Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Six more glandered horses have been
killed in Yolo county.
The quarantine at the jute factory In
Oakland has been raised.
Over sixty new buildings are being put
up in Bozeman, Montana.
Yuba county foothills swarm with quail
to an unprecedented degree.
Senator William Sharon was serenaded
at Virginia City on the S0th.
t Calaveras peach orchards, many of them,
are without fruit this season.
The Treasurer OF Tulare county reports
balance ON hand of So, S34.
New Hope, San joaquin county, has
radish which weighs nine pounds.
There are nine ships at Long Wharf.
Oakland, receiving and discharging cargoes.
About 1000 sacks of wheat are deliv-
cred at the warehouses in Davisville every
day.
The fire in the Yuba hills, near Selby
Flat, has run over COO acres OF pasture and
timber lands.
Five hundred and twenty dollars has
been subscribed to build pavilion on the
Sonoma plaza.
September 2lst Denver, Col, pugilists
are arranging for a prize fight at some point
in New Mexico.
The foothills of the Santa Cruz noun
tains about Pajaro valley are attracting
attention for homes.
1t is said that the old Mission Church
at Santa Barbara is gong to ruin, and
steps to preserve it are urged.
tbs said that during the past year sixty
or seventy new buildings have been erected
at Sheep Ranch, Calaveras county.
A cloud-burst on August oath did about
the brick. yards of East Denver, Col.
Mary f. Brown of Colorado Springs and
Frank Gopher of Silver Cliff, Col, were
recently burned to death with kerosene.
August oath young man of Denver.
Col, named j. Jones, got eighteen back
shots in his leg. He had gone out with a
charivari party.
Wheat is coming into Salem, Or, at the
rate of about J, 200 bushels per day. Over
80, ZOO sacks have been taken to the fields
from the farmers warehouse.
Last fall, in Utah, lo-year-old boy
shot and killed his father, who had whipped
him. The boy has just been sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
The Portneuf Falls, Southern Idaho, are
described as grand in the extreme. For
several miles there is a succession OF cas-
cades, falls and deep pools full of trout.
Fort Assinaboine, Northern Montana, is
expected to be, when finished, the best in
the Territory. Over $50 laborers are now
employed, and 5000 will be used tl.is
year.
Grain thieves are at work near Live
Oak, Sutter county. One farmer lost fifty
sacks recently, and another has since lost
twenty-five sacks. The thieves have not
been arrested.
Numbers of freight wagons are engaged
on the route from Marysville to North San
Juan. Twenty-Five large wagons loaded
with hay were counted III one day en- route
from the valley to the up country towns.
The great lava beds Of Southern Idaho
extend 35 miles, between Soda Springs and
Oneida. At one point there Is an extinct
crater rising above toe plains and with \
central opening about 60 feet across and
rs feet deep.
The trial of Henry Miller ct al. VS..
many hundred tenants OF the Las Animas
grant, was begun at San Jose on the Both.
The case involves q, 900 acres and several
hundred settlers in the southern portion of
Santa Clara county.
The Arizona Sentinel denies that the ro-
cent find of Il I23 ounce nugget is the larg-
est reported, and says that in 1861 Don
Ferrar found one which weighed sc ounces,
and Mexican boy found another which
was six ounces heavier.
A peach of the early Crawford variety,
measuring l23 ounces in diameter, and
weighing one pound and twenty grains,
has been presented to the editor of the
Marysville Ledger. The peach was of
beautiful form and color.
A Leadville, Col, lot-jumper took posses.
sion of piece of land belonging to two re-
spectacle and hard-working women. The
consequences. He decided to leave after
surveying the crowd which had assembled.
The work of improving Oakland harbor
will be resumed October lst, there being
Sl60, 900 available for that purpose. The
work will be done by contract, and bids
will be asked in about two weeks. The
work will last some months, aud will give
employment to several hundred men.
The latest natural curiosity, says, she
Red Bluff Peoples Cause, is calf with
two bodies, eight legs, the usual compile.
ment of tails and but one head. The ami
NAL came to light on farm on the east
side of the river, two miles and half
from this city. The animal did not live
long enough to be placed on exhibition.
The Riverside Press reports that there
has been no eruption of an unusual chasao-
ter in the Temescal mountains. The
mountain adjoining Coldwater Canyon was
burned over, and for few days after this,
as the sea breeze came up, the whirlwinds
would carry the ashes high up into the
air, making them look like Jets OF steam
or smoke.
The Shoshone and Bannock Ressrva-
tion, Ross Fork, Idaho, contains tract
of country lying on the east side OF Snake
river and south of the Blackfoot river,
embracing country about forty miles
square. The Indians have lately agreed
to vacate 325, 900 acres, in which is located
Oneida and surrounding country. About
l,500 Indians belong to the agency, the
greater part of whom engage in agricult-
ure.
Speaking of the recent case of poisoning,
the Chico Record says: Thursday after
noon son of A. ]. Wagner, who resides
on Pine creek, found watermelon on
piece of summer-fallow lying along the
creek. He took the melon to the house,
where his mother aud three sisters and
himself ate it, and were in very few mo-
ments taken violently sick. 1t happened
that the boy, who is about IA years OF age,
found a watermelon which neighbor had
poisoned for squirrels. They are hardly
expected to recover.
The Neacs of Wheatland says of the Bear
river dam The contractors for the dam
are putting up sheds and corrals for the
accommodation of the teams and men they
expect to employ. They will have camp
at both ends of the proposed DAM A we'll
has been sunk az this end, and some ten or
fifteen tons of hay have already been pur-
chased of Mr.. Webster. On Wednesday
several wagon lsads OF scrapers, plows and
other Instruments were taken up. The
plows seem, by the huge size of the beams,
to be made for rough service. Twenty or
twenty five men are already at work maxi
ing roads, clearing brush and preparing
camps. There have been great numbers
of nnriicaote for work Three hundred