Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Chinese quicksilver thieves have been at
work in Placer county.
The Oakland Great Register is out. 1t
has nearly $4,000 names.
Measles and mumps afford the only new
sensation in Butte, M. I.
The young folks of San Diego have or
ganized historical society
The filling in at Long wharf, Oakland,
will be completed in about two weeks.
The pontoon bridge across Salt river, st
Fort Kenyon, Humboldt, is completed.
Sharp frosts at Chilliwack, B. c.,
hight fruit crop, but otherwise good har-
vests.
Nevada City contains a I9.year.old boy
VINO was born there and has never been
more than ten miles from home.
gentleman in Tucson has made over
30o gallons OF wine from the wild grape
which grows abundantly in Arizona.
The gymnasium at the University of the
Pacific at San Jose is to be completed and
furnished with necessary apparatus.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have recently constructed line from Pet
aluma to San Rafael along the railroad.
Truckee Indians are becoming quite
civilized They are building for them
selves neat house on the hill north of
town.
The run of salmon in Rogue river. Ore.
gon, was not up to expectations, but one
fish was caught that weighed seventy-fve
pounds.
Several emigrsnt families from Shasta
county, Cal, have passed through Dayton,
of
going to Snake river.
The first prisoner put in the new isiI at
Glove, A. T., was shackled, the iron being
placed outside his boot. He then pulled Off
his boot and walked off.
The Victoria (B. C.) coionit, speaking
of agricultural shows, says that they are
poorer each year, and that the farmers
seem to have lost all interest in them.
An unusual amount of oil is being
shipped over the railroad from Alama to
Alameda Point, and it is secretly inti-
mated that l00-barrel well has been
struck.
From well recently bored, about a mile
from Salinas, seven-inch stream of water
flows two and half feet from the surface
of the ground. The depth of the well is
l46 feet.
The employees of the G. P. r. +. Com
pany intend to erect monument at Oak
land TO the memory of the late Colonel r..
c. Fellows, the Assistant General Super
intendent.
A company has been formed at South
Arkansas, COL, for the purpose of manu-.
featuring fire brick from clay that has been
discovered in large quantities about half
mile from Cleora.
Several parties of scouts, rifemen and
recruits collected at Vancouver barracks,
have taken their departure for their re-
spective posts at Forts Boise, Lapwai,
Walla Walla and Camp Howard.
Early frosts have effected the vineyards.
in the southern portion of Sonoma Valley.
Many vines have been blighted, and in a
| number of instances the viniculturists are
forced to gather the grapes in pans.
| A district of country thirty miles north
and south and sixteen miles east and west,
adjoining on the west TERRA Amarillo grant
IN Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, has
been set apart as a reservation for the
Jicarilla Apaches.
Deacon Parkinson publishes a half
column card in the Bodie Free Press, Civ
ing the public the details of his being
robbed of 81. Imagine the effect upon the
columns of that journal if the good man
had been robbed of 500.
Chapman & Mckay cut last week at
their Somerset mill at Powellton, Butte
county, a sugar-pine tree that sawed 22,-
0S0 feet of lumber. The sennnd log from
| the butt measured II inches at the top.
and cut 9, 946 feet of lumber.
| The Sutter Bonner says NJ. O'Connor
has recovered from the effects of being
carried five times around the revolving
shaft OF a thrashing machine, but cannot
be induced to turn tanning mill for fear
of being caught in the gearing.
Linkville, Or, heretofore considered
very healthy place, is at present terribly
afflicted with typhoid fever. 1t is sup
posed that the severe winter of the past
year, causing the air OF summer to be
poisoned with the foul odors arising from
numbers of decaying carcasses, is the cause
of the sickness.
Near Westport, Mendocino county, fires
were recently set for the purpose of clear.
ing the land. Almost every camp in the
woods has been in danger for the last few
days, and only uninterrupted hard work
has saved them. Some bark on the Linz
been destroyed, as well as cabins and feuc.
ing.
The San Bernardino Inder gives the fol.
lowing statistics of the honey production OF
that county for the past year Extracted
honey, $50, 900 pounds comb honey, lO0,-
600 pounds. There are at present about
5000 stand of bees in that county, and it
is estimated that the number at the COM
mencement of the season was 1000, an in
crease of 80 per cent.
Advices have been received of the death
of two men, who, with four others, at
tempted to cross Death Valley, California,
but failed in the attempt through lack of
water, and only reached Panamint after
the most painful suffering. The two men
who succumbed were Thomas Wilson and
Henry Allari. The latter is supposed to
have left family in San Francisco.
During President Hayes recent visit at
Port Blakeley, w. T., a monster log of fir
was sawed. 1t measured $50 feet in length,
and the square timber taken from it meas
ured 20x20 inches, and was $50 feet long,
containing over 5000 feet of lumber and
worth about $500 in San Francisco. The
log, before being sawed, measured eight
feet in diameter at the largest end and
forty four inches at the small end.