Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-17
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Sonora, Iuolumne county, Is 20 De
lighted with gas.
An ash log, got out by Herman Bros,
Myrtle Point Or, scaled 1850 feet.
The University of the Pacific is pros
porous and gradually paying off its debt.
The matter of enacting curfew ordi-
nance is being discussed at Virginia, New.
Mrs. H Ramsey, aged y years, died very
suddenly Friday night, at her home in
Madison county, Oregon, of heart disease.
The Vallejo Chronicle Saturday entered
upon its twenty volume. 1t is a
bright little daily, and deserves its success.
Large droves of stock-cattle and sheep
are passing through Tuolumne county,
on their way from the plains to the noun
| tain pastures.
the Belmont New Courier of Saturday,
passed through Monitor Valley last We'd
nesday, on their way to Colorado.
Haley, Idaho, the youngest town in the
State, is booming, it's buildings being
erected and lots selling at the rate of ten a
day, and fer from 500 to $500 apiece.
A San Diego dispatch says: The Cali
fornia Southern Railroad calls for bids for
thirty miles additional, making in all
eighty.two miles let since December 10th.
Says the Portland Or Standard Pro-
at The Dalles, the other day, in a tub
escaped wetting.
Two desperate convicts confined at the
Oregon State Penitentiary made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to escape from the guards,
but their plans were discovered and
promptly frustrated.
An elk weighing between 500 and 600
pounds was killed lately about twenty
miles west of Olympia, w. T. 1t is the
first elk in that vicinity for several years.
They are seldom seen now east of the Sat-
sup river.
Henry Race, formerly of Port Gamble
and lately a resident of WILDLY Island,
died suddenly Friday, at the latter place
The cause was probably heart disease. The
deceased was an old resident of Washing
ton Territory.
The Idaho Statesman of May 7th says
! The clover fields are ready for the scythe,
the grain fields are ankle high, roses are
| in bloom, and apple and peach trees are
bowling their limbs with small fruit as
| large as chestnuts.
Jacop Spores of Lane county, Oregon,
received few days ago letter from
Germany, informing him that he is one of
forty heirs to an estate of SS2, 600, 600.
| According to this his share will be some.
thing over $4,000 00.
According to the Enterprise, the Trustees
of the Chico public school countenance the
action of the boys who wrote obscene Ian
guage on the walls of the school house by
discharging the teacher who complained OF
the bad practice, and landing the boys as
rising artists.
A little son of Jacob Adams, aged Is
years, residing at Lebanon, Lynn county,
wagon passed over his body, breaking four
deemed very serious and prospects Of re-
covery doubtful.
The wife of Edward Mccormick CON-
mitted suicide at Virginia, New, Saturday
morning, by taking dose of strychninc.
The cause was domestic infelicities. She
told neighbor, a woman, what she had
done, and said she didn't want any blame
laid to Edward, her husband.
| The formal dedication of the Normal
School Building at San Jose took place at
? p. NJ. Saturday, in Assembly Hall. Gov
ernor Perkins, who was to deliver the adj
dress, sent dispatch, stating that he
| could not be present on account of official
business. Senator George +. Baker de-
livered the address in lieu of Governor Per-
kins.
Over 100 white men and Cinnamon are
at work at Point San Pedro. quarrying
stone for the Oakland training wall. They
take and ship 500 tons OF rock day.
There are 500 Cinnamon living there, most
of whom are engaged in catching and dry
| ing shrimps and other kinds Of fish Tor
market, The shrimps have steadily mul.
tiplisd, until now the Chinanen catch
] fr3m two to three thousand ems OF them