Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


lished in San Bsrnardino.
Diphtheria is still raging in Squaw val
ley, Fresno county. Some Elk or eight
cases have resulted fatally.
Mariposa cattle-raisers have been track
ing successfully their missing stock and
capturing some Of the thieves.
Baldwin's cottage on the Santa Anita
ranch, Los Angeles county. was burned on
Wednesday night. Loss, s.. 800.
The Livermore Valley Regiesc says the
prospect of the establishment Of woolen
mill in that town is quite favorable.
The shocks of the recent giant powder
explosions at West Berkeley were dis.
tinctly felt at Iowa Hill, Placer county.
C. F. McGlashen has disposed of his in
terest in the Santa Barbara Press and has
gone East to introduce his train telegraph.
Several cases of diphtheria have broken
out in the vicinity of Weston, Or. In one
family of six visited by the disease three
have died.
The mill men on the Truckee protest
against the passage of bill prohibiting the
emptying of sawdust into the waters of
this State.
The total assessment values of Montana
for the year 1882 foot up $50. 32l, $40 II,
being an increase over the preceding year
of 50, 1852 Y.
1t is said that great deal of the grain
in the vicinity of Elmira, Solano county,
has rotted in the ground, and the land will
have TO be resown.
Sheep men in MERGED county anticipate
an average loss of 20 per cent. OF lambs by
coyotes this season. During the past two
years these pests have increased in mum
bers.
There is not a vacant residence in jack
sonVille, Or, at the present time, and still
there is demand for more. A large num-
Der of new buildings will be erected early
next spring.
During the last half of 1852 the debt of
Seattle, W. T., was reduced from 81, 26S
TO S7,273. During this time a steam fire
engine was purchased and City Hall
built, and both paid for.
The Red Bluff Cause gays that Stony
creek, which is the dividing line between
Tehama and Colusa counties, froze over
solid Thursday night last, the first time in
VIC iiAoSOA VI VIZ OO0iSt1s
Iu Portland during the past year the
real estate sales segregated Sc, 237 900. and
the number of deeds recorded exceeded
2,000. The growth of the city during the
past year has been remarkable.
An inexhaustible quarry of blue marble
has been discovered near The Dalles, in
Polk county, Oregon. It is susceptible of
receiving high polish, and when dried it
is SO hard that 1t readily cuts glass.
It is reported that the Indians belonging
on the Warm Spring, Klamath and Una.
tilla Reservations intend uniting their forces
and waging q general war next spring if
they are forced to obey the stipulations OF
the game law.
Santa Ana has a mineral spring with a
species Of sand at the bottom which has
remarkable cleansing qualities. Not only
will it remove stains from the hands, but il
gives peculiar softness to the skin which
is very agreeable.
About half an hour after the powder
works near Oakland blew up on Sunday
afternoon last, what appeared to be slight
earthquake shock was felt in Copperopolis,
Calaveras county, and on B0stwick's Bar,
| on the StanlslauS river.
The Good Templars are having steam
pump put in near the Napa road for tbs
purpose of supplying the Orphans Home
with water. It required two windmill
heretofore, and it ia expected the pump
will take the place of both.
Fifty philosophical citizens of Walk
Walla, w. r., propose buying the Ton
Collins driving park, to be used for County
Agricultural Fair purposes. Ten Thousand
dollars is the price required, and half was
subscribed for in a short time.
The North Pacific Railroad, in selling
their agricultural lands in Eastern Wash
ington, incorporate clause in the contrao
that one.eighth of the lands shall be plowec
and cultivated before title will be given
and the provision is strictly enforced
Boys are arrested in Nevada City fol
playing ball on the streets, and whel
brought into Court demand trial before
jury of their peers. A free.born Aaericar
citizen, although he be but a small boy
has his rights which must be respected.
The Wood River q. T. Times says tina
at exactly midnight, when the old yea
went out and the new year came in, The
Wood River country was lit up with CAM
fires. Three hundred men were out lo
eating claims that had not been repre-
scented.
Kern county has man who claims Il
have cured himself of dyspepsia and reju
venated himself by living on diet of raw
fruit and q coarse ground meal from oat
or barley, and also eaten raw. He says hi
wife and son also live on the same food, ant
that it only costs few cents month &
feed himself and family.
The Tuscarora Mining ReUieaC, in speak
ing of new miners candlestick, says
has the ordinary brad or point for fasten
ing in timberg the hook for hanging upol
the wall or projecting rock-a knife 70
cutting, and clutch for Gaping fuse. /
is go arranged that it can be closed in
small space, and carried in the pocket. |
is very neat piece of work, and is the in
vention of j. c. Martin, a blacksmith Ev
ing ia this place.
In the issue of money orders, tn
Seattle, W. r., Postofice has mad
very steady gains, year after -yeal
from the beginning in 1871. When tn
system was introduced 740 orders wer
issued and the number since then has bee
as below stated 1872, 1872 1873, 500
1874, 945; 1875, l.576; 1876, 2,l54
1877, 2,404 1878, 2,5lS /; 1879, SLY
1880. 3.7l4; 1881, 4,006; 1882, 6,32;
; The Issue of 5000 orders is anticipated fc
1883.
Samuel Eldridge, who cultivates the SO
IN the vicinity OF Woodbridge, San Jot
quin county, has discovered new way
! Kill squirrels, which he thinks is worthy {
trial by all farmers who are troubled b
these pests. He saturates small piece {
burlap with coal oil, after which be spril
/ kles it with sulphur. Then he rolls it u
wraps paper around it, sets it on fire an
sticks it into the hole. The burning SD
, phur suffocates all the animals in the boil
often killing cotton-tal rabbits as well I
squirrels.
1t is estimated that there are now sc. OF
8 tons of ice stored on the Truckee rive
+ The Summit Company's Prosper creek j,
r houses are full, and they hold l2,000 ton
. Boes has 5, 200 tons, part of it last year
ice. The Nevada lee Company, at Camp l
!. have put up 4 coo tons of fine ice. III
: Peoples Ice Company, at Cuba, put I
# 5000 tons of new ice, and have as muc
y y l.