Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
San Benardino hasyoted not to incorpo-

San Bernardino voted not to 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 were killed in the
vicinity of Mosquito, Fl Dorado county
last winter.
Shad caught in the Sacramento, near Co
luSl, are now in the market ut Marysyillc
Price, two bits pound
The Anaheim Water Company has Sc
cured Il loan of 100000 for the purpose of
making 100000 gallon reservoir,
l.. J. Gilliland gave himself up to the
officers in Butte county "Wednesday, stating
that he was an escaped convict from reXas
The new water rates established by the
Oakland Council are said to be thirteen per
cent, lower to the rate-payerS than the old
ones.
n NJ Tappan, formerly Sheriff of Spokan
county, W. T., 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-ffth avenue.
East Oakland, was killed by mad bull.
o. A. Harrison, charged with battery in
taking improper liberties with little girl
at West Oakland, has been sentenced To six
months Imprisonment without the alterna-
tive fine.
Judge Smith, ut Los Angeles, has sen
fenced Thomas Figuero, convicted of muir
der III the second degree, To twenty-onc
years in San Quentin. Patrocino Sepul-
yeda for similar crime, was sentenced to
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 4 Girvin
and the Board of Prison Directors has been
satisfactorily adjusted. and everything is
now running smoothly.
Colonel \. 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 III politics ON the Republican side.
Newton w. Downs, an inmate of the
Union County or Poorhouse committed
SUICIDE ON MOnNdN by drowning nllnSeii
in Catherine creek. He was 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 riplets were in MaryS-
vile Wednesday in charge of their father,
Miles Welman. The two boys and the
daughter were five years old last December
and are growing and developing very favor
ably. Mr.. and Mrs. Wellman. 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 Stat to fight his
way To liberty, has been removed, and ne
is obliged to content himself with pallet
upon the floor. He still retains his rei-
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.