Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Bee food is getting scarce in San Buena-
ventura.
Portland orr is to have large fruit
cannery.
A soda factory is about finished at
Truckee.
Santa Clara county has $121,515 in its
Treasury.
Canadians prefer Marysville as a center
of colonization.
The Fort Huachuca a. t. leadership is
worth $4,000 year.
a young mems institute was organized
at san Jose on Monday.
A two-legged pig was born last week near
Carneros Creek, Napa county.
In moving an apiary from Centerville to
Borden, a few days ago, fOrty-siX out of fifty
hives were lost
The Suffer county Jail is without ten
ant, and thereSare but two patients at the
County Hospital.
\ Tacoma, W. T., has increased in popula-
ton from 500 in the year 1880 to about
1000 at the present time.
+. e. Ross, formerly United States SEN
ator from Kansas, is an aspirant to the
Governorship of New Mexico.
OakdaIe, Stanislaus county, has a new
planning mill, which has started in with q
prospect of being kept at work.
Improvements of the value of nearly
$4,000 were made in the new town of
Medford, Or, during February.
The Redding public schools close this
week. The school funds are sufficient
only for a six-months term this year.
w. W. Baker, editor of the Rural Spirit.
has been appointed Dairy Commissioner of
Oregon salary, 81 900 and expenses.
About four hundred men are working on
the craving dock at Esquimalt, and sixty
more will be added to the force this week.
1t is estimated that the expenses of the
San Jose tournament will be about $1,000.
about s., 800 of which has been subscribed.
A number of men on the navy ward stone
dock at Mare Island were discharged Satur-
day night for want of money to carry the
work on.
The Healdsburg Flag Enterprise saws that
lambs; one of them has four horns and
the other six.
"A weather prophet in San Luis Obispo
has backed his opinion to the extent of
$50 that there will be four inches of rain
before April 18th.
The Yreka onion says that Kanaka
miner picked up a So nugget at the mouth
of Spring gulch, half mile above Yreka
one day last week.
The Fresno Erpositor says that rough
timber which has been selling heretofore
at $24 per thousand feet, was sold on Fri
day at SIC thousand
Next fall, says the Yreka Journal. there
win be an immense number of young cattle
in Siskiyou county, as the increase has but
very little loss i'll consequence of the extra
ordinarily mild winter.
Josephine county, Or, possesses "a great
natural curiosity in the shape of subter-
ranean cavern. 1t is situated in the noun
tains about twenty miles south of Grants
pass, and has never been thoroughly
explored
The Portland orr Council being asked
to allow the bicyclis:s to use the sidewalks
in back streets, tackled lot of ridiculous
amendments on the ordinance to the effect
that each bicycle should carry an electric
light on the starboard side, a Chinese gong
in the pilot-housc and red lights on the
end of the bowsprit, and that the bicyclists
could only use the sidewalks after y o clock
at night, etc, and passed ii as amended.
Next meeting, however, they reconsidered
the vote and the matter stands as it origi-
nally was.