Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Bcnicia's assessment this year is $3.50, COO
Alpine county's assessment roll amounts
| to 1903, 900.
Many colorcd people have settled in Vi
salia lately.
4 free dispensary has been established
in Los Angeles.
Salt Lake has Il well which furnishes
| both water and gas.
| Manager Tom Mcguire is trying to have
an opera house built at Anaconda, NJ. 7.
One firm near Arcata calculates to turn
out 10000 GOO feet of lumber this season.
The school census of Nevada county
shows a decrease, compared with last year.
Only eight marriage licenses were issued
| in Santa Barbara county during the month
| of June.
The Southern California road contract
ors are calling for several hundred white
| laborers.
One insurance company has paid nearly
SIS, GOO on account of the recent fire at
MERGED.
Well-diggers in Ventura county hunt for
ant-hills The insects always locate over a
vein of water.
A baby born near Magalia, Butte county,
lately, only weighed thirty, two ounces
when dressed.
! \ rock has been discovered in Little
River harbor, Mendocino county. with only
| 3 feet Of water over it.
The San Diego Olivenhan Colony trou-
| bic has been settled by an agreement TO
pay Sl5 an acre for the land.
The men on the Glenn ranch say that
| they will throw the next man who brings
whisky there into the river.
| Ground squirrels are multiplying on the
Santa Rosa plains. They are rapidly be-
| coming devastating nuisance.
\ man was arrested the other day at Par
adise, New. for stealing all anvil. He
/ pleaded guilty, and was fined s..
The people of Crescent City are subscrib-
| ing money for the purpose of building a
| breakwater off the mouth of Smith river.
The annual camp-meeting and Conven-
ton of the Christian Church will begin at
| Lodi September 18th, and continue ten
| days.
The Nevada Transcript says More cattle
and horses are being shipped to California
| than ever before, and the number on our
hills rapidly increasing.
| The Prescott Courier says that there is
scarcely a gulch in that section Of Arizona
| out OF which 4 miner cannot pan out from
30 cents to 50 day in gold.
The peninsula between the ocean and
| the bay of San Diego has been sold TO a
wealthy syndicate, who proposes to make
it great watering place on the coast.
The Eureka Sentinel says it is a common
| sight in Chinatown to see a Shoshone
| Squaw and Chinawoman play poker over
pot of four bits. As a rule they stand one
another off pretty well.
Pinal county has lei the contract for
| bridging the ella river at Florence 10 the
| California Bridge Company for $l3,46
| The bridge is to be 16 feet wide, and with
approaches $50 feet long.
A farmer living al Shell Beach. near To-
males Bay, Marin county found a whale
stranded in front of his place. He sue
ceeded in getting out OF the carcass $50 bar
| refs OF oil, besides a large amount of bone
The work on the Canadian Pacific Rail
road near New Westminster, b. c., IS said
to have been very poorly performed Many
ties are split and defective, rails are bent,
and in places there are gaps of nine feet
where there are no spikes to the rails.
The enterprising proprietor of variety
store at Stockton offered a prize valued at
SO to any lady who could estimate most
nearly the number of beans contained in a
glass exhibited in his window. The result
was tie and two ladies divided the
reward.
Rev. II. S. Jefffys. of Modesto. was
awakened between / and 5 o'clock last
Wednesday morning by young couple,
WHO were in hurry to get married. The
reverend gentleman Sympathized with their
ardor, and after making hasty toilet, per-
formed the ceremony.
A Marysville woman sent case of
canned fruit and jellies to relatives in
Mexico and the Mexican officers sent back
word that the import duties would be
s2f 30. As the value of the package was
about So, the lady concluded she didn't
want to pay the duty.
w A. w. Cunningham killed gray
eagle on David Chanlberlain's place, near
Santa Rosa, day or two since, which
measured six feet five inches from tip to
tip of wings. On the day the eagle was
killed, he carried away two full-grown
geese and several goslings.
The dwelling house Of Robert Johnson,
of Genoa, was burned last Friday. The
Carson Tribune says when the house was in
flames it was discovered that one of the
children was in bed in the building With (
true beroiSm the mother rushed into the !
burning building. from which she emerged |
with the child just as the roof fell in. /