Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Four feet of water on Mason Prairie,
Idaho.
The Cotton Semi Tropic wants the State
divided.
Storey county, Nevada, has 1914, 400 in
the treasury.
Salt Lake has a new prophet, who has it
all fixed for the world to burn up the LIST
of next June.
The fare to Tucson from Tombstone,
Arizona, including railroad fare from the
Cienega, is SO 10.
Floods are expected everywhere in East
ern Oregon by reason of the hardness of
the snow melting.
The Colusa Sun estimates that 5000
acres will probably cover the entire loss by
flood in that county.
George and Thomas Briner, brothers, of
Jackson county, Oregon, have been com
mitted to the insane asylum.
The wire for the military telegraph line
from Pomeroy to Camp Ceur d'Alene has
been landed in Almota, w. 7.
A water-spout broke near the crest of
Bennett Peak lately. It's track is visible
from Santa Rosa, several miles distant.
| Mountain trout are again abundant in
the markets at Virginia, New. Most of
them are brought from Independence Lake.
Sticks of wood can now be thrust into
Bodie stove without sending a pang to the
heart. The price has fallen to SIS per
cord.
Two years ago not more than 500 head
! of aofr cd oil tba anti l.
ley of the Upper ella river. To-day there
same ground and twenty-six good ranches
| being farmed.
J An immense cattle drive from the lake
country and other portions of Eastern
| Oregon to the Yellowstone valley is now
being organized and will commence moving
east on or about the 4th of May. The
cattle will number q, 500 head.
S. L. Carter, as attorney for the city of
Stockton, has filed complaint in the Su-
perior Court of that city against the Agri-
cultural Society. alleging that the society
is in unlawful possession of 60.27 of land
being the race-track and agricultural
grounds) belonging to the city, which the
society refuses to give up.
At the head of Fall creek, Nevada coun-
ty, pines and frs over 100 feet in hight are
SO buried in snow that only few feet of
their tops are to be seen. Where dark
forest lies in summer there is now only to
be seen white expanse of snow with here
and there what appear to be clumps OF
bushes, but which are really the tops of
the tallest pines.
The Eureka New Sentinel of May I'd
has the following: Mr.. Cazaux, of the
Union Market, accompanied by a Mr..
Wallace, of Austin, arrived on Saturday
with band of cattle. When within about
twelve miles of town they dismounted to
tighten their sinches. While thus occu.
pied a maddened OK attacked them and
made it very warm for while. Mr..
Cazaux's saddle. horse was killed on the
spot, and, in turn, the OK was killed by
| shot from Cazaux's pistol.
A letter from Globe City, Arizona, says
that place is all business and work. The
mines are too numerous to mention any
particular one new quartz mills are going
up on every side /; three large saw-mills
within six miles of this place, all running
on full time, cannot supply the demand
for lumber brick and adobe houses are
going up all around and everything is life
and hustle. There is also a church in
course of erection Teams are in good de-
mand at from $40 to SO per day for two
horses and wagon.
Some one continues the sale of whisky
to the Indians says the San Diego Meas.
About dozen bucks and half as many
squaws, with their children, centered on
Third street yesterday afternoon, all drunk.
One woman lay in the street, beautiful
sight for passers by. A day or so ago, a
woman lay drunk in the street this side of
Marco Williams coffee stand, and the boys
gave her cold water bath which she
knew nothing of, being so beastly drunk.
1t is not very pleasing sight for respecta-
BILE persons who are obliged to pass that
way.
Graniteville, in the upper part of this
county, says the Nevada Transcript, has
for several weeks past to some extent been
cut off from communication with the rest
of the world, because of the vast snow
| fields in that section. Provisions are, as
a consequence very scarce. In spite of the
tact that the people there are bitter against
the race, they have recently found it neces-
sary to employ Cinnamon to transport -four
to them from Moore's Flat, none of the
white race having the endurance necessary
to perform the feat. The Mongolian pack
animals carry so pounds at trip, making
one trip per day. They receive six cents
per pound for transportation, and thus earn
good wages
DANGEROUS DESPERATE.