Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-13
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

A peculiar and fatal disease is killing the
sheep at Chestnut, Montana.
An effort is being made to manufacture
silk in Salt Lake ON a small scale.
There is promise of an immense orange
crop this year in Los Angeles county.
Potatoes are selling at ten and fifteen
cents apiece in Mineral City, Colorado.
The City Trustees of Healdsburg pay the
poll tax of the firemen of that town from
the public treasury.
The Free Press says that if 100 people
die In Bodie this season the funeral ex-
penses will amount to Sl5, 900.
The Courier, published at Crescent City,
Del Norte county-an excellent local pa
per-has entered upon its eighth volume.
Theodore Winters recently sold his band
of blooded horses to stockraiser in Mon
tana. The band numbered about $50 head
They are all half orthree quarter thorough
bred. Possession is to be given on July lst
the Los Angeles Journal speaks of a
Cloth of Gold rose which measured Isl
inches in circumference. The San Diego
Ne,cs replied that on DR.. Ports place in
that city there was one rose l64 inches,
and another 1877 inches around.
A young man at Coos Bay, Or, by the
name of lngersol, lately came to grief by
being arrested and confined in jail for dig
ging open Indian graves and stealing the
valuables that by the custom of the red
men are buried with their owners.
The Bodie Free Press is not in favor of
divorces, but gays when wife enters a sa-
loon and pulls her husband out by the ear
when he has but one point to 90 in six
handed game of pedro, legal proceedings
may be commenced with IMMUNITY.
The Utah Southern Extension Railroad
has now reached Milford, about eighteen
miles beyond Black Rock, the present
terminus. This week Milford will become
the terminus. The offices and other rail-
road buildings are being removed to that
point.
Hon. j. w. Wilcox, while walking over
the second floor of a dilapidated stone
building at Bear valley, Mariposa county,
last Friday, came near being killed by
means of the floor giving way, dumping
him distance of ten or twelve feet and
breaking three of his ribs and seriously in
juring him otherwise.
Owing to the freshness of the water in
Napa creek and around Vallejo, says the
Chronicle of that place, the teredo, which
is very destructive to wharves and piling
in San Francisco harbor, cannot live in our
locality, and wharves built thirty years
ago are as sound to-day, as far as this
worm is concerned, as when first built.
The Kern County Californian says
From what we have been able to learn
there are about 10000 acres of wheat
planted in this county, about 10000 of
which has never been under cultivation
before, and lies chiefly ON the line of the
Galloway canal, on the north side The
stand is we'll advanced, and promises
splendid results at the harvest.
"There are nine warrants out against
people who have sold whisky to Indians
IN this vicinity, says the San Bernardino
Times, but, owing to the United States
Marshals not having received any pay for
months, they cannot be served. The
Agent of the Mission indians here prom
ises to make things lively when the
legal machinery is again set in motion"
A citizen of Visalia who was not raised
on farm is growing a vegetable garden.
Recently he planted some beans. The
morning after the heavy rain, on examining
his garden, he found that they had sprouted
and that the beans were being pushed above
the ground. He had never seen bean
growing before, and not understanding
what made them come up, he went around
the patch and pushed them all back into
the ground with his finger. His wife ex.
presses the opinion that that particular
patch of early six-weeks beans will
prove failure.