Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


this State only "a are over ten years old.
Forty-seven prisoners in the Alameda
County Jail await the action of the law
and the Grand Jury.
1t cost the city of Portland, Or, SIG
during the month of March for killing and
burying 90 worthless CANNES.
Geo. Albert, who was recently cut by
Warren at Rough and Ready, Nevada
county, died at 10 o'clock Sunday night.
Professor George Davidson is at present
stationed on Mount Dlablo with corps of
assistants, taking observations for the
geodetic survey.
A new town has been laid out on the rail-
road about six miles north of Kingsburg,
Tulare county. 1t will be the center of
very prosperous farming community.
San Bernardino is about to take heroic
measures with the hoodlum element that
infests that place. The most aggressive of
their kind have been ordered to vamose.
T. H. Hyatt, Jr, of Winters, has been
appointed by Hon. r. J. Hudson short
hand reporter for the Superior Court of
Lake county. Mr.. Hyatt is also short
hand reporter for the Superior Court of
Yolo.
The Stockton Paper Mill Company
shipped about seven and half tons of
printing paper Wednesday-fve tons in
rolls and two tons and half in bundles
The lot was consigned to two San Francisco
newspapers.
A delegation of business men, appointed
by the citizens, has left Prescott, Arizona,
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son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany the advantages to be derived from
running their railroad through that town
in its route to the Pacific ocean.
The number of unemployed men who
have been about town nearly all winter,
says the Inyo independent, have scattered
out, leaving the place looking more or less
depoFulated. We have heard of several
inquiries during the week for good miners,
for places which have not yet been filled.
1t is not generally known from whence
came the name of Paskenta and what is
the meaning thereof The Indians used to
call high bluff or succession of precipi-
tous hills and rugged tracks of country
"Paskenta." As this name seemed very
appropriate to the surrounding country
the place was so named.
The Jacksonville Or Times suggests
that, as the warm weather approaches, the
thousands of carcasses of dead animals
which have persisted during the late severe
winter and are lying around IN many por-
tions of Lake, Jackson ard Siskiyou coun-
ties be either buried orct mated, and thus
prevent the foul and pu resent stencil
from filling the air we b eathe. Some
thing should be done at one both by indi-
viduals and the county anG township au-
thorities, to ward off the danger threat
ening the health of the people.
The steamship company, we learn, says
the Los Angeles Herald, intend to build
two warehouses on the bluff, or, rather,
one on each plateau of the double bluff
back of the site for the new wharf, to
facilitate the shipment of grain. The first
will be ten feet below the roadway at
which teams will discharge their loads, the
grain being passed through chute into
the storehouse where it will remain until
required for shipment As needed it will
be passed through a second chute to the
warehouse below and thence through
third chute to the deck of the vessel. By
this method, it is claimed, that two men
in the second warehouse will be able to
pass down as much grain as ten men can
stow, material saving of labor and saw
ing which will undoubtedly inure to the
profit of the shipper.
In early days Shedding" was the
familiar initiation of stranger at Middle
town, Lake county. He was first made to
treat and then be treated until his senses
were nearly gone. An invitation was ex-
tended to him to cross the street to
another saloon, when hardly had he passed
the threshold of the door when his legs
were tripped from beneath him, and some
rough would get between his legs and tax
ing a foot in each hand would drag him up
and down the street until his clothes were
torn from his body, and his head was
scratched and scraped so badly that
whole month was required to get it into
good condition again. There were many
sudden disappearances about that time,
unaccountable to the outside world, but
well known to the few desperadoes who
infested the town. They have all gone
nov, and the town appears as quiet as a
New England village upon Sunday.
The great problem of the day is the
solution of the soul provoking fifteen block
puzzle. A Mormon IN Utah tried it the
other day by making squares in his back
yard and arranging his numerous wives so
as to represent the desired numbers. They
were much interested in the game, and
things went smooth enough until he got
down to Is, IA, 10. By this time there
was evidence of uneasiness in the upper
row. The wives from No. ! to II were
tired of standing and growing impatient at
the non success of their spouse. began to
chip in with such suggestions az, "Move
red-headed IA to the left. ;" "Push that
snaggle-toothed object with Is pasted on
her cheek to the other square, Send lop
cared l3 with the dirty finger nails farther
down the row." and in about ten minutes
it was hard to tell whether that back yard
was second hand clothing store or de-
funct hair shop, and as soon as that Nor
man gets out of hospital he is going to
look for the man who invented the game