Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-09
WHOLE NO. I0,650.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Marysville is developing slogging
! excitement
Harvesting has begun vigorously in Co
| luSa county.
| There is $lOS, ,2S7 Il in the san joaquin
| county treasury.
Santa Maria is to have an artesian well
| for fire purposes.
\ Breeders Association has been formed
IN StanlSiaus county.
Progressive euchre parties are common
| IN san BuenaventUra.
The marble works below Oleta. Amador,
| have been closed down.
\ good many turkeys will be raised in
! Iehama county this year.
0ccanside, San Diego county, Just now is
| having real estate boom.
| y stream of Mormon emigrants is pour
| ing into Arizona from Utah.
| The geological survey parties are at work
in the vicinity of Red Blutf
San Beuito county is agitating the ques-
ton OF building new Court house.
The new appraiSement of the Glenn es-
tate, filed Friday, fOots up 81 ,S6S0O0.
\ Citizens Committee has been organ
| lied Ut Lodi to rid the vicinity of tramps
~ iii " axe NNRitiliS iut silt IlNCI tdil-
yon, \. f. a feat never before attempted
The Santa Ana Hcra'9 says the honey
crop will be remarkably short this season.
There is not a single prisoner in the
Stanislaus county Jail, at Modesto, awaiting
trial.
The first grapes Of the season were sent
to market from Senator Bucks 'Nacaville
ranch.
Wolves are doing much damage to sheep
and calves on Jim Caldwell's ranch, near
Cloverdale.
1t is proposed 10 start new German coll
ony on the 1.000acre Berry ranch, near
Santa Ana.
According to the school census just COM
pleted Los Angeles city has about 10000
inhabitants.
Shasta county will hold an exhibition of
her various resources at Redding on August
2Sth and 10Th,
West Windsor. Sonoma, has one saloon
to every eight inhabitants. Its population
is twenty-four.
The first locomotive of the San Gabriel
Valley Railroad has arrived at Los Angeles
from Cincinnati.
Chinese peddlers are vending their wares
in Eureka. Action is called for by the
Committee of Fifteen.
The new Percival Roller FIGURING Mill
at Petaluma will be in operation in two
weeks. 1t cost $4,000.
A. E. Noel at Lower Lake has twenty
trained snakes. They come up and eat fish
when he draws his nets.
The United States Assay Office at Helena,
NJ. r., is undergoing an investigation at the
hands of a Government inspector.
Complaint is made in Alameda county of
the impurity of the water furnished from
Lake Cabot for domestic purposes.
The melon crop at Lodi this season will
enable every man, woman and child to be
furnished with one-if they pay for it.
Amos Bowman will make a geological
survey of the mining district of British
Columbia, particularly that of Cariboo.
The Cayote Indians around Lower Lake
are being literally supplied with liquor,
which fact is causing considerable alarm.
Fifty young ostriches have been Matched
at the Anaheim ostrich farm, part of them
by an incubator, and they are all doing
finely.
Wheat is being sent from the Salt river
valley to England by way of San Fran
cisco, 500 tons having just been purchased
for shipment.
The twelfth annual session of the Oregon
Universalist State Convention will be held
in the city of Albany on June 1lth I2th,
18th and l4th
The Y entura Signal says paper is in
circulation there for subscribers to an agri-
cultural fair association. The purpose is
to raise $1,000
A mastodou's tooth, measuring = inches
lengthwise, 81 in width, and % across the
grinding surface, was found near Martinez
a few days since.
While digging holes for telegraph poles
on the plains, seven miles from Merced,
the workmen struck 4 stream of water
within three feet Of the surface.
A hotel at National City has been COM
pletely taken possession of by bees, which
have filled the coruices full of honey,
amounting to about six tubs full.
During the three days of warm weather
that prevailed last week, trout in large
numbers died in Napa creek. The water
was low and became too warm for the fish.
John Curtin, of Sonoma, made an ex-
tensive test of the sulphur-smoke cure"
for hoppers, and says a man may as well
stand and smoke n pipe at them for all the
good it does.
Mount Shasta, Lassen and some of the
lesser mountains received new coat of
snow last week An old resident of Shasta
says: I" 1t looks as though we would have
winter all summer"
Fifty Cinnamon are employed on the
ocean beach between San Buenaventura
and Rincon point in collecting Il kind of
sea-moss. which is dried and shipped to
China as table deliCacy.
1t is said that the peaceable Indians in
Arizona who are allowed to purchase arms
and ammunition from traders. are in the
habit Of exchanging them with the hOsdleS
for corn and other produce.
The Masonic order in Washington Terri
tory has l,S00 members, against ,634 in
1884, 1880 in 1888, 200 in 1SS2 1,10l in
1881 and 1859 in 1880. The number of
subordinate Lodges is forty-tive.
The Protestant Indians on the Umatilla
reservation have q new preacher to look
after their spiritual welfare. He comes
from Indian Territory, where he has been
teaching and preaching to Joseph's band.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has con-
tracted to haul wheat from Oregon to
Chicago at - cents a hundred pounds
This is at the rate of 10 cents and mills
bushel for transporting it about $500
miles.
An artesian well being sunk at White
Plains, New, is down 1900 feet. A flow of
salt water has been struck which prevents
the drill from working freely, and will have
to be shut out before furher progress is
made.
1t is said that the Cholame ranch, Mon
terey county, will probably be purchased
by some capitalists from the East and
divided up into small farms for a colony.
1t will furnish homes for about thirty
families.
A suit has been brought by TIE Board of
Supervisors of San Bernardino county
against the California Southern Railroad
Company for 81 300, claimed to be due as
poll tax from the Chinamen engaged in
building that road.
The Washington Territory Grand Lodge
of Masons at its annual session just closed,
adopted a resolution making retail dealers
in liquor ineligible to membership in the
order. Another resolution, in the shape of
an amendment to the bylaws, which will
go over to the next annual session for action,
makes ineligible to office any member who