Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-31
The Corean Dispute.
a millionaire Miser's Meanness.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
ulare is to build a s.. 900 Jail.

Tulare is to build s., 900 jail
Gilroy wants tax levied ON dogs.
Spokane, w T., has a haunted house.
Borax lands in Inyo are being located.
The Washoe Indians are said to number
800
Redding is to have new Odd Fellows
Hall.
Nearly $50 900 has been subscribed to the
HolliSter cannery.
its Chief of Police.
A whirlwind shook things up lively at
Redding last Monday.
Victoria, B. c., is crowded with people,
and hotels turn away guests. y
Streams and private fish pools i'll Arizona
are being stocked with carp.
a school-house, costing 5000, has just
been completed at Sierra Madre.
Santa Barbara is TO have a Democratic
newspaper about the middle Of April.
4 fog signal is to be erected at once on
Point Robinson, a few miles south of Sc
attic.
San Buenaventura will have one of the
| largest fruit-drying establishments III this
country.
Many valuable 'fur-bearing animals have
been trapped this winter at Lakes Bonner
and Tahoe.
Trinidad, Humboldt county, has popu-
lation of about 400 and only one Chinaman
| can be found.
By the new Oregon liquor law the price
| of license is raised from 500 to $500 year
| for spirituous liquors. and fixed at 5000 a
year for malt liquors. The bond is in
creased from $500 to $1,000, and its condi-
| tons include provision that no liquor
| shall be sold on Sundays.
The Digger Indians had pow-wow of
some sort at Boomer ranch, near Auburn,
| on the 23d About 100 aboriginies, all told,
were present, and the ceremonies, as near
as can be ascertained, seemed to be in the
nature of an invocation to the Great Spirit
| that he send his untutored children b0un-
tiful harvest of acorns.
The meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Knights of Pythias, which takes place in
| Los Angeles on the 18th of April, promises
| to be an event of more than ordinary I'M
| portance. Two thousand Knights are ex-
pected. Both railroad and steamship COM
! panies offer round-trip tickets from the
northern part of the State for $50.
Irish patriotism found an illustration at
! Fort Walla Walla ON st. Patricks day.
When one of the soldiers appeared with a
| huge shamrock in his hat, the Adjutant
laughed at him. and he threw his gun to
| the ground, saying Take the d-n thing !;
I'm through soldering He was gently
ambled to the guard-house.
| A number of young ladies of Salinas
| have banded themselves together into a
! secret society, and have grips, signs and
! passwords, by which they may know each
other in the dark as well as in the light.
| No male biped is allowed to approach any
of the members nearer than forty feet on
| the night of their meetings. They meet
twice month.
Arroyo Grande Register, March Dist: Mrs.
| Felix Mattel, residing some eighteen miles
| from here, a few miles above the Huasna,
| had quite an exciting experience one day
this week. She was in the yard with her
| three small children playing around her
! when she saw a large California lion COM
! ing toward her not more than twenty yards
away. She grabbed her baby and hustled
! her other two children into the house, when
the beast came up and chased the little pet
| dog around the house. Fearing it might
| jump through the window into the house,
| she took her husbands large pistol and
| fired il twice through the crack in the door,
wounding him in the foot and head The
! lion then went a few hundred yards away
and laid down, where he was found and
| despatched by Mr.. Mattel and neighbor
| when they returned home He measured
eight feet and five inches, but was very
| poor.