Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Carson City proposes to erect smelling
Santa Rosa's new city market will cost
Los Angeles has lsl Government pen
sioners.
\ shoe factory will be shortly started in
San Diego.
Scarlet fever is said to be prevalent in
Los Angeles.
There are l,3o7 patients in the Napa In
sane Asylum.
The Napa woolen mills cannot keep up
with their orders.
Indians bring sacks of Truckee trout to
Winnemucca daily.
Gridley wants gas works, and Birgs vo-
ciferates for electricity.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Mo!oc county.
The Tehama county Jail has been two
weeks without an inmate
Wool is selling for fifteen cents per
pound in Washington Territory.
Miners are wanted in the Calico district
at 8 per day. Board is s. a week
Contra Costa county has over one hun
dred liquor saloons and one -four mill
Watsonvines treasury forces the city to
dispense for while with street lamps
One contractor will use !, 100000 brick in
buildings at Butte, NJ T. this summer.
At the Napa asylum tunnels are being
dug for the purpose Of securing additional
water for irrigation.
Employees of the Oregon State Board of
immigration are under investigation ON
charges of wrong doing.
The Northern Pacific Railroad offers to
carry wheat from Walla Walla to Chicago
for nineteen cents bushel.
The inmates of the Multnomah county
(Or) Hospital are fed solely on pea coffee,
bread. potatoes and sturgeon.
In the process of repairing" the old
Santa Clara Mission Church nothing Of the
original structure will be left.
California butter is carried by steamer to
Astoria and sold al lower prices than Ore
gon dairymen can compete with.
There is an artesian well at Santa Bar
bara which furnishes water strongly i'm
pregnated with iron and sulphur.
Visitors to the New Almaden mines are
permitted on Thursdays only. They are
not allowed underground al any time.
In 1881 the yield Of the Wood river
mines was 81, ,250,O00 in 1882, s., 10000
in 1883, s., 100000; in 1854, 100000.
4 man 81 years old is registered at the
Oregon State immigration Society who has
come west to grow up with the country.
1t is thought the total valuation of
Napa county property will this year foot up
Sl2000,G00. Last year it reached 81 000,
coo.
The queer statement is made that
police officer at Los Angeles has become
delirious from the too frequent brushing of
his teeth.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says that the re-
building Of the Iona Prieta sawmiil is al
most completed. Its capacity will be $4,000
feet a day.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is dis
charging every man in all departments in
Oregon whose services can possibly be dis
pensed with.
The once thriving town Of blackberry
\. T., has been deserted and the inhab-
itants moved away in q body, by reason of
the railroad leaving it to one side
The new high school building of Port
land cost S125,000, but it is said better ac-
commodatiOns could have been furnished
by building costing less than $4,000
The Napa Register says that the freight
shipments by rail from Napa for the month
OF May amounted 10 1ZJ,bJS pounds, ana
the receipts amount to 1,500027 pounds.
The bridge and restle-work at Guerne-
vile will be 600 feet in length, 800 feet Of
which will be trestle and the rest will CON
sist of two 150-foot, two 60-foot, and two 40
foot spans.
Instead of employing Chinese, the fruit
growers in Eden township, Alameda
| county, give employment to hundreds of
children in picking fruit. This being the
vacation season, the supply of idle youths
is large.
The synagogue of the First Hebrew Con
gregation of Oakland, caught fire Tuesday
afternoon from a spark from the chimney
of the planning mill and carpenter shop ad-
joining the church on the southwest a
large part of the furniture, the organ and
the scrolls of Scripture were taken from the
burning building. The entire roof was de-
| stroyed, the interior burned out and dam
aged by water, and the walls only left
standing. The building cost $4,000 and
the furniture and accouuements $4,000
The insurance is $4,000.