Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Oranges are being shipped East by the
carload from Guaymas.
Newspapers are used in the Principals
room in the Visalia public school by pupils
for reading exercises.
Diphtheria has been quite bad among the
Mexican people of Tucson this fall bat the
dreaded disease is now subsiding.
In Los Angeles ostrich eggs as window
ornament seem extremely popular. Fifteen
or twenty stores now exhibit them.
A natural bridge has recently been dis
covered in the Tonic basin, Arizona, which
is 300 feet long, 500 feet wide and ITO feet
high.
The citizens of Benton, NJ T.. have Of
fered bonus of 500 900 to aid in the con-
cific to that place.
The Digger Indians on Rancho Chico
have resumed their studies in music for the
winter, and their brass band wakes the
echoes every night.
The Los Angeles Cable Railroad Com
pany has reduced its fuel bill 75per cent. by
using, instead of coal, a mixture of brea and
peat, which is found close by.
In Tacoma the owners of few OF the
better class of the buildings lately occupied
by the Chinese are renovating, repairing
and renting them to white tenants.
While the Mormons convicted of unlaw-
full cohabitation were being received at the
Idaho Penitentiary, number OF them
broke down and INDUCED in a hearty cry.
The Commissioners of Ada county, I. T
have just paid 1911 25 as rabbit bounties
for three months, which means that Is, 225
OF the animals have been killed in that
time.
The dresses of several ladies who at
tended a reception the other evening" at
Fresno, were ruined by hoodlums at the
street corners splitting tobacco juice on
them.
The Alameda Board of Trustees are pre-
pairing an ordinance to compel the removal
of eucalyptus trees growing within 100
feet of sewer. The roots of the trees clog
the drains.
A Fresno county miner rejoices in the
fact that he is now paid 81 an ounce more
for his gold at the San Francisco Mint than
he was able to get before the change of Adj
ministration.
Four more artesian wells are to be sunk
in Alameda for the purpose of supplying
that town with pure water The water
bearing stratum is found at a depth of
about seventy feet
The office jointly occupied by Wells,
Fargo & Co. and the South Pacific Coast
Railroad at Alviso was broken into last
Tuesday night and the sum of $l1 alb
stracted from their desks.
The Carson appeal says that Senator
Fair has written letter to a resident of
that city, stating that the Mint will be re-
opened January l, 1856, and the erection of
the new Government building will begin
in March.
A resident of Joseph, Or, claims to have
seen living monster, 100 feet in length,
in Wallowa lake, and to have heard it
below. The Wallowa ChieftGin gives some
credence to the story and terms the ami
NAL sea cow"
The town of Pocatello, T. T.. is located
on forty acres of land purchased from the
Indians by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Secretary of the Interior has given or
ders to have all the buildings in the place
removed at once, claiming that they are
illegally on an Indian reservation.
Near Maiden, l. r., one day last week, a
German named Schultz was rushing about
d circular saw, and by careless move his
right arm was cut off by the machine. 1t
was done so quickly that the man felt no
pain at first, and did not know he was in
iured until he saw the severed member on
the floor.