Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-27

would have been left to die had it not been
for the arrival of the white men. This is
considered heinous offense among the
Indians, except in the case of twins, and
the killing of boy papoose was what
caused this punishment to be inflicted on
the squaw.
There is no diminution of either indus
trial activity or interest in the mining de-
velopment which is now so far advanced in
this county. On the contrary, plans are
rapidly maturing for pushing the work on
the most advanced mines, and for opening
several others. We hear that final pur-
chases are being concluded of the lands on
which some of the mines are situated, and
that mills for crushing and works for re-
ducing ores will be at once contracted for.
The rock being worked by Mr.. Ames, at
Sausalito, is not yet finished, but it is said
that good results are already assured. A
new mine has been discovered, it is re-
ported, on the Jewell ranch Specimens
from all the mines are being collected to be
sent to the State University for assay. A
gentleman is prospecting on Mr.. Jessup's
place, in San Rafael Marin County
Journal.
A man was in town Sunday, sent here by
Commissioner B. b. Redding, with large
stock of Eastern brook trout to be planted
in the waters around here. Two thousand
were planted in Bonner creek, near the
railroad bridge, and 4, 900 were sent to In
dependence Lake. The trout are much
smaller than the general run Of the fish in
this vicinity, and about the size of the sill
yer trout already caught in Independence.
There are three distinct species Of trout in
the Truckee river and the lakes which feed
it. Two of them are common and the
other rare. They are known as the silver
trout and the speckled trout. The silver
trout is quite rare, except at Independence
Lake. These different species of trout
spawn in the lakes, and also the rivers and
streams flowing from the lakes, wherever
suitable gravel beds are found. The little
fellows planted in Bonner creek headed up
the stream, and all stopped in a secluded
little ook.-[Truckee Republican.
By parties down from Trinity Center,
says the Shasta Courier, We are informed
that few days ago, near Minersville,
Charles Davis while drunk, threw his
eleven year old son out of window, the
fall breaking the boys neck. Some weeks
ago Davis wife died at the same place,
| with no one at home but the boy whose
death we chronicle above, and his twin
| brother, who also died soon after his
| mother, from the effects of exposure to the
| cold, his father having forced him out in
| the snow Charles Davis is well known
here, having cattle range on Clear creek.
| 1t is said that all the crimes he has COM
! toI +oJ xxrLoo he
toxicated, but that will not excuse their
enormity-drunk or sober, he ought to
pull hemp. The corpse of a neglected wife
| in chair before a fireless hearth, in a
snow surrounded cabin, with no one at
hand but her two children, suffering with
cold and hunger-one of these newly or
| phaned boys thrust out in the freezing
storm and perishing from the effects of the
exposure the remaining brother tossed
from window and instantly killed-these
are the pictures for Charles Davis to con-
| template and reflect over.
On top of Santa Rosa Peak, within four
| miles of the city, is, or was, lake con-
tanning one.fourth of an acre of water. 1t
| is situated ON John Driscolrs land, where
he has lived nineteen years. Usually it
dries up about the LIST of August. This
time of the year there is commonly seven
or eight feet of water. Mr.. Driscoll OBJ
served sinking of the bottom. 1t has been
sinking little over two weeks the water
has escaped, and, in places, the banks are
left from ten to twenty feet above its
former bed. Mr.. Driscoll thinks the bot
tom has fallen out, and would not be sur
prised if new lake is formed. j. Kleiser,
of Cloverdale, was present when the item
above was communicated, and states his
experience in building roads through the
mountains. At point on Sulphur Creek,
just above Glendale, on the road to the
Geysers, the side of the mountain facing
south began to move A slide about 200
yards in length, carrying the forest and
rocks with it, moved two or three acres
bodily four feet and sank the same dis
lance. In building the Geyser and Squaw
Creek roads, distance of nearly thirty
miles, he never yet found bedrock, or a
solid ledge. -[Santa Rosa Republican.