Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

San Diego has a curiosity in the shape
of lily within lily.
The dog poisoner is AT work in Fresno,
and $50 is offered for his detection.
1t is thought that communication with
San Diego by rail from San Bernardino will
be restored inside of sixty days
The Governors of Montana and Wyom-
ing are to take measures to prevent depre-
dations in the Yellowstone Park.
There is an apple tree in Captain Logan's
orchard in Cloverdale, with ripe apples on
one side and blossoms ON the other
The Los Gatos fruit-canning factory
cannot get sufficient white help to handle
their fruit, and were compelled to employ
twenty-five Chinaman.
The recent earthquake at Lower Lake
opened a spring of water in Philip Rossi's
garden, two miles from town where no sign
OF water had previously existed.
The horse disease called the farcy is on
the increase in the vicinity of Los Angeles.
Many owners installing the disease for
CHAMBERS, foolishly shoot their animals.
The Los Angeles Times says a storm of
crickets has flowed into the town from
| somewhere. They are upstairs, down
stairs, and all over where they are not
wanted.
Los Gatos opened a ten-cent doughnut
and coffee business at the reading-room.
| 1t proved a failure. The weekly sales were
sometimes less than twenty-five cents, says
the Nail
L. L. Frost killed mammoth rattlesnake
last Thursday. just above Susanville, Las
sen county. Its length was seven and
half feet. and circumference at the middle
of its body, ten inches.
Three young men fishing in Monterey
Bay, last Sunday, were badly scared by a |
large whale, which kept coming to the sur
face unpleasantly near their boat, and fol- |
lowed them closely almost back to shore.
Tom German, whose ranch is few miles |
north of Chico, has young calf, perfectly !
formed i'll all respects, except that it has |
only one foreleg. The animal is well and |
frisky, and is made pet of by the chill |
dren.
Adam Crawford, of Sebastopol, who ar
rived in Petaluma few weeks ago and |
leased of John McNear a lot in East Peta-
luna, for the purpose of erecting thereon a |
fruit drying establishment, has completed |
the same, and started the machinery last |
Monday morning
On the 18th of the present month High |
Mass will be celebrated in the new reno
waited ruin of the San Carmelo Mission
near Monterey, i'll commemoratiOn of the
hundredth anniversary of the death of |
Padre Junipero Sierra, the founder of nine
missions within this State.
The California and Nevada Narrow Gauge
Railroad has let the contract for grading 80 |
miles TO Captain Smith, one of its stock
holders, and this work will be commenced
at once. 1t has ordered two locomotives
from the East This road commences at
Berkeley, and is to run to the State line.
4 letter from Saltwater, Montana, saws
that about sixty Crow Indians have crossed
the Yellowstone, going north Their |
avowed purpose is to kill Piegans and steal
horses from them. They claim to have
killed four Piegans last week. 1t is known.
however, that they will steal horses from
the whites, or anything they can get away
with.
The handsome residence of Captain r. r.
Thompson, on High street and Central ave
nue., Alameda, was burned down Monday
afternoon. The Captain estimates his loss
at about 100000. The furniture lost was
OF the most expensive character, as were
also the paintings and imported carpets
and tapestry. The house had been built
about three years.
The ladies of the Women's Christian
Union of Santa'Rosa will have
a baby show at the county fair. The prize
babies will be paraded around the track i'll
as fine turnout as can be obtained. The |
prizes will be worth competing for Chill
dren must be under Is months Old. 1t is |
that the intelligence as well as
the beauty of the child will govern in
awarding the prizes.