Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Umatilla, Or, has a female barber.


Yakima county. W. T., has an area of
7,64S square miles, and is said to be capa-
bic of supporting a population of 100 to
the mile, or 764, 500 inhabitants.
The V. & T. R. r. Co. will not put on
any extra cars to move the crop of Storey
county, Nevada. The recent frosts have
ruined the harvest for this season.
St. Helens, Or, has no school-house.
The building formerly used for school pnr-
poses was set apart for smallpox patients,
and was afterwards burned down.
Some sacrilegous thief broke open the
"poor box in the vestibule of the Catho-
lie church in Vallejo last Saturday night
and stole the contents.
By November the railroad from Yale, B.
c., to point one mile below Emory will
be ironed and ready for the rolling stock.
The work is of a heavy, substantial char
acter.
Wheat is y cents per bushel at Nc
Minnville, Or. oats, 374G40 cents pota-
toes, 25 cents per bushel butter, 20 cents
per pound; eggs, 20 cents per dozen
-four, s. 90@S6 per barrel
August 2lst, near Lone Pine, Inyo
county, j. L. Shipton, Division Agent OF
the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, was
instantly killed by being crushed between
two heavily loaded freight wagons.
The Santa Barbara Daily and Eeekly
| Press, which was suspended 'about two
months ago, has been resuscitated, with
the Press Company as publisher and Theo.
Glancey editor.
The father of the Countess Teltener, who
was in Truckee Monday evening, says the
Republican, kept barber shop at Downie-
vile twenty years ago, when he used to
give shave for four bits.
J. T. Pritehsrd, the murderer of officer
Symons of Gold Hill. New, is confined in
a dungeon at the State Prison for insubor-
| dination He worked few days in the
stone quarry, got tired and refused to work
longer.
Says the Shasta Courier The big fire
which last week swept aver the country
between the Fountain House and Texas
/ Springs exterminated innumerable snakes,
scorpions, toads, rabbits and other small
| animals.
The first Washington Territory hops of
the season were placed in the Seattle mar
ket on the oath ult. They were grown by
James Entwisrle, near Falls City. They
were an early variety and sold for So cents
per pound.
Ship-building ca large scale viii be
carried on at Puget Sound ports the CON-
| ing season. Puget Sound fir has been fully
tested, and found to be equal if not supe-
rior to the live oak at the East used for
that purpose.
The amount of damage done by the re-
cent washout between Tucson and Pantana,
Arizona, is now ascertained to have been
about 5000 feet of track altogether, dis
| trIbuted over the nine miles between
Papago and Pantano.
AT Miles City, Montana, Captain Hug
gins has brought in twenty-five lodges of
Sitting Bulls warriors, whom he captured
and compelled to deliver up their arms and
horses. There is also large party of 200
lodges on their way to surrender.
A man named w. W. Seaton, living in
Walla WalIa county, Or, met with fatal
accident on the ID. He was hauling hay,
and slipping from his seat, fell under a
wheel which passed over his breast, fear
fully mangling aim. He survived only a
| short time.
The campaign viii open in Modesto on
Saturday evening, September Ilth, with
grand Republican rally. A stand viii be
erected in some convenient place, seats
prepared, music furnished, and the audi
ence will be addressed by several promi-
nent speakers.
The storm on Lake Tahoe last week did
great deal Of damage. The boom con
tanning 200, 600 feet of logs, the property
of H. E. Casey, was scattered over the
lake, and the landing places for the
steamers at different points were consider
ably damaged.
Commissioner LIE Due is in Denver, Col.
Els object is to select the best places for
the sinking of artesian wells to relieve the
aridity Of that portion of the West, and
also to ascerthin whether there is necessity
for branch of the Agricultural Depart
ment on the Pacific coast.
At Chilliwhack, B. c., the steamers
pass over spot where three years ago
stood an orchard Of fourteen acres in ex-
| tent, planted with fruit trees, in full bear
ing. By the action of the river it has
worn away, and not a solitary tree is left
to mark the spot.
| Claus Peters the mail-rider from Saw
yers, Siskiyou county, to Trinidad, ON his
| last down trip had two shots fired at him
| from an ambush on the trail about four
miles from Tulips ranch, on the Klamath
river. He does not know who was the
would be assassin.
The St. Helen (0r.l Columbian says
that the Seelye Falls are on the north
branch of the Seappoo5e, and are unrivaled
in picturesque beauty. They are In shape
Is, Nv. "a = I,o
| the bank rises hundreds of feet, as regu-
larry as if laid by the hand OF mason.
The Mason Valley correspondent of the
Lyon county New Times says: Last
week as Mir. Meager was returning home
| from the Switch, his horse threw and rolled
over him, injuring him so severely that he
died on Saturday afternoon. Deceased
was an aged man without family.
The Pacific Coast Pioneers will give
grand picnic and barbecue at Treadway
Park, Carson, New, early in October. A
trench will be dug, and wood will be
| burned till there is bed of Goals of suffi-
cient depth to roast pigs, sheep, calves and
goats, and it Is also proposed to roast an OK
whole
The warehouse and stable of P Cunning
ham, three miles below La Porte on the
Oroville road, was burned last Wednesday
morning. A.! the furniture was taken out
of The hotel, but the building was with
much difficulty saved. The loss could not
be less than one thousand dollars.
ssThe Carson Appeal says it is reported
that on last Sunday night the Washoes
held a council and decided to kill the two
white rascals who imprisoned young
squaw and outraged her. They consider
that they have a perfect right to do SO, as
the authorities have taken no steps in.the
matter.
A son.in-law of Mr.. Gridley of Artesia,
died suddenly in the harvest field theother
| day. He was loading wagon with grain
and was seen to stop suddenly, throw his
| hands to his head and exclaim: Whats
that? I'm blind p In few moments he
fell to the ground, dead. Anaheim Ca
zette.
At the recent FIRE in Eureka, New, Rev.
MIR. Crawford was playing on the Episco-
| nal Chprch with n hose whpn rnwdv