Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

fldl falr III 1nCelllX.
Portland, Or is to have its streets illu-
minated by electric lights.
1t is rumored that the Occidental Hotel
of Seattle is to be closed for want of patron
age.
The young men of San Jose propose to
form a club TO play football on roller
skates.
Yreka has ghost. The Journal saws the
spook is liable 20 come to grief il it don't
stop its foolishness.
Faustino Tayes, an old Spanard in San
Jose, carries about lighted candle and saws
he is =" the Lords prophet
Frank C. Savage, of Portland Or, ex-
poets 10 benefit by the signing of the
French spoliation claim to the extent OF
$4,000.
Red Bluff is undergoing a general clean
ing up. Houses are being rcpainted,
walks laid out and trees and shrubbery
planted.
Millmen on the Carson river say if the
spring proves cold, the snow at present in
of water.
\ French mining company has incor-
poratcd under the laws of France, to operate
mines at Butte, Mont. Its capital is 10000
600 francs.
Rev. L. Gregory has planted 700 trees on
his property at Santa Cruz, y T. The dcs-
erts of Arizona may yet some day be a
wild forest.
Puyallup, Washington Territory, last
year marketed 10000 bales of hops, which
produced $500, 600 in coin. Now the town
wants a bank
Mrs. r. b. Odeneal, of Salem. Or, has
obtained divorce from her husband on the
ground of cruelty. She is a sister of Mrs.
Senator Dolph
Stanislaus Netrs p. D. Wigginton, at
tOrney for the railroad company, has been
retained by Loutitt in the Sumner-Loutig;
contested election case.
An effort is being made in Watsonyille
| to organize a company to purchase and
| run a fruit-drying establishment during
the coming fruit season.
Tombstone, A. T., is lively scpulchrC
at present. Two shooting scrapes occurred
there last Wednesday, both over poker
games. Nobody was killed.
One hundred miners have been dis
charged from the Horn Silver mine n
Frisco T. T., since the cave. But little i.
doing now by the company.
There are 103 saloons in Monterey county
which average at least $40 day each
making $3T75,9 $50 spent for Intoxicating
drinks per year in that county.
Governor Adams. of Nevada, happened
to overhaul an old coat the other day, and
! found s., 800 in one of the pockets. He had
forgotten all about the money.
The Phoenix (Arizona) Gazette remarks
| that a little capital and some energy are all
that is necessary to develop new homes for
800 families in the Salt river valley.
The steamer Beaver, fifty years old, hay-
ing been launched in 1875, and the first
steam vessel on the Pacific, was inspected
at Victoria, b. c., Monday, and pronounced
in perfect order.
T Dawes has presented to the Histor-
ic2 society OF Montana a souvenir of con-
siderable interest, in the shape of a medal
presented by President Van Buren, to the
Crow Indians in 1887
Two Chinese robbers have been success
fully operating in Junction City Rush
| Creek, Minersyille and Weaverviilc, in the
northern portion of the State, and have
batilcd capture and pursuit.
An acre in apricot or French prune trees
| will, when the trees are four or five years
| Old, says the Tuiare Register yield 4 larger
net income than any twenty acres of aver
| age grain that can be grown in that valley.
DIR. Crockwell, of Salt Lake City, recent
| ly died from starvation, caused by hyper
| trophied condition OF the tissues of the
stomach, which rendered it incapable OF
| retaining or assimilating any food taken
into it,
Dixon is to have water works company
for the purpose of supplying the town with
pure fresh water The electric light com
! pany and the water company expect to
| use the same engine and thereby curtail eX-
| penses.
The San Bernardino Times says that
graders on the California Southern Rail
| road are now ut work between Point OF
! Rocks and point ON the road between
Waterman and Daggett, where the connec-
| ton is to be made.
| The boiler at the Randall shaft, New AL
MAIDEN quicksilver mine, burst Yesterday
while twelve men were being lowered in
| the cage, but Engineer Thomas TonIin
stood at his post in the Scalding steam I'M
! til the men were landed.
y dead body floating in the bay at As
| toria, Or, was picked up yesterday, and
proved to be that of Louis Eckbark
| drowned November 18th. Deceased was a
| native of Germany aged %. and mem
Der of Castle Lodge, X. of p, of Red Bluff
Cal.
One evening last week, young gentle
man escorted young lady home from a
dance at Auburn. On arriving at the gate
she requested him not to go any farther, but
he insisted upon accompanying her to the
front steps, whereupon she set the big
house dog on him, and TIE next day he had
to patronize a tailor.
Capital Whitehall, of Edison, w. T..
while sh .ngling the other day, put his
Crawing-knife down on the scat and went
to do something else, and when he re-
turned he sat down on the knife, which
cut wound ten inches long and two
inches deep DR.. J. s. Lewis was called to
dress the wound, and put stitches in it,
but later the stitches We're broken, and the
man at last accounts was in a critical con-
dition.
There is a COW roam ng over the COM
mons at Tuare City that lays over any Sit
ting Buil that ever swung a tomahawk
She has got the notion in her head that she
has an appointment for Spanish bull
fight TO keep with every human being that
comes in sight. Prudent people give her a
wide birth, but last Thursday an unwary
vaquero named Pedro Ochva took ride on
her horns, and she gave him some splendid
lessons in playing lone hand at pedro.
Tho vaquero got away with two of his ribs
broken and hole in his cheek.
PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST.