Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-19
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

OlO county mas Sto,oV0 40 III HeI ueds-
ury.
There were four suicides in Stockton last
week.
The Downieyille Tribune has gone to
Sierra City.
Chinese are paying $45 per ton net for
raisin grapes at Davisyille.
Nogales, \. T., has a saloon where you
enter from Mexico and drink in the United
States.
1t is reported that the railroad machine
shops are to be removed from Tulare to
Sumner.
A carload of fruit shipped from Los An
geles to Chicago recently made the trip in
five days.
Arizona is paying the highest average
salaries for school-teacherssof any State or
Territory in the United States.
Santa Barbara claims that she has been
uniustly Disseminated against in not being
made a quick delivery Office.
The bills audited by the Board of Super
yisors of Tolo county, at their session Just
closed, aggregated about $4,000.
Oroyille proposes to have citrus fruit
fair this winter, to show what northern
California can do in this respect.
A ledge of iron ore, - feet thick, has
been found near Nevada City Average
specimens run from 70 to so per cent of
pure iron.
While boring well near Los Angeles
last week strong flow of natural gas was
struck, and after going Il little deeper the
well began flowing oil.
No Chinese are wanted at Great Falls, NJ.
T. The only one i'll town was called out
one night recently. put in boat and started
down the river by himself
Virginia City boasts of a cabbage that
was raised in one of its gardens that meas
ures / feet and IL inches in diameter. or
about 10 feet in circumference
An artesian well rising % feet above the
pipe and flowing between so and 90 miners
inches of water, has just been finished at
San JacintO, San Diego county 1t is only
217 feet deep.
The chain-gang of Petaluma refused to
work one day last week. and the Marshal
fastened them up to h:tching rack on the
street and kept them without food until
they were glad 10 give in.
There is a flour mill at Colusa, which lies
idle while flour is hauled twenty-six miles
across country to that place from Marys-
vile, whereat the Colusa San remarks upon
the economy OF such proceeding.
The Ventura Free Press says: A large
school of porpoises were seen going north
ward few days since. 1t is estimated that
there were thousand in the school, and
their antics attracted much attention.
The Williams Reriew takes its people to
task for their apathy, and says The peo-
pie here are an eaSy-going set, and if
mountain were to fall upon them they
would turn over and laughingly say: Now
you stop that"
The MERGED Erpress saws Grandma Sill
man, very estimable lady of 81 summers
and a resident of MERGED ever since it has
been a town, took her first ride on the cars
last Saturday. She went to Tulare to visit
her and-daughter.
A Deputy Marshal has been trying for
seven months to serve an injunction on
James Arnett, q mine-owner of Nevada
county. Last Monday the Marshal met
his man in narrow path in the forest
near the mine and successfully served the
papers.
The Office of Chief of Police of Phoenix,
A. T.. does not seem to be a sinecure by
any means. The Gazette says that officer
is marshal eX officio, assessor, tax collec-
tor, road commissioner and poundmaster,"
under the charter and he is made fire
warden" by city ordinance.
man was tried at San Bernardino last
week for stealing a watch, and the jury
promptly found him not guilty Then the
man to whom he gave the watch and who
afterwards sold it was tried, and was as
promptly found guilty and sentenced to a
year and six months Imprisonment.
The Santa Barbara Independent SAYS:
About two weeks ago six sperm whales
drifted ashore on the south end of the
Santa Rosa Island. They We're discovered
too late for the oil to be utilized. Had they
been found in time, the finders would have
realized something like profit of $1,000.
Medicine Lake is a beautiful sheet of
water lying above the lava beds in the Mo-
doc country. 1t is about mile and half
in length and half mile in width, sur
rounded by tamarac timber and high
mountains, but the curiosity is the bloom
in the water, something like the lakes of
Switzerland, and it is we'll worth seeing
The Los Angeles Herald says There are
ten more new ostriches at the Fall Brook
ostrich ranch, which makes a flock of
twenty-three chicks at that place Now that
the ostriches are breeding SO rapidly at Fall
Brook and at the ranch near Norwalk, it is
likely that it will not be necessary to send
| to South Africa or Paraguay for any more.
Thursday evenings Carson Tribune dc
spondently remarks: The Mint Jig is up.
This morning orders were received order
ing the bullion and the coin slowed away
in the Mint vault. aEgregating in the neigh
borhOod of 100000, shipped East. The
bullion, we understand, goes to New York.
and the coin to the Philadelphia Mint.
This, no doubt, means the final closing of
the Carson Mint.