Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMs.

Chico is TO have a new steam fire.engine.
Lake county longs for railroad to tide
water.
San Bernardinos new theater is almost
completed.
Ducks are said to be as destructive to
grain as geese this season.
| Kittitass valley, w. T., has sent 8. 600
head of cattle to market the past year.
| Preparations are icing made for citrus
fair to be held in few weeks at Santa Ana,
The Government work at Cascade locks
| in Oregon furnishes employment to ITS
hands.
A larger acreage Of grainsis being placed
in the Kittitass valley, w. t., than ever
before.
William Galena Barry is the name given
to the first child born in the town of Ga
lena, Wood river.
Hogs have died in Goose Lake valley,
cattle thas have died from blsckleg.
Parts of Colu:a county have not had SO
much as four inches of rain. Farmers In
the great open valley arc getting uneasy.
The Republican says Truckee has several
fine specimens OF the dsmboy, and is
anxious to have the youpg rowdies locked
up over nights.
Alonzo Sloan. a sheepherder on Baldwinis
ranch, was found dead near San Fernando
on Thursday. The verdict of the Coroner's
jury was suicide.
A proposition is to be submitted to the
SEATTLE, W. T., City Council, looking to
the laying Of cable line OF street railroad
to the top Of the hill on Columbia street.
Blackleg prevails among the cattle OF
klamath county, and many are dying with
it. Steers have fallen victims, causing
many people to refrain from eating beef.
Dairy cows are in demand at Petalnma,
and hard to get, at high prices. A lot of
nineteen head of very ordinary COWS were
sold at administrator sale few days since
at S45 each.
| A gentleman in Umatills county, Ore
gon, recently said that he was unable to
buy cattle to stock his ranch in Colorado
as cheaply in Oregon as he could in Iowa
| and Missouri.
A company Of Seattle, w. t, capital
ists have taken. up over 1900 acres of land
in the Moxes bottom, Yakima county, and
will soon commence the construction OF an
irrigating ditch, to cost SIS. 600.
At Pine Creek, Butte county, some un-
known person has been attempting the
assassination of young man named Camp.
hell. His house has been fired into, and
person supposed to be Campbell fred at.
A young man in Yankee Doodle Gulch,
NJ. T., dreamed the other night of falling
on spike nail. He jumped up very sud-
denly and struck his back against knot
in log in his cabin, severely iDiuring his
spine.
Charles Williams. who lives at Los An
geles, is the possessor OF a isnny which
proposes to make herself famous. She has
given birth to four colts, each of them
lively. The little fellows are about the
slzs Of a small dog.
| Four Flatheads recently stole forty head
of horses from near Rocky Point, NJ. i.
The next day one of the owners came upon
the thieves and opened fire, killing one Of
them, stampeding the other three and re.
covering all of the horses.
At Sand Point, /. T., Monday, the Lake
view House and two adjoining buildings
were destroyed by FIRE. The remains of
| M. Conway, q brakeman on the Clark's
Fork Division of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, were found in the ruins.
Saturday night the Los Angeles Electric
Light Company, having completed prepn-
rations, for the first time turned the lights
on all the seven masts in that city. Parties
| in the country could see to drive by the
electric light four miles distant from the.
town.
A number of residents of Jacksonville,
Or, have formed joint stock company
for the purpose of locating and working
some copper and iron mines in Josephine
county, and parties are now out making
the locations. Those who are posted say
they have struck bonanza.
On Wednesday afternoon many OF the
residents of Antioch and vicinity were
startled by rafting explosion, the echo
of which rolled along the foothills. There
has been no report of any accident to the
powder works. nor of any explosion else
where, so that the cause of the sound is a
mystery Ledger.