Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-23
WHOLE NO. 1O,5OS.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Government agents are now in Nevada
purchasing horses for cavalry service in
Arizona
Governor Tritle, of Arizona, is working
up north and south railroad through that
Territory.
Seattle Council is considering the subject
OF widening the principal business streets
of that city.
The proposition to tax church property
IN Washington Territory was carried by
1861 majority.
Seattle business men complain that the
enactment of the Sunday law there diverts
much trade from Them
Winter raSpberries equal TO those ripened
IN the summer season are selling in Los
Angeles at so cents per pound.
The first installment of material for the
i:on bridge to be built across the Sacra-
mento at Red B!utf, has arrived from Can
ton. O.
The contract for building the new theater
at Victoria, 3 c., 10 COS, Sl00,G30. has been
awarded To l. y. Biglo@, an American con-
tractor
Arte>ian wells are heinz sunk naar Ian
caster, on tSe Moiave desert. Tt.,linz has
been shipped to the Antelope vai.,y for the
new wells
The Alturas Pic1s5 reports deer plentiful
III The mountains between Goose Lake and
Surprise valley But it IS against the law
10 kill them now.
San Diego business men last week held
meeting and subscribed 10 loan to rebuild
n sash and blind mill which was recently
destroyed by an incendiary fire.
The Portland Standard saws HAT the Ord
nance Department of the United States
Army owes Oregon SloO7 80 This will
probably be paid in arms and ammunition
ior the militia.
i new railroad depot will shortly he
built at san Gabriel, Los Angeles county,
by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
which will be handsome and convenient,
and will cost from $4,000 to SIS 600.
The people of san Bernardino have conf
mcnced to turn the channel OF i4ytte creek
SO that i'll case of high water this winter it
would not overflow lis banks and run;
through town again rs it did last year
While boring an artesian well on the
RoSecrans track. near Los Angeles, the
workmen discovered a deposit of conch
shells At a depth of 100 feet. People are
wondering how the shells came there
At San Pedro, the Los Angeles port of
| entry. twelve years ago, when the Govern
ment commenced to improve the harber.
the greatest depth of water on the bar was
less than nine feet. Now il is over sixteen
! feet.
y special constable is employed in Vic
toria in the night time to watch the city
Jail and prevent people from going in by
climbing over the scafiol6ing. Nothing is
| said about preventing the prisoners on the
inside getting out.
The accounts of the United States Peni-
tentiary on McNeal's Island, Washington
Territory. are now being overhauled by an
agent OF the Government Ii is claimed by
some that there has been some crooked
work done in the institution
The white men whose boats were seized
on Pyramid Lake, Nevada. few months
ago by Lieutenant Huntington, have been
granted permission to sell them to the In
dians or take them away, provided they give
bonds in $500 each not TO trespass on the
reservation again.
The Indians of the Squakson and MIS-
qually reservations, Washington Territory,
are having sort of religious revival which
greatly resembles the Shaker methods-the
Indians shaking themselves into insensi-
bility in the course of two or three hours
and then telling wonderful tales of heaven.
Recently the proprietor of the Home
Restaurant purchased a blue fish at the
First-street Market, and upon opening It
the cook found a peachstone. This bit of
indigcstible food had evidently been in the
fish's stomach for some time, as il was
worn perfectly smooth.-ILos Angeles Ex-
press.
The Raiiray Age says the Arizona Min
eral Belt Railway has contracted for $500
tons of steel rails, and will commence con-
struction Immediately. This road is run
from Flagstaff, a. r., on the Atlantic and
Pacific, southwardly to Globe, through the
richest timber and mineral belt in the Ter
ritory.
An Immigrant from Kansas arrived in
Los Angeles last Thursday, having travelled
the entire distance with his family in q
two-horse wagon. He said he started with
500, and has brought the entire sum with
him, and has his team to start Il home with
near Santa Ana. He was four months on
the road.
The San Benardino Index describes
mammoth dam being constructed, convert
ing Bear valley into q reservoir at a cost of
over $50 900. Over !, 800 barrels of cement
have already been used. The reservoir will
cover about 1000 acres, and the water on
an average will be about twelve feet deep.
A continuous stream of about / 900 inches
of water will be drawn from it during the
| dTV season