Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-08
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

he larSeSl IaApaNerln MERGED county IS
assessed about $4,000.
Concord, Contra Costa county, has formed
vigilance committee.
San Luis Obispo has erected forty-two
buildings the past year.
Shasta's delinquent tax roll amounts to
$4,000, out Of $4,000 eollectible.
Pajaro valley, Monterey county, can
boast of strawberry patch of $50 acres in
extent.
The wool clip of Oregon and Washing
ton Territory the past year was 100000
pounds.
Potato and tomato vines are blooming in
gardens in and around Anderson, Shasta
county.
'Jackass" Is the name of a new mining
| camp in Idaho, near the C@ur dAlene
country.
The exports TO foreign ports from Port
land during 1885, amounted to nearly
| 81 100000.
Temperance people of San Benito county
want to test the question of prohibition in
an election.
Chico young ladies took part in a run
with the hares and hounds" on the
Reayis track last Monday.
New potatoes, green peas and ripe rasp-
berries are being harvested in garden at
Sebastopol, Sonoma county.
Death from exposure" is the verdict
recently rendered by a Helena, NJ. T.. jury
on the body of horse thief who had been
hanged by vigilantes.
The town Of Pasco, Or, the building of
which killed the town of Ainsworth, is
said by contemporary TO have popula-
ton of thirty-five souls now.
There is a soap manufacturer OF Reno
who is compelled to put the names of
| Eastern makers on his soap in order to sell
| it to merchants of his own town.
| Samuel Brannan, Jr, whose protracted
absence gave riseto the belief that he had
! fallen victim TO the Apaches, has been
heard from at Montezuma, Sonora.
AZ Stanislaus county hunter recently
brought in thirty-three cayote skins at one
| time, which he presented at the Treas
urers office, drawing 500 bounty therefor
Tie Riverside Press says D. C. Two
| good has a COW from which he has made
| fiftyone pounds of butter in twenty-four
| days besides supplying the family with
milk.
If the Monterey county bondholders
would accept payment to date and surren-
| der their bonds, Monterey could now free
| herself from debt and have a surplus of
| $26, 300.
The Victoria Times claims that an enor-
| nous quantity-as much as $50, 900 worth
of opium has been struggled into the
United States from that place during the
| past four months.
The Los Angeles County Auditors semi
| ANNUAL report for the six months ending
DECEMBER 81, 1885, shows: Total receipts,
| $40 D2- H. tofal SOoI q.
| cash on hand $40, 467 o.
| The immediate delivery letter system is
anything but popular in Eureka Nevada.
Notia letter came to the Office last month
| Requiring such delivery, and but one stamp
of the kind was sold in that time.
| according to the Tulare Register, that
| town is in pressing need of foundry,
cannery furniture factory, pork-pack-
| ing house, and any number of substantial
| (brick preferred) business buildings.
A mock marriage was performed in
Chico the other evening, and when the
guests pressed forward to offer congratula-
| tons they were considerably sold to find
that the handsome groom was 9 dummy.
Chico has passed an ordinance that it
shall be compulsory upon each and every
household in which there exists any case
of infectious or contagious disease to dis
play in front of the premises a scarlet flag.
The Los Angeles Express says: 1t is es-
timated that there are 800 men out of
employment in this city. The labor mar
ket is overstocked, and those who come
here in search OF work will be disap-
pointed
The people of Napa complain of high
taxes, saying that, in numerous cases, wine
is assessed at 10 cents gallon, while the
hierhact r,rioa h.-
San Francisco merchants has been 10 and
u cents.
a large band Of wild cattle, on the hills
on Lower Coos river, Oregon, are the off
spring Of cattle lost by the early settlers,
and as they bear no brand or marks of any
kind are considered public property. They
will charge hunter with fierceness.
The legality of the ordinance lately
passed by the Supervisors of Lassen county
taxing stock five cents for coming into that
county for grazing purposes, will be tested.
Several stock men of Tehama county have
organized for the purpose of fighting the
ordinance.