Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS,

Carpenters are leaving San Jose owing
to the depression in building operations in
that city.
]. NJ. Ryan, of Montana, has purchased
%, COO sheep in California, to be driven to
that Territory
For week past Prescott has been per-
secuted with a southern Arizona wind,
acrid, arenic and alkalic.
Diphtheria is raging at Franklin, Utah,
three children of one family being recently
laid in one grave by the scourge.
Hay, which usually sells in Salt Lake in
the spring at from $40 to Sl4, is now CON-
handing from $50 to S25 per ton, and is
scarce at those figures.
The Buckeye Mill Company, of Marys-
vile, shipped Wednesday about 200 tons
of flour to San Francisco, the ultimate des-
tination of which is China.
No attempt will be made until the river
falls to pump out the accumulated water
on the lower portion of Rough and Ready
Island, in San Joaquin county.
A Stockton firm on Wednesday shipped
five barrels of native brandy to San Fran
cisco and thirteen barrels of wine and
brandy to parties in Idaho and Utah.
Under special Act of the Legislature
the Yuba City schools have been reopened.
The Act restores the poll tax to the county
fund for this year, which furnishes the
necessary funds.
James G. Blaine has by this time re-
ceived the following telegram Alameda,
the banner county of the State of Califor-
MIA, sends eighteen Blaine delegates to the
State Convention at Sacramento"
The members of the bar in Shasta and
Siskiyou counties, before the Superior
Courts of their respective counties, adopted
resolutions highly laudatory of the life and
character of the late Judge E. Garter.
Lawrence Geary, farmer from Contra
Costa county, came to Oakland with a load
of hay, which he sold. He was arrested
for violating the license ordinance, but the
charge was dismissed in the Police Court.
F. A. Tritle, of Virginia City, has an.
nounced himself as candidate to succeed
States Senate. In the race for Governor
of Nevada, in 1870, he was defeated by L.
r. Bradley.
A double headed jack rabbit, says the
Helena Independent, is the latest novelty.
1t was killed the other day near Helena,
Montana, by A. p. Mason. Both heads
are perfect, and it is remarkable curios-
ity. 1t is to be sent to the Smithsonian
Institution.
There are about 100000 head of cattle
in California, and 100000 sheep. The
stock breeding was begun in 1896 by Span.
ish friars at San Diego, who went there
from Lower California with 200 head OF
cattle and 100 sheep, besides few horses
and some hogs.
During the week ending on Saturday,
April 18th, $500 Sc was received at the
Postoffice in Austin, New, to be issued in
money orders for different parts of the
country. During the week ending Satur.
day, the oath, the money order business
amounted to S6l5 81.
One of a crowd of boys who were ex-
tracing unalloyed pleasure the other day al
Eureka, New, from snowballing China.
man, lost all interest in the sport
when the Chinaman found soft spot in his
anatomy and raised him four feet in the all
with the turn-up end of Chinese shoe.
A suit has been commenced in the Su.
perior Court for Suffer county entitled NJ
H. Goodwin VS.. Mary E. Goodwin. The
suit is brought to recover possession of the
lands owned by Jesse o. Goodwin in his
lifetime. by brother of the deceased. The
invalidity of the marriage is involved in
the suit
On Tuesday afternoon the train which
left Nevada City, on the narrow gauge, fol
Colfax, collided with freight train on the
curve of the mountain, just above Beal
river. Beyond slight injuries to the passen.
gers, caused by jumping from the train, nc
one was hurt The damage to cars and
locomotives was slight.
The Chico Record says David Fence,
who came down from the Chaparral House
Friday, states that the snow is twenty-five
feet deep at that place. Everything in the
way of buildings is completely buried.
The surface of the snow over the barn at
that place is perfectly level, and no signs
of building can be seen.
The Vallejo Times says that there are
various rumors ahoat concerning the Pensa-
cola One is to the effect that she will
come up to the Yard in about two weeks
another report is that she will proceed
north in about one month without coming
up here, and another rumor has it that the
vessel is to be condemned, which is the
most unlikely of the three.
F. f. Veal, who lives near Calistoga, put
strychnine in an egg to poison some animals
that were robbing the hens nests. By
some chance the egg was taken to the
house, put among the good eggs, and used
to make custard. Mr.. Veal and j. E.
Shiels were made quite i'll, and felt worse
when they discovered they were poisoned.
Antidotes were taken, a doctor sent for
and the sick men recovered.
A threatened outbreak of the Piutes and
Umatillas in Northern Humboldt county,
Nevada, is exercising the people in that
section very greatly, and families are
moving into Fort McDermitt for protec
ton Reports are abroad that the Duck
| Valley Reservation Indians have murdered
two families near Mountain City, and 1t i:
said that the Indians in that vicinity were
never more restless than at present.
On Saturday evening Spanish boy
named John Baker, aged ii years, met
with severe accident near Santa Clara
lie luIuDSu lIOul luc vi Ouc udiION
gauge train and ran to the front of a car
In attempting to get on he slipped and fel
under the car. The bones of the right les
near the ankle joint were broken, and the
muscles on each side, from the knee to tn,
ankle, were terribly lacerated.
1t is safe to estimate that Fresno county
says the Erpositor, will have for export
this year fully Sc, 400 600 pounds of grain
which at low estimate will be worth
81, 036, 500. To move this crop to marke
will require 4, 800 cars, or a train, if NOV
ing all at once, over % miles long The
sheep, WOOL cattle and hogs will bring
into the county fully $500, 900 more, anC
the mines, at low estimate, will yielC
SlOC, GOO.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette says: In Sierra
Valley the grasshoppers are already hatch
ing out under the snow. A. M. Farrell
brought some young ones to town yester
day. 1t is possible that the eggs may al
be Matched. and the insects perish before
the snow leaves the ground. In that case
the heavy snowfall of the winter will have
done much good. The young locusts seen
TO hatch out without regard to the state O
the weather.
In the case of the People vs.. Richard
Scott, charged with incest, the prisoner
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