Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

mated at 20, 900.
Malignant diphtheria has appeared in
Upper Santa Ana.
The Supreme Court meets at Los An.
geles next Tuesday, the 18th.
The sum of Sis has been raised at
Walla Walla toward monument to Vic
Trevitt.
1t is estimated that 800 600 sheep have
been sold out of Los Angeles county the
pact year.
The San Fernando petroleum wells con-
tinue TO improve in yield and in the quality
of the oil.
The frat train pulled into Kiugman, A.
T., last week, and the people of tnat place
are happy.
Thomas F. Fuller, formerly of Califor.
MIA, has been appointed Adjutant. General
of Montana.
There is said to be great quantity of
water in the Santa Ana river, more than
for years before.
The Barker, NJ. T., district has had a
candle famine, and mines were shut down
for want of light.
The Lassen Adcocate urges organized war
upon the crickets, which are plentiful in
that section of the State.
The first house in Bozeman, NJ. T., was
built about twenty years ago by Steve
| Howes and James Simpson.
A pelican, measuring eight feet and five
inches from tip to tip, was killed near old
San Bernardino last week.
Ghostly music heard in North San Juan
has been traced to the wanton wind which
played with the telegraph wires.
All the Chinese laborers on Peter Dona.
hue's road have been discharged and white
laborors employed in their stead.
It is reported that several owners of
orange orchards at Pomona have refused
81, 900 an acre for their property.
Seals have made their appearance at
Santa Monica. They usually do not reach
that part of the coast before the LIST of
May.
Ellis Powell was stopped by two footpads
in Los Angeles the other night. Mr. Pow
ell knocked one of them in the gutter and
the other fed.
A ball given at Nevada City last week
for the benefit of the Conway family
eight orphans, whose parents died of small
pox recently-netted $780,
The First National Bank of Lewiston.
|. T., is to erect a two-story brick This
will make the first national bank and the
! first two-story brick in northern Idaho
Twenty.four deaths and twenty-one
births in Los Angeles for the month of
| March. The number of arrests was ll3-
three of which were for assault to murder,
The tie.making industry in the San Fran.
cisco mountains, A. T., employs a great
number of men. The ties are hewed, as
it does not cost as much to hew them as to
saw them.
Flagstaff, in the San Francisco mount
aims, A. T., is growing town. They have
water works, which bring the water from
a spring eleven miles away, on Flagstaff
peak, and the railroad is supplied from thi,
source.
The pinkeye is in Yolo county, many
valuable horses having persisted from the
disease. The citizens are petitioning the
Board of Supervisors to take measures for
preventing its spread.
Miss Ida Wilde is night train dispatcher
! at Hawthorne, New, and the number of
young men who want to travel by the night
train, and the number Of questions they ask
the train dispatcher are remarkable.
The troops sent ont from Fort Assina-
boine, M. T., after the marauding Crees.
who raided the Marias, have returned. hav-
ing been driven in by fierce storm. Moth
ing was seen of the raiding redskins
John Duffy, laborer at Stockton. was
bitten on the ear by centipede last Tues.
day. He did nothing for the bite and his
face swelled rapidly and to an alarming
size. The man was. placed in the hospital
and it is thought he will recover.
The borers Of an artes.an well on Fred
Perris' place, at a depth of $50 feet.
have entered tree that lies perpendicu-
larry. Great pieces of the wood, which
appears to be sycamore, are brought up in
the pises.-[ San Bernardino Index.
A 'sure enough ghost" at the Charonnst
mine, Nevada county, was gasped by a
miner the other night, but it immediately
vanished and left in each hand of the mi
ner "a large lock of long white hair" A
millman carries shotgun and proposes to
investigate the mystery.
The Anaheim Gazette saws Misfortune
came to the second egg manufactured bv
the ostriches. It was dropped in the night
time and in the morning it was found
broken, having been trampled on by the
birds. As each egg is valued at 500. the
loss is far from being a bagatelle.
The Reno New Gazette says The Pi.
utes about Reno seem to be well posted
about Indian affairs in Arizona. Thew know
when tight has taken place and how
many have been killed and as to the char
acter of the country the hostiles are ma
rauding. they know more about it than the
average school boy.
VIM. Holt, Secretary of the Plasterers'
Union of Portland, telegraphs denial of
the statement that one hundred plasterers
could get employment there within twenty.
four hours after arrival Mr.. Holt states
that there are number of unemployed
plasterers In Portland, and that the spring
work is about completed.
Last Thursday morning while the ANAL
gamator at the Pioneer mill at Hawkey's
Station, says the Calico Print, was taking
nap and waiting for quantity of ANAL
gam to pass through the process of retort-
ing, man opened the retort, took the
bullion while it was yet hot and carried it
oh w VIC ItNeT Cudunel auu buried IL IN Lne
sand.
Mrs R. E. Hewitt, of Santa Ana, pur.
chased from travelling peddler a powder,
which purported to be specific against
the explosion of coal-oil lamps, when placed
in the OIL Having no use for the powder,
she threw il into the stove. Instantly
stream of fire shot up into the lady's face,
burning her very severely, though not
dangerously.
The Superintendent of the State Insane
Asylum at Stockton, reports that there are
l.l59 patients in the institution, and the
Treasurer reports 81, OH 81 cash on hand.
Bills amounting to Sl4 63S "a were au-
dited. Percy & Hamilton, architects of
San Francisco, have been ordered to pre-.
pare plans and specifications for new
asylum building costing $3.50, 900.
The Nevada City Board of Education re.
Gently made an order that no pupil should