Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

L. J. Rose has closed down his distillery
at Los Angeles, and will purchase no grapes
this season.
-Four sacks of ore, valued at $25 900, were
shipped from ACKNOWLEDGEMENT mine IN
Shasta county Monday.
There have been a number Of water
spouts in Haystack valley, w. T., recently,
causing great loss to farmers.
A half dozen buildings, including a
hotel Of sixteen rooms have been erected
in Aptos, Santa Cruz county, during the
past six months.
The Grand Jury of San Bernardino
county has found wholesale series Of in
dictments against residents Of that county
for maintaining nuisance5.
Over 5000 pounds of arsenic have been
sent to the San joaquin valley during the
past week for use in fighting grasshoppers,
and the new idea is being practiced success
fully.
On Thursday last the new shingle mill
of the Redwood Company at Trinidad,
Humboldt county, commenced operations,
and is turning out about $1,000 shingles
| daily.
James Brownie, Of Vallejo, has sue
ceeded in raising q brood Of tame quail.
The old ones, which were captured about
eight months ago, are nearly as tame as
chickens.
Nearly 500 Chinese landed at Victoris on
Monday from Hongkong, and it is supposed
| they intend smuggling themselves into
! the United States, as there is no employ
ment for them in British Columbia.
They want 4 physician in Choteau Mon
,ana. The nearest doctor lives at Sun
River, thirtY-two miles from.Choteau. The
! people Of Chotcau will give physician a
lot and rough lumber to build house.
Desert mice are playing havoc with
| flower gardens in Daggett. The other day
Mr.. Giilespy of that city found on his prem
ises proliicnest OF the rodents deliberately
| lined with tender orange and rose leaves.
Two hunters killed five bears on the
headwater5 OF the Little Blacllfoot river
! NJ. T., i'll less than a week recently. The
stuckmen of that section have standing
reward Of $50 per head for every bear killed
Northern California has an area of 81. DOC
square miles, or more than 81, OK, 900 acres
This region would furnish 100000 farms
the average size of those in New England
| and the Middle States, with g farming pop
ulation Of $500, 900 people
George L. Andrews, an old miner, dice
| IT Bodie last week. He was one Of tho
! brave band that went down the Kentucky
| shaft at the ComstOck to rescue the men il
| the Yellow Jacket when that mine was or
| fire. lie was also member of the NevadS
Assembly from Storey county in 1879
\ Modesto lawyer has come out in care
stating that he will not, hereafter, defend
| any Of the criminal class. prefer to aiC
III sending that class TO State Prison, where
| they more properly belong, rather thar
! keeping them free to prey upon the com
mrnity, Us l have heretofore done to my
sorrow"
The Cheney (W. T. TriJ7lnc SAYS that tht
| machinery for the grain elevator is on the
way and the timber ordered. There will
| be but one elevator in this country this
| year. Cheney viii be the first town in this
entire western country to possess this ad
vantage, there being at present none wes
of Montana
The Red Bluff .Seatjs,sl says that Ryan
! the foOt-racer, went to Chico q few days
ago, made . race with 9 man supposed tc
bea common " clod-hOppcr," but he proved
to be PROFESSIONALISM least that's the way
| Ryan and his friends looked at him after
! the race He beat Ryan six feet. winning
! the race and money.
! Juan Silva. the horsethief recently ar
rested near Hollister, had on his person
| letters and documents belonging to one
/ Robert Hendry It Is now learned tha
| Hendry owned a ranch near Santa Bar
| bara, and left there in April last for g roy
! ing trip northward. He has never since
been heard of, and it IS surmised that ht
! has been murdered and robbed bv some O.
the horse-stealing gang.