Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tulare county is in want of school teschers
Bakersfield has every house filed, and
cries for more.
Sonoma County Jail holds over twenty
Chinese gamblers.
The Crow Indians are estimated to be worth
81 500 each in land
The survey of the Tongue river, in MoE-
tana, has been completed.
The shipments of bullion from Salt Lake
for the week were 81 carloads.
California dried figs retail for twenty-five
cents dozen in Virginia, New.
Santa Ana boasts of sweet potato weigh.
ing fifteen pounds and two ounces.
On the beach at Santa Barbara fresh water
has been found at depth of 120 feet.
Diphtheria ia reported to be raging near
Centerville, Lewis county, W. T., with great
violence.
A panther and her cubs are supposed to
have den in an old mining tunnel at the
Ciemmer ranch. Yuba county.
The Los Angeles Herald claims chat the
population of that county before the next
census will exceed that of Nevada.
The Ceur dAlene mountains, the scene of
he latest placer mining excitement. are about
200 miles north of Butte City, NJ. I.
A windmill forty feet high and the wheel
With diameter OF twenty-five feet is being
built near Tulsre for irrigation purposes.
Walter Collins has sued the city of Seattle
for SIS 900 damages for injuries sustained by
falling down an embsukment into street.
The total disengaged tonnage at Portland
port is 167 600 tons. The total engaged ton
mage is rs, 079, and tonnage to arrive, Al, 769.
The removal of the Oregon insane from
East Portland to the new asylum at Salem is
in progress. The patients number 100, about
equally divided az to Eek.
The San Pedro Shipping Gazette is the
name of four-colump. eight-page paper re-
Gently started at Ssn Pedro, Cal, of which
Captain J. f. James is publisher.
A Los Gasos woman, the wife of a saloon
keeper, is reported to have fred four shots az
herself with pistol Friday evening. STE
preferred death to becoming mother.
The estate of Gabriel Sylvera, who was
! killed in rowder explosion at the Safety
Powder Company's Works in Contra Costa
county lest January, has sued the company
for $4,000.
The LIS Angeles and San Gabriel Railroad
has secured the right of way for nearly the
whole distance of the projected line-some 2S
miles, Active operations will probably be
commenced in about six weeks.
Mr'. Elizabeth Hooton. of Healdsburg,
sevebty-two years of age is noticed by the
Ukish Dispatch Democrat for having woven
800 yards of carpet since last January, besides
long all her household work.
TIE Central Pacific Railroad has begun
suit against the defuuct Reno Savings Bank
for So, 1877, and Washos county for 50 OO0
and interest for three years. Plaintiffs ex.
pect to recover from the stockholders of the
bank.
The court-martial for the trial of Colonel
| A. P. Morrow is in progress st Tucson.
! Several army officers testified thst they had
seen ths defendant drunk. It is expected
! that when the defendant testiGes he will tell
about how many of the witnesses he has seen
drunk.
Judge Desdy has allowed an appeal to the
| Supreme Court In the Injunction case of
Hatch vs. The Willamette Bridge Company,
Of Portland This is the Morrison. street
bridge, the plans of which will likely be mod.
fled so as to make the draw $50 feet instead
of 200 feet, as at present.
The first number of an agricultural monthly
paper, called the Farmers Gazette, has Just
been issued at Portland. Or, with w. G.
Evants editor, Watson, Meagter & Co., pub
fishers and proprietors. Il is sixtesn-page
paper, TO Do puOll5neu ulOutblyt anu InS H.
initial number gives excellent promise of sue
cess, and in field where there is ample room
for the new enterprise.
Coal has been discovered the other eide of
the mour tAins, about thirty miles to the east
Of this place. and locations have been made
by Mes RS. Kimball, Rowan aud Lynch. The
specimens brought here present good sp-
pearance. and burn rapidly. There are i7di-
cations of good deposit. the tunnel running
into the mountain showing q four foot vein.
-LSants Ana Herald.
Paul Shirley, the new Warden of the State
Prison. has made the following appointments:
Captain of the Guard, Edward Re5dy; Cap
tain of the Yard, A. G. McAllister; Turn
key, Charles Aull; Captain of the Front
Gate, B. F. Vsrney; Captain of the Lower
Gate, Walter Ferral Assistant Commissary,
E. r. Syme. The appointment of John Fo-
ley as Commissary has been settled upon, but
not yet announced. The Prison Directors
Monday csnvassed the financial situation. At
the close Of the current month the appropri-
alton will be exhausted. aad ways and means
will have TO be devised to carry on the prison.
The bag factory is without supply Of mate
rial at present. All the appointees, except
ing Reddy and Foley. occupied similar posi-
tions under Governor Irwin's administration.