Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-11
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Chico wants a $500 school-house.

ChlcO wants - ,5O0 Sch00I-houSe.
The anti-treat law of Nevada is a failure.
Colusa has los children taken piano les
sons.
Pulmonary complaints are prevalent at
Eureka, Ney.
There is talk of Rutherfords annexation
to st. Helena.
The assessnent-roI of Nogales A. T.,
amounts to 100000.
Oregon made its first consignment of
wool to the East last week.
w. L. Crooks has been appointed Coro-
ner of the county Of Santa Barbara.
In boring q well near Portland Or. fir
log was found at a depth of 725 feet
The town of Baylis, on the Southern Pa
Citic road. has changed its name to Rosa
mond.
Cherries are reported to be getting ripe
before they are fully developed in Pajaro
valley
The Napa Valley Wine Company has on
hand in its St. Helena cellar 800, 900 gallons
of wine
y new species of fish, resembling the
smelt, has made its appearance in the
waters of the Willamette.
In the municipal election held last Mon
day at Napa there was gain of seventy
votes over the election last year
The State Board of Agriculture of Nevada
has issued an address to the people for the
purpose of raising funds for holding State
fair.
Z. ]. Baldwin intends to sell all his prop
erty in Los Angeles, except his Santa An
ita ranch. About $1,000 acres of choice
land will be put on the market
The appearance of myriads of frogs be-
tween the Toll House and Willow Point,
Nevada, where there is no water, has oc-
casioned much wonder and speculation.
4 Piute Indian named Dasus is cult
waiting sixty acres of land in Pleasant Val
ley, Nevada, this season, using Indian la
Dor exclusively, and he will have splendid
crops.
a piece of silicifed wood was found by
some miners, a few days ago, at depth of
400 feet below the surface of the ground
on Butte creek, near Centerville, Butte
county.
A E. Dimmick has dug-not bored-a
well on his place in Paradise valley. San
Diego county, 132 feet deep. Below
that he is still boring for water. the drill
having now reached a depth of 100 feet.
Stockton merchants are petitioning the
Central Pacific Railroad Company to CON
tinue the custom of collecting freight from
them after the goods are delivered. The
company has adopted the rule observed
elsewhere OF requiring freight to be paid
Tor on delivery.
An infant scarcely more than a day old
was found on the steps of the residence of
a wealthy citizen of Los Angeles a few
days ago. He declined to keep it and The
little waif has been adopted by prom
inent lady and gentleman of that place,
who will bring it up as their own.
The oregon Statesman is responsible for
the story that prominent politician of that
place recently threw out number of stale
eggs that he had found in his barn, and
was rewarded in the evening with a thor
oughbred spring chicken that was Matched
out by the sun during the heat of the day.
The Santa Cruz papers announce that a
minister of that place accompanied a young
runaway San Jose couple in iolly-boat
six miles out at sea and there married
them. The object in going out to sea was
to evade any law which might annul or
stop the marriage. The young mans
name was Leahy.
The Chinese Regulation Act, passed in
O.,
Thursday. 1t requires every Chinese, male
and female, to pay tax OF $40 per head
each year Employers of Chinese must
make return of the Chinese in his en-
ploy under penalty of 800 for each case
OF neglect and any person employing an
unlicensed Chlnaman must pay $50 fine.
The use OF opium, except for medical pur-
poses, IS prohibited, under penalty of 500
for each case.
The Cinnamon ranching near VIVA.
alarmed by the appearance of Il great num-
Der OF grasshoppers on their ranches. sent
to Oroville fora god, to be used in driving
the pests away. Either the god was no
account or the Celestiais did not know
just how to work him to effect the desired
end; at all events, messenger arrived here
on Saturday to get priest to go up and
assist them in the matter. as the bopners
still held the fields. His mission being
here, he continued on to San
Francisco, feeling confident that he would
find priest who could fix things in short
order.
An unhappy Chinaman in Walla WalIa.
w. T., who goes by the poetic name of
Shoe Fly, bought wife for $500 a few DAYS
ago, and within week she one night 81
lently stole away and went with another
Chinaman. Shoe Fly struck a trail he
thought was hers, and followed
for many n weary mile over
mountain range and valley to Pendle-
ton, in East Oregon, and when he got
there he found that it was not his wife. but
another girl, he had been pursuing. He
broken-hearted and broke. to
Walla Walla, and ended his DAYS and his
sorrows with dose of laudanum.
There is great enthusiasm at Ipswich,