Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Petaluma has eleven doctors
Mana is to have electric lights.
willows is to manufacture its ice.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Cana.
San lose has no bonded or other indebt-
edneSS.
Salt Lake is to have light-draft pleasure
steamer.
Several new school-houses areto beerected
in Tulare county.
The growing of cotton on MERGED river
has been abandoned.
Crockett Solano county, has a new and
capacious school-house.
The wanton destruction of deer is still
going on in Mendocino.
Eureka Cal, still keeps the Chinaman
outside its corporate limits.
Sturgeon are said to be running up the
MERGED and San Joaquin rivers.
a family in Sonora were made very sick
last week from eating canned shrimp.
The Italian-Swiss colony near Cloverdale
has set out this season 5000 olive trees.
George Crawford, of the idaho Herald,
published at Blackfoot, has become insane
San Diego contains a population OF 14,00O
The incubator of Turlock farmer
Matched q four-legged chicken the other
day.
In the towns Of Fall river valley. Shasta
county, eggs sell at eight cents per dozen
and chickens at IS per dozen.
San Diego is being examined as to its
adaptability for an ocean outlet for the
Atchison Railway system.
The millers of Salem, Or, have aban-
doned the system of ioaning sacks, and the
farmers will have to buy them.
An addition to the hotel at Long Beach,
Los Angeles county, is contemplated. The
improvements will cost $4,000.
Modesto saloon-keepers are trying to de
| feat the object Of the ordinance making it
| a penalty TO sell liquor TO minors,
The Western Union objects to the use of
its telegraph poles for fuel by teamsters
| passing between Elko and Tuscarora.
The Stockton independent says that $S3.-
600 will be required to conduct the city
government during the ensuing year
There are nearly 700 Indians in Fall
river valley, Shasta county, who subslst by
hunting, fishing and working on farms.
The Portland papers are attacking the
| extensive use OF oleomargarlne III that city
and the violation of the new dairy law.
A carload of young shad will leave Wash
! ington, d. c., for Oregon next week. They
will be placed in the Willamette river, near
| Salem.
Carson is trying TO solve the problem of
| building a $4,000 armory and printing
office with the $1,000 appropriated for that
purpose.
| The Mayor of Portland, Or, has signed
| the new liquor ordinance, reducing the
license to 800 per annum. The law goes
| into effect at once.
Idle people in Seattle use jack-knives on
| the telephone poles, and business is so
active that several poles lately had to be
| replaced by new ones.
| The compensation for the electric lights
| at Portland has been increased $4,000 per
! annum, in consideration of the company
keeping them lit all night.
\ snake twelve feet long frightened the
people of West MERGED one day last week.
| Everybody ran for a shotgun, and i'll the
meantime the snake slipped quietly away.
Three horses that were being chased by
dogs on the Eggers ranch, in Suffer county,
a few days ago. ran into a barbed wire
fence, breaking through ii. and were so
badly mangled that one died almost imme-
diately, with its throat ripped open by the
| barbs another died shortly afterward, and
the third cannot survive It's injuries. The
| animals belonged to Mr. Poifenberger, who
| lives on the Sacramento river, and were
! valued at $3.50 each.