Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

San Bernardlno has voted not 10 inCorpo-
rate.
The Santa Ana river has been cutting the
banks and washing away considerable land.
The honey crop of southern California
promises TO be excellent in quality and
quantity.
Seven California lions We're killed in the
vicinity of Mosquito, El Dorado county.
last winter
Shad caught in the Sacramento, near Co
lusa, are now in the market at MarySyille.
Price, two bits pound.
The Anaheim Water Company has Sc
cured loan of 100000 for the purpose of
making a 1000, 600 gallon reservoir.
L. J. Gilliland gave himself up to the
officers i'll Butte county Wednesday, stating
that he was IN escaped convict from Texas.
The new water rates established by the
Oakland Council are said 10 be thirteen per
cent lower to the rate-payerS than the old
ones.
\. NJ. Tappan, formerly Sheriff of Spokan
county, W. r., committed suicide Tuesday
night by taking laudanum. No cause is
assigned.
Wednesday morning John Mcneil. who
resides ON East Fourteenth street, between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fiith avenue.
East Oakland, was killed by mad bull
O. A. Harrison charged with battery in
taking improper liberties with a little girl
at West Oakland, has been sentenced TO six
months Imprisonment without the alterna-
tive fine.
Judge Smith, AT Los Angeles, has SEN
fenced Thomas Figuero, convicted of mur-
der in the second degree 10 twentV-one
years in San Quentin. Patrocino Sepul-
veda, for similar crime, was sentenced 10
fifteen years.
-Four hundred bales of iute were lately
received at the factory at San Quentin,
which is now in effective operation. The
controversy between Fish, Blum IL Girvin
and the Board of Prison Directors has been
satisfactorily adjusted, and everything is
now running smoothly.
Colonel A. f. Williams died Wednesday
afternoon at his residence on Telegraph
avenue, North Oakland, after a long i'll
ness. He was Il years of age and a native
of Massachusetts. He was one of the old
residents of Oakland, and had been promi-
nent in politics ON the Republican side
Newton w Downs. an inmate of the
Union County (Or.) PoorhouSe, committed
suicide ON Monday by drowning himself
in Catherine creek He was a native Of
New Haven, Conn. and had two discharges
for separate enliStmentS in the Forty-third
Regiment, New York Volunteers, during
the rebellion.
The Yuba county triplets were in Marys-
vile Wednesday in charge Of their father,
Miles Wellman. The two boys and the
daughter were five wears old last December,
and are growing and developing very favor
ably. Mr. and Mrs Welman. with their
seven children, reside in Rose Bar town
snip, where they have Il comfortable home
stead.
The bedstead i'll Majors cell al Oakland,
from which he secured that slat To fight his
way to liberty, has been removed, and he
is obliged to content himself with pallet
upon the floor He still retains his reli-
giouS professions, but he is not permitted
to read his Bible, owing to the fact that he
has been deprived of his spectacles for fear
that he would break the lenses and swal-
low them in an attempt to commit suicide
Rev. DR.. Akerly daily visits him.