Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-13
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

4 OOAD1 NhWD UIlfFlNES,
The Red Bluff Daily Sentinel ha, entered
upoa it's fourth volume.
1t Il said that liquor is being sold, ia de.
| fiance Of law, to the FL Captain Reserva.
tion Indians, San Diego, and that degraded
white men go there to indulge in protracs.d
| sprees.
The Sierra Lumber Company closed down
their mills last week, owing to the recent
fall of snow rendering it impossible for
them to do any more work in the woods
until spring
! Messrs. Caviness & Sterling of Island
City. Or. recently killed six hogs, which
weighed respectively 67S, 525, 476, 46O, 454
and 432 pounds, or an average of over 4S7
pounds each.
The Redding Independent says that F.
Michaelson's band of l, 100 Angora goats
have been driven to the valley from
Hatchet creek. Bears have killed numbers
of them during the summer.
State Senator Watson has severed his
connection with the Truckee Republican.
The paper under his management was a
most excellent one, and his successor will
find it difficult to improve upon it.
Colorado pays over 5000 annually in
bounties for destroying hawks, and over
10000 OF these predatory birds are annu.
ally killed in that State. Tas email, in
sect-killing birds are increasing rapidly.
The physicians of Virginia CITY have
finally discovered how to distinguish be-
tween chicken-pox and smallpox. They
allow the patient to keep right along, and
if he dies it is considered the genuine small.
pox.
It is estimated that the people of Jack
sonville, Or, viii pay $40, 900 in taxes.
subscriptions to public enterprises, etc.,
during 1850, and that S45, 900 will have
been expended on improvements during
the same time.
Brown and Gaunce, the Mendocino out
laws, were sentenced on Tuesday at Santa
Rosa by Judge Presley H. L. Brown
was ordered to be hanged January 9th,
and George Gaunce was sent to State Prison
ON life sentence.
Indians from the Warm Springs reserya-
tion are visiting The Dalles, Or, for the
purpose of getting winter supplies. They
have good teams, talk good English, and
are probably as nearly civilized as Indians
can be expected to become.
Several teams left Chico during the early
part of this week with freight for Prattville
and Greenville, and got as far as Nimshaw,
when the snow fell to such depth that it
became impossible to proceed any further,
so the freight was unloaded.
The northern roads from Reno, New, are
completely blocked up. The snow is three
feet deep in Long valley on level, and has
in places drifted to depth of fifteen feet.
There were fifty storm bound teamsters at
Lemons station last Tuesday.
The mills of the Carson Lumber Com
pany, at Tahoe station, are still running.
The logs must all be taken out of the lake
before they will close. 1t is probable that
the railroad to the Summit will "tie up"
at once, as the wood and lumber supply is
full.
T. j. Perkins of Wallula, w. T., is tear
ing down his building and removing to
Walla Walla, and Wallula will soon be
truly deserted village, or the village will
have deserted the place. The ferry there
is discontinued and removed to Snake
river.
The champion glutton is named Robbins,
and lives at Yakima, w. T., where he got
away with five cans of oysters at single
sitting, in 27 minutes, and crackers to suit
his taste, and then he dared them to bet
$50 that he couldn't get away with two
more.
The Sutro New independent has sus-
pended publication, owing to the dull times
and the decrease in the population of the
town of Sutro, which now numbers but
375. 1t will consolidate with the Lyon
county Times, and the papers as consolida-
ted will move to Dayton.
A bogus coin is circulating around Oro-
vile and neighborhood. The coin is a
first.rate imitation of ten. dollar gold
piece, having the color of old gold, but be-
ing very light. Three of the coins are in
the possession of the bank officials, each
bearing the date Of 1879.
The Denver and Rio Grande Company
are putting in steam pumps at various sta
tions between Denver and Pueblo, Col, to
supply locomotives with water. The sup
ply is derived from creeks and reservoirs,
of which latter a number are being built,
including large one at Acequia.
Last week the Bidwell stage was caught
in whirlwind, on the road between Bid
well and Cedarville. Modoc county, and
blown over. Mrs. Higgins, of Lakeview,
Or, who was riding on the outside seat,
had one of her arms broken, and Charles
Starkey, Bidwell soldier, had his nose
broken.
Passengers who leave here in the morn
ing, says the Truckee Republican, find the
snow three feet deep, the air freezing cold
and a general wintery appearance. They
reach Sacramento for dinner, where vege-
tables remain updup in the field and where
on pleasant days it is like September
weather.
The Nevada Transcript says that on
Saturday last band of fifteen deer were
seen near Sweetland. The animals are
driven down by the deep snow in the up
per country. and will return as soon as the
snow partially disappears. They are also
very numerous along Rock creek, the Yuba
river and other streams.