Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Comstock population is said to be
increasing.
The Mayor of Portland draws 81 800 a
year salary.
Hueneme will be postal order office on
and after July LIST.
The imported. bamboo plants are flour
ishing in Portland.
Los Angeles wants a glass factory to FUR
nish jars for fruit-growers.
An effort is being made to force saloons
in Los Angeles to close at 10 P. NJ.
Typhoid pneumonia is raging among
children at Madrone Soda Springs.
The Salt Lake Herald employees struck
against being paid in ''store orders"
The artesan well of Daniel Rhoads, near
Lamoore, has reached depth OF 700 feet.
Glenn ranch wheat will give an average
yield of thirty-five bushels to the acre this
year.
Since January LIST there have been nearly
100000 of substantial improvements in
San Diego.
A marriage license was issued at Santa
Barbara a few days ago to boy of II and
a girl of 10.
In the Waite-Tasker breach of promise
Il verdict Of $2.500.
Mrs. Henry Wall, who resides on Rus
sian river, killed a rattlesnake recently
that had eight rattles.
A swarm of bees made their home i'll an
old valise at Marysyille, and have stored
considerable honey therein
The cornerstone of Masonic Temple
was laid with appropriate ceremonies at
Helena, NJ. r., last Tuesday
A cheese factory at Cove, Or, uses the
milk of over 500 COWS and turns out over
1000 pounds of cheese day.
The water works at Haywards have been
abandoned, although some $14, 900 had been
expended in their construction.
The Grass Valley Tidings offers a pre-
MUM of $40 to the person who will plant
the most bananas in that place.
An oil well is to be sunk in the city of
Los Angeles. 1t is believed the oil stratum
will be tapped at less than 300 feet.
An informant of the Portland Oregoaian
says that the gap in the Canadian Pacific
will not be closed before January LIST.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is dis
charging every man in all departments in
Oregon whose services can possibly be dis
pensed with.
\ Solano county man has four wives liv-
ing has been divorced six times, three
times from one woman, and has been mar
ried seven times.
Contractors who were excavating the
foundation of a business block at Helena,
NJ T., washed over $500 in gold dust from
a portion of the dirt.
On Thursday last the new shingle mill of
the Redwood Company, at Trinidad, COM
menced operations, and is turning out
about $4,000 shingles daily.
A granite slab with an impression of
moccasined human foot clearly defined on
it, has been discovered on one of the ISL
ands of the northwest coast.
There are three United States Land Office
agencies at San Diego, which are all kept
pretty busy with the daily filings on Gov
eminent land in that county.
Travel on the Napa Valley Railroad is
improving, and the number of health and
pleasure-seekers going into Napa and Lake
counties is daily on the increase.
San Diego has adopted the electric light
system, and will have four masts to com
mence with. The price to be paid for
lighting the city is 400 per annum.
Newspapers are now becoming so nu-
mcrOuS III MOHIalla lnat IL is necessary 10
double up on names. There are now two
Enterprises, two TribuneS and two Independ-
ents.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel understands the
King ranch at Boulder Creek has been sold
to Mrs Frutiger, widow of San Fran
cisco, who intends to put out large vine
yard.
A large party of citizens from Central
City and Georgetown, n. NJ, is now making
the annual search on the east side of the
Mogollon Range for the rich Adams dig
gings.
Forty-four buildings were moved from
old to new Yakima, w. T., between Nav
18th and June 9Th. Only fourteen build
ings will remain in the old town by the last
of the week.
The Los Angeles Herald says that work
has been begun on the foundations for the
upper Arroyo Seco bridge II will be an
immense structure, and require about 300
600 feet of lumber.
The Santa Rosa Republican says "Our
grocerymen inform us that they can buy
potatoes in San Francisco, and pay freight
on them to Santa Rosa, for less price than
they can buy them from our farmers"
A genuine English silver pheasant was
seen in the hills near Mark West
Springs on Wednesday. Several pairs were
turned loose in distant part of the State
some years since, and this one is supposed
to be one of them