Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-10
LATES r STATE NEWS.


JUICE CRANE, who is in Washington, says that
the bill organizing territory ont of Carson and
Honey Lake valleys is certain to pass Congress.
Crane expects to be Territorial Governor.
B.F. WASHINGTON has been confirmed Collector
of San Francisco port. His friends fired hun
dred guns of beattude. Washington is one Of
the " over estimated men" Of California.
TIE husband Of vctorins Massey the woman
murdered at Yreka,' has come back from Oregon.
He says she had $4,000 in her possession, for he
counted himself, before leaving.
THE Yreka Union says that no attempt was
made to assasinate the Sheriff as reported by
correspondent of the Shasta Courier, and adds
ave have frequently been amused, of late, at
the accounts of events said to have transpired in
and about town furnished the papers of the lower
cities by correspondents from Yreka, which were
wholly unheard OF by the people OF this place
until they read them in the aforesaid newspapers"
The Union calls them the "Literati of Yreka"
A. B. LYTLE, part owner of Caliahan's Ranch,
was killed recently, between Fort Jones and
Yreka-his horse fell on him.
THE taxable property Of Yreka is woI th nearly
million Of dollars-says the Union.
TIE Nicaragua steamship line have Withdrawn
their opposition, and passage has gone up to the
old price. The swndling, bought-and sold vii
lains!
THE Assembly has passed bill reducing Sher-
ifs fees for transporting prisoners to penitentia-
ry; it allows fifty cents mile, one way, for the
first convict and rs cents for each of the others.
The bill prohibiting Chinese immigration is re-
ported back to the House, with recommendation
to pass.
ACCORDING to " Sniktaw" the drama is rather
down in Yreka. He says: "The loftiest concep-
tons of regular tragedan, dwindle to insignif-
canoe, when brought in competition with jackass
talent in that town" He refers to the big crowd
which two donkeys drew in Richard III.
RILL has passed the Assembly, creating
Shasta county " Redemption Fund" We are not
advised whether provision is made for " redemp-
tion" from sin and misery.
Two settlers had a shooting scrape in Pitt
River Valley, about a piece of land--nether got
hurt. Isaac McCulum chopped miner with an
axe, at Oak Bottom, breaking his scull-trouble
about mining claim.
TIE time of holding county Court and Court
of Sessions, has been changed in Shasta, to first
Mondays of January, May and September
QUARTZ and gold rock, worth one hundred
thousand dollars, is said to have been found at
Forest City, in Sierra county. Large calculation,
we reckon.
A COMPANY at Yankee Jim's took out 800
ounces of gold, last week.
The Mountain Messenger cannot find first
class political paper in this State-nor can we.
NORWEGIAN miner at Placerville, says the
Inder has built church and school house. on
/ HE fhpCp hn bac m
earthly possessions.
A FoIsoM woman was bitten by a tarantula,
and came dying.
THE Mariposa Gazette knows a man who drinks
bottle of whiskey straight every day, and
loses no time from work.
The Mexicans OF Marysvile hung Judas Tsca-
riot in efigy, on the 3d. and then set fire to his
coat tail and burned him up
WONDERFULLY rich, pink ,colored boulder has
been found at Georgetown.
GREAT excitement exists in Washington Ter
ritory about gold mines s. Is and 20 dollars a
day. Nearly all the people Of Vancouver have
gone to the mines.
ALL the telegraph poles between Shasta and
OrovilIe have been set.
THE Cinnamon who killed Griswold at Jackson,
and who are going TO be hanged on the 10th,
have made confession.
! PEOPLE from San Francisco are going up to
the Vancouver gold mines. IT is humbug, we
suspect.
PARTIES are going to the Atlantic States, ever
land, from San Diego.
| SArHER & CHURCH say that they are nearly
ready to settle their liabilities and resume bust
ness
Miller the Marysville steam wagon man, has
got his vehicle going it ran through the streets
followed by big crowd.
GALVANIZED iron hose is used successfully at
San Juan, in Nevada.
THE Indians on Pistol Creek, Del Norte coun-
ty, have been disturbing the settlers.
The Humboldt Times published card enquir-
ing for certain lone womaDs husband, at which
man on the Bay, Of the name called for, de-
clares that he never had wife that he knows Of.
IT is reported that Ferguson and Stakes, of the
Assembly. are going to fight a duel Guess they
won't fight to kill settled by interference of
friends /; honorably fixed on the ground, aud so
forth principals famous, and kivered all ofcr
NIT plood-ncary.
WAR with the "Billy Bowlegs" Indians, still
continues in Florida.
STEAMBOAT