Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Arizona owes 100000.

| Measles are prevalent in Vallejo.
! The Odd Fellows of Lompoc talk Of
! building 5000 hall.
The carp planted in the Humboldt river
are increasing rapidly.
! The cannery at Petaluma is paying out
] 81 800 weekly i'll wages.
Plans have been prepared for another
municipal building in Lossangeles.
The Suffer county Supervisors have
/ raised the liquor license to 500 q quarter.
! The smallpox has broken out among a
| party of Indians near Port Blakelv, w. T.
There are 10000 head of cattle in Pinal
county Arizona. large increase over last
| year.
\ movement is ON foot 10 erect Grant
monument in Chico, to be placed in The
City Park.
| Riverside is to have an artificial ice
machine. and an electric light plant run by
wateT-powcr.
The Columbia river salmon pack this sea-
son IS estimated at about 525, 900 cases,
against 645,0o0 last year.
Ninety-three Mennonites arrived at Grid
ley. Butte county, few days ago. They
will locate in Shasta county.
AT late pow-wow the Umatilla Indians
positively refused to give their consent 10
the opening up of the preservation.
w. z. Kinkead of Oakdale, Stanislaus
county, has invented q perpetual motion"
pump which he believes is the thing at
last
The receipts Of the Quijotoa A. r. Post
Office are about $500 q year. while the ex-
pense of the mail route 10 that place is
$1,000
The graduating exercises of the Indian
training school near Salem. Or, took place
Tuesday last There axe 225 pupils in at
tendance.
Birds are destroying great deal of fruit
in the neighhorhood of Independence
The damage is done by a small bird of the
linnet family.
The Los Angeles City Council and the
Board of Supervisors have appropriated
$3.50 for the expense of observing the
Grant funeral.
Two wagon loads of watermelons hauled
into Fresno the other day numbered but
siXty-tive melons, but they weighed up
wards OF two tons.
An Illicit distillery has been broken up
by revenue officers about forty miles from
Portland. Il had been running over a wear.
making liquor from fruit.
At Panaca, Lincoln county, New, thor
0Ughly Mormon settlement, the stars and
stripes were iioated with the Union down
all day on the Fourth of July.
\ colony of Swedes, it is said are con
tcmplating the establishment III Stanislaus
county Of a large vineyard and winery.
Also the production of raisns for a foreign
market
The Los Angeles Times prints story of
S2,000000 having been hid in the Los An
gees hills by friend of the late General
Gordon. However, it has not yet been
found.
1t is reported that large numbers of sheep
are dying this season from the operations
OF parasite that infests the liver There
has also been great mortality among hogs
from cholera.
There is reported to be trouble among
the sheep men now in Owens valley; there
are vast numbers of sheep in the valley
and along the mountains, and feed is get
ting scarce, leading TO quarres.
The Central Pacific Railroad has for some
Aume been sinking an artesian we'll At White
Plains, New, but has now suspended oper-
atiouS. having reached a depth OF :. $50 feet.
EOver 500, 600 has been sunk in the trial.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel SAYS: There is q
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|prides himselfin being the owner of Il cow
that has six legs. The man has been Of
tered $1,000 for the animal, so he says. but
refused it.
R. D. Parker, a Green Lake (W. t.
farmer, was burned out SATURDAY.. The
flames destroyed his residence, household
Ie!tects and barn. Parker was sick at the
Itilue, and was carried from the burning
building by his wife.
Twenty-one cars Of a freight train were
wrecked AZ Yucca, A. T., on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad, II week ago Sunday.
An unknown tramp was killed and an In
dian badly injured. y tramp who was
stealing q ride had gun slung across his
back and the weapon was bent almost
double, but its owner was uninjured.
There are now about 100 steamers that
lply on the waters of Puget Souud. An old
residenter furnishes from memory the
Seattle CtH with the names of fifty-two
others that used to ply there but do not
now. Ofthe number of the departed, four
were burned, two blown up, one sunk in
storm, one III a collision, twelve went like
the deacons " One-hoss shay" and the 9TH
i crs sought other waters.