Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Josephine county, Or, boasts of subter-
ranean cavern.
San Diego is second Brooklyn as re-
CARDS churches.
There are nineteen prisoners in the Eu-
reka New Jail.
Whisky men of Portland, Or, are work
ing to reduce the tax.
Maricopa county, Arizona Territory, has
apopulation of 10000.
A glucose factory is to be established in
Cowlitz county, w. T.
Los Angeles county produced 100000
gallons of wine last year.
A kangaroo rat was caught in the Red
woods near Napa, recently.
Santa Ana, Los Angeles county, shipped
1877 boxes of oranges last week.
The Chinese theater at Bakersfield is
largely patronized by white people
The population of Bodie is said to have
decreased in five years from 5000 to 500.
The San Bernardino Times says that a
divorce mania is raging in that vicinity.
The Hollister Adrduce says that there is
$53, S75 in the San Benito county treasury.
The product of wool this season in Lyon
county, Nevada amounts to 167, 000pounds.
Portland has become quite news center,
being the headquarters of three press asso-
Citations.
The First National Bank of Arizona
will hereafter be known as the Bank of
Prescott.
1t is now stated that the fruit and berry
crop of Utah this season will be abundant
and fine.
The Carson (Nevada) Mint is in full
blast, with the exception of the coming de-
partment.
grants, westward bound, pass Palisade
New, daily.
The Fresno Supervisors want to raise
$4,000 for the purpose of building bridges
across the San Joaquin and Fresno rivers.
The Carson (Nevada) Appeal says that
S16,2S was received by the State Land
Office for sales during the month of March
Seven tunnels have been successfully run
into the mountains in Los Angeles county
and water obtained for irrigation purposes.
The abandoned portion of the Nevada
Central Railroad. running to Lewis district.
is to be repaired and brought into operation
again
The two fire companies at Prescott, A. T.
are known respectively as dudes and
coughs"
Portland, Or, is said to have the worst
city Jail for malaria and smells on the Pa
cific coast.
Vacant houses at Truckee are hard to
find, and there is a great demand for fur
nished and unfinished rooms owing to
new arrivals.
A stock train on the Oregon Short Line
carrying shipment OF twenty carloads of
cattle from Walla Walla ran 456 miles in
twenty hours.
Since the rejection of the Chinese restric-
ton bill by the Dominion Parliament, Chi
namen are pouring into Victoria, Z. c., in
great numbers.
A large snake belonging to one of the
passengers got loose on the cars between
San Jose and Gilroy last Thursday, and
caused a stampede.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune says an
olive tree ten years old is worth SO, and
grove of 100 acres, or 1900, will aggre-
gate value of $4,000.
The post-mortem examination of four
sea gulls shot ut Compton, Los Angeles
county, showed the remains of gophers in
various stages of digestion.
The Ogden Utah Hcraid says that the
rising of the Weber river will overflow the
land with alkali water, and many of the
crops in that section will be ruined.
An undertaken of Tucson A. T., has held
the embalmed body of a man since 1889
as collateral for the cost Of the operation,
which his relatives in the East refuse to
pay
Senator Stanford has Holstein COW on
his Vina farm. in Tehama county, that in
II days gave 1,637 pounds of milk, several
pounds more than the gross weight of the
COW.
The hakey cotton or pollen from the
cottonwood trees accumulates in such vast
quantities in some portions of Phoenix, A.
T., that it constitutes a dangerous element
in starting fires.
Some bad boys tied coat-oil can to the
tail of large dog in San Jose on Thursday,
and in its wild career the dog upset q little
girl named Salisbury, who has since been
taken seriously i'll.
The Los Angeles Express says large tiocks
of wild fowl are as usual abundant both
ON the wing and on the breakers at Comp
ton and up the mouth of the San Gabriel
river and in the creeks.
A Court martla at L Ort w AHA w ala has
suspended Lieutenant VIM. c. Muhlenberg
of the Second Infantry from rank and COM
mand for six months for conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman.
The Indian doctor at Pahranagat, Utah,
was stoned to death on Monday last for
having failed to cure patient placed under
his charge. His body was afterwards
thrown into an old prospect hole.
The editors of the Northern Picket, pub
lished at Alturas, Modoc county, have con-
fessed judgment in the suit instituted by
Mr. Carothers who was candidate for
Congress at the last election, against the
paper for libel.