Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Chico is to havea new railroad depot.
Wheat is selling at 43 cents a bushel at
Walla W8lla.
Cloverdale has had coal oil bonanza
discovered within It's limits.
San Benito county is preparing for the
organi cation of an agricultural fair assocla-
ton.
The expenses of the Benicia city govern
ment last year were s.. 900 in excess OF the
tax receipts.
notwithstanding the weather the miners
in the New river region are hard at work on
their claims.
Los Angeles wants 4 Boys Reform
School established there i'll preference TO
branch Insane Asylum.
Red Bluff people are engaging in the
planting Of mulberry trees for shade in the
place of the discarded eucalyptus.
Henry Quarles sued the Los Angeles
Times for 1913 for editorial services, and
was awarded his claim by Il jury last week.
A man at the Cascades, Oregon, has been
arrested for starting into the liquor bust
ness with a stock stolen from snOW-bOund
freight train.
Magpies, which were quite numerous
near Nisalia years ago, are now very seldom
seen. The settlement of the country has
driven the birds away.
Swcdes who have purchased land near
Port Townsend. W. T., will start 4 small
colony and add to the wealth-producing
population of that district.
The Northern Pacific shipped TO Duluth
this year from Eastern Washington 1874
cars of wheat as an experimental test. 1t
received in the aggregate nearly $4,000.
The Lancaster colony enterprise in the
Mohave desert is being very generally de-
rounced by the southern papers. The
Mohave desert IS not adaptable to human
habitati0n.
The Redding independent mentions re-
yival Of business III Copper City, twenty
five miles north of Rcdding Capitalists
have taken hold of the mines there and are
pushing things.
Los Angeles had sensation the other
night by the ignition of an acre of pam
pas grass with waving plumes in the center
Of the city. The Fire Department prompt=
iy subdued the flames
The Modoc independent facetiously says
Money is becoming more plentiful. Dur
ing the week we have collected dollar and
three bits, and have the promise Of xnother
dollar i'll the course Of few days.
According to tie Chronicle, Seattle has
tifty-five lawyers, not counting in the two
female practitioners, five banks, twenty
four physicians, of which two are female
IS, and thirty real estate men.
The Tines says: \ chain-gang is to be
organized in san Bernardino, and the seek
ers for lodgings at the citys expense will
diminish. The idea though not original
with our town, is certainly a good one.
4 starch factory is to be established in
Tacoma, to manufacture that commodity
from potatoes The factory will have a
capacig OF at least 100 bushels per day, and
expects to use this season 10000 bushels.
The late heavy rains have played consid-
cradle havoc with that picturesque resort
known as Alden Glen Springs. II is said
hat landslide has completely entombed
tie mineral springs for which this resort
was noted.
san Diego Sun \ COW belonging 10
Simon Goldbaum, Of San Luis Rev, pre-
scented hin. with three calves on Sunday.
The little animals are III good health, and
there is every probability Of their coming
to maturity.
There were 143 business failures in
Washington Territory in 1854; liabilities,
SS41. 200 Washington led all the Terri
tories in This respect, the nearest approach
being by Dakota, with III failures and la
bilitcs Of s7296l2.
The new German colony OF Oiiyenhain,
in San Diego county. is attracting general
attention in the East The Olivenhain
colony has about 900 members, represent
ing about 300 people, IF whom about 10
are now on the ranch.
\ Santa Barbara boy had an earache
His name was George Coitey- DIR. Lucas
looked into the hoy 5 ear and found i wood
tick, which had been getting fat there ever
since young Cohey went out on i picnic
with the girls last September.
Santa Rosa island, opposite Santa Bar
bara is oyeIrUn by wild hogs. Otter hunt
ers and ii>h-drycrs who left peits and stores
there. found, on their return from san
Miguel island, that the wild hogs had de
yas,ated and dcyourcd their all.
At the State Orphans Home in Carson,
Nevada there is thoroughbred Durham
cow which is said to have gained 265
pounds in flesh in sjXly-thrcc days with
nothing bat grass for food. The animal
now weighs 800 pounds and j. only
twenty months Old.
The Walla Waiia journal says: Three
mcn, who shaaid be well posted concern
ing liquor matters, recently did systematic
ciphcriu@ TO ascertain the amount OF
molley annually expended IN tlhs town Tor
drink and tobacco. The result was an
estimate OF nearly $3oo,oe0.
Santa Cruz busiu,.s men. hav.nr some
low become impressed with IN. idea that
sam los is MOI RESPONDING very promntI,-
10 tac oall for aid for expenses, nave Of
ferei through f., j. Swift, the hotel-keeper,
81 eos for the State Fir.man's Association
il they viii hold the tournament there IN
stead Of at san Jose
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