Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
vacaville has a 75-pound beet.


A new disease is destroying the chickens
in the vicinity of Chico.
Horse thieves have been active around
Fresno during the past two months.
Swindlers are playing the change
racket on storekeepers in Portland, Or.
A Chinaman supplies all of Yuma with
vegetables from less than q half acre of
ground.
Desertions from the garrison at Fort
Walla Walla, W. T., are more numerous
than usual.
All the section bosses and laborers on the
Pacific Coast Railway have been temper
arly laid off.
1t is stated that the United States Mint at
Carson will probably resume active opera
tons about the first of next month.
Block tin, in payirg quantities and of SUI
perior quality, has been discovered in the
Cascade range near Quartzville, Or.
a pet deer belonging to Jacob Misfieldt,
at Dixon, jumped through the plate glass
show-window of Eppinger's store in that
town last Tuesday
1t is estimated that there have been al
most as many trees planted this season in
the vicinity of Tucson, y. T., as the total
of the last six years.
A great many chloriders and unemployed
miners have left Calico district recently to
prospect in the eastern and northeastern
part of the county.
The prisoners in the Sonoma County Jail
were utilized in removing books papers
and fixtures from the old to the new Court
house Thursday last.
The Trustees of Grass Valley have levied
town poll tax of 81 and a town road poll
tax of 81 on each male inhabitant between
q and so years of age.
The Prohibitionists OF San Jose have de-
cided to put straight ticket into the field
in the coming city election, which takes
place on Monday, April 18th.
A few days ago, in Sisl<iyou county, a
brown bear, weighing about 500 pounds.
was killed, after hard fight, by James
Dobkins and S. c. Vanderpool
The 11-year-old son of Alexander Mar
tell, while playing baseball at Vancouver,
w. T., was struck in the abdomen by the
batted ball, and died from the effects after
few hours.
The most reliable data obtainable shows
the number of live stock in Arizona to be
as follows: Cattle, 2SS,000; horses 81, 500;
mules, 1860; swine, 10000; sheep, 6S0,0o0.
Estimated value, $4,000, 900.
One hundred and forty thousand euca-
lyptus trees are being planted near Los
Angeles for fuel. 1t is said that an acre Of
them after a lapse of four or five years will
yield as much as an acre of grapes.
At Lorenzo the erection Of Methodist
Episcopal Church building has been COM
menced The dimensions are 30x50; cell
ing. eighteen feet. The cost, when COM
pleted is estimated at about s., 600.
A single acre of ground in Maricopa
county, Arizona, has yielded one thousand
bushels of onions, which, at five
cents per pound, the Maricopa price, gives
pretty good interest on the money in
vested.
Last year Eben Pierce planted three
quarters OF an acre of his place, near Ia
coma, w. T., with strawberries, and after
supplying his family and neghbors with
all the berries they wanted, he sold $500
worth to the Tacoma market.
The Placerville Democrat says that Nj. S.
Granger found on his place, near Shingle
Springs, about one month ago, piece of
gold weighing 81 ,515. 1t was near the sur
face. He had previously found in the
same vicinity pieces weighing from 500 to
$500
A worthy family named Craig lives in
Baltimore, Nd. One of the sons, James
Craig, scapegrace, left several years ago
and was seen in Western city, where ne
passed as Ieoni and was engaged as 4 tight
rope walker His brother is a professor in
the Johns Hopkins University of Balti-
more. It is supposed that the Leoni killed
recently N Stockton is James Craig.
The officers of the National Guard who