Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Nevada City has a public reading room
and library.
Hay sells at Sc per ton in Harvey valley,
Lake oouaty, Oregon.
A company has been organized in Stock.
ton to do blowing by steam.
San Pedro expects passenger boats will
be able to land at the wharves there at low
tide by next spring.
There is but one woman in the Nevada
| state Frison, negTess, sentenced for tif-
teen years for arson.
| The Chinese Mssons attended this funeral
of Mr.. Edwards, member of the Masonic
Order, at Piumss last week
The Los Angeles Herald learns Z. J,
BALDWIN proposes TO cut up considerable
portion OF the Santa Ana ranch into forty
acre plots aad sell them off at auction.
1t costs Tn Arizona man $50 duties to
get $50 dollars worth of provisions into
Mexico. The rate on canned goods is so
per cent, and on -four 81 II per 100
pounds.
a curious specimen of fungus was found
on the timbers of Nevada county mine
last week. 1t is in the shape of human
hand, and the fingers, five in number, and
the thumb are very plainly marked.
The Msrysville appeal says the Digger
Indians make willow bssk ITS that will hold
water. These Indians do weave baskets
very fine, but the watertight quality is Sc.
cured by coating OF tar.
l. H. Blevine and Robert CHM escaped
from the Nevada State Prison on Monday.
they were engaged in herdiug stock out.
side OF the prison, and were not guarded,
and, very naturally, took little walk.
Etiwanda settlement has been connected
by telephone with San Bernardino and Col.
ton. Pasadena and Sierra Madre Villa will
be connected by telephone with Los Apre-
les as soon as the poles to support the wires
arrive.
Montgomery station, on the O and C.
K IN Douglas county, Oregon, contains
thirty. five houses, including several stores.
saloons and boarding houses. all doing a
thriving business A sawmiil cuts 25 600
feet of lumber daily.
at Tehsma man had some words in
the street with Justice of the Peace.
whereupon His Honor convened his Court,
ordered the arrest of the citizen, adiudped
MN guilty OF contempt OF Court, and SEN
fenced him to $50 days in the county Jail.
Out of band of about 200 head Of horses
belonging to Messrs. Colver and Rose, of
Pheaix, Or, 40 head were lost while on
the range In Klamath county during the
past year. Distemper, epizootic, pinkeye
and straying account for the loss of so
heavy percentage.
Dennis Burns was sentenced TO FIVE
years in the Folsom penitentiary at Colusa
GaTy fN-E t,.s
commit rape. Judge Blanchard also sen.
fenced G. W. Stewart to ten years i'm.
prisonment for killing William FlnnelI last
summer at Arbuokle.
Josiah V. Smith, now on trial at Los
Angeles, stated Thursday that he was born
and raised Mormon, aud that the Lord
informed him in dream that he must ssc-
ritice his oldest boy, Willie, thirteen years
OF age, which he did, by stabbing him in
the breast. The prisoner related the cir
cumstancss very coolly, claiming that he
acted under an inspiration Of God, and cited
Guiteau as an example.
Says the Woodland Democrat The in
vest!gation of the recent Grand jury and
the experts appointed to examine the affairs
of the various offices OF the county, show
that some Of the county officials have man.
aged stfairs in a very reckless manner.
While none may be open to the charge of
actual criminal intent, yet the letter Of the
law has been so grossly violated IS to leave
grounds for some suspicion and to bring
the officials within the reach of severe cen.
sure.
A railroad engineer has arrived at indie.
pendence, Cal, and will, during the next
few weeks examine the country south and
east Of Inyo and Owens Lake for the pur.
pose of surveying line of railroad which.
rumor Gays, will be part of Jay Gould's
new scheme of forming an independert
western line to the Paciiic Ocean fcon
terminus of the Union Pacific Railroa
Ogden. From that point one of his rUs
runs southwark to Salt Lake City. UnG r
practically the same MANAGEMENT is toe
Salt Lake and Western line-a standard
broad-gauge, which is row completed
eighty-tive miles southwesterly to Tintic
Valley.
Governor Stanford has offered to pur-
chase the entire town of VIVA Tehama
county, on these conditions The Governor
will buy all Che real estate and improve
ments thereon for a nominal suu-say one
dOlar-and Immediately sell and recouvey
the same property TO the owners provided
that he Stanford ia allowed 30 insert
clause in his deeds that no intoxicating
| liquors shall ever be sold in the town Of
| Vina. The Governor will further obligase
himself TO build fac two-story school
house, large enough il which to educate
all the children of the town. He will fur
ther agree to import one hundred German
families to work bis extensive vineyard and
orchard, and will exclude from his prem
ises all Chinese labor.