Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The street cars stopped running IN Port
| land Tor nearly week on account of the
snow.
The Ventura wharf which was washed
away during the late storm, has been re
paired.
Between S4oO000and $500, zoe per month
| are paid i'll wages at the smclters in Butte,
! Montana.
The Santa Cruz fishermen are unable to
ply their trade owing to the continued
rough sea.
Near Santa Cruz there is an apple tree
| which has just ripened its second crop OF
fruit this year.
The Petaluma Co,t-ier urges the building
of ten-miie macadamized road into the
Sonoma valley.
There are thirteen women School Super
intendents in Washington Territory, seven
of them maidenS.
From every part of Oregon come reports
of the collapse of barns and sheds unde.
the weight Of snow.
San Luis Obispo has had its county books
examined by an expert, and everything is
reported satisfactory.
An agent of the San Jose Foundry has
! located some iron mines in san Benito
county, near Tres Pinos.
Lake county is reported as having the
best display of fruits from the Pacific coast
in the New Orleans Worlds Fair.
incendiaries have threatened Nevada
| Docks, in Contra Costa county, by anony-
nous letters. to be doomed by fire.
! Sheep are dying in Douglas county, South
ern Oregon. The loss of stock in Eastern
Oregon is supposed to be frightful.
The Merced Pythian Temple, which was
recertly dedicated with great eclat, is pro
nounccd the handsomest structure i'll Mer-
ced.
There is but one Democrat in the Dakota
Legislature this winter. Montana has n
population of about los, 900. and is Demo-
cratic; so is New Mexico.
The Merced Express fayors the incorpo-
ration of that town, but says the time has
not arrived for it, The population is not
large enough to stand the expense.
The new Prescott Water Works cost S65,-
| 600. Tire reservoir, which has capacity
of 5000 600 gallons;-is 200 feet above the
level of the floor of the Courthouse
The receipts of the postal service in Ore
gon are less by $135, 800 than the expenses
! of the service. In Washington Territory
| the expenses exceed the receipts Sl10,S9S
The Tax Collector of MERGED county has
| within the last month paid over 10 County
| Treasurer NJ. D. " ood about -Sl05000, on
account of State and county taxes for the
! year just past.
The Arizona Territorial Prison is said to
! be in good condition. A high stone wall
| has been constructed and sixteen new cells
added. This work has been done entirely
/ by the prisoners
The San Benito county Prohibitionists
are organizing for a new campaign. They
! have selected County Central Committee
of which Francis Latture is President and
William Gordon Secretary.
Near Hanford few days ago 1G-vear-
old daughter of Oliver Paddock was thrown
from her horse. She struck upon her feet
and became insensible Now she has no
recollection whatever of either the ride or
the accident.
It is reported that Pullman is going to
abolish the office of conductors on his
sleeperS west Of Omaha, and have the train
conductors sell the berths, as the Central
Pacific used to TO. The buffet business Will
also he suspended.
\ marked card thief was tried and con
victed at Iathrop few days ago. The Dis
trict Attorney arrived o. the noon train
ana concluded the case IN time 10 proceed
on the same train, which stopped twenty
minutes for dinner
The Portland .Studdrd announces in its
local columns that the Tacoma Coal Com
pany have two tons of coal at their yard,
put up in 100pound sacks each, which they
will give free to families in actual want, on
application at their Office.
The Eureka New Sentinel says: The
scheme of anneXing to section of Califor-
mia would be acceptable on this side of the
Sierras, but not on the other The Golden
State prefers to continue in the enjoyment
of Nevada's resources without sharing in
the expenses.