Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Utah wheat crop is above the aver
| age.
Wine making in Napa will not begin be-
| fore October.
. The Oakland City Treasurer reports cash
on hand 500, 4l9.
A large cave has been found at Belknap
springs, Lane county, Oregon.
One hundred men are now being enlisted
at Mare Island for the Pensacola.
The census returns of Montana, as finally
counted, give a population OF 80, l9l.
John Hume of Astoria, Or, killed
| 900 pound elk recently on Saddle mountain.
During the past week nineteen persons
have been taken TO the Napa Insane Asy-
lunn-
TIE harvest in Alameda county this
season viii be larger than any year pre-
vious.
Two hundred names have been added to
the Great Register of Oakland within the
past week.
The ordinance prohibiting jumping from
moving trains at oakland has been ad-
versely reported on.
1t is said that over 10000 deer were
slaughtered in Jackson county, Oregon,
during the past nine months.
A grocery firm on San Pablo avenue,
Oakland, has received quantity OF cents
with which to make exact change.
The Oakland jute factory turns out from
?, 1000, coo to 800, 900 wheat bags. Cali
| fornias consume tion is from 25,000,0 600 to
&c, 000 600.
! There has been less building in Virginia,
/ New, this season than at any time since
the big fire. Carpenters and builders have
! had no boom this summer.
| One day each will be devoted by the
| District Fair Association at Oakland to
bicycle races and lady pedestrianism, for
which prizes will be offered.
Last week S. w. Ormsby, station agent
at Eagle Rock, Idaho, was seated at his
| telegaphic instrument and charge OF
| lightning came in on the wires and burned
his face, hair and vest.
Sam Laughlin and party OF Oak Grove,
| Wasco county, Oregon, this season sheared
&c 600 sheep. His twin boys, sixteen
years OF age, themselves sheared COCO,
many days shearing 100 each, and one
day no.
A Park City, Utah, youth, whose ma
was to vote for the i,rst time on Monday
last, with an anxious look III his face
asked her in the morning if she would be
home early enough in the evening to make
his bed.
DR.. Park and Prof Hardy of Utah, have
returned to Salt Lake from an educational
visit to the southern portion of the Terri
tory, having travelled fifty.six consecutive
days and held meetings with the school
authorities OF ninety-five districts.
Captain LOUIS A. Norton, one of the
leading attorneys of Sonoma county and
/ fine speaker, who has been for twenty two
years prominent Democrat, applied, with
out solicitation, to the Garfield and Ar
| thur Club for admittance on the 29th of
July.
White Pine county's New population
foots up LBS white males, 54S white
females and 637 children. The county
has l5l farms, 10 quartz mills, 4 smelters.
5 saw mills, 3 breweries, 4 churches, II
schools, lawyers, 4 doctors, and not
minister or preacher of any de domination.
The Health Officers report to the City
Council Of Oakland protests against the
removal of the jute factory at the present
time. He believes that the smallpox will
have died out in two months. No new
cases have been discovered. The Council
has authorized the Health Officer to main
tain guards over all infected districts.
Without stating that Colusa county is
Democratic county, the following item
from the Marysville Ledger would scarcely
be understood "The use of whisky for
rattlesnake bites in Coiusa county has in
creased so enormously during the past
twelve months that the overworked snakes
have resolved to leave the State, unless the
Board of Immigration reinforces them
strongly. They work on double time, and
yet can't do half the biting that is de-
manded by the consumers. One snake,
who does business at Colusa, is six weeks
behind his orders, and three of the clerks
employed in the Court house are sick. :"