Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
They are cutting barley at Modesto.

lhsy are cuttrg barley at Modesto.
There are 5000 Odd Fellows in Oregon /.
Chico is to have a new paper-the Mors
| ing Chronicle,
San Diego reports a five pound turuip.
and corn six feet high.
a magnificent night heron was killed at
Washoe Lake last week.
| There arc 24 male and 3 female prison.
ers In the luba county Jail.
The Oakland public schools have closed
until after the Fourth of July.
| A San Diego railroad consraoto, com.
plains OF the scarcity of laborers.
A deposit OF red oohre, ten feet thick,
has been found near the Carson river.
There arc now fourteen newspapers in
ldaho-double the number that existed a
year ago.
There are on the railroad lines of Cali
fornia 81, coo car loads, or 800 600 tons, of
wheat, old crop.
The Carson tNev.) appeal SAYS Four
hundred men can find employment on the
Mono Lake Railroad.
Most of the sheep owned in Merced
county are in the mountains. The upland
ranges are Soou tnlS season.
Within the past three years farming
lands about Modesto are said to have in
creased in value eighty per cent.
Many Of the fruit.growers Of Pleasant
valley, III Dorado county, have disposed of
their apricot crops-four cents being the
highest figure.
The next annual fair of the Southern
Horticultural Society will open on the 5th
OF September, the centennial of the estab.
fishing of the pueblo of Los Angeles.
A Chico physician reports the birth of n
tongue is entirely absent. It ia thought
the child cannot live, as deglutition is very
imperfectly performed.
Tie work in the Southern Pacific Rail.
road machine shops in Los Angeles en-
braces all locomotive repairs pertaining to
the Yuma, Los Angeles, Santa Monica,
Wilmington and Santa Ana Division.
Two farms at Old San Bernardino. one
of GO acres and the other of so acres, have
been sold for $4,000 apiece. Orange
groves, water privileges, rich soil and good
climate were what caused them to bring
these large prices.
An old citizen of Clsckamas county. Or.
egop, named Chitwoo5, was caught by n
neighbor in the woods in .fdgraEfe Relictv
with his own daughter, and was badly
beaten with club. He has disappeared
from his hcme, leaving sick wife
The railroad companys machine shops at
Terrace, Utah, were burned Monday night.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
shops were 60 by 100 feet in dimensions,
and, together with the machinery, were
totally destroyed. No engines were lost.
Mountain fires in the environments of
San Bernardino valley have again been
raging. The Cotton Semi.Trop;c says
Many thousands of valuable trees have
been destroyed in this way and no benefit
derived therefrom by the scoundrels who
seem to do this thing from mere sport or
pastime.
The Reno Journal says: The srasshop-
pers have eaten 60 of the l25 acres of Pete
Dalton's grain. He does not expect to put
a reaper into the remaining Go acres, and
gives it up. He has 100 acres Of hay, tim
othy and clover, but the hoppers have not
yet touched it. Other farmers in the.
vicinity have lost their entire crop.
A Reno, New, man has invented
safety. cage to be used in mines, so ar
ranged that it can be stopped at will at
anywhere from one inch to five feet, in any
part of the shaft, by the men on the cage,
and is entirely independent of the engineer
in charge. 1t also rings gong when at
distance of 100 feet from the surface of the
shaft, so as to guard against accident by the
running of The cage In the sheaves.