Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

San Diego is agitating the establishment
OF steel smelling works.
A case of supposed hydrophobia has
occurred at Puyallup, w. I.
Five young foxes were captured last
week near the cemetery at Fresno.
A shower of sulphur is said to have lately
fallen in the Sweet Home Valley, Or.
A young girl named Baca, an heiress,
was drowned Monday at Socorro, N. NJ.
Marengo, w. T., was visited by a water
spout the 18th instant, doing slight dam.
age.
The plasterers of Stockton have struck
for an increase of wages from s. to So so a
day.
1t is represented that several frauds in
the guise of nuns are working Montana
towns.
Albany, Or, proposes to build a Sc. goo
dollhouse, besides purchasing the num-
Der of lots required.
California capitalists have purchased
thirty-six sections of railroad land north
west of Sprague, W. T.
Another new town has sprung into ex.
istence in Columbia county, Oregon, at
the foot of Deer Island.
Four of the horse stealing Montana In
dams, captured by the mounted police, have
been sent to the Penitentiary.
Five monster surgeons, which had
drifted on the beach near South Vallejo,
had TO be buried last week by Deputy
Marshal
Crockett, Kinkead and Bachelor, ex.
officers of the 6efuuct Reno Savings Bank,
have been acquitted of the charge of en-
bezzlement.
On some of the almond trees near Los
Gatos there are plenty of crawling pests to
be seen by powerful glass. The eggs are
round and red.
At city election at Seattle, W. T.,
Saturday, the Taxpayers voted to erect
another public school building capable of
seating 500 children.
The Territorial, county road and school
taxes at Seattle, W. T., will aggregate six
teen mills on the dollar this year, against
twenty mills last year.
membership of the Congregational Church
in Woodland Sunday, fourteen by profess
sion of faith and eight by letter.
About dozen houses will be built in
Fossil, Or, this summer. About 200, eco
feet of lumber have been subscribed for, if
a mill will be built on Butte creek.
The British Columbia Government will
soon send out party of explorers to ex-
anime Queen Charlotte's Island, with a
view TO establishing colony of Europeans
there.
The hop crop Of Western Washington
Territory promises to be enormous this
year. The season is very forward, and
picking will commence three weeks earlier
than usual.
Though the Supervisors Of Tehama
county have compromised the railroad tax
suits, Controller Dunn has ordered suits to
be commenced for the recovery of the rail
road taxes for 1882.
A candle carelessly handled by an Indian
child near Lunipg, New, last week, set fire
to wickiup and the youngsters mother
was severely burned in attempting to ex-
tinguish the flames.
There were twenty. one full-rigged ships
at Seattle, W. T., waiting for cargoes of
coal, some having waited forty days.
They will all be dispatched before any OF
the Improvement Company's steamers.
Chico lately had case Of suspended ami.
nation. Glass held to the lips of the sup
posed dead gave evidence, in moisture, of
the presence of life, and the work Of re-
suscitation was successfully accomplished.
Seattle, w. T., capitalists have pur-
chased valuable real estate near Yakima
City, under the Desert Land Act. a canal
from the Yakima river, at point twelve
miles from Yakima City, is being dug for
purposes of irrigation.
A Woodland attorney, who says that as
business is dull, and the condition of fund
appropriated for clothing is very low,
desires to s<cure secondhand linen
buster cheap. Must be in good repair and
have the usual number of pockets.
Fernando Chaffey, of Garden Grove, says
the Los Angeles Herald. is worth over
$40, 600, yet he curiously imagines that he
and his family are going to stsrve, and he
will not touch bite at the table until his
family have first eaten. His brother and
son have taken him East in the hope that
change of scene may restore his mind to
its enuilihrium.