Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-23
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tramps are keeping the law officers at
Truckee busy.
Riverside has 10000 lemon trees and
100000 orange trees.
\ beautiful piece of coral was tished up
at Santa Barbara the other day.
The fare from Portland to San Francisco
via Oregon and California Railroad is So.
Butte complains OF the unequal division
in the county of the Supervisorial dis
tricts.
A steam Touring mill, with capacity Of
100 barrels day, is to be built at Helena,
NJ. T.
The annual Fiesta de San Luis Rey
will take place at Pala, san Diego county,
on the 18th.
The manager of the principal hall at Vic
toria, 3. c., has declined TO allow IngerS0ll
10 lecture in it.
The disputed boundary lines of Washoe,
Lyon and Douglas counties, New, are to be
decided in the Courts.
The Golden Gate Fair will begin at Oak
land on Monday, September LIST, and CON
tinue during the week.
The Virginia and Truckec Railroad shops
are very dull, and about one-tOurth of the
iol0t SlIplON ca III pu9y tiiIlCS ID Ho" ~
work.
Fifteen telegraph poles were shattered
by lightning between Gaviota and LOmpoc,
Santa Barbara, during a thunderstorm last
week.
The new peat beds uncovered near
Compton, III Los Angeles, are proving of
value to the owners. The peat is preferred
to coal.
Eastern capitalists have purchased 1900
acres of the Temecula ranch, San Diego
county, and are subdividing ii into small
tracts and laying Off Il town.
The splitting of tree rear Redding,
Shasta county, by lightning the other day,
disclosed in the hollow trunk a skeleton.
Three bullet holes were found in the skull.
\ large amount of freight has accumu-
lated in the Eel river valley, waiting for the
completion of the railroad to Springyillc.
About one mile of the road remains to be
finished
The elevation Of Wood river towns above
the sea level is as follows: Ketchum, 500
feet; Bellevue, 5000 feet; Galcna, 5000
feet Sawtooth City, 1000 feet, and Vienna,
1900 feet.
Madame Zoe, who keeps Il notorious
place on Fourth street in Oakland, horse
whipped a song-and-dmce man named
Rivers on Wednesday for maigning her
character.
P. Flanagan. of Vallejo, has obtained
judgment for $1,000 against the Central
Pacific Railroad Company for the killing of
his son by the ears ut South Vallejo, some
months ago.
The Reese River RercWc says that there
is a deposit of $4,000 i'll Patton & Coz
bank, Eureka, New, all or any part of
which Will he bet that Blaine carries New
York. John Tore has the handling of it.
The Salt Lake Tribune says Utah has
three mines that are yielding more ore and
making less fuss about it than any other
three mines in the Union, One of them
has never levied an assessment, and has
paid about 100000 in dividends.
A fisherman at Santa Barbara the other
day hooked Il fish weighing about two
pounds, and in drawing the same to the
boat it was swallowed by a large rocll-cod
weighing twenty to twenty pounds, and
he succeeded in landing both safely in the
boat
At Silver City, Nevada, 4 wild bronco was
brought to biacksmith's shop to be shod,
and was SO unruly that its feet We're tied to
keep it from kicking. During the process
of shooting the animal struggled so vigor-
ously that she dislocated her fetlock Joint,
thereby necessitating her killing.
DR.. f. p. Wood, Commandment OF the
Veterans Home, has resigned because the
rules take the power of punishment out of
his hands, and he is, therefore unable to
enforce discipline. Dir. L. p Lovett, OF
Oakland, has been elected Commandmt
and Medical Director in the place OF Dr.
Wood.
Farmers near Fort Smell. Arizona, conf
plain that many Of their cattle are killed
through careless target practice by the sol
dicrs. One man has lost eight cows in this
manner, and had to give up his dairy bust
ness in consequence. The target at this
post has no bulwark behind it to receive
the bullets.
At Santa Cruz many ladies 90 to the
beach daily at o'clock, letting no vicissi-
tude OF wind, weather or fog keep them
from their regular plunge and halfhours
swimming. Then Il vigorous walk home,
eschewing street-car ami omnibus, bring
fine reaction - the system 4 glow 10 the
checks and vigorous appetite.
Some malicious person did good deal of
mischief last week by putting numerous
pieces of old iron III some grain stacks in
Fresno county. Much damage was done to
the thrashing machine, and all the grain
in the stacks must be worked over with
landlords to get the scraps of iron out. \
reward of $3.50 is offered for the detection
of the guilty parties.
The assessment roll of Alameda county
has been completed. Total value of all
in the county, 50, 220 57.j. \ COM
parison Of the statement with that of last
year shows that the increase on the assess
mcnt of real estate is $685. 1913; on i'm
proyements, $l,086, 440, and on personal
property, SIG, $50. There is S10,5SS less
money assessed this year than last The
total increase for the year is 1903, 1855