Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Los Angeles papers complain of the beg
CARS in that city.
The young men of Dixon are running a
mock Legislature.
Four vessels are loading with wheat this
winter in San Pedro harbor
Dixon has got sensation similar to the
Evinger scandal in Sacramento.
The colony of Etawander, in Los Angeles
county, is illuminated by electric light.
Bear, elk, deer and other game are rang
ing lower on the foothills in the Cascades,
Oregon, this winter than for many years
before.
Los Angeles has new Morgue DR.:
Albert Brown has donated a room in his
residence for that purpose, free OF cost TO
the city.
A proposition is pending before the Los
Angeles City Council TO construct leyee
through that city along the Los Angeles
river, at Il cost of 900.
Mariposas most progressive citizens as
sembled last week and organized an Immi-
grafton Association. Mariposa county pro-
poses to make its attractions known to in
coming settlers
Two of the leading attorneys of Modesto
SCt-io III tOtll III
few days ago. They were separated by
an officer and were fined $40 each for con
tempt of Court.
The Eugene Orr Journal says that four
teep miles from Forest Grove, in the Coast
Range mountains, is an iron mountain
about 1000 feet high and three miles in
circumference, with fine water power
running at its base.
The Vallejo officers, after identifying
about twenty of the gang of hoodlums who
committed the gross acts of vandalism in
| that city on New Years night, could moi
induce any OF the injured property-owners
to swear out a complaint.
A case Of smallpox has developed in the
emigrant car of the Oregon Short Line
waiting at Huntington, Or, for the snow
blockade to be raised. All exposed persons
have been placed in quarantine and viii
be so held until the Dist inst
Last Thursday, an insane tanner, who
gave his name as E. NJ. Stevens, attempted
to swim the Straits of Carquinez, from
| point above Martinez, to Benicia He wa!
pursued and taken out of the water chilled
to insensibility, but was restored.
There are at present from 60 to 100 mel
in at the New river mines in Trinity coun
ty principally engaged in getting out tim
berS and erecting buildings. Provision
are scarce, and it is doubtful if there i
enough on hand to last until spring.
F. O. Townsend, ex-Assemblyman from
Mendocino county, while chopping wood
on the 18th ultimo, a stick of wood flew up
| striking him in the left eye, the effect 0
which will probably cause him to lose tn
sight. Mr.. Townsend resides in EdeI
valley.
The Santa Maria Santa Barbara county
Times predicts that quite large slice o
Santa Barbara will be added to San Lui
Obispo county by the action of the higl
water. The river. which is the boundar,
line, has taken chute to the southwest
creating new channel.
At Albany, Or, last week, during tn
blockade, a hundred hogs on their way from
Roseburg to Portland were found TO be in
dying condition, four or five having alread,
grunted their last Feed was taken to then
and they were let loose in the depot ware
house until the trains ran regularly again
The Tacoma (W t. Ledger says Al
Eastern powder company will expen(
| $3.50 000 in the erection of works on Van
madam Pacific Railroad bubble will burs
| al ol oeIoie us completion. WHlcn VIII leaFi
the Vancouver boom as fiat as pancake
The San Diego SIN jubilantly remarks
The boom has struck this city with irresist
ible force. The hotels are nearly full, anc
the demand for real estate yesterday wa:
greater than for several months Very few
residences can now be rented, and if severa
hundred were built they would pay hand
| some return for the investment
The Truckee Republican notes the arriva
of snow-shoe traveller from Lake Tahoe
who found the "trip hard one to make OF
account Of the softness of the snow. He
reports the snow about three and a half fee
in depth in the timber aid in the vicinity
OF the lake There are several logging
| companies at work on the shores of the
lake. Trout fishing is good there now.