Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
San Jose has raised the circus license to
800.
The Butte county poor-house has sixty
two patients.
The police force of Carson has been re-
duced to one man.
1t is said that Tulare lake has risen four
inches since last spring.
Spokane Falls, W T., is to have six cleo
trio lights of 2,00o-candle power each.
Livermore has had to close its schools
on account Of the prevalence of diphtheria.
Squirrels have destroyed many acres of
grain and feed in the vicinity of Tuscarora,
New.
There are 113 eonvicts in the Nevada
State Prison and l59 patients in the State
Insane Asylum.
Many young chicks are being success
fully Matched by incubator at the San Diego
county ostrich farm.
VIM. Friesnes of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
has been chosen Superintendent of the Los
Angeles city schools.
The Calico Print says calico is dirty.
nasty and filthy, and if some of the nuis-
ances now existing are not abated we will
all die"
p. Armstrong, teacher of swimming
at Santa Cruz, won bet of $50 on Satur-
day last by lifting in harness 2,0S7 pounds.
He lifted 1t three times in succession.
The fish used at the Hotel del Monte,
Monterey, is bought in San Francisco,
most of it having been previously caught
IN Monterey bay. So says the Santa Cruz
Surf
The other day the devil on the White
Pine New Netcs had all the screws set to
change the politics of the paper, but the
editor came home and nipped the scheme
in its infancy.
A woman near the Dales owns a fine
farm which she bought with money made
by her own exertions il peddling eggs. but
ter vegetables, etc, besides supporting a
worthless husband.
A giants causeway' of five sided ba-
saltlc columns, covering many acres. has
been found on Mount st. Helena. They
are OF pale greenish-yellow color, and are
said to be very beautiful.
There are only four Democrats in the
town OF Oceanside, San Diego county, and
as not one of them would accept the post
masteFship, dyed-in- the-woOl Republican
has been given the Office.
The Town Trustees of Dixon have raised
the quarterly licenses of washhouses To
places and say they will do no more bust
ness until the tax is reduced.
The Lyon County Times describes a set of
hieroglyphics on rocks east OF Dayton and
thinks they resemble those of ancient Mex
leo, proving that the Aztecs had visited and
perhaps had settlements in Nevada
A number of ancient hieroglyphics
carved on granite cliff have been found
on the Carson river about thirtv-iive miles
from Dayton, New. They viii be photo
graphed, and an effort made to decipher
them.
Thursday number of teamsters near
Fresno encountered dense swarm of bees.
which darkened the air as far as they could
see. They were obliged to unhitch their
horses and flee to avoid being stung to
death.
A man was arrested at Fresno on Friday
night for furnishing prisoners in the
County Jail with whisky. He bored
hole through an iron shutter put the end
OF funnel therein and poured the liquor
through it.
A. Benitz, who has herd of Angora
goats running on the hills near Verdi, saws
this years crop OF mohair which he sold
to plush factory at Seymour, Connecticut,
brought from 80 to 60 cents per pound. ag-
gregating over $4,000.
At the Tacoma sawmiu in the First
ward OF Tacoma w. T., there IS a sawdust
deposit twenty feet in depth, upon which
Is growing luxuriant cluster Of tomato
vines bearing upon their stems tomatoes
as large as mans fist.
In the Bruneau valley, 1. T.. recently,
mountain lion killed an S-year-old bow
within q short distance of his home. The
boys father saw the lion seize him, and,
running for his gun, killed the animal, but
too late to save the boys life.
A young couple eloped at Syeetwater,
New, recently, and started in a buggy to
get q marriage license After riding q
couple Of miles over q rocky road the girls
courage failed her, however, and she
jumped out and ran back TO her mother.
The Hawthorne (Nev.) Bulletin saws
The Indians are leaving Belleville on ac-
count of some strange disease which is
carrying them off. They are much alarmed,
and are going to new camping grounds as
i@st as they can get their ponies to carry
them.
Fort Huachuca is to have some more
new buildings. An appropriation Of IS. O00
is to be made to build guardhouse, shops.
etc From all appearances there is good
reason to believe that Huachuca ere long
viii be made headquarters of the military
department of Arizona.
MRS. Rider, whose name has been widely
mentioned in this State as q remarkable in
stance of the success of the faith cure. died
recently at Grass Valley, and post NOR
tenn showed the presence of large tulnor
in the abdominal cavity and badly dis
eased condition Of both heart and lungs.
a company of Nevadans have lately
taken up under the Placer Land Act the en-
tire surface of Owens lake. twenty miles
loHg by ten miles wide. Vats are being
excavated along its level shores, into which.
by steam power, the water is pumped from
the lake. The hot sun of cfoudless DAYS
brings rapid evaporation, leaving carbonate
of soda in the vat