Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Hay-making has begun in Los Angeles
county.
A number of Oaklanders will remove to
Arizona this week.
Five residents of Oakland go to San
Quentin on the 18th as guards.
A new station called Pantano, 2S miles
east OF Tucson, was opened Saturday.
One hundred and eighty eight arrests
were made by the Oakland police last
month
Rabbits are so fat in MERGED county now
that they cannot run out of the way of
sheep dogs.
There are eleven prisoners now in the
County Jail, six serving out their sentences
and five awaiting trial.
Salt Lake physicians report less sickness
in that city at present than has been the
case for four or i've years.
The freeze ruined the peach orchards
of Jackson county, Oregon, and not fig
tree survived the winter.
At Cloverdale the boys go fishing with
shotguns. One killed seven salmon the
other day in Sulphur creek.
The mumps are running epidemic at Eu-
reka and on Ruby Hill, New, and swollen
physiognomies are numerous.
After suspension of eighteen months,
the White Pine Neacs has again made its
appearance at Hamilton, New
Judge Stidger has definitely decided to
resuscItate the North San Juan Weekly
Times newspaper formerly published by
him.
The Phoenix (Arizona) Herald wants
somebody to believe that the wind blew SO
strong in that unhappy country as to blow
the saddle off horse.
From one-h half to two-thirds of the i'm
mense number of cattle in Lassen county,
owned by Jacob McKissick, of Long val
ley, have died during the past winter.
About Ill 900 pounds of wool has been
shipped from the San Joaquin rancho, in
Los Angeles county, this spring. This
amount would probably clean up about
81, 600.
Many Germans are said to have taken
up land ON Hood river, Oregon, and there
Is talk of laying out town site. Much
permanent Improvement is making among
the settlers.
Arizona wants ostrich farms. The Tue
son Citizen says they have all the requisites
except ostriches, and, come to think about
it, ostrich farming without ostriches would
be apt to be failure
The oyster men had good luck at Alva-
RADIO, Alameda county, last week. They
picked up about 1000 oysters and cap
tured one shark measuring five feet seven
inches from tip to tip.
The pilot of the ferry steamer Bay City
discovered whale about 800 feet from the
Market-street landing in San Francisco
Sunday morning, at ii 80 o'clock. He
saw about 80 feet of its back exposed above
water.
The relic of the Berkeley explosion
piece of mans skull-exposed in drug
store window, at Oakland, has been turned
over to the Coroner, who gave the parties
to understand that he would in future deal
seriously with such cases.
Grape vines are putting out their sum-
mer foliage in fine order in the vicinity of
Los Angeles, and many old vineyards that
for some years have been neglected on ac-
count of the low price of grapes have been
nicely pruned and cultivated again.
The gentlemen interested in introducing
carp into our streams, says the Eugene
or Guard, received six of those valuable
fish from California by express on Tues
day. They were shipped in small tank,
and do not appear much worse after their
journey over thousand miles
While out hunting with her husband
last Saturday, says the Ventura Signal of
May LIST, Mrs. Arr Hopper, of the Sespe,
came upon large grizzly, and at once dis
patched him with a well-directed shot
Mrs. Hopper is the lady who last summer
killed large buck for the Fourth of July
barbecue.
John Harding was severely bitten by
rat a few days ago at Niles, Alameda
county. He went into his stable to feed
his horse; while getting some hay he was
attacked by large rat, and after having a
severe fight, he succeeded in killing it. His
hands were torn and bitten in many places,
and he was forced to quit work and see
physician. The wounds are considered
very dangerous.
Our neighboring town of Cacheville has
the honor of introducing woman suffrage in
Holo county, under the new Constitution,
says the Woodland Democrat At the
election for school trustee at that place on
Saturday there were not only cast about
twenty female votes, but the ladies even
turned ont and worked for their man, elect
ing him by seven majority. The contest
was rather spirited.