Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-19
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Robberles are becoming very common OF
late at Red Bluff.
Twenty-one children have died of diph-
liberia at Susanville.
Sheep pelts are more abundant in Yreka
this spring than wool.
The farmers of Lincoln county, Nevada,
are blowing and planting.
Several cases of measles among the little
folks of Jacksonville, Or, are reported.
The grain in the vicinity of Marysville
is getting so stout that there is danger of
rust.
There are twenty prisoners in the Nevada
County Jail, including three Cinnamon.
Monday there were twenty-one.
An unusual number of mining men and
spectators, from San Francisco and the
East, are at present at Cerro Gordo, 1nyo
county.
The cold spring has greatly retarded the
progress of sheep-shearIng in Yolo county,
and it will be quite late before the season
is closed.
The Alameda creek overfowed its banks
about mile above Alvarado on the I'd in
slant, and flooded the lands of many of
the farmers.
The Antioch farmers are beginning to
complain now of too much rain, something
unusual for them, as they seldom get
enough in that part of the country.
Not railway train enters or leaves Los
Angeles now that does not carry at least
double the number of passengers who were
similarly recorded this time last year.
Trains of wagons pass through Bakers
field daily, loaded with wool from the
ranch of Haggin & Carr. They will ship
about 100000 pounds from their spring
clip.
The Los Angeles Express is urgent for
the establishment of a Government build
ing there, and wants Uncle Sam to buy
the present County Court house for that
purpose.
The Olympia and Ienino Railroad, in
Oregon, was sold by the Sheriff recently
for taxes As no bidders appeared the
county took it at 81, sos H. Trains are
running as usual.
In Roop county, Nevada, man named
Harris has discovered an excellent well of
saline water. Out of gallon of water
which was boiled down he extracted over
three pounds of fine salt.
There are ten prisoners in the Mendo-
cino County Jail awaiting trial on tie
charge of murder, viz Mrs Schrum, Jesse
Anthony, Wheeler, Linsley, Keller John
son, Mortier, Lame Dave, Carr and Ham
maan.
a company has been Incorporated at
Tucson under the name of the ''Southern
Arizona Railroad Company, to build and
operate a railroad from the crossing of the
San Pedro by the Southern Pacific road to
Tombstone.
1t is proposed to extend the Narrow
gauge Southern Pacific Railroad from
Paiaro to HOLSTER the connection to be
completed in time to carry the present sea-
sons crop at rates so per cent. less than
the present.
The two salmon canneries at Collinsville
and that of Chips Island have jointly
daily canning capacity OF 4, 500 fish. The
company has arranged with the fishermen
to take fifty fish from each boat, at 32ll
cents apiece.
One day recently over seven and half
tons of mushrooms were shipped to San
Francisco from Stockton. These mush-
rooms are gathered by Chinaman on the
banks of the San joaquin river and on the
reclaimed tuIe lands.
Trout are plenty in the Humboldt river
at the present time, and the Indians bring
dozens of them from ten to twenty inches
long to Winnemucca Trout do not 90 to
the sink in winter, and the dams on the
Lower Humboldt DO not interfere with
them.
During the week ending with Tuesday,
April 18th, 1868 pounds of quicksilver
were shipped from Calistoga by rail to
San Francisco-all coming from the Great
Western and Sulphur Bank Mines the
latter producing more than two-thirds of
the amount.
Bogus dollars are in circulation and have
made their way into Stockton. This coin
has a neat appearance and produces ring
similar to that of the new American dollar.
The only difference in the two is in the
weight, the bogus dollar weighing thirty
cents less than the other.
John Harris, working over in the Nevada
district, fell down shaft on Friday night,
which was between 60 and 20 feet in depth,
and sustained a fracture of the small bone
of the left leg, near the ankle joint, and
also received a number of cuts and bruises
about the head.
The Phoebe New Record drops this
deep mysterious hint: There will probably
be dark deed soon exposed in Lincoln |
county whereby two men, supposed to have
met their death by accident in an adjoining
county, were murdered by hired assassin,
and another man, who stood in the way,
was to mysteriously disappear.
Last Tuesday afternoon, says the Marys-
vile appeal of April 10th. Klemp's shed,
in front of the Yuba City Brewery, as well
as that fronting the old saloon across the