Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Farmers in Oregon want a scalp bounty
law passed.
The Riverside city tax amounts to 80
cents on the 800.
Humboldt county, Nevada. has a total
indebtedness OF S90Sl0
The cold weather has killed off or ban
ished the Bodie hoodlums
Nenison sells by the carcass at two cents
per pound at Boise Citv, Idaho.
Thirty-two thousand dollars was realized
this year from 100 acres of orchard in Vaca
valley.
Work has been commenced on the new
iron bridge on the Humboldt river at
Elko, New.
The stage drivers between Solelad and
San Luis Obispo report two inches of snow
ON the San Antonio mountains.
Billy Dormer, Il Tombstone faro-dealer.
played thirty hours, lost $1,000, but never
said word. lie also kept cases.
4 large porcupiue was killed near Salt
Works, Shasta county, last week, after ii
had whipped all the dogs in that region
The Los Angeles City Council has de
ci3ed 20 construct boulevard 100 feet
wide on both sides of the Los Angeles
river.
The Arizona Courier mentions the sale of
Il crop OF potatoes NJ four cents pound, by
which Il farmer realized $1,000 for Ills sea-
sons work
The ponds Of the San Dieguito valley,
near the ocean, Sau Diego county. are re-
ported iUil of fine carp, washed down there
from the upper streams near san Pasqual
Tramps continue 10 make depredations
on the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Companys tracks in Oregon Last week
two unsuccessful! attempts were made 10
ditch trains near Wai sburg.
The Caaveras Citizen says that the
hunters of that region have littlc regard for
the game law. Deer are reported 10 be
plentiful, many having been driven from
the mountains by the cold weather.
The Sierra Valley Let}e, mentions deer
killed by ii. Miller III Round Hole, in
Sierra county, that dressed 80 pounds and
had eighteen pronY~ ON each horn. The
space between the horns was two feet and
eleven inches.
The Santa Barbara Independent has re-
ceived from Joseph Sexton, Goleta Nursery,
twelve varieties of japanese persimmons
One tree yielded 100 pounds of fruit, which
sells at 20 cents per pound Persimmon
trees are very profitable in Santa Barbara.
Contra Costa irgUs The Nevada Dock
Warehouses are stored TO their utmost
capacity, there being 5000 tons of grain in
storage there now, at 81 per ton. This
shows where some Of the profits on wheat
raising have gone this year that farmers
counted on.
New York capitalists have made an offer
through Governor Tritle of Arizona to the
Directors OF the Prescott and Thirty-fifth
Parallel Railroad to complete that road and
repay all the money hitherto spent upon
it. All they ask is the transfer Of the fran
chise to them.
A venerable Pennsylvania farmer, aged
50 years. arrived the other day in Los An
geles in search of a new home. His name
is Burlington, and he has farm in Erie
county. Pennsylvania, which he proposes
to SELL and, as he told Los Angeles Tx
press reporter, make fresh start in life"
The Tuscarora tNey.l Times SAYS that the
Indians at the Duck Valley Reservation
raised last season wheat enough 70 last
them two years. Quite q number of the
red men on the reservation are III good cir
cumstanceS, possessing considerable stock
and having ON hand goodly amounts of
grain.
Governor Bnun, of Idaho, has huge
pair Of elk horns measuring over four feet
III tffS NftttS Sfftt' ttttf foOtft the same III
hight. The Unycrnorwill have these mag
nitceni anticrs boxed and sent as present
to the lIih Club in New ! ork city. of
which assacialioA lie IS Il member The
horns were found on Big Camas prairie last
summer.
The Antioch Ledger mentions the fact
that there are fifteen vessels lying in the
stream opposite the Antioch wharves.
brought there for the action of fresh water
or their barnacles One ship dragged her
anchor during the norther on Sunday and
was landed at Biglow beach At high
tide, however, she was hoated to safer
moonngs.
The Butte Record says: A man was
found slowed away under the Big Chico
bridge last Thursday morning. He states
that he was sick, and had been under the
bridge for three days, being too weak to
walk or call for assistance from the people
passing. The unfortunate man was in
pitiful condition WHOM found, and was taken
6 the statief-h0Vse, where he is being
cared ior.
A. T. Fowler, OF Tulare, last week meas
ured the flow of q newly-bored arNsian !
well near Delano. He found that the ditc1>
which conducts the water from the well
contained stream of water six feet wide 1
and eight inches deep moving at the rate
of one foot per second. This gives four
cubic feet OF water per second, or just
enough, as they apportion water in Fresno,
TO irrfgate $40 acres Of land