Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-23
PACIFIC coAs- ITEMS.

Butte county has S95, S74 IS IN the
treasury.
Orland, Coluss county, would like to
have baby show.
Eleven counties in Oregon are without
railroad communication.
A good many riparian suits are now be-
fore the Superior Court of Tulare county.
Seven steamers are plying between Port
land and coast waters north and south OF
the Columbia river.
The blind staggers is prevalent among
the horses in the eastern psrt OF Linn and
Marion counties, Or.
Wadsworth, New, has a ghost that
swings a blue lantern and gives all the sig
nails known to railroad men.
A move is being made to thwart the
efforts of the Board of Supervisors of Butte
county to suppress gambling.
The report that Ex-Governor Stanford's
levee near Vina had broken turns oat to
have been without foundation.
Notwithstanding deep SHOWS and cold
weather east of the Cascades, Or, sheep
are reported doing exceedingly well.
A Justice of the Peace and Constable
have been appointed by the Supervisors of
San Bernardino county, to reside at Dag
gett.
The young ladies of Marysville have
raised a purse of Sl27 with which to pur
chase banner for the Native Sons of the
Golden West.
Reliable authority at Seattle says that
the steamships City of Chester and Idaho
will be put on exclusively in the San Fran.
cisco and Victoria trade.
The stampede to the Ceur Alene mines
is beginning in earnest. Many have gone
already, and Salt Lake is full of men wait
ing for the weather to settle.
A Mrs. johnson, on Powder river, Walla
Walla county, w. t., and her two chill
dren, son and daughter, were all three
married on the same evening recently.
A straw-stack was blown down Thurs
day night on H. W. Meek's land, in Ala
media, and AZ Southdowns, II being lambs,
were buried under the straw and taken out
dead.
Two spirited horses, belonging to Mr..
Crowder, near Nord, with seeder hitched
to them, ran into creek and were drowned
February 10Th. The horses were valued
at $3.50.
1t is said that the firemen of the State
members of the State Firemen's Associa-
tion-are considering the advisability of
holding tournament next May, probably
at Jacksonville.
a new State bank has just been organ
IL at Redding in this State, to be known
as the Bank of Shasta County, with cap
ital of 100000 This is the first bank
started at that point
A man named Kent, who lives at Orc
Grande, has constructed and put into OPP.
GRAFTON steam ferry.boat on the Mojave
river. 1t is the first steamer that ever ran
on San Bernsrdino river.
George Piper, of Portland, Or, rode
home in an open buggy after having taken
exercise in skating en- Gould's lake, was
taken with congestive chill which ran
into pneumonia, and he died Monday.
Citizens of Echo, Or, pledged subscrip.
tions toward the erection of City Hall
The frame work was almost completed
when it was demolished by wind storm,
and suit is now brought to compel the
citizens to meet their obligations.
The First Congregational Church at
Portland, Or, is wrangling over its minis.
ter, DIR. Frederick R. Marvin, who has
sent in his resignation. 1t is thought the
majority of his congregation will not &C.
cept it and split in the church will fol.
low.
A. W. Luce, of Lincoln, was tried in the
Superior Court of Placer county February
l9sh before a jury and found "not guilty"
He was tried on charge OF burglary COM
mitted in November last. He is the first
person acquitted in that Court for more
than one year past.
The steam schooner Charles G. White
was washed ashore at Bridgeport, Mendo-
elmo, Friday night, carried over the reef
and driven up on the sand beach to such a
| distance that the crew walked ashore with
dry feet The schooner is not damaged be-
yond the loss of her rudder.
II. T. Hubbard, working at the oil wells
at Petrolia, Los Angeles. robbed two Of
bis fellow workmen of Sl60 last Tuesday.
He borrowed their pistols and then pre-
sented the muzzles to both of them, ask.
ing them to pay over the wages they had
just received, which they did.
The Eureka and Elk River Railroad
Company has force of 500 white men and
300 Cinnamon at work on the road at the
present time. In the tunnel now being
pierced trunks of large trees have been
found in good state of preservation 800
to 400 feet below the surface. The tunnel
is now in Lose feet.
There are now growing upon the ranch
of General Bidwell, near Chico, l, $50
peach trees, 5,465 plum, 1000 apple, 600
apricot, LBS pear, l,675 cherry, l 500
almond, go ounce, 80 fig, $4,000 grape
vines, and eight acres in blackberries. The
above are in bearing condition, and are
exclusive of the thousands of trees planted
within the past two years.