Chneye at
present form the chain-gang at Stock toni.
Two mountain sheep were killed in San
Emldlo canyon, Kern county, last week.
The Dixon millers have ground twice as
much wheat for farmers this year as last.
A Ukiah farmer recently cut up y white.
oak tree which yielded II tiers OF stove.
wood.
Lundy lake is frozen over so hard taat it
is perfectly safe for horsemen and pedes.
trians.
A duck shot near Chico was discovered
to have particles of black sand and sold in
its gizzard.
| Trawps who have camped near Bakers
field have been arrested, and will be put in
the chain.gang.
The water.carts fail in severe winter
storms, and customers supply themselves
from snow-bank springs, in Bodie.
The amount of wheat thrashed in Rogue
river valley, Oregon, this year was about
100, 900 bushels less than last year.
During the fiscal year from July l, 1879,
to June 30, 1880, Solano county has paid
into the State Treasury $50, 1872 II.
The railroad company has force Of
about thirty men at work at Nelson, Butte
county, repairing bridges and fences.
Nothing but leaves" sadly remarked
the Bodie stage agent as he watched the
coach 60 out with fifteen passengers
aboard.
There are but few empty houses
Oily ynpia, w. T., and those are some dis n
tance out, and are every day growing
scarcer.
w. A. Selkirk has resumed his former
position as editor of the Mountain Demo.
crat, and that paper is now conducted by
father and son.
The number of deaths in Helena, Mon
tana, from September /, 1879, to Septem-
Der L, 1850, was 20, or percentage of
1907 per l,000.
The Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo
county, was flooded to the depth of four
feet during the late storm, and fully 1900
sacks of beans were carried away.
At present there are large number of
cases of diphtheria in Bodie. Although
there have been NO fatal cases so far, yet
several children. are in a very low condi-
tion.
Oats in Missouri Valley, Montana, are
worth two and two and half cents per
pound, and it is said are worth six cents
per pound in the Musselshell and Judith
country.
Charles Shepherd, proprietor of the mail
route between Silverton and Clackamas,
Or, has travelled distance of s, ,756 miles
from the 18th of May to the 9th of Nc
vember, 1880.
The State Line Herald published at Lake
view, Or, whose material was completely
destroyed by fire about three months ago,
is out again in new dress, as bright and
spicy as ever.
A marriage license was returned to the
County Clerk of Plumas county, with re-
quest that the fee paid for it be sent back.
The writer explained that the girl had
eloped with another fellow.
The Board of Directors of the Oregon
State Agricultural Society have been in
session in Portland for several days past.
The time for holding the next fair is from
June 29th to July 9th, inclusive.
The Ventura Free Press says: The well of
the Los Angeles Oil Company at the Sespe
is yielding fifty barrels per day of fine
green oil. The company intend to put
down several more wells in the spring.
In Candelaria, New, wood sells so high
that man can take barrel-stave or the
top of a cracker.bcx to saloon and get
thinks he is making mighty good bargain.
One of the fishermen arrested at Pyra-
mid Lake came to Carson, New, last Tues
day with both feet frozen. He had
walked day and night through the snow to
for life.
There are thirty three men now confined
in the Nevada State Prison who are serving
their second terms, and twelve men who
are third-termers. The Carson appeal
says one man has not been out of Jail for
three months at time for twenty-five
years. He vibrates between San Quentin
and Carson, occasionally spending a year
or two in Oregon.
The beauties of stubborn litigation were
illustrated by a case recently tried in the
White Pine New District Court. The
subject matter in dispute was calf worth
81 80. The case was first tried in Justices
Court, from VIII ohitwas appealed to The Dr.
trict Court, where judgment was rendered
against the defendant for 81 so and costs,
amounting to S275 10.
The slaughtering of deer for their hides,
says the Ashland T'idings, is being carried
on to a considerable extent already this
fall in jackson county, and if no measures
are taken to prevent it, may be as reck-
lessly prosecuted during the coming winter
as it was last year. But few seasons Of
such ruthless work will be required to an.
initiate the deer of Southern Oregon.
Up to this time about fifty bales of cot
ton have been picked on the Belleview
ranch, Kern county, and ginning and bail
ing has commenced. A purchaser stands
ready to take the entire crop at s75 per
bale. The fifty bales referred to will have
cost, when ready for market, about 81 800
The extent of the planting on the Belle.
view ranch is 100 acres, and on the Poso
creek ranch Is acres.
SAN Francisco MONEY MARKET
is plentiful at all the banks, and rates remain
the same as they have been fer long time,
namely, to 10 per cent. for the usual line of
borrowers. Some do better and some not SO
well. Perhaps if there were better under
standing among lenders, and more confidence
between them and borrowers lower rates