Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Santa Barbara wants chain-gang.
Cas- is g 50 ner / -NOl feet in Los Anrn

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Santa Barbara wants a chain-sang.
Gas is 50 50 per 900 feet in Los Angeles
Yreka voted down the tax for high
school.
Ventura has 4 cucumber feet 81 inches
in length.
The Stockton county Jail has been con-
demncd by the Board of Health.
The hop crop in Los Alamos valley,
Santa Barbara county, is splendid.
\ flower from the true Egyptian lotus
has been developed at Los Angeles.
The San joaquin Valley Coursing Club
was organized at Stockton Saturday.
A thrashing crew on a ranch near Fresno
filled 1 1913 sacks Of grain the other day.
The Temescal, San Bernardino county.
tin mine is again in the hands of lawyers.
Tismo beach, in San Luis Obispo county,
is TO be made a summer resort for bathers
Work on the Dickinson ferry across the
San Joaquin in MERGED is being pushed TO
completion.
Twenty per cent. of the grain crop
in the vicinity of Silver Creek, New, has
been destroyed by squirrels.
a fire DESTROYED twenty-five buildings at
Missoula or. IT, Wednesday, causing to-
tai loss Of 100000; insurance, $4,000.
The Colorado and Utah lines of the Den
yer and Rio Grandc are once more virtual
" consolidated, with headquarters of two
lines in Denver.
Another cave has been discovered in the
Neptune mine IN White Pine county,
New, hanging from the roof of which are
stalactites fifteen inches in length.
The officers of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company have accepted a re-
duction of wages. Some of the deck hands
refused to accept less wages and quit.
The circus while at Napa gave free adj
mission to the Insane Asylum patients
One hundred and twenty-five attended, and
were greatly pleased with the performance.
There is an epidemic among the fish III
the San Joaquin river and the sloughs in
the vicinity of that stream. 1t is said that
even goldfish in glass globes have died
from it.
Walla Walla, w T., can boast of two
Cinnamon who are entitled to vote, Shoe
Fly and Andrew Johnson. Both were
horn in that city, and are consequently ma
tive born citizens.
There are very few red fish in Wallowa
Lake, Eastern Oregon, this season. Since
tie appearance of few there the trout have
ceased to bite, and absolutely refuse to be
caught by the most skillful.
The Supervisors of San Joaquin county
have consolidated the offices of Treasurer
AMI Tax Collector and of Recorder and
Auditor. under the provisions of the new
County Government bill
The last of the Carson river wood drive
has been taken ont Of the river. The 5000
cords contained in the drive seems small
rs compared with bonanza times when as
high as 5000 cords were contained in a
single drive.
The Bodic Free Press saws: The Pinto
mahalas continue to bring in valuable
wads Of gold dus; almost every day. They
have the advantage of the white rustlerS.
as they are allowed to pick around the old
waste dumps.
Game Of all kinds. excepting bears, seem
to be on the increase in the Santa Cruz
mountains. saws the Los GatOs UaH Deer
are bcirg killed in considerable numbers.
Ed. Schultheis. living near the summit,
has killed II this season.
At the Martinez school house on Thurs
dav. the girls started 10 burn the grass for
the improvement of their croquet grounds.
troll but the girls worked like heroes, and
the boys made q fine record as firemen.
\ man at Santa Maria has 20 acres of
squash and pumpkins over which man
could travel the entire length and breadth
without once stepping on the ground. A
large squash was measured and showed to
be six feet eight inches in circumference.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S messengers believe
| express car No , ON the Central Pacific
haunted, and the Ogden Pilot says \. Y.
| Ross. whose defense of the express car
when attacked by robbers is well known
cave UP his Job on the road because of COB
| Inns in the car.
Z. W. Garfield. who lives three miles
| north of Napa, found in a creek near his
place a gigantic water beetle between two
| and threcinches long, with four strong legs
by which it propels itself. When found
! the insect had seized a small fish, with the
| evident purpose of eating it.
| The Board of Supervisors of Butte county
| have authorized the local horticultural
society to use the name of the county for
the purpose of making an exhibition Of its
products at the State Fair and at the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans, and
appropriated 800 for such exhibition.
4 sheep herIer named George Stevens
was killed by a grizzly bear near Cowhills,
Utah. the other night He had left camp
to bring in the sheep, and as he did not re-
turn search was made and his body found
badly manglcd. The bear had taken his
head in his laws and crushed in his skull.
Four chambers of his revolver had been
| emptied
A horse belonging to the Knott ranch,
Bolinas. Marin county, while loaded with
six and threc-quartcr can of powder,
900 caps and thirty pounds of lead, ran
away from the ranch, and the shaking up
of these combustibles exploded powder
and caps. knocking down the mare and
burning her in several places severely. 1t
| is thought, however, the mare is not very
| badly injured.
The largest timber tract III Arizona is the
forest extending southwest from the San
Francisco Mountains 1t contains 1900
square miles of merchantablc timber. The
pine is the important tree, and anumber
| of sawmills are at work. About 3S.OO0,-
600 feet OF lumber We're made in 1883, and
il is estimated that the forest contains
| 1913, 800 600 feet yet untouched. Some Of
the pines are 200 feet high.
The other day stout lady of uncertain
are alighted from the eaSt-bOund train the
moment it stopped at Winnemucca, and
prOmenadcd the PLATFORM ike Il IllIlud
colonel on parade. She was attired in q
flaming red dress, and wore 4 high hat of
indescribable shape, which looked like a
miniature flower garden. The lady, or
rather thebright color of her dress, attract
ed the attention of the Piutes, who lOiter
around the depot at train time, and they
thought she was the wife of the Great
Father at Washington.
Two girls of is and II years, respectively,
left Monticello in a light spring wagon to
see the circus at Napa. Before reaching
the divide" the seat of the vehicle be
came loose, throwing both girls to the
ground The shoulder of one was dislo-
Gated and the right wrist of the other frac-
tured. The plucky girls, not to be denied
the fun of going to the circus, gathered
themselves together, righted the seat,
climbed back into the wagon and proceeded
on their way, each holding line in her
uninjured hand. After having thei ones
set and cared for they went to the circus.