Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Fresno county is to expend $4,000 in
bridges.
Work has begun on the new hotel at
| Pomona.
| 1t is estimated that there are between 400
| and 500 people at Pacific Grove at present.
San Diego is town with many churches,
| almost every denomination being repre-
| scented.
| There is a war in lumber rates at Santa
| Cruz, and redwood is retailed at S11 per
| thousand.
The mineral find in Antelope valley,
Nevada is neither tin nor any other known
useful metal.
Senator Stanford has commenced the
erection of large house on his Vina ranch
for winery.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad is trying to
compromise with its creditors at 10 and 20
cents on the 81.
Old-fashioned mule pack trains carry
freight from Eureka to the Trinity county
mining regions.
AT Belleville, Nevada, the officers have
to guard their prisoners night and day for
| want of a calaboose.
MADEIRA and Ripon are the only cities in
| the San Joaquin valley that propose cele-
brating the glorious Fourth.
The Austin, New Miners Union has
disbanded, and the affairs of the Union
placed in the hands of trustees.
| Los Angeles is to hold special election
to determine whether the city shall issue
| $245, 900 for improvement purposes.
| Small fruit farms of from ten to twenty
| acres are accommodating around Chico and
this gives increased value to town property
Recently a lawyer at st. Helens, Or, re-
| fused to defend criminal charged with an
outrageous crime, though offered large
| fee.
Two children at Grass Valley ate heartily
| of giant powder the other day. 1t made
them sick, but not seriously, and they are
now all right.
Santa Cruz claims to have a genuine pet
rified human body, said to have been found
at the foot of Bald Mountain, on the banks
of Laguna creek.
j. w. Jones while riding horseback near
Anaconda, NJ T., last Saturday, was in
stantly killed by lightning stroke, as also
were his horse and dog.
The Rancho San Pedro, in Los Angeles
county, comprising some $4,000 acres,
| worth at least 81 100000, has been divided
among six heirs TO the Domingues estate.
A school of grasshoppers struck the town
of Waterford last Saturday, says the Mo
desto Ne'cs Finding that the hotel was
closed, they began eating the paint off the
lamp-posts.
In Lincoln county, n. NJ, near the Pat
| tos mountain, can be traced the walls of
once large city. Inside the walls are grow
| ing monster cedar trees, said to be thou
sands of years old.
| Several Indians have put in garden
patches about Mono Lake. The barley they
| raise is boiled and eaten with potatoes,
making about stand-off with their COM
mon fare of dried flies.
Fire losses in Portland since January LIST
were S17,1S1 80; insurance paid, SO 1876 90;
| losses over insurance, 81 $50 80. The total
| amount of insurance on property destroyed
or damaged was S54,950.
In Riverside the license for retailing
! liquor in saloons was fixed at $75 month,
and all but one saloon closed thereby. This
not satisfying the people, they now demand
| that saloon license be fixed at $500 per
month, and hotel and restaurant license for
! furnishing wine or beer at table be $500 per
month. The proprietor of the saloon says
| his receipts are 81 500 per month and he
can stand the raise
| Daniel Macauly was attacked with heart
disease last Saturday while riding on horse
| back near Prescott, A. T., and was obliged
| to dismount and lie down by the roadside.
He lay there all day Sunday and Monday
until evening, and though he asked relief
of numerous paSsers-by they refused to so
i much as get him drink of water. Late
Monday night aid was sent him from Pres
colt, but when it arrived he was dead,