Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-27
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

The Bodie branch Jail is completed.
Mormon election frauds are reported in
Idaho.
Sheep shearing is in progress in Yuba
county.
Town lots are in demand in Grantsville,
Nevada.
Silver City New teachers salaries have
been reduced.
The total assessment value of Oakland
is 500, ,496, l65.
Gold Hill New people do not like the
halliday school system.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Oakland have held
100 meetings during the year.
There are $40 scholars in the Normal
School, 40 Of whom are new pupils.
There are four vessels at Long Wharf,
Oakland, ready to take cargoes of grain.
The fog horn on Goat Island has been
constantly in use during the past three
nights.
Chilean dollars, worth only 75 cents, are
aiding to complicate currency matters in
Arizona.
Tucson contains no lodge of Odd Fellows
nor of Masons, but steps are being taken
to organize.
The District Attorney of Alameda has
filed information charging f. F. Schroeder
with murder.
The Mills Seminary Horse Railroad Com
pany are talking OF extending their line to
San Leandro.
Baker county, Oregon, paid Sl63 for
keeping her paupers and Sll2 for the in.
sane last year.
There is a talk OF constructing suspen.
sion bridge at Biackfoot, Idaho. 1t is tc
be 100 feet span.
The total assessment of Alameda county
is S49, ,29S, AS, or an increase of s., $50, SOC
over that of last year.
The Priest Pass road, Montana, is com
pleted. 1t is called the lowest pass ovel
the Rocky mountains.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
is about to commence the erection of new
car-shop at West Oakland.
Burrard Inlet, B. G., is feeling the press
ure Of dull times. Little is doing at the
mines and the salmon catch is small.
w. B. Spencer and S. E. Day of Colfax,
w. T., returned disgusted from the Skaglt
mines, reporting that miners tools lie scat
tered about deserted diggings.
Deer Lodge, Montana, has population
of 500, and newspaper, the Ne,o North
,rest 1t is said that Government land
abounds in the immediate vicinity.
Last week another large blast was let of
at Gnrdor'o RluH NaIa h.
charge contained about 1850 pounds ol
powder, upheaving 5000 yards of rock
into the river.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is being
built at the rate of one and half miles pei
day. The terminus is at present Is miles
east of Sulphur valley, and over 100 mile:
east of Tucson.
Ten thousand dollars worth of six pei
cent. 20-year bonds were disposed of or
Tuesday by the Alameda Town Trustees
at premium ranging from three and q
quarter to six per cent.
The last of the pioneer business house:
in Coifax, w. T., have been removed tc
give room to more permanent buildings
The pits dug in the hills as defenses against
the Indians are becoming obliterated.
Nick Williams, Sergeant of the Oakland
Light Cavalry, made remarkable score al
Shell Mound Park, Saturday afternoon.
He hit the bull's-eye ten successive times
and made fifty out OF a possible fifty.
The duty of reapportioning Montana
into council and legislative districts upon
basis of twelve members in the Council
and twenty four in the House has been
accomplished by the Board of Apportion-
ment.
Last Sunday Indians from all directions
came to Truckee, and after their fandango
several of them engaged ina fight. Officer
Reed was attacked by them with knives.
He drew his revolver and put them to
fight.
Amonster rattlesnake was recently killed
by workmen on the railroad near Papago,
A. T., which measured five feet and half
and had eighteen rattles. Inside of the
reptile was found the half.digested carcass
of a small hare.
A Sierra valley rancher says that in one
day he took out of his spring, which is
about ten feet square, $50 pounds of dead
hoppers, and they fall in such vast num-
bers in the creek that the stock refuses to
drink the water.
Last Friday evening while freight train
No. was running between Emigrant Gap
and the summit, an Indian squaw lost
from off the cars her pappoose. 1t seems
that she went to sleep and on awaking it
was found missing.
A Silver City New rancher irrigates
his potatoes by water from. quartz-mill
tailings. It is said that when he went to
dig his potatoes few days ago he found
them encased in bright covering of silver
which had formed upon them.
The Seattle wv. T. Indians are moving
south. Almost hundred have already
settled around the bay, and they will be
followed by thousand within fortnight.
They will trade and fish for salmon, and
then go to Puyallup to pick hops.
The question of moving the Capital of
Idaho from Boise to Blackfoot is being dis
cussed. The latter place is located in
Oneida county, within one mile of Snake
river, and about two from Blackfoot river,
on the line of the old emigrant road.
The Dixon Tribune says that the Vaca
Valley Railroad Company have gang of
laborers constantly employed to put the
Putah Canyon road in repair for the Berry.
essa farmers, who are hauling all their
grain to Winters this year. While keep
ing the road in repair the company are also
embracing the opportunity to do little
grading. They still have the building of
The railroad at an early day in view.
The other day, in North San Juan, the
owner of chicken-stealing cat gave 25
cents to boy to drown it. The cat was
put in sack, and the mouth of the sack
tied tightly with a strong cord. The boy
fnck the bag to a ditch. nut it under q