Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Typhoid fever is epidemic in Grass VAL
ley.
Main street, Bodie, is S,277 feet above
the sea.
The Idaho Legislature will meet Decem-
Der 18th.
Reno, New, consumes 10000 cords of
wood annually.
There are 20. 600 cords of wood piled in
the outskirts of Bodie.
The skating is now excellent in many
places along the Carson river.
Ground has been broken for the new
railroad shops at West Oakland.
New Mexico papers believe that Victoria
is yet alive and will soon be heard from.
Fresh butter and eggs cannot be obtained
in La Grande, Idaho, for love nor money.
A four mill tax has been voted for the
support of the public school in Jackson
vile, Or.
Olympia, W. T., claims the largest in
crease of population OF any of the Terri
torial towns.
Sheep are doing better than cattle in
northern Sonoma this fall, as they can live
upon acorns.
Apples are said to be much better
favored this year than usual in Washing
ton Territory, although the quantity grown
is less.
The Bodie Standard eacs is now under
the business management of j. Mason
Haight, who entered upon his duties last
Saturday.
The tax levy of Washington county,
Oregon, for the current year is Is mills.
The total tax of the county as returned by
the Assessor is $685. 81.
During the past summer more buildings
were erected in Butte than in any other
town in Montana. Almost every third
house in town is a new one.
The Riverside fruit cannery has shipped
this season twenty-one carloads of fruit
aggregating 252 tons, and four carloads of
honey which amounted to some % tons.
The jacksonville Pajaronian has reduced
its size one column on a page-the proprie-
tor evidently becoming tired of publishing
long primer paper in nonpareil town.
The Golden Era of San Francisco has en-
tered upon the twenty ninth year of its
existence. 1t now appears in octave
form, and presents a more attractive make
up than ever.
The Albany Orr City Council last week
passed an ordinance compelling laundries
to pay license of SIS quarterly. China
men protest, but they will have to pay or
move across the river
A bat was found in the Bakersfield Court
L. l. / ~
from the tip of one wing to the tip of the
other, and its body was 81 inches long
from the tip of the nose to the extremity of
the tail.
The first acre of sugar beet just har-
vested in Puyallup valley, w. T., yielded
Is tons. The dry season cut the crop
short, but the samples are splendid. Sam.
Piles will soon be sent to Alvarado, Cal, to
be tested.
At Carson City, New, they have scarlet
fever, mumps, pneumonia, whooping cough,
measles, epizootic, CHAMBERS, hog cholera
leprosy, salt rheum and elephantiasis, and
feeling lonesome, have instituted close
search for smallpox.
An impression has gone abroad that the
Forthcoming session of the Nevada Legisla.
ture will commence on the first Monday in
February. This is erroneous. The new
Legislature will meet as usual, on the first
Monday in January.
B. McDermott, an experienced brick
maker, has found what he pronounces ex-
ceilent clay for the manufacture of bricks
in Pierce county, w. T. He is stripping
the soil from the bed of clay and will soon
erect shed 100 by 200 feet, under which
he expects to work all winter
A man in Candelara, New, has given up
the business Of saloon keeping after an ex.
'if times are lively and business good, a
mans customers are liable to get drunk
and kill him while on the other hand, if
times are dull and people don't drink, he
is sure to starve to death.
After two years more coquetting with
various places for bonus inducements, the
Sweepstakes Pillow Company have deter
mined to remove from San Leandro TO
Benicia, the citizens of that town having
purchased and donated to them the build
ings, wharves and other property formerly
used by the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany.
ioi sSNeiai nays past idiSe anu snidlL
bears have been numerous on tie ridge be-
tween Alpha and the Big tunnel, l6 miles
east of Truckee. The largest footprint
shows that the bear which made it measures
l0a inches across the ball of the foot. This
monster Is not Brin" of the lub-foot,
but its pedal extremities are equally as ex-
tensive as the old terror's.
Santa Rosa rejoices in being the habita-
ton of a Justice of the Peace who goes
straight through all tissues and frauds OF
testimony to the gist of a cause, and de-
cides according to his notions of justice
and law. Once on time two litigants
appeared before him, swearing directly op-
posite. The Judge addressed them, saying,
Zone of you two men have sworn to a
id lie, and believe it is you" point
| ing his finger at the delinquent.