Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Salt Lake is TO have Swedish weekly
paper.
Nevada City has man who can lift $50
pounds.
Ice at Tombstone, A. T., costs two cents
a pound.
The Tucson Typographical Union has
dishanded.
y 5000 swimming bath is to be erected
at Stockton.
4 twenty-stall round-house is to be built
al Missouia, NJ. I.
A new Howe truss bridge is being built
over the Salinas river
Portland is trying to substitute good SER
want girls for Cinnamon.
The Eureka Humboldt county, Electric
Light Company has collapsed,
\ viticultural society has been organized
III The Los GatOs and Saratoga districts
The flow of water through the Sutro tun-
mel amounts to 100000 gallons per day.
Long Beach. Los Angeles growing sea-
side res ut will have floating breakwater.
The Portland Savings Bank is going to
erect 4 new four-story building in that city.
\ Chinaman was fined 800 at Portland
last week for stealing thirty cents worth OF
scrap iron.
Twelve head Of pure-bred HolStein cattle
were received at Portland last Monday from
the East.
Fourteen teams have entered to compete
in the races Of the tiremen' 5 tournament al
San Jose.
Santa Rosa boasts of COW that furnishes
milk, the cream of which makes thirteen
pounds of butter per week.
The clerks OF Portland have begun a
movement to have the stores closed al q
P NJ. during the summer months.
The citizens of Suisun want to work all
tramps arrested there Ten hours day and
decorate them with bali and chain.
The polygamy trials at Salt Lake city at
tract large audiences of women despite the
indicate nature of the testimony and az
guments.
\ gambler at Portland created sensa-
ton few evenings since by driving an OK
team attached to wagon up and down the
principal street Of the city.
\ large wild animal supposed to be a
mountain lion, dashed through Waldo,
Siskiyou county, last Wednesday evening
and created great CONSERVATION among the
stock on its route.
y farmer near Sequel has put up scare
crew in his orchard that is said to be so
li!e-li5e in its appearance that his neigh
bors often address it, and depart i'll 4 rage
at not receiving a reply.
The Yellowstone river is gaining uG I'M
enviable reputation as a treacherous and
dangerous stream. More drowniugs have
occurred in lis waters than in those Of any
other river in Montana.
The committee appointed to select 10
cation for new insane asylum look with
favor on Valley Spring, the eastern ter
minus of the proposed San Joaquin Valley
and Sierra Nevada Railroad.
There have already been shipped this
season 1872, 500 boxes Of oranges from San
Gabriel and Savannah. Los Angeles county.
The full crop that is estimated will be sent
is 225, coo boxes, or Is, coo 600 oranges.
i strapping negro, nearly seven feet tall
arrived at Santa Barbara last Wednesday
from Louisiana, having walked the whole
distance. He was kindly treated and left
for San Francisco, his objective point
The State Circuit Court at Portland rem
dered decision last Friday in favor of a
gambler who brought suit against the Chief
Of Police 10 recover the stakes that had
been seized in raiding game Of poker.
The large game in southern Arizona is
said to be fast disappearing, owing to the
indiscriminate manner in which il is being
killed for local markets by Mexicans and
Indians. y protective game law is being
asitated.
Last Wednesday the two children of NJ
Barnes, living at Richmond, Utah. were
attacked by their insane uncle, William
Allen. and beaten with rocks until they
were insensible. 1t is expected that the
children will die.
The Ell Dorado County Sabbath School
Convention, which met at Placerviile Thurs
day and Friday, was a most encouraging
success. There are fourteen Sabbath schools
in the county, with a total attendance of
625 pupils, and IS teachers and officers
At a reunion Of the Short family at Wat
sonville last week, after 4 separation of
thirty-three years, there were present fifty
one members, including the aged parents.
There were eight children. thirty-two
Grandchildren and eleven great -grandchil-
dren.
In boring q well on W 5. Ladd's farm,
near Portland. Or. the drill struck fir
log at depth Of 725 feet after going
through about 30 feet of earth, sand and
gravcl then through $50 feet Of solid rock,
then % feet of silt just forming into rock.
and below that still layers Of sand gravel
and silt.
Thomas Donovan, who was sentenced to
three years Imprisonment in the Alameda
county Jail, has been pardoned by President
Cleveland. He was convicted of illegal
registration and voting. Six months OF
his sentence had been served. The pardon
was granted at the recommendation of the
United States District Attorney and United
States District Judge, who sentenced him
They set forth that while Donovan was
technically guilty, he was guilty of nc
criminal intention.
Last Saturday week an ex-convict named
Gibbons attempted to murder a Mr.. ScrOE-
gins and his entire family, who live between
BuZzard R0OSt and Furaccvile, IN Shasta
county He fired one shot at close range
but missed his intended victim, and then
snapped his revolver several times at the
family. who were grouped at the door. He
then mounted his horse and fled. Gibbons
VINO is s. years old, was pardoned ont OF
the State Prison by Ex-Governor Pacheco
after ne had served about half of a sixteen
wear term for manslaughter. His trouble
with Scroggins grew ont of a land dispute
Lorenzo Ghiozzi, a halfcrazy gardener
was arrested on Sunday al Oakland fol
assault with a deadly weapon. lie was At
work in his garden when some small boys
bsslt4 40 ttltltf tlllif anu i7i AIt 'SAetli4t
furious Just at the time a three-y ear-old
daughter of Patrick Flynn was passing his
house in company with Il young son of cx-
Supervisor KEYS The in'Griated gardener
hurled heayystick which struck the child
on the head, fracturing her skull She
was carried home and two physicians
called in. and at last accounts the girl wa,
unconscious and likely to die at any mo
ment.
From shasta County.