Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tombstone is to have 4 military organ
ization.
The police of Portland have been raiding
the gambhng-hoUsoS.
Eight tons of DELAYED mails are said tobe
due in Tacoma W. T.
The census shows that Santa Barbara
contains - widows and - widowcrS.
\ colony of Nennonites from Russia is
to be settled in The northern portion of the
State.
The Naga papers are vehementIy calling
for the erection of 4 fruit cannerv in the
Napa valley
J.. L. Garden, OF Colusa, found tiye-cent
piece in the stomach Of COW which he
killed recently.
Napa's municipal tax this year was
SCI 70I 30. OF Tins amount only SGl i9now
remains unpaid.
The Tehama County Hospital has been
condemned by the Grand Jury, and new
building recommended.
Red Bluff has entered largely into the
pastime of chicken lighting. The girls
take hand III the sport.
Pomona. Los Angeles county is to have
4 S25, 900 hotel. Most of the stock in the
enterprise is reported sold.
The Truckee Necs observes: THE emf
grant trains are coming in full up now
adays. It's wonderful where they all come
from.
The Santa Barbara Press asserts that
wine was served to calars at only one
house out of the thirty which received on
New Years.
1t is said 10 be the intention of Peter
Donahue TO connect the towns of Sonoma
and Petaluma by rail in the course Of the
coming year.
\ parasite, called the clover silk. has
made its appearance in the alfalfa fields of
Los Angeles coUnty, and is steadily killing
off the crops.
The Petaluma City Trustees have been
petitioned to pass an ordinance declaring
skating rnks a nuisance and prohibiting
them in that city.
Less than 100000 acres are under the
plow III Northern California. Nearly 40
000,000 are covered by forest growths or
devoted to grazing.
An Act for the relief of the County
Treasures whose money was stolen by
Deputy State Treasurer January, is to be
pressed in the Legislature.
The total shipments of ore shipped
through " ellis Fargo x Co.'S Express from
Calico, San Bernardino county, during the
year 1851, amounted To SSp5, ,-l1.
Charlie Wright, of Winnemucca, New,
shot in the vicinity of Butte creek seven
large deer, which weighed, minus heads,
legs and entrails, over 700 pounds.
A mad fox has been doing mischief in
the vicinity OF Pine mountain, Sonoma
county. 1t has scattered hydrophobia
among the CANNES of that region.
The total value of taxable property in
S,nIo,,n 80
of taxes required for State is S75, ,2sS 16
county purposes, $l29,O01 IS; total S202,-
239 II.
The Maxwell tColusa county, Sta, urges
the experiment of planting forty pounds of
wheat to the acre, and after il is thorough
ly rooted cultivate 10y running the harrow
over ii.
\ bill viii be submitted to the next
Legislature OF Nevada allowing the Vetcr-
ans Home in California for each veteran
from that State $50 per year. the appropria-
ton for all not to exceed s., 200.
The Marysyillc 4pyea} objects to the es-
tablishmeut Of a third lunatic asylum in
this State. 1t says: ." In asSa,e with q
population OF less than 100000 inhabit-
ants, two large and cummudiOus ,.s ylums
ought 10 suffice"
But two flour cargues have gone from
tnc COIunlDia river TO England TINS year,
says the Astoriaa, which is i'll marked con-
trast 10 last season. when a large percent
age Of our English grain shipments was in
the condensed form of flour
Raisin-makine was first attempted in
this State nineteen years ago. The follow
ing year about 800 boxes were made, and
the industry has rapidly progressed, Ten
years ago the crop amounted to about 40,
600 boxes. This year the crop is estimated
at 100000 boxes.
The condemned United States steamers
Modoc and Mohican have been hauled
alongside the Monadnock wharf at the
Mare Island Navy Yard and will at once
undergo dissection. The purchasers are
tearing them to pieces to obtain the metal
contained in them.
The SuiSun Republican says there are
fully eighty prisoners in the county jail,
and nine-tenths of them are tramps who
are thoroughly cOntented with their quar-
tiers. 1t thinks they are fed too.well and
suggests that the Jail be made a terror to
the tramp fraternity.
1t is reported in Los Angeles that the
properties franchise and rights of the San
Gabriel Valley Railroad Company have
been sold 10 the Atlantic and Pacific Rail
road Company This is an indication that
the Atlantic and Pacific intends to run into
Los Angeles, as well as to Cotton and san
Diego.
The largest orange tree in the Riverside
colony is L years old. it measures feet
in circumference, or nearly II inches in
diameter. At the age OF years it bore
about half a dozen oranges; at II years it
bore 1000; at u years it bore 2,250; at IL
years, which brings 1t to the present season,
it contains 1000.
: , = Al,
bia river, not far from Portland, the snow
on the railroad track has drifted from five
to forty-tiye feet deep. 1t is part ice and
part snow, and SO hard that it has to be
cut through with a pick. Work. under
such discouraging circumstances, is slow
and very laborious.
The jacksonville Orr Times says "On
Saturday last five armed officers and Deputy
Sheriffs from klamath county were held at
bay near Floupce Rock III their attempt to
arrest Daniel Wrinkle, charged with steal
ing a Government stove, by one deter
mined woman behind .twelve-inch re-
yolver. with the husband in the rear"
The Tombstone Epidph facetiously re-
marks; . Tucson can build more railroad
depots, water-tanks and way stations in the
air than any other town in the Territory
except, perhaps, Phoenix. The Tucson
papers every day build Il railroad to Gala
baSas, but the people do not wake up in
time to get glimpse OF the construction
The Petaluma Courier says: Quite
number of horses in the vicinity of Peta-
luna have lately been troubled with dis
order. The horse appears stupid, and ifex-
ercised becomes very weak, and II over
worked partial or total paralysis of the
hinder parts viii be the result: 1t is sup
posed to be an affection of the kidneys,
brorr ~, nv n ;snOfinT1pd Ha-potbar-