Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-03
PACIFIC COAST 1rrMs.

Line new crop OF beans IS IN the Los An
geles market.
Fifteen new buildings are in course of
construction in HALEY, l. T.
A company has been formed to sink an
arteslan well st Billings, NJ. T.
The linnets are causing great annoyance
to the fruit growers in Los Angeles.
A tarantula measuring 64 inches around
was brought into Los Angeles Saturday.
Wastage of water has caused the Merced
Water Works Company to shut off the
supply at nights.
There are about 300 San Carlos Apaches
camped in the hills between Butte and
Riverside, Mont.
H. w. Beecher will deliver only two
lectures in Portland, Or, August Dist and
23d being the dates.
Visitors to the ostrich farm, near Ana
helm, are required to provide themselves
with admission tickets.
The brickwork of the vault for the new
First National Bank at Tucson, A. T., is
now being constructed.
Favorable action has been taken by the
Helena, Mont, Council toward building a
street railroad in that town.
Work in surveying the railroad line from
Billings TO Bull mountain, Mont, COM
menced on the 18th instant
Sonoma and Marin exhibit an increased
interest in their forthcoming fair, which
will open on the 5th proximo.
William Montgomery, who has resided
on this coast since lS49 died at Seattle,
W. t., on the 18th inst, aged 20 years.
Pieces of petrifed wood taken from a
mine in Strawberry valley. Butte county.
show even the holes made by the worms.
In struggle succeeding a quarrel at
cards one Stanley, of Park City, Utah, was
probably fatally shot by Richard Squires.
About ], 200 tons of coal lying in the
bunkers at Kingmsn, A. T., caught fire
last Sunday from spontaneous combustion.
Fifteen thousand dollars of school bonds
of the Missoula IN. 7. school district
were taken at y per cent. interest per an
mum.
After August lst, the odd sections of
land in soui hern Montana heretofore held
for the Northern Pacific will be open for
filings.
George Rogers, Is years old, has been
sent to the County Jail from Nevada CITY
for 40 days, for petty larceny in stealing
watch.
In Calico District, through the confess
sion of one Hoffman, the remains of
miner named Lee, who disappeared three
years since, have been found.
A Chinese leper attempted to commit
suicide by jumping into the river from
ferryboat between Portland and East Port
land, Or He was rescued.
The average daily arrivals at Portland
from the East over the Northern Pacific for
the past week have been twenty passen-
gers; the average departures for the East
by rail, seven.
The stock raisers of Eastern Montana
have decided to organize stock associa-
tion similar to that now in successful op-
Grafton in Wyoming. Headquarters will
be at Miles City.
a man in st. Helena has a young COW
weighing about $50 pounds, from which
he has MIXED over seven gallons day for
several days in succession, and made six.
teen pounds Of butter from her in nine
days.
The Postoffice Department has cancelled
the account of J. NJ. Bacon, Postmaster at
Oregon City, Or, for about 81, 400, the
amount of money and stamps stolen at the
time of the robbery of the office three
years ago.
According to its line of grade, the Ore
gon Short Line Railroad will have 70 CON
struct seven bridges across Snake river and
parts of it between the mouths of Boise
and Burnt rivers, distance of about sew
enty miles.
TLo~, 80 , c,o,,e,,I oo,,,l.;.k =. A.
from the placer. mining districts on account
of the sudden and extraordinary falling of
of water in the gulch streams. 1t is not re-
membered when the water began to fail so
early in the season.
a branch has been shown the Los An.
geles Times on which were forty.tw dam
son plums. The branch was fourteen inches
long. The plums were grown on John M.
Stewards place, and were all fine specimens
and of uniform size.
A party of masked men entered the iail
at Miles City, Montana, on Saturday, July
22d, after the excitement attending the fire
had died out, broke into a cell in which
William Rigney, hard character, was
confined, took him and hanged him from
the railroad bridge near town.
The work of rebuilding the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation Company's dock at
Astoria, Or, which was recently burned,
| has been completed. The wharf will be
], ,OS0 feet long and so feet wide, and the
warehouse will be $50 feet long and 20 feet
wide. The cost will be nearly 100000.
The Los Angeles Herald, in speaking of
proposition to induce Henry Ward
Beecher TO visit that city, says To hire
men to come here, who have salary of
$40, 600 year and are able to pay their
own fare, just to have them look upon us,
is in the last degree unmanly and degrad-
ing.
Los Angeles has now three regular daily
newspapers, one daily advertising sheet,
nine weekly papers, and two monthlies;
total, fifteen. Several trade publications
also appear occasionally. Outside of the
city Los Angeles county contains five
weekly newspapers-two at Santa Ana,
one at Auaheim, one at Downey and one
at Pomona.
Miles City, Montana, is a lively place.
Lat week it had $4,000 fire and man
committed rape and was hanged by the
citizens. The toughs arranged themselves
against the law-and. order class, but were
subdued by the shooting of their leader.
At last accounts order had been restored,
but, fearing an outbreak of the roughs, the
citizens continued under arms.