Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-12
Riel Happy Over His Reprieye.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Portland has 132 licensed liquor dealers
During October LOIS children attended
the Vallejo public schools.
There is q rumor that Los Angeles is to
have a new hotel TO cost $3.50, 900.
Farmers in the vicinity of Eureka, Cal,
are using salmon to manure their land.
San Bernardino county advertises for pro-
posais to build new hospital at the county
seat
The Pioneer Tannery at Benicia is the
largest in the State, and employs sixty
laborers.
The golden spike of the California South
ern will be driven on Mojave desert on or
about the 18th inst.
There are now four artesian wells on the
new colony at San Fernando, and two
more wells are being sunk.
The Reno New papers brag about their
town having i'll its population lineal de-
scendant of Charles and Mary Lamb
A man who drove a team sixty miles
near Selma, Or, without giving them food
or water, has been sent to Jail for 40 DAYS.
At Kinds Springs, in Lyon county, New,
fish that live underground have been found,
winch have no eyes, and have Il soft fur in
stead Of scales.
The Oregonian says The Columbia
River Paper Company of La Camas are
now shipping news and manila paper
to San Francisco.
The oil found while sinking a well in the
Capiunga valley, Los Angeles county. is
not in quantities that would Justify an out
lay for development.
The Nevada State Capital is in such de-
lapidated condition that it has been neces-
m tho oNlrt,,,,,l. -, -,
prevent the pOrches from falling down.
The Sonoma County Supervisors are pre-
pairing to lay in large supply of wood for
able-bodied tramps who will seek winter
quarters in the County Jail to labor over.
Young men applying for work at Mare
island are told that married men are given
the preference first, and not until the sup
ply of them runs out will bachelors be emf
ployed.
The Cloverdale ReceiUe saws: Thou
sands of fish have been killed in the river
in this vicinity the past month by Indians.
who use the poisonous dove weed for that
purpose.
There were ten men and two ladies on
the jury that acquitted Perry Bayne at
Seattle recently of completely in the Squak
valley murders The first ballot was unan-
imous for acquittal.
East Benicia has the coons. They swarm
in from the tules and visit hen-roosts-ius
slaughter chickens for the fun of it. One
lady lost twenty-one of her poultry this
week by the raiders.
The Los Angeles Union says AT Milton
Thomas farm, near Compton, vein of gas
has been struck, which for some time has
supplied Thomas tenant with gas sufficient
for cooking purposes.
\ farmer near Walla Walla was robbed
by highwaymen recently of $270 They
considerably returned So to him, however.
as he said he must have that amount to
buy shoes for his children.
The water in Honey lake, Nevada, is very
low, and fish are dying by hundreds. In
many places the shores of the lake are COW
cred with dead fish, while great hocks of
fish hawks and pelicans hover overhead.
Two men and a woman attempted to
cowhide the editor of the Missoula IN. t.
Times the other day, but We're ignomini-
ously thrown down stairs into the street,
and were then arrested and fined for a
breach Of the peace.
a few timid patronizers of Chinese wash
houses in Santa Cruz, fearing their clothes
would be destroyed if an attempt was made
to raid Chinatown Saturday evening, had
their unwashed clothes taken home from
the washhouses in the afternoon.
A. D. Mcdonald has received the contract
to sink the artesian well at Mare Island. the
appropriation for which was provided by
the last Congress. The contract was made
direct with the Department at Washington.
ana MIR. Mcdonald gets $4,000 for sinking
a well 800 feet deep.
The sawmill at Redding is now running
at its greatest capacity-30 10000 feet per day
and turning out a good quality of lum-
Der, which finds a ready sale. The logs in
Turtle bay are rapidly disappearing and it
is calculated that they will all be converted
into lumber before another drive arrives.
The Silrer State advocates the enlarge
ment of the boundaries of Nevada by the
addition of Grant and Baker counties in
Oregon, and Owyhee in Idaho, on the
ground that it will relieve the people from
the heavy tax now imposed to maintain the
State Government by the addition of those
populous counties.