Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Fire crackers are not to be allowed in
GIlrcy on the Fourth.
The Steer State reports the whole coun.
try north of Winnemucca to be alive with
grasshoppers.
1t is two hundred miles from Cloverdale
to Eureka, Cal. The stage makes it in
thIrty-six hours
a man was badly stung in the foot by a
sting ray, while bathing at Newport, Los
Angeles county, last week.
The census returns, so far as received in
the Southern District, show gain of IA, :
29S over the census of 1870.
The people of Scio, in Oregon, have
raised over sll: coo towards the subsidy for
the narrow. gauge railway, and expect to
make it $3.50 by July LIST.
A Los Angeles paper says: The new
census will give Santa Barbara a popula-
ton of about 5000, a falling off of only
about 800 from previous newspaper esti-
mates.
The Leader says there are no less than
1000 idle men in Eureka, New, many of
them half starved, and still people will
wonder why it is dull with such an army
of unemployed.
Utah has two holidays III July-the 4th
and oath. The latter is the date on which
the Mormon pioneers landed in Salt Lake
valley in 1916. Arrangements are being
made in Salt Lake City to celebrate both.
Wood is a scarce article in Austin, New.
The wood haulers, supposing that the rail
road would bring it in at rates they could
not compete with, have brought none in ::
neither has the railroad, and the supply
has become exhausted.
John Tomlinson, a laborer working near
Treadway's ranch, says the Carson Appeal.
dug up an old tin can which contained
seven old fashioned $50 slugs and small
bar of gold valued at $50. 1t must have
lain there long time, as the can was very
rusty.
A terrible accident occurred near Han
ford last week. a little girl, in her fourth
year, only child of Nj. C. Hart (who was
killed in the late Tulare troubles) was very
badly, if not fatally, burned. 1t seems
swinging, and it is supposed the friction of
the rope ignited the matches. Her clothing
was light and burned upon her. There is
no hope of her recovery.
After an illness of ten days, says the
Red Bluff Peoples Cause, little Pock Teen,
infant son of Hong Whom and Toy King,
breathed his last about o'clock this morn
ing This is the first and only Chinese
baby born in this place, and so far as we
know the only one born in this county.
During his brief life Pock Teen attracted
the attention of scores of persons, male
and female, old and young, to see what to
many is a great curiosity, a Chinese baby.
Miss Jennie Parker killed black bear
at her fathers ranch, on the east fork of
Scott river, last Friday, says the Scott
Valley Ne,cs. The bear came to the house
in very familiar sort of way, and seemed
disposed to make raid on the milk house
The dogs were turned loose and the bear
took to a tree. Miss Jennie did not pro-
pose to be kept in suspense with the beast
snsrling from his perch, so she took down
her fathers Winchester and laid him cold
the first shot.
A census enumerator in this city, says
the Oakland Tribune, was placed in deli
cate situation the other day. He is a
handsome young man about % He called
at house where he found it necessary to
go upstairs. The family consisted of an
old lady of 20, her daughter and several
children. The daughter was sick, and it
being desirable not to converse in her pres
ence, the enumerator was taken out into
the entry. 1t was rather dark Before he
commenced his questions the old lady
looked around and said /" Isn't this rather
delicate position for us to be placed in %
a day or two ago, says the Stockton
Herald, as colored bootblack was passing
a down town bar-room and fruit store, he
picked up a stump of cigar from the
gutter and went to a store and asked for q
match. He was met with the reply
We don't keep matches to give away"
The boy started out, but stopped at tie
door, turned back and asked the proprie-
tor: DO you sell 'em? ?" He purchased
box, paid his two cents and lit his stump,
after which he closed the box and asked
the proprietor to put it on the shelf, and
said, Next time gem'an asks you for
match give i'm one out o my box"
Work on the Branch Prison at Folsom is
being rapidly advanced with view of its
being in readiness for the reception of con-
victs from San Quentin in the beginning of
next month. Ample provision is being
made for large supply Of good, pure water,
and besides the artesian well that is being
sunk, large reservoir capable of contain
ing 50,0 gallons or more has been con-
structed, while arrangements have been
made to filter all water necessary to be
used from the American river, the filter to
be used having a capacity to supply 1000
gallons OF water every twenty-four hours.