Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Quails are said to becoming a great nui-
sance in Arizona.
The Ventura Sigaa1 says trout will not
be ripe until the LIST of April
The liquor license in Salem, Or, has
been reduced to $3.50 from $500.
y Vacayille had lady dealer of stud
horse poker in one of its saloons.
There are 16S taxpayers in Placer county
who are assessed at 50, 600 or more.
For several days a destructive fire has
been raging in the Sierra Madre mountains.
A geranium leaf measuring ten inches
across the center is on exhibition ct San
! Diego.
/ A large panther was seen in the foothills
of Rincon valley, Sonoma county, Friday
morning.
! , Two trees were cut down on the ella
river, Arizona, that furnished 100 pounds
of honey.
Thirty rattlesnakes have been killed
recently in the vicinity of Newhall, Los
Angeles county.
! 1t is estimated that the loss upon hides,
| from the branding of cattle, amounts in
| Montana to 81 100000.
| Martinez will soon be supplied with water
| from a source at an altitude of $50 feet and
| about five miles distant
The game law is being enforced IN Ven
! tura county, Three offending tourists were
fined $50 each last week.
| The Bodie Free Press says that a man OF
that city is raising breed of hens that will
lay decorated Easter eggs.
The severe cold of last winter has not
had material effect on game in eastern Or
egon The woods are full.
The Yuma "a. IT, Republican says that
scheme is on hand to colonize lands on
the Colorado river below Yuma.
The Reno New Gazette says that there
is water enough flowing down Truckee
river to drive a million spindles.
A large number of ladies went to look at
the remains of Silvas and Martinez, who
were hanged at Los Angeles last Friday.
Loss of stock in Grant county, Oregon,
during the winter will be: Cattle, % per
| cent: sheep, % per cent; horses, 10 per
cent.
The Los Alamos Herald says that, ac-
cording to the oldest inhabitant,' this is
the earliest season ever known in Cali
| fornia.
| 1t is said that the business men of Eu-
reka, Humboldt county, are going TO build
a telegraph line from that place to San
| Francisco.
Cour d'Alene City has become the
county seat of Shoshone county, Idaho
Territory District Court will hereafter be
held there.
Santa Rosa opium fends object to being
disturbed when they are enjoying their
pipe, and have sent threatening letter to
the Deputy Marshal.
1t is estimated that the Stockton city
assessment roll of this year will foot up a
/ total property valuation of 100000. Last
years roll footed up $7,136, 500.
| Los Angeles boasts of canine monstros-
ity with two tails; one in its proper place,
and the other, fully developed, growing
from the forehead, between the eyes.
The dairymen III the vicinity of Guada-
lupe, Santa Barbara county, are still agi-
tating the question of building a narrow
gauge railroad from that place TO Pismo
wharf
The Eureka New Sentinel says: "The
past has been poor legislative winter for
Carson girls, matrimonially. No husbands
were captured by home gals or visiting
maidens.
The Tucson a. t. star says that the
Yaqui Indian settlement east of Tombstone
is in charge of women and papooses all
the bucks have gone to join their brethren
in Mexico
The road between Murray and Myrtle,
Cmur d'Alene mountains, is now termed
the Sky Trail" a miner swears the last
time he travelled over it he heard the angels
singing q lullaby.
Governor Moody, of Oregon, has ap-
pointed the following State Board of I'm
migration: H. w Corbett and Charles H
Dodd Portland L. b. Cox. Pendleton; w
| n. Ladue Salem; H. 3. Miller, Josephine
| county.
The planting of mulberry trees in the
State Prison grounds at San Quentin has
been suggested TO the Directors by the
State Board of Silk Culture. The women
convicts can learn in few years how to
raise silk cocoons.
h The first cargo of California redwood was
introduced into England last year. where ii
met with a ready sale and was highly APP
prcciated. 1t brought $51 66 per 1000
| feet. The distance it was carried was
about $1,000 miles.
Some of the "bloods" of MERGED, not
| fancying persistent drummer for a San
Francisco shirt factory. finding him in a
| saloon, placed pistol to his face and made
him dance for their amusement. The
drummer departed on the first train.
| b a fourteen-year boy named Edward
Smith, attempted suicide Tuesday after
| noon in a cell in the Oakland prison. He
was under arrest on suspicion of burglary,
and said the disgrace was more than he
could bear. His attempt to hang himself
was frustrated.
The Dixon Tribune says: Judge Barrett,
| of Elmira, has little girl 6 years old, who
| has had a watermelon see1 on her lun5ever
since last September. While drinking the
| water from melon a seed passed down
her windpipe, and all efforts to remove it
have 50 far proved unavailing.