Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Visalia calls for free public library.

Visalia calls for free public library.
Hay is worth SIS so per ton in Virginia
New.
The country along the Oregon Short Line
is settling up fast.
Three Mormons have been elected to the
Idaho Legislature.
Victoria, B. c., is having trouble with
filthy Chinese opium dens.
John Haley, the Mormon Delegate tc
Congress from Idaho, is elected.
The fruit crop of Boise, l. T., is one of the
best ever raised in the Territory.
Jesse D. Carr has just built fine resi-
dence in Salinas at cost of $50, 900.
Butte, NJ T., is building up more rapidly
than any mining city in the United States
Mill and woodsmen of the Sierra Nevada
are coming down TO the valley for the
winter.
There were only 357 deaths in the city Of
Los Angeles during the year ending Octo
Der 81, 1884.
Helena, NJ T., is growing rapidly, and is
building a large hotel to accommodate the
travelling public.
San Bernardino will have completed three
new bridges across the Santa Ana river by
the middle of December.
Vallejo police officers are making it warm
for wall flowers" who congregate about
the entrance of the theater doors.
Tommy Shaw, an old Nevada sport, now
of Idaho, it is said, won $50, 900 on the cleo.
ton of Cleveland and Hendricks.
One hundred and sixty carloads of beet
cattle were shipped from Winnemucca last
.
head.
An explosion in the works of the Los
Angeles Ice Company. last Sunday, did
damage to the extent of $500 to 81 900. The
explosion took place in the pipe containing
the stronger ammonia, which by mechan-
ical force is made into a refrigerating or
freezing gas for the manufacture of ice.
4 Nanaimo (B c. man applied to the
operator at that place, day or two ago, to
have a three-pint bottle of medicine sent
by telegraph When told that a bottle
could not be sent in that way, he swore
terribly, and went outside and wore off the
toes of his boots kicking telegraph pole.
j. E. Castle, a San Diego vineyardist, has
filed legal complaint demanding the re-
moval of a nuisance, to wit bee farm
which is kept near his vineyard. He alleges
llldl uuIlI lIlC INO y Gals past lIit DSSo VI
the defendant have destroyed and eaten up
large quantities of the fruit to the value OF
81 900.
The Winnemucca S7ver State of Tuesday
says thirty-six head of polled cattle passed
that station on Monday on freight train.
They were shipped from Kansas City, Mo
and were consigned to T. r. Vail, of Wads-
worth These hornless beasts are pretty as
pictures and are of the breed known as
Polled Galloways.
The Elzo independent of last Tuesday
says \ squad of the Duck Valley Indians
to-day harnesSed some of their ponies TO a
number of new wagons received here for
the reservation, and the efforts of the abo-
riginals to persuade the ponies to haul the
vehicles out of town afforded the boys a
bonanza i'll the way of amusement.
The Portland New, says: A Chinese
lcper in an advanced stage of the disease
was discovered by police officer begging
on the corner of Second and Alder streets
yesterday and was taken to the station.
When the officer wen. to catch hold of the
leper's hand the skin came off just like a
piece of rag. He had escaped from the
Poor house, and was sent back TO that
place.
One of the United States Typographical
Engineers says in the Carson appeal " At
tention was attracted towards the hot
springs at Steamboat by the discovery that
cinnabar was being slowly deposited by
chemical action. The Government accord
inSly sent out four of us to make a topo-
graphical survey of the locality. The sur
vey will embrace tract three miles wide
by four in length. The length runs east
and west, and the wonderful springs are in
the center of tie arena. We find that Gin
nabar is being deposited, and this is the
only known place in the world where the
interesting process is still going on
Tucson Star While people in the north
ern portions of the Territory are complain
ing of ice and cold, the people of the south
are enjoying as fair days as ever graced an
Eastern spring The Chinese are busy
planting peas and all classes of vegetables
that grow elsewhere only during the sum
mer months. Last winter a sharp frost cut
the pea vines to the earth, but such vista
tons in this section are not the rule. This
fact makes Tucson so desirable a winter
residence. If Eastern people were con-
WINGED Of this fact they would beyond
doubt favor Arizona the southern part in
particular, with their residence during the
Indictment winter months.