Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-11
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

SaiinOii nave TSHcneu tHe -uSSlouu fiNSi.
Weaverville is arranging for Fourth of
July entertainments.
The Trustees of Ukiah, Mendocino coun.
ty, have purchased a fire engine.
The gas works at San Diego are going up
steadily, and pipes are being put in the
various large stores.
The entire crew of the Spanish bark
Odulia deserted the vessel Saturday night
at Portland, Or.
The Me- Perces Ne,cs, published at
Lewiston, Idaho, has been enlarged and
otherwise improved.
The Baptists contemplate building
church in Ogden Utah, and are looking
about for an eligible site.
The Oakland Guard, Company A, Fifth
Infantry, are in camp at Dry Creek, near
Centerville, Alameda county.
1t is reported that quite large number
of grasshoppers have made their appear
ance on the Bonner Meadows.
The Truckee Lumber Company has
started both sides of it's sawmill now, and
is turning out lumber pretty fast.
It has been decided to close the public
owing to the presence of scarlatina.
Contracts have been let and preparations
are III progress for the erection of larger
number of buildings in and about Placer
vile this season than have been put up in
any one season for twenty years or more.
By order of the County Commissioners
the Town Marshal of Gold Hill, New, Fri
day night, fired all the Indian cabins among
the surrounding hills. The Indians made
no objection. They say, Houses all heap
sick"
The Santa Clara horticultural and VIII
cultural Society met at San Jose Saturday
afternoon. Several specimens of branches
ravaged by the scale bugs were exhibited
and examined under the microscope. The
general opinion among the members was,
that the application q coal oil at the right
time would kill the bugs without injuring
the trees.
John Kelly, one OF the postal route
agents between Portland and Walla Walla,
met with very heavy fell Saturday at the
Cascades. In stepping from the upper
wharf to the steamers deck he missed his
footing and fell e distance OF fourteen feet,
cutting fearful cash in his scalp and
breaking three ribs, besides sustaining
other very severe injuries.
The Indians are having spree at Win
nemucca, New The Piutes have congre-
gated from Wadsworth and other points
along the railroad, and delegation of
Shoshones came from Battle Mountain.
They gamble and play football. II. the
game Of chance which they call "ni a
gwa," the Piutes cleaned out the Sho
shones.
The British ship Oakworth, just arrived
at Portland, o., made the best trip ON
record between Shanghai and San Fran.
cisco, where she received orders for this
port. She lefs Shanghai March oath, and
got her pilot off San Francisco April 2lst.
Her log shows that for eighteen days
from April 81 to l9th-she sailed 1925
miles-or an average of 25I4 miles day.
Her biggest day was 3l2 miles.
A wrestling match, Cornish style, for
$3.50 side and the gate money, took place
at Bodie Saturday afternoon, between Ned
McInnis and James Pascal The wrestling
commenced about 2:30 P. NJ. and continued
until 7:30, neither side getting fall. Pas
calls friends and himself were anxious to
continue the match the following day,
but the referee decided it to be a draw. A
thousand or fifteen hundred people were
present.
Friday night crowd, suspected to con.
sist of young men belonging to the best
families in Vallejo, turned the town topsy.
turvy. The largest signs in town were
taken from the stores to houses of bad
reputation barber-poles and all movable
things were stolen and hid wagons, carts
and buggies were stolen, and some we're
found over mile distant packing cases
were piled in the vestibules of prominent
residences pawnbrokers' emblems and de.
vices, evidently made for the occasion.
were fastened over business places large
wooden watch sign was fastened to the top
of the Republican hag-pole shutters al
along The business streets We're taken from
the windows and carried long distances
The work could hardly have been done by
ess than twenty persona.