Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Scarlet fever prevails at Reno New.
A railroad from Los Gatos to Almaden is
talked of
There is an old man at Reno, New, who
claims to be haunted by the spirit of Gui-
teau.
The Government and railroad lands in
San Luis 0bispo county are being rapidly
settled up.
Excursion y parties are carried from
Boston to Los Angeles at $4S 80 per head,
and 1t is not requisite to purchase a round
trip ticket.
The Hollister Adrance says that quail are
reported as becoming so troublesome in the
Gabilan hills that ranchers are spreading
poison for their destruction.
Ina recent trial at Fresno the testimony
OF man so enragod his wife that she as
saulted him while on the stand, knocked
him down and beat him severely.
At Elsinore, new settlement in San
Diego county, every voter is Republican,
and it will be necessary to import a Demo-
GRAFT to fill the Office of Postmaster.
During the month of June the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company sold IL ,657 acres
of land in Montana, larger quantity than
was 'oiu Az any otHSi ISlIllulS save bdNOtd
In Newark Valley, White Pine county,
Nevada, is spring from which quantities
OF small sea shells are elected, and which
rises and falls with the regularity of the
tide
Prescott, A. T., complains that fire insur-
ance rates there have been raised to a
higher figure, now that they have a fire
department in good working order, than
they We're before.
Only twenty-five cents a box will be
offered in Linn county, Or, this year for
picking hops. None but Cinnamon will be
equal to the occasion, but twenty-five cents
is all that can be afforded.
The Ventura county Supervisors voted
$500 to aid in making an exhibit of that
countys resources at the Mechanics Fair
in San Francisco, but the DiStrict-Attorney
pronounced the act illegal
The beet sugar factory at Alvarado has
turned out 1250 tons of the product so far
this season. Growers of beets are paid 81 50
a ton for them, and the yield is said to ay-
erage twenty tons to the acre.
A Los Angeles merchant some time since
made shipment Of wine to Topeka, Kan ,
but it was returned to him by the authori-
ties with q notice that it could not be al
lowed to cross the border of that State.
There are six coal mines in Coos county,
Or, from which coal was exported in better
times and with better prices, but now only
two are exporting. Besides there are many
locations which have not been opened yet.
]. A. Goldwater, OF Soledad, brought
into the County Clerks Office at Monterey
last Friday % coyote scalps-the largest
number received at any one time from any
one person. The animals were killed by
Henry Veach, and the amount allowed for
each scalp, under the ordinance, is IS,
which amounted to $3.50 for the lot.
Monday, at San Jose, the California Gross
Stamm of the Independent Order of Red
Men met in annual session. Reports of
officers show that there are ten Stamms,
with 800 members, in the State Capital
$4,000 The officers elected were: L.
Kramb, San Jose, Grand Chief; c. Schil-
ling, San Francisco, Grand Under Chief ;
C. Weisel, Sacramento, Grand Assistant
Chief; samuel Polaek, San Francisco,
Grand Secretary; J. Gutberlet, San Fran
CISCO Grand Treasurer; X. f. Wiemeyer,
Sacramento, Grand Prelate.