Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Catfish, eighteen inches long. have been
caught IN Soap Lake, near Gilroy.
The Los Angeles Express asserts that there
are l,OO men out of employment in that
city.
Miners in the Columbus (Nev.} mining
district are expelling the Chinese from their
baliiwick.
Tons of catfish are being caught in the
sloughs on the Telegraph road a few miles
from Stockton.
A cave of unknown extent has been dis
covered in Josephine county, Oregon,
twenty miles south of Grant Pass.
law was passed by the recent Mon
tana Legislature prohibiting the killing of
quail IN that Territory for the next six
years.
A flagstaff at Mount Vernon, Washington
Territory, l46 feet high. is claimed to be
one of the longest unspliced spars III the
United States
The stockmen have taken the Montana
Legislature. 1t is stated that all but eight
OF the entire body are cattlemen. the eight
being lawyers.
Large numbers of shad are being caught
in the Straits of Carquinez by the fisher
men. The shad are nearly as large as full
grown salmon.
IN the Arizona jiiaer appears the adver-
tiSement OF a saloon and clubrooms with
the cheerful addendum Gambling tables
run day and night
A rattlesnake five feet in length. measur
ing twenty inches at It's greatest grth, and
having fifteen rattles, was killed at Covina
Los Angeles county last week.
AT the last count of the Nevada State
Board Of Examiners of the money in the
State treasury they found S32f,059 80 cash
on hand, and 100000 in school securities.
Fifteen tramps attempted to capture
Stockton freight train on the 1st inst.
After lively fight with the train men the
tramps were defeated, and five Of them put
in jail.
4 real live ghost is reported to inhabit
dweliing-house close to the skating rink in
Astoria Or. The ghost is never seen till
just at dusk, when it comes in with a
rustic and transfyes every one with awe
The Boise Idaho) Democrat says: The
Bryan Bros, who had been hunting band
OF thirty mules ever since the great snow
storm in December, found them all dead
last week. Their loss amounts 70 about
$50, 900
The San joaquin and Sierra Nevada
Railroad has graded to within half mile
of Valley Springs Regular trains will be
put on the road next week, and d new pas
senger coach, costing $1,000, has been built.
The travel to the Big Trees over this line
has already set in
A Chinaman who had been married 70 a
negro woman in Havana, Cuba, passed
through Tucson March 10Th with their
six curly-queued children, en- route for
China to remain. They attracted much at
tention at the depot by their curious mix
ture of nationality.
Miss Zoe Bartlett, of Giiroy, died March
18th after short illness. Some weeks ago
the young lady received a fall while at
skating rink, and the injuries received
finally resulted in congestion of the brain
Miss Bartlett was 20 years of age, and n
niece of Hon. P, 3. fully.
Miss Florence Dwinelle, who died in
Berkeley on March Stll, bequeathcd b. an
Geographic will her entire estate valued at
$4,000. to her sisters--Mrs. Ella c. Pond
and NJ IS Anna L. Dwinelle. Before tes-
tatrix lied Miss Anna Dwinelle died, hence
the entire estate goes to Mrs Pond.
The limestone reefs near the Quiiotoa
road about six miles west Of the city. con-
tain many very tine specimens Of fossiized i,
sheilish in an almost perfect state Of |
preservation. / he altitude OF the rect Is |
about 800 feet above >ea-ievel and he |
limestone is cut by .uany veins Of silver |
bearing quartz
A company has been organized for the !
purpose of constructing q canal 70 tap Goose |
lake, and conduct lis waters into Pit river !
thence over the sage brush lands in that |
valley to irrigate the vast body OF lands that |
are lying waste in that region. Ii is ex-
pected to make 10000 acres of desert land |
productive and fertile
March 18th L. T. George. ex Speaker OF !
the Nevada Assembly, was arrested at Bat |
tie Mountain for violating the provisions of |
the anti-treatng Act. 1t is reported that !
counsel for Mr.. George cited the decision of |
the Justice of the Peace O Fizcn Switch |
declaring the Act unconstitutional, and |
Justice Parks, before whom Mr. George was ;
tried, took the matter under advisemcnt !