Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-13
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Las Vegas, N. NJ, street railway is
ready for operation.
The taxable property of Oakland amounts
to nearly $50, 00O,0 900.
Many of the grapes and peaches at AL
buquerque, N. NJ, have been killed by the
frost.
The proposed new Southern Coast Steam
ship line is meeting with much encourage
ment.
The Klamath Indians in Oregon made
another civilizing step-they are building
race track.
A squaw with triplets in wicker basket
was recently perambulating the streets of
Carson, New.
It will cost $1,000 to rebuild the roads
to the Grover sawmill, Santa Cruz, washed
out last winter.
The Weekly Visalia Delta comes to us
enlarged by several columns, and greatly
improved in its typographical appearance.
a young girl named Lopez was shot and
killed in Mesilla, n. NJ, April 25th. 1t
is the general belief that her mother killed
her.
There is Chinaman doing business in
Carson City, New, who pays taxes on
S25, 900 worth of real estate in San Fran
cisco.
In nyparts of California small worm
is at work on the oak trees, destroying the
leaves. 1t is feared that the acorn crop
will be light.
A portable saw mill has been cutting
wood for the locomotives at Dayton, New.
1t is the intention of the railroad company
to cut about 1900 cords.
Four years ago Arizona had but three
papers. 1t is now as well supplied as any
section of the Union with bright, newsy
sheets, daily and weekly.
The examination of the Mohican at Mare
Island is progressing preparatory to begin
ming work. The construction department
will have s24, 900 for May.
In Lyon county, New, alfalfa is almost
il blossom, and haying win begin in about
three weeks. Crops generally are about a
month earlier than last year.
j. H. Ming recently sold 500 head of
beef cattle at $50 per head. These cattle
were wintered on Tongue River, Montana,
with loss OF only three head.
The Calaueras Weekly Citizen has en-.
tered upon its eleventh volume, and cele-
brates the occasion by reducing it's SUBJ
scription price from s. to So year.
The Alaska installment of pupils for the
Indian school at Forest Grove, Or, con.
sists Of nine boys and one girl. They are
comfortably settled in their new quarters.
The steamer Bachelor, after leaving
winter quarters on the Yellowstone, near
Wolf Point, Montana, was caught in an
ice gorge and broken in two, and now lies
a wreck on sand bar above Fort Buford.
Quail have made their appearance in the
woods surrounding Truckee. 1t looks as
IL there would be an abundance Of them
there by the time the law expires, as they
have made their appearance early this year.
The Benicia New Era says: We un-
derstand that negotiations are pending
which may result in the steamer Solano
making an extra trip from Benicia connect
ing with the first morning train for San
Francisco.
San Diego is just now the best satisfied
town in the State. Business is good, and
there is plenty of work for every body ap.
plying for it. The present hustle is in
marked contrast to the dullness of a couple
of years ago.
Idaho has an area of SIS, 22S, l60 acres, of
which 100000 acres are agricultural or
may be reclaimed by irrigation %, 900, OOO
acres of pasture lands; 10000, 600 of tim
Der lands, and the remainder mineral, lava
and mountainous lands.
In a circuit of % miles, with Helena.
Montana, as its center, there are over 3. 600
recorded lodges, carrying gold, lead and
silver, copper and silver, or silver. On
several hundred of these lodges United
States patents have been obtained.
At Cimarron, n. NJ, recently, the Peni-
tentes went through their yearly scourg.
ing. 1t is bit OF niedi@valism surviv-
ing in the nineteenth century, unique but
revolving. They use for scourge the
Spanish bayonet tYueca), grasping it by
the root with both hands, and at each sec
ond step bringing it over the head, strik-
ing the bare back and causing the blood to
flow freely.
Thomas P. Ford, an old Sacramento
printer, has commenced the publication of
a 2S-column paper at Bieber, Lassen
county. called the Mountain Tribune, the
first number of which is at hand. Ii the
copy received is a fair index of what the
journal is hereafter to be, the citizens of
Lassen county may be congratulated upon
having within its borders one of the best
local newspapers upon the coast.
The oldest settler of Browns valley has
gone, says the Napa Register. This was an
immense oak tree which grew on the old
Cottrill place, now owned by Mr. May.
nard, until it had acquired circumference
or twenty seven feet. It fell to the ground
ons still night last week, leaving stump
ten feet high. 1t is estimated that the
fallen monarch will make seventy. five cords
of wood. The crash was heard for a mile
or more in every direction.