Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

| San Diego has peach tree in bloom.
Forest fires in the mountains of Plumas.
HOLSTER schools have a six weeks yaca-
ton.
There is in San Diego peach tree in full
bloom.
Henry Mandel, miner, recently persisted
on the Colorado desert.
Ice between Cloverdale and Whitehall is
reported strong enough to bear up a loaded
| wagon.
Mrs. T. B. Vernon, of Lake county, Or,
tiled to cut her throat with pair of scissors
last week.
The electric light was tested at Victoria
B. c., last Friday night, with gas lamps sx-
tinguished.
The settlement bill has been passed by the
Victoria, B. c., Legislature, and been sent
to Ottawa.
| About 100 men employed at the Navy
Yard at Mare leland have been laid off for
want Of funds.
j. G. Barnston, barrister and member Of
TIE first Provincial Legislature, is dying at
Victoria, B. c.
A tramp with $500 on his person was killed
by the cars near Eugene City Saturday, while
stealing a ride.
Ostrich plumes, valued at 81, 800 were taken
to San Francisco from the Anaheim ostrich
| farm few days ago.
The ship Minnie Watts, from New York
to Portland, Or, is supposed to be lost. She
is three months overdue.
Thousands of crows have invaded the
fields around San Felipe, filling the air with
the noise of their cawing.
tn
jackson county, died Saturday Of blood pCis-
oning, from wound in the knee.
A second track will forthwith be laid from
Port Costa to Oakland, which is required by
| the enormous traffic of the railroad.
Goodday & Co., of Chico, have failed for
| 5000 The Record says that, taking all
things into account, cit looks like put up
job"
G. S. Erb, of Salt Lake, has sold the
| Walker House and Continental Hotel, in
that city, to J. H. Van Horne, his clerk at
| the latter hotel.
I Henry Msndel attempted to make the trip
on foot from the terminus of the Carson and
| Colorado Railroad to Calico recently, and
persisted on the desert.
Mrs. B. T. Dennison, wife of prominen Mt
Judge of Vancouver, w. T., has been sp-
! pOibtcu 4NObaIJ uDilC, BIG UciuS Luo LIEU
woman to hold such position in the Terri
| tory,
The picking Of the orange crop in southern
| California has just commenced, few car
loads having been already shipped. The price
for oranges ranges from 81 to 50 box in
orchards.
| The Greenville (Plumas county, Bulletin
says: Along the mountains, on the north
side of the valley, forest fires are blazing in
several places. This is something very rare
at this season.
! The Iona Prieta Railroad, extending from
Aptos up the Aptos creek to large body of
redwood, is finished. The Chinese graders
| are gone, and wood and timber are coming
down the road.
| The area of Chinatown in Victoria, 3. c.,
is extending, and the expressed intention OF
| that race to make Victoria their great mer.
camille depot on the Pacific coast is becoming
more and mora apparent.
The Eureka New Leader of last Monday
says: 1t is estimated that the three printers
belonging to the Printers L MON who skipped
out of the town during the last few weeks
left ST. 800 worth of debts behind them.
The will of the late s. G. Farnham, OF
! Vallejo, has been offered for probate. 1t
leaves one-third of the estate to his widow
| and the other two-thirds to his children.
The only other provision of the will is the
annual payment of $500 to his sister. The
widow is appointed sole executrix without
| bonds