Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


OF San Diego.
The State of Nevada has now nearly
100000 acres of land for sale.
The Nevada State University building is
slowly approaching completion.
Los Angeles is again to the front-a baby
monkey was born there the other day.
The Nevada Transcript claims that there
is not destitute family in Nevada City.
Among the debris washed ashore by the
flood at San Luis Obispo were two human
skulls.
Many hogs are dying in Santa Cruz
county from disease resembling the
quinsy.
The ordinances of Carson, New, prohibit
boys under q years of age from entering
saloons.
An Arizona baby carried off the second
prize in the recent baby show held in Los
Angeles.
The warehouses about Port Costa are
nearly full Of wheat. Ships are loaded di-
rect from the cars.
Arroyo Grande, San Luis Ob:spo county.
has produced potato weighing nine and
one-fourth pounds
Sierra Valley farmers ask SIS per ton for
nay in the stack there is no surplus on
hand, hence the advance
The Virginia City Enterprise states that
man, recently committed to the asylum,
was adjudged officially insane"
A mushroom was found near Sonoma
recently which measured 81 inches in cir
I cumference and weighed II pounds.
The Eureka New Sentinel says that the
ruTnor of the disorganization of the Ruby
Hill Miners Union is utterly groundIess
A fatal horse disease is prevailing in
Klickitat county, Washington Territory.
Several horses have died and more are
sick.
There is a delinquency of $11,222 II in
the taxes of Storey county, Nevada, about
one, half Of which, it is thought, will be
paid
The Enterprises claims that John D.
Sproul, Postmaster of Chico, was the first
native Californian 10 receive Federal ap-
pointment.
The Coquille City (Oregon) Herald saws
Thousands upon thousands of bushels of
apples are going TO waste in various sections
OF this county this fall.
The number OF cattle on the range be-
tween the Cascade mountains and the
Columbia last year was 10000 Since then
100000 head have been sold.
Some Indians in Alpine county recently
abandoned one of their number. an old
blind man, and LETT him out in the storm
without food or shelter to perish He was
rescued by some white men.
Three or four Canadian Indians have
been in Virginia City the last few days sell
ing fancy bead work. The Piutes watch
them curiously, not understanding whether
they are Spaniards or Kanakas.
Two citizens of Alvarado left recently for
Germany for the purpose of studying the
process OF the beet sugar industry there,
with the view of introducing any improve
ments in that line into this State.
Yank Booth received a terrible and pos
sibly fatal blow at the hands of George
Goodrich, at Visalia, Thursday night.
Booth is well known as a famous stage
driver, and is about 60 years Of age.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has issued
an order that in the employment of men
on the Pacific division the preference shall
be given to men living in the neighborhood
OF the work to be done, and to married
men.
The Napa Register says: The decision of
the Supreme Court in the matter Of certain
commissions hitherto paid certain county
officials gives Controller Dunn black eye
and saves TO Napa county about $1,000 q
year.
During the late storm the wire armature
coils of the electric light apparatus at Santa
Cruz became so clogged with water that the
current was interrupted and such an in
tense heat created that one coil was de-
stroyed.
The water in the Suisun marshes is
higher at the present time than il has been
t.T flF,n flrr,,
that the water in the marshes is within
three inches Of being as high as it has been
since 1919.
The Salinas river has cut into its right
bank about fifty feet deep the full length
OF the Cowell or old Abbott ranch, near
the city of Salinas, now larmed by VIM
Logwood. The ground thus carried off
will amount to about ten acres Ill extent.
The calf trade of Petaluma amounts to a
considerable sum IN the year. A dealer
engaged in the business says that during
the year to date over :, 900 calves have been
slaughtered and shipped from that city to
San Francisco, and the cash paid out for
them would amount to about $4,000
The 0regoaiaa says "Old Billy Whit
comb passed in his checks the other dav.
Billy was for thirty years the companion of
General John L. Ross, and carried the Cen
eral safely through the MOdoc and other
Indian campaigns in Oregon. General Ross
is negotiating for white bronze monu-
ment' 10 mark his grave. Billy" was
small white mule.
The people in the neighborhood of the
Eighth-street bridge, says the San Bernar-
dino Iider, are considerably exercised over
a very peculiar phenomenon at that point
The recent heavy rains have caused a de-
preston in the ground, and a small hole
has been formed, apparently, by the sink
ing soil. From this hole volume of smoke
has been rising for four days and nights. A
peculiar, sulphurous smell permeates the
air in the vicinity, and as no one knows
whence the smoke comes some alarm has
been felt.