Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Santa Cruz is assessed for 81, e43, 595.

bABhthSAAa ID PISFdleill III SaiI Lake.
Harvest hands in Oregon receive 81 per
day and board.
new park is to be laid out at Williams
Colusa county
There are only 100 convicts in the Ne
vada State Prison.
The Cremation Society of Los Angeles is
rapidly gaining ground.
A tank that will hold 80, 600 barrels of oil
is to be built at Ventura.
Land.jumpers took possession of the pc
ninsula at San Diego last Sunday.
Deer are more abundant than for many
years around Auburn. Placer county.
Since January l, 1885. over 81, $50 900 of
silver bullion has been shipped from the
Calico mines.
Horned stock near Hollister are attacked
by 4 disease resembling murrain. 1t proves
alarmingly fatal.
All the white families but one have left
The Needles for more healthy locality
during the summer months.
At Yuma, A. T., one day last week, the
thermometer stood at 1859 in the shade on
the north side of a building
Some hoodlums at Amador CITY soaked
the tent belonging to the Salvation Army
with coal oil, and then set fire TO it.
The Indians on the White Mountain
Reservation, A. T., are reported to have
some 800 acres of land under cultivation.
Many Chinese at Winncmucca, New,
live in caves dug ont of steep banks. thus
securing both cheap and comfortable dwell
ings.
y million or more of young shad are to
be put il the Colorado river at the Needles,
in addition to the million placed there last
year.
y new levee some 26 miles in length is to
be built around Staten island by J. B. Hag-
gin. About 500 men will be employed on
the work
Santa Rosa is threatened with serious
Inconvenience, owing to the rapidly
diminishing supply of water for domestic
purposes.
The Yuma Indians have held 4 grand
council and resolved to adopt pantaloons
as an article of dress in place of the hith-
erto worn sapeta.
The oil-pipe line between Santa Paula
and Ventura burst in two places last Thurs
day, on account of the heavy pressure used
in forcing the oil through.
In portions of Tulare and Kern counties
the jack-rabbits are aRalmost unbearable
pest, and the farmers are at their wits end
to prevent their depredations.
The springs upon Anacapa island, off the
Santa Barbara coast, have all dried up and
the sheep pastured there are forced to de
pend upon the dew for moisture.
The Butte county assessment roll shows
an increase of $4,000 over that of last
year, aside from the assessment of railroads
operated in more than one county.
A gentleman in San Bernardino county
marketed 1900 pounds of blackberries
grown on a single patch. They brought
1922, being at the rate of 81 900 an acre.
The Los Angeles Herald says that large
bed of choice potter's clay has been discov-
cred in the Temescal mountains about
sixteen miles from the California Southern
Railroad.
The Lakeview Examiner publishes long
list of swamp land claims in Klamath and
Lake counties which have been rejected by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office. These claims aggregate about 49,
600 acres.
The tunnel at Big Bend, by which the
Feather river is to be turned, is now in TO-
600 feet. 1t is to be II 200 feet in length,
and will dry the bed of the river for twelve
miles. 1t is expected that very rich dig
gingS viii be developed.
The residents of the Guadalupe quicksil-
yer mining camp, near San Jose, have been
disturbed during the last week by the at
tentions of a ghost, which is said to have
been seen by quite a number of persons
The SpoOk is masculine.
The Portland OR Telegram says there is
man uptown, weighing about 30 pounds,
10 years old, who has the whooping-cough.
and his neighbors are sorrier than he is
that he didn't have it when he was boy,
for his whoops can be heard half mile.
The Tulare Times says that Jesse Esrey
has pet catfish that he is training. Jesse
goes to the tank where he has the fish and
commences playing on his violin, when the
fish will come TO the top of the water and
waltz around as though he had good ear
for music.
Last week Monday. custom officers at
Port Discovery, w. T., captured a small
sloCp $500 worth of opium, valuable
watch and a quantity OF wearing apparel
belonging to white men who were attempt
ing Osmuggle a lot of Cinnamon into the
United States.
A branch of the Southern Pacific Rail
road, it IS authOritativeiy stated, will be
built through Riverside in time to handle
the coming orange crop Of that section. Ii
will leave the main line at Pomona and
make curve through the Riverside valley.
joining the parent road again at Cotton
A conductor on the Southern Pacific last
Tuesday locked man for whom the Off
GERS were looking in Il closet on his train,
and denied that the fellow was aboard. The
ruse was suspected however, and an officer,
after travelling some twenty miles on the
train, broke open the door and captured
his prisoner.
The Portland Oregoajan says that mon
strous halibut over six feet in length was
received on Wednesday last from the
sound. The huge fish had bullet hole
necessary to shoot and kill it after it had
been brought to the surface before it could
be secured. 1t is the second largest fish of
the kind ever caught in that section.