Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


City and one at Grass Valley.
The almond and walnut crops of Santi
Barbara county are large this year.
The Mare Island Navy Yard workmel
now labor only eight hours per day.
The town of Willows, Colusa county, il
said to have one mile of warehouses.
Bodie boasts OF having the Oldest Indiar
in California. He is SAID to be l27 year.
of age.
The Globe City Masonic Temple is com
plete, and is the largest and handsomes'
building dedicated to such purposes in Ari-
IONA.
1t will net be long before the Sierras viii
present q remarkably attractive appearance
with their brilliant patches of many-colored
foliage.
There is a movement on foot to place q
steam yacht on Great Salt Lake which will
carry with safety from fifty to sixty pas.
sengers.
The North San Juan Times, which re-
recently suspended owing to the destruc-
ton of it's office by fire, will soon resume
publication.
The Matching establishment of the Clack-
amas river has secured go. 600 salmon eggs,
which will be increased to 100000 before
the week is out.
In Nevada county, the Auditors report
for the month ending September 9th
shows the sums in various funds to be a
total of $500, 022.
The Oroville Chinese lost between
$4,000 and 100000 by the recent fire in
that place. 1t is covered by insurance to
the extent of $4,000.
The relatives of Kinner, who was killed
in 1877, at Petaluma, by the vicious horse
Cognac, have brought silt against Skill
man, the owner, for $40. 900 damages.
The new Chinatown on Marcellus av-
enue, Nevada City, is steadily growing
Nineteen buildings have been erected, and
several more will be put up before the
winter storms begin.
Says the Fresno Republican, The San
Joaquin river at present is swarming with
salmon. Wherever a rifle can be found,
there is no difficulty in spearing a nice
mess in few minutes.
From twelve to fifteen cars of grain are
shipped daily from HOLSTER and Tres
Pinos. Owing to the great demand all
over the road, cars cannot be obtained to
ship as readily as desired.
Colonel Tiffany of Arizona has had plans
drawn for an Industrial School TO be
Already 100 acres are cleared for the pur-
pose. The probable cost will be $4,000.
Animas valley is called the paradise of
southwestern Colorado. 1t contains an area
of $1,000 acres of fine land. This year
200 acres were planted. Settlers are
coming in rapidly, and Animas City is i'm
proving fast.
An Indian runner arrived at Santa Fe
Sunday at noon from Taos. He left that
place at O'Clock on Saturday night, max.
ing the trip on foot in fourteen hours. The
distance is sixty miles, and in a rough
country, too.
The town recently laid out at Depot
Springs, w. T., has had its name changed
from Billings to Cheney. This is one of
the five towns recently located On the line
of the n. p. Railroad, between Ainsworth
and Spokane Falls.
A Chico policeman quarreled with and
arrested his wife the other day, and the
Justice fined her SO, which the policeman
had to pay, and then e went out back of
barn and dislocated his hip try ing to kick
himself into a well.
Just 81, 500 have been paid out in
Healdsburg this year to the white hop
piekers, and 81, 900 to Indians, for picking
fifty acres. The average weight OF the
yield of hops is nearly LOO pounds to the
acre, over 80 per cent. more than last
year.
Running at the rate of twelve miles per
hour, it now takes from four to five mn-
utes for the passenger trains on the S. ?.
c. r. Il. to pass through the two largest
tunnels on the road. Its proposed shortly
to increase the time to seven minutes in
the passage of the tunnels.
In San Diego, in the yard of Mr.. His.
cock, is Mission grapevine five years old,
which has length OF forty-two feet. The
circumference of the main stem is ten
inches. 1t is loaded with grapes. The
vine has never received any care, having
fourished in the face of drought and neg
lect.
The Reno New Journal has informa-
ton of the unparalleled thrift of Lassen
and Modoc counties, just across the border
IN California. Ia ten years Lassen has in.
creased from 700 inhabitants to 3,400, and
Modoc from 200 to 4, 500, all of them en-
joying a prosperity unknown in Nevada
just now.
The Walla Walla Statesman, commenting
on the Waitsburg, W. T., fire, says The
city had just begun, under the railroad
stimulus, to grow and improve, and COM
ing when the crops are poor and trade dull
the loss will act as a terrible set back.
Business men place the loss at 500, 600 to
$50, 900.
Tourists state that this is the most favor
able season of the year to visit the lakes in
the vicinity OF Truckee. The weather is
mild and invigorating, and the lakes are as
calm and unruffied as mirror. There is
just Indian summer and haze enough to
add to the picturesque beauty and sur
rounding landscape.
There are at present So patients in the
Insane Asylum at Steilacoom, W. t. The
cost per day for each patient during the
fiscal year just closed was rs cents. OF the
appropriation of $26, 600 but 800, 500 has
been used. The average number of inmates
during the year was so. In the time speci-
fed 80 patients were admitted, Is dis
charged recovered, and have died.
Says the Eureka New Leader Four
years ago one of our prominent business
men loaned $75 to poor fellow who was
in hard streak OF luck. TIE man left
town without returning the money, and
nothing was heard of him until few days
since, when the business. man referred to
was agreeably surprised by receiving from
him letter containing a postal order for
Sl25.
The sand has filled up to level with the
stringers of the toll-bridge erected by
Clode Clancy at Johnson's Crossing,
across Bear river, Yuba county. The
bridge was the second one built at the same
spot, the filling of the river making it nee.
essary to raise it. Originally the place was
the site of ford. Wagons went down
steep banks and forded the clear waters OF
Bear river during the dry season without
fear of sinking
HAMMERS CAscARA SAeRADA BTTTERs touches the
right spot in dyspepsia, constipation and liver CON-
plant.
REGULATE THE LIVER with Hammers Cascara
Sagrada Bitters and health is the result.
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