Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
HIM ,boldt county is to have an agricult

Hun, boldt county is to have an agricultu
raj fair.
There are low over 900 patients in tn
Napa Insane As vium.
There is talk OF s railroad from the Sacra
mento valley to the Rig Meadows.
1t is thought that new fort will b.
built at Klamath, Or, neat season.
A l4-year-old boy has been taken from
Shasta to the Napa Insane Asylum.
The roads throughout Southern Oregon
are in good condition for hauling wheat.
On Monday of last week lis wagon loads
of wheat were hauled into Corvallis, Or.
The work of reconstructing the Galindo
Hotel, at Oakland, is to be commenced at
once.
The Prescott, Arizona, papers want the
Territory divided, making the ella river
the boundary line.
The Mormons are taking possession of
Salt River valley, Wyoming, and are estab-
fishing polygamous colony.
During August 1865. $50 pounds OF bull
ion and 2,o97, CO. pounds of ore passed
over the Utah Southern road.
Chico is agitated over case of elope-
ment of married woman and a gay lothario.
They were overhauled at Red Bluff.
A bank has recently been established at
Willows, Colusa county, with a capital Of
5000, 600. in 1000 shares of 500 each.
"Lively times in Bodie, you bet, IRE
marked mild man as he lodged out of
saloon where three revolver were in sight.
The beach in front of Crescent City has
been for the past two weeks lined with
hundreds of dead crabs, washed up by the
tides.
Peaches are selling in Salt Lake city at
ten cents a pound. In years past this fruit
has been regarded as dear at fifty cents
bushel.
The people of Eureka, Nevada, have
braced up from their recent confiagration,
and are steadily at work rebuilding their
burned houses.
Red Bluff is getting to be very good or
a very bad town-it is hard to tell which
as there is talk of starting Young Mems
Christian Association.
San Luis Obispo will soon have a good
race track, as a number of gentlemen have
trotting course laid out.
The Silverton Narrow-gauge Railroad
has 400 men at work near Aunisville, Or,
and also 40 teams. Nine hundred men are
grading near Brownsville.
The hop crop has been profitable one
this season. A Sonoma farmer realized
Sc, $50 from field of 20 acres, the yield
being about %, 900 pounds.
The road leading from Truckee to Tahoe
follows the banks of the Truckee river the
whole distance and forms one of the love-
Hest drives in the mountains.
1t costs 500 in North San Juan to prance
into newspaper office and maui the editor.
Grant Huckins has been fined that amount
for an assault upon Judge Stidger.
The two Democratic papers-Bee and
Democrat-of Lakeport have been consol-
idated into one, and will be under the
future management of Cook & Jackson.
The coyotes of MERGED county have a
Monaghan fondness for the hen-roost.
The iarcenous beasts have lifted 300 chick
ems from Central Point ranch in three
weeks.
The Null Brothers were successful in
boring the artesian we'll on the Lawrence
Reilly place, about three miles from Mer-
ced, having struck fine stream of flowing
water.
Grantsville, New, has now an actual
population of about 500, with constant
daily increase. Twenty buildings, mostly
residences, are now in the course of con-
struction.
Seven million young salmon will be taken
from the United States Fishery at the
McCIoud river this year. One million will
be put into Pit river and the remainder
sent East.
William Taplin has presented the Phoenix
Herald with a cake of soap made from
water from the Soda Springs, in Black
Canyon, Arizona. 1t is said to be a good
toilet soap.
The bad men of Bodie planned to have
a badger fight on Sunday, but they were
thrown back on the old resources of poker
and whisky by the escape OF the badger on
Friday night.
The Amador Dispatch, published at jack
son, Amador county, has entered upon its
twenty -second volume. The Dispatch is
good local journal, and deserves the sue
cess it has evidently attained.
The sword of Colonel Thornburg has
been found at Salinas, Utah. 1t was taken
from uintah Indian, who was near that
place, and is now said to be in possession
OF person by the name OF General Agra
monte.
The wing dam of Keaton & Khppel, On
Rogue river, below Fort Lane, is COM
pleted About an acre of the river bed
has been shut out from the flowing waters,
and work on the bedrock will soon COM
mence.
The Nevada Transcript, sterling, good
and reliable paper, completed its twentieth
year September 9th. 1t is positive news
and invaluable Journal, and should be
amply supported by the people of the
Sierras.
Says the Mountain Reafep J. 7. Nc
knight, living at the base of Diamond
mountain, killed a chicken, in the gzzard
of which was found piece of gold worth
70 cents. Another had piece in it that
weighed 81.
Another newspaper has been established
in Dixon. 1t is a "a. column journal, pub
lished weekly by B. a. Stephens has
neat, clean typographical appearance, and
is well filled with interesting local and
other matter.
The Eureka New Leader, the material
of which was destroyed in the great fire at
that place, has again come to the front with
a journal comparing favorably with any in
Nevada an instance of energy and pluck
rarely witnessed.
By recent explosion at Empire City,
Or, the engineer, Charles Richardson, was
blown into the air aud aiighted in the bay
100 feet distant. Fortunately the water
and mud broke the fall, and he escaped
with but few bruises.
There are three Chinese lepers in the
town OF Tehama. Two have resided there
for several years, and another was added
to the population last week. They occupy
a small house on the bank OF the river, and
live by fishing and donations of provisions
from other Cinnamon, and are not permit
ted to visit the quarters of other Chinese.
Five oil wells are in operation in Moody's
Gulch, says the Santa Cruz Local Item.
Two are pumping and three are drilling.
Several new rigs are also being put in. One
we'll has been averaging 20 barrels of oil
per day for some time past. The pros.
poets are considered very good. Over
500, 600 has already been expended in pur-