Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-19
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Los Angeles will have its cable cars at
work by July 4th.
The oil wells of Santa Paula are yielding
an average of rs barrels of oil daily.
A daily mail will soon be in operation
between Calistoga and Lake county.
Sixteen carloads of cattle passed through
Yuma on Wednesday, en- route to Califor-
MIA
1t is reported that $50 Canadian servant
girls will arrive at Victoria, B. c., in May,
prepared to accept service.
A prominent Chinese doctor in Los An
geles claims to be making 500 per week by
his practice among Caucasians.
An enterprising bad boy of Lodi lately
stole his mothers pig and sold it to get
money to go to the skating rink.
Some person is devoting considerable ex-
pense and trouble to Unfortunately poi
soning the dogs in Redwood City.
Several Salinas Democrats are after the
appointment of lighthouse keeper at Point
Pinos. The salary is $500 year.
Shearing has commenced at Hollister,
and the sheep men will soon make things
lively with the rattle of their coin
The Napa Wooden Mills have received
keep the wheels moving all summer.
The largest vineyard in the world is said
to be at Monroe Villa, Los Angeles county,
and has between 100000 and 100000
vines.
The British Columbia militia are drilling
twice week, in anticipation that their
services may be required by the mother
country.
The oil men on the George Shouts ranch,
Half-moon Bay, struck fine flow of oil
the other day. They are actively engaged
in pumping.
Squirrels have been so Systematically de-
stroyed all around MERGED that the crops
are not materially injured now by their
depredations.
Suit has been commenced on behalf of
the county of San Benito for the collection
of license from the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company.
Hunters in Reese river valley are charged
with frightening cattle so that they run
against barbed-wire fences and kill or in
lure themselves.
A Chinese dude, undertaking last Sun
day in Portland to "mash two white
ladies. was by them driven off with the as
sistance of a brickbat
1t begins to dawn upon the poultry
raisers of Vacaville that the greater the at
traction at the rink the more chickens
there are missing next day.
ga ripe watermelon is reported from vi
salia. 1t was grown by Chinese gardener
on vine of last years growth. 1t ripened
on the last day of February.
A few wine-mal<ers of California appre-
-fat
are endeavoring to introduce their products
into England and India direct.
J. y. Webster cut down a eucalyptus
tree at Alameda which he planted twenty
five years ago 1t measured 3 feet 8 inches
at the butt, and was 100 feet high.
An inspector from the Interior Depart
ment is on his way to examine into the
condition Of the Mission Indians of San
Diego and San Bernardino counties.
parry of eight immigrants arrived
from France last Saturday, who have spend
lifetime in the cultivation of the wine
grape and who intend to locate in Los An
geleS county.
The ladies of Spokane, w. T., have petit
toned the Council for authority to control
the approaching election. Two ladies, a
Judge, and clerk have been placed on the
DOdrQS IN each ward.
drainage fume, thirty feet wide, six
feet deep, and OF sufficient strength to carry
small river, if necessary, is being con-
structed by General n. P. Chapman, of Red
Bluff, to drain his large tract of swamp
land at Big Meadows.
Leonard de la Cuseta, citizen of Santa
Barbara lassoed a deer in the Santa Ynez
valley last week. He was blowing on the
ranch, and seeing the deer coming toward
him got ON one of his horses, taking line
for RATA, and after chasing it about two
miles succeeded in catching it.
r. H. Sweetman, miner employed at
the Sierra Buttes mine in Sierra county,
died Monday, the 9th instant, from iniu-
ries received while working at the dump.
A car got off the track, and in attempting
to lift it on again he burst blood vessel.
Deceased was also one of the proprietors OF
the Sierra County Tribune.