Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Oregon.
Coos county's toregonl population is
about 5000.
Denver (Col.l is to have morning Demo-
cratic paper.
Rapid City, Dakota, is arranging for a
national bank.
Eberhart's tannery, Santa Clara, covers
about ten acres of land.
During the last three months not death
has occurred in the town of Chico.
The apricot trees in the Santa Ana wax
ley are dying FROM the gum disease.
Six insolvency cases were called in the
Superior Court at Oakland Monday.
The Yuba City people want chain-gang
established to rid their town of tramps.
Residents of Duncan's NIill and vicinity
want a road up the river to, Guerneville.
A Deadwood, Dakota, dispatch says /:
The census retnrns give Lawrence county
1882.
The receipts at the Orphans Home at
Vallejo for the month OF June amounted to
SlS4 30.
1t is reported that the Government will
w. T., at the falls.
Anaheins is discussing the building of
reservoirs below the Cajon ditch in which
to horde up winter water.
Including Indians, Yakima, W. T., has
a population of 2,S2l. This is a gain of
30 per cent. since last year.
Large quantities of drift-wood have been
secured IN and about Lewiston, Idaho,
from the recent rise in the rivers.
The Mormons are taking possession of
San Luis valley, Southern Colorado, and
have built town called Manasseh.
The Riverside cannery now employs be-
tween eighty and ninety hands, and puts
up about four tons of fruit per day.
The S. P. G. r. R. Co. is spending about
1000 II repiling and replanking the Pow
der Company's wharf at Santa Cruz.
Last week at MERGED the thermometer
ranged from 100 to l06 degrees. In some
wooden buildings it reached as high as
ll5
Boat sailing on Stockton channel, and
short excursions on horseback in the even
ing, are among Stockton's most popular
recreations.
New Mexico papers state that this has
been the dryest season for thirty years.
Stock of all kinds have suffered very much
from scarcity of feed.
The necessity of raising the grade of the
water front of Portland, Or, is being dis
cussed in consequence of the late overflow
by the Willamette river.
The Peoples Cause, an exceedingly wide
| awake daily published at Red Bluff, has
become the property of jerome Banks, J..
II. Pryor and j. w. Brown.
Alameda has now better ferry connec.
tions with San Francisco than has Oakland
Forty-one trips per day are made from
Alameda to twenty nine from Oakland
A Marion county (Oregon) census taker
says he is surprised at the number of full
grown idiots he found. Every sour-visaged
woman he met said her husband was an
idiot.
The new disease mentioned in the Chico
Enterprise as having broken out near Nell
son, in Butte county, is thought to be
cholera morbus, aggravated by the use of
tainted meats.
A writer in the Georgetown, Placer
county, Gazette urges the several Pioneer
societies in the State to erect q monument
on the site of Suffers mill, where the first
gold was discovered.
1t costs g 80 ton to transport granite
from Placer county to the foot of Market
street, Oakland, and the cost of shipping
granite from the State of Maine to San
Francisco is 81 per ton.
Pueblo Col. has mystery Mrs. Geo.
Morgan of that place has received threat
ening letters, has been shot at, struck with
stone and chloroformed This persecu-
ton has continued for three months.
About IL o'clock night before last, says
the Nevada transcript of July 18th, while
the moon was brightly shining, magnifi-
cent rainbow appeared in the northeastern
sky, and at about the same time a brief
rain. storm prevailed
At Phoenix, Arizona, watermelons are
coming in in large quantities. In few
days sweet potatoes will be in the market,
andpeaches, grapes and figs will be plentiful
by the first OF August, all raised within a
few miles of Phoenix.
The census OF San Diego county has been
completed and shows population, exclu-
sive of Indians of $500 for the county.
The Indian population is estimated at from
l,500 to $500. There were 100 deaths
during the census year.
The Bridgeport Union says that the
county of Mono is one of the most i'm
portant in the State that within the past
three years the population has increased
from 400 to 10000, and the assessment roll
from 1915, 600 to 50, 600, 600.
The Mormon papers are noting the anni-
versaries of all important battles and massa-
ores, says the Salt Lake Tribune. Lest
they might forget it, we will remind them
that the anniversary of the Mountain
Meadows massacre occurs on the 18th of
September.
The Denver (Col) Times gives full re-
ports of the floods of July 18th. Thirty
people were camped on the Fountain river
bottoms. All but one escaped. Cherry
Creek, the Platte river and many mountain
streams overlooked, sweeping bridges and
fences away.
San Quentin at present contains about
l,549 prisoners, about 1000 of whom are
employed making bricks, grading roads,
etc. A building is being constructed out
side the walls of the prison adjoining the
entrance on the south, to be used for Off
GERS mess-rooms and quarters. 1t will be
sixty feet long and two stories high.
Some wheat has been grown in Butte
county that is attracting the attention of
the local scientists. The heads are desti-
tute of kernels, and from many of the
meshes have shot out accessory shoots
which resemble small spears of grass.
These heads are filled with minute insects,
which are doubtless the cause of the alb
normal growth.
The Walla Walla CIV. T. Statesman is
quite certain that Mount Hood is about to
make an eruption. 1t says /: On Tuesday
night bright light burned all night stead
lily from the summit, at times so bright
that the flames themselves could be seen
as they shot out from their crater prison.
and all the time throwing bright, lurid
glare upon the clouds that hung like pail
over the far-away Cascade mountains.
The Alameda county rolls show marked
increase over last years assessment, WASH
ington township alone showing an increase
of over $500, 600. Farming land in Muir
ray township is assessed at from $40 to $50
per acre. Washington township lands are
assessed at from S45 to Sl25 per acre;
Eden township at from $50 to 5000, the
vegetable land and fruit farms along San
Lorenzo creek going as high as $500 per