Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There are now 90 prisoners in the Fresno
County Jail.
It is proposed to name the new Arizona
county San Pedro.
1t is estimated that there are $50, 900
head of cattle in Nevada.
Bodie has good many houses vacant,
and rents are coming down.
Wild hay is worth sl2 per ton delivere&
in the town of Spokane Falls, w. T..
There is not now, nor has there been this
year, case of smallpox in Monterey.
Glen Ellen, Sonona county, has pro.
duced 600. 600 gallons of wine this year.
Diphtheria is devastating families living
in Comas Valley, Wasoo county, Oregon.
State Printer Maddrill has appointed j.
C.. Harlow foreman of the State Printing
Office.
The yellow flag waves in Oakland One
patient at the Pest.house and two at the
Watts Tract.
Mohr's Landing, Contra Costa county,
will be the temporary terminus of the West
Side Railroad.
Engines now come into Truckee with
icieles foot long depending from different
portions of them.
A number of counterfeit dollare. with
the San Francisco and Carson Mint stamps.
are in circulation In Nevada.
Not cent Of the subsidy subscribed
around Silverton has been paid the Oregon
Railroad Company, OF even asked for.
There were more deer in Bear mountain,
Calaveras county, this fail than has been
known in that section for many years.
A farmer on the lower San Pedro, Ari-
zona, claims to have raised 40, 600 pounds
of barley from six acres of irrigated land.
For the past week the ponds in the tule
near Benicia have been frozen. The ice
has OIL several days not melted until noon.
TIE Dixon Republican has removed from
Dixon to Rio Vista, and win there be pub
listed under the name of the Rio Vista
NetCS.
Jim Weatherspoon, former wood -saw-
yer of Helena, Montana, has proved his
title to the land on which the city of Yank-
ton, Dakota, is built.
Clara a. McCarty was elected Superin-
tendent of Schools of Pierce county, W.
T., by a majority of 40S, polling the
largest number of votes of any candidate
on the ticket.
At Fort Lemhi. Montana, the dirt walls
which defended the early Mormon settlers
from the attacks of the merciless savages
may still be seen, and are as perfect as the
day they were built.
1t is rumored that number of gentle
men of wealth have in contemplation the
establishment of hunting park in Cali
fornia, and that Mendocino county is con-
sidered by them as the best and most
eligible portion of the State for such
pleasure resort.
The Mendocino Beacon says Beyond
the Noyo about two and half miles, are
the remnants of what was at one time
known as Fort Bragg. It now consists Of
some hall. dozen old, dilapidated and unin-
habited houses. A few years ago this
place was all activity.
Says the Fresno Egpositor:: Selma ia To-
Gated on the S. 2. Railroad, Is miles south
of Fresno in one of the best irrigated dis.
tricts of the county, water being obtained
from the Centerville and Kingsburg Canal
iCompany's new ditch. Railroad and other
lands near by are now in market. The
town is but four months old.
Captain Rogers corps of the United
States Geodetic Survey came to Ukiah
from Cahto last week, having finished their
labor for the season. They were for some
weeks on Sanhedrin, but for the last three
weeks have been putting up an iron and
cement signal-station on Cahto Peak. The
highest summit of Sanhedrin is found to
be $500 feet above the sea level.
The mills are running around Lake Ia
hoe, and all the teams are at work, says
the Truckee Republican. There are no
tourists now. The usual business is going
on. White fish are being caught, but
trout will not bite now, the law being
against them. Business among lumber.
men will continue till after the holidays,
unless the weather closes them out sooner.
The village of Wallula, W. t., ia being
gradually obscured by the new railroad
system, which leaves it out in the cold,
save as a way landing for the Snake river
boats. The cars leave it off to the right,
and there was but one steamboat landed
there all last week. Most of the people
who have made a living there during its
career as terminus are now moving up to
Texas Ferry