Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Plenty of work for honest tramps at
Santa Rosa.
Typhoid fever prevails in the upper part
of Nevada county.
Over 95, 900 sheep have been driven into
Montana this season.
Ormsby county, Nevada, is to have .
Republican barbecue.
Diphtheria is ma king fatal ravages on
Myrtle Creek, Oregon.
White Russian wheat has been a great
success in Galena, New.
Charles Day, of Kern county, shot in six
days 1872 mountain quail.
Deer are reported plentiful in the foot
hills about San Bernardino.
Attempts to call a local option election
are being made in San Jose.
Colonel HOLSTER is employing boys and
women to harvest his almond crop.
The Sonoma and Marin Railroad is being
ballasted, fenced and put in good order.
a bet of $1,000 has been made in Salt
Lake that Garfield will carry New York.
Up to the 9th instant 754 bales of hops
have been shipped from Puyallup, w. I.
There are 81 Territorial convicts and Al
inmates of the Insane Asylum in Montana
There are indications of a revival of
business and real estate at Santa Barbara
The crop OF acorns in San Mateo is
greater than usual, and hogs are becoming
fat.
A San Jose greyhound lately fell into a
ditch and broke her back. She was val
ued at $3.50.
Caterpillars are making their appearance
in large numbers in the woods about
Seattle, W. I.
Bonner lake at the present time is at its
prettiest, owing to the autumnal tints of
the shrubbery.
The Carson Mint has shipped S62, 500 to
John r. French, discussing officer OF the
Ute Commission.
Worthless dogs injured flock of sheep
on Sulphur creek, Sonoma county, to the
value of 5000 last week.
Value of lands in San Jose, "a, 654, I59 /;
total value Of property of all kinds, after
equalization, 50, ATS, 027.
The monthly freight shipments from the
Nevada Central Railroad to Grantsville
are fully 700,O00 pounds.
a farmer on the Lower San Pedro, Ari-
iona, claims to have realized 10000 pounds
OF barley from SIX acres of irrigated land.
Seattle, w. T., has a Chinese minister,
whose name is Rev. Don Quen. He
breaches the Christian faith in choice
Chinese.
The Alturas Independent tells the story
of squaw living near the town who is,
according to statements furnished, l32
years old.
The Grand Jury of Pima county, Ari-
IONA, reports favorably upon the manage
ment of the county offices. There is $l2,-
S43 in the treasury.
At meeting of the stockholders OF the
San Jose Savings Bank, held on the 10th,
it was resolved to go into liquidation and
retire from business.
The Montana Husbandman says By the
close of 1880 it is safe to estimate that the
number of country homes have increased
one third during the year.
Seven robberies have been perpetrated
on the La Porte road between the Win
throp House and Diamond Springs the
past week. Five teamsters were stopped
in one day.
Marble is now on exhibition at Eureka,
New, which came from an extensive quar-.
nv not twenty miles from the Central Pa
cific Railroad, and can be sawed out in
blocks 100 feet long.
The Oregon Senate and House have both
passed constitutional amendment in favor
of woman suffrage In the Senate it was
passed by vote of p to 9, and in the
House by vote of 80 to p.
The Mount Shasta District Fair, at
Yreka, Siskiyou county, was a decided
success. 1t closed on the 10th. Among
the more noticeable exhibits were bacon,
fruit, butter, cheese and wool. Visitors
came distance of 200 miles.
The Council of Seattle, w. T., have
instructed their attorney to draw up an
ordinance prohibiting children under l6
years of age from running the streets after
the hour of 9 o'clock IN the evening in
winter and 10 o'clock in the summer.
Dr. Kirby, County Physician, Virginia,
New, offers the following wager that Gar
field will be elected Twenty 50-pound
sacks of flour, to be distributed among the
poor of Storey county. the distribution to
be made by two Republicans and one
Democrat if the Doctor loses, and by two
Democrats and one Republican if he wins.
The Esquirnalt tB. CT dock, OF which SO
much has been said, will be 400 feet long e;
with depth of water of 36a feet, and VIII
cost 81 900, 00O 1t will be large enough
to float the greatest man-of- war IN her Ma
jesty's navy. The harhor OF Esquimal5, Is
described as one of the finest IN the world.
Tbe whole feet of England could float upon
its bosom. 1t is land.locked and sneltered
on all sides.