Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Fine cod are caught in Port Discovery
Bay.
Los Angeles has started a cremation
society,
Much counterfeit money is in circulation
in Montana.
Fresno's raisin crop this season will reach
10000 boxes.
A Chinanan died from heat on the Colo
RADIO Desert Sunday.
The reports that Cinnamon are returning
to Eureka are not true.
There are now 306 men employed at the
Mare Island Navy Yard.
Extensive fires are burning in the timber
region of the Santa Cruz mountains
The new Utah Insane Asylum, at Provo,
was opened Wednesday. Its cost so far is
about 100000
Francisco Garcia, of Los Angeles, exhib-
its his baptismal certificate showing that he
is 104 years old.
The old Mission Church at San Buena-
ventura is undergoing repairs. 1t is still in
Il good state of preservation.
A coal mine has been discovered in the
Reese river valley, Nevada The mineral
is said to be of good quality.
Three young japanese who were out of
work and penniless were taken in by the
San Jose police Friday night.
Every tree infected with scale bugs at
Santa Barbara will be cut down and burned
| by order of the Common Council.
/ Many timber claims near San Andreas,
| Calaveras county, are being filed on. There
| is said to be much good land yet vacant
there.
| y George Worden, aged Is years, has been
| missing in the mountains near Chico for a
week, and fears for his safety are enter
| tanned.
| A tramp was arrested at Adm, Modoc
| county, recently, and as he resisted an at
tempt to handcutf him, the officer shot and
instantly killed his prisoner.
| j. NJ Strain, who found the biggest mug
| get ever taken from the Tuolumne county
mines worth $4,000, died in the County
Hospital at Sonora last Thursday.
The Pajaronian is alarmed over the fact
| Santa CRUZ shows that there is only 81 sc
in coin to each unit of population.
The wineries in the vicinity of Santa
Rosa are being put in order for the coming
vintage, which it is said promises much
|
In the case of J. B. Montgomery against
the Oregon and California Railroad Com
pany for 5,000 damages at Portland, Or
| the jury yesterday returned a verdict foI
| the defendant.
! New coal-bunkers, with a capacity OF
5000 TONS have just been completed, be-
| longing to the Black Diamond Company
and located just below the Nevada docks
at Port Costa.
There are 10000 kegs Of powder on hand
at the powder mills, Santa Cruz. There are
$50 kegs of powder made day. At present
the mills are busy making powder for the
| United States Government.
An election was held at Murray, l. t, in
| the centre of the Ceur dAlene mining dis
trict last Saturday the issue being whether
| Chinese should be allowed to work claims
| The result was 419 to los that they should
not.
In 1868 road agents robbed stage near
| BlackfOOt, Idaho of 500 pounds of gold
dust, which they secreted. They were sent
to the Penitentiary, and their terms will
expire in few days. a close watch will
be kept ON them.
The foundation for the new lumber mill
| at Turtle Bay, near Redding, is being con-
| SII uItSt. lIt Will nc tOA1UU ltcl
and the machinery would have been put in
| position this week had it not been de-
strOyed by the fire.
The July run Of salmon in the Will
annette, which started in pretty heavy the
first week OF this month. has fallen off Ii
is asserted that the aggregate will fall 200,-
COO cases short of last year. The outsid
estimate is $4,000 cases.
The editor Of the Nogales "a. IT, Ffontie,
has published several articles concerning
the Yaqu war, which have caused the
Mexican General Carlo to order the jour-
nalist to be brought into camp dead or alive
should he venture across the line.
The Los Angeles Times says: Ex-Goy-
ernor Pacheco. of this State, is the premier
yaquero. He is now in the cattle business
at Eagle Pass, where he manages a little
ranch of 125,000 acres. He has been pur-
chasing wire TO fence il his ranch.
Hunting and fishing are said to be TN
usually good around Shasta this year
! Mountain trout are caught in abundance
rot great distance from that town. Ven
ison is also very plentiful there, boys kill
ing deer almost every day within mile Of
| town.
The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rail
broad upon which work has begun, will be
carried to Mud Springs, thirty-five miles
out from Los Angeles, and it is generally
understood that connection with the
Atlantic and Pacific extension through the
Cajon Pass will shortly follow.
The American ship Benjamin f. Pack
ard, $50 DAYS from Liverpool arrived at
| Victoria, b. c., Thursday, with 1000 tons
of steel rails for the Canadian Pacific Rail
road. A Liverpool pilot is on board, hay
| ing been prevented from landing by rough
weather after taking the ship outside.
A mechanical institute, with a capital OF
$50 600, has been organized at Los Angeles
for the purpose of constructing suitable
building in which to hold fair, and exhi-
| billions, and to establish and maintain a
| museum, to set forth the mineral, mcchan-
| zeal, horticultural and agricultural adean-
tages of Southern California.
The Napa Register states that DIR. T. V.
| Needer, on whom the Emperor of Japan
| recently conferred the order of the = Rising
| Sun was at one tine pastor of the Pres
| byterian Church in Napa. He went from
| Napa to San Francisco and there taught in
the City College. Frem San Francisco he
sailed for Japan, and for number Of years
filled responsible position as teacher in
the Toxic University.
tA'i Nil4 w. Il UNIV 1T t4SCIitiI ecu
from the Nevada Penitentiary by Judge
Field, is indignant at his liberation, as il
interfered with his learning the trade OF
shoemaker. He said: 81 had no desire to
get out until | could learn the trade and
then / would have something to start with.
Had l been able to make shoes in the first
place, | would not have been passing
counterfeit money | was Just getting
along nice when that cursed order came
from Judge Field"
4 Superintendent Garrard, of the Carson
Mint has received orders from Director
I kimball, insuucting him to abolish the
Office of assistant coiner and reduce the
force of Waterman from twelve TO FIVE; to
reduce the wages of watchmen from 81 to
IS per day engineer from So to 81. and a
| proportionate reduction for other workmen.
| All cleTksbips also ordered abolished, ex-
cept the chief clerk and bookkeeper The
Director says that expenses must be re-
! duced 5000 per month.
| SUPERIOR COURT.