Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-06-11
Pacific Coast Items.


The Sutro tunnel has reached l ,l37 feet into
:he mountain.
A twenty-five pound wildcat was shot near
Virginia City on the Both ult.
A man on the San Gabriel river killed two
grizzly bears at one shot recently.
At present there are two theatres, circus
and nine public faro banks in operation at Vir-
gna City.
from San Francisco to Bombay aud other points
in the East Indies.
The Gentiles are about to dig a twenty-one
mile irrgatng canal from point Bear river
to Salt Lake valley.
Judge Deadly has declared void all marriages
of 0regonians made out or that State with in
tent to evade the laws.
Judge George G. Berry and Mayor Lyman, of
Elko, are competitors for the Nevada Democratic
gubernatorial nomination,
Eberhart & Lochman have shipped to Chicago
by rail from fourteen to fifteen thousand gallons
of California wine and brandy.
Thirty-six hundred acres Of land, reclaimed
on Twitchell's island at cost of So per acre,
have been sold at an average of $50 per acre.
Small pox is again abroad in the land. 1t has
appeared in Los Angeles, San Francisco, So
noma county, and along the entire route of the
Pacific railroad.
Mr.. n Bochmsn, of Fresno county, was bitten
by a rattlesnake concealed in his woodpie one
day last week. Plenty of whisky taken intern
ally saved him.
Brigham Young dined with the Boston excur-
sonists at Salt Lake, recently, and all the party
went to church in the afternoon, where Brigham
preached to them.
1t is reported that very rich diggings have
been struck above Michigan Bluffs, and high
as one hundred and fourteen ounces to the pan
have been taken out.
Early in the spring W. G. Stokes, of Grass
Valley, planted acorn which came all the
way from Missouri, and the oak from it now is
twenty-five inches high.
A resident of Virginia City, Nevada, went out
to practice with boomerang sent him by his
brother in Australia. The Enterprise says his
nose can be patched and Strengthened.
The colored people of San Jose have been dis
cussing the question whether the black and
white races should be educated together at the
plblic schools, and decided in the negative.
Sheriff Stanton and deputy Jones of Colusa,
on last Thursday night captured FIVE robbers
and killed one, in the town of Colusa. 1t is
thought that this is only part of an organized
banditte.
| j. Biggs, the horse tanner, gave an cxhi-
biton of his skill in breaking and tanning horses
in Ireka on the I'd inst, and drove horse to "A
buggy through the streets without bride, reins,
britching or traces.
1t is stated that one hundred men, well armed
! with Henry rifles and revovers, will be sent to
Arizona by the Arizona and Sonora mining com
pany, for the purpose of opening the new mines
| IN the Apache country.
The miners of Nevada county are paying more
attention to gravel mining than formerly.
Recent discoveries have revealed immense de-
posits of gravel and the feeling prevails that
they will be very profitable.
Hercules powder is used to split trees in
Contra Costa county. A two-nnd-a a-half- pound
cartridge inserted in the trunk Of the tree, two or
three feet from the ground, and exploded, will
| splinter an eight-feet tree into freWood
/ Mr.. Nichols, of Alameda county, from quar-
ter of an acre sold ton of blackperres, and
| used large quantity in his family. Mr.. Nichols
believes with well skilled and proper manage
ment man can make good living on two
acres by raising small fruit.
A soap factory is to be established in San
Diego The ice-plant, which grows in abun-
dance there, is charged with alkali, and yields
it readily on burning. The butcher shops of
the place will furnish daily supply of tallow,
amounting to about three hundred pounds.
The San Jose Mdependem tells of a sklful
surgical operation performed in that place by
DR.. WhitIock, of Antioch, upon the little OF
W. A. Duchow, by which the little fellow S
windpipe was opened and kernel of corn ex-
tracted. The grain was much swelled, and had
begun to sprout.
The Red Bluff independent says: A sturgeon
was caught in the river near The mouth of Reed S
creek, on Tuesday last, which weighed nearly
| two hundred pounds. Another has been hook ed
several times near the same place, bat sways
managed to break loose, which Is supposed to
weigh five hundred pounds