Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Buglars are making times lively in Tue
son, A. I.
Good hay is now selling at $40 per tor
in Denver, Col.
At the Gold Hill New barbecue 2, SOC
| persons sat down to the tables.
The contract for the Mono county Court
house has been awarded for S23, $50.
The census shows the population of San
Jose to be l2,472, as against 9,0S9 in 1870.
The San Antoine falls, Calaveras county,
are said to be $50 feet in perpendicular
hight.
American plows and other agricultural
implements are being shipped from Tucson
into Sonora.
Snake river (Idaho) lime has been tested
and pronounced equal to that of San Juan
or Santa Cruz.
The idaho Statesmen reports that there
are still banks of snow fifty feet deep in
the Wood river country.
From June 30th to July 9th, inclusive,
26, 949 pounds of quicksilver were shipped
from Calistoga to San Francisco.
The number of deaths in Oakland in
June was 81, exactly the same as in May
The First and Second Wards showed the
greatest mortality.
Sheep are dying rapidly in the vicinity of
Healdsburg. Upon examination it is
found that the lights, liver and gall are in
tested with the leech
Red Bluff had an Indian dance on the
afternoon of the 5th, and the Sentinel re-
marks that the style of the women's dane
ing reminded one OF perpetual washing
machine.
At the recent Benson City "a. IT, sales
there were sixty-four lots sold at from $50
to SIT 30 the average price being from
$40 to 800. Most of the lots were pur-
chased on speculation.
Major Mutt, brother of the noted Com
modore, keeps cigar store in Portland,
Or. The other day Dan Moran seized $50,
from Nutt's hands and tried to escape, but
was arrested after an exciting chase.
An emigrant threw a heavy bottle out
of car window at Rose Creek, Nevada,
the other day, and it struck James Hamill,
Roadmaster of the Central Pacific, in the
face, bruising it badly, and knocking out
two teeth.
Hugh Falkner, when he suicided at Red
Canyon, near Gold Hill, New, got an old
musket, loaded it heavily, tied string to
hetrigger, took off his right boot and put his
foot into loop at the end of the string,
placed the muzzle in his mouth and pulled
the trigger.
Speaking of recent shooting affair, the
Virginia Chronicle says: Every man. woman
and child in city where fight of this
kind occurs has personal end to serve in
seeking the punishment of the men who
permit their private resentments to thus
imperil the safety of everybody who may
chance to be in their neighborhood.
An italian was recently drowned in
Churchill Canyon, New. Says the State
Journal. III was bent on taking a bath,
but could not swim. lie tied piece of
hay rope to his arm, and told friend to
pull him out if necessary. He waded ont,
struck hole and went down. His friend,
in his eagerness to help, gave the rope a
quick jerk and broke it. The man drowned
and the body was not recovered.
The President of the Kansas colony
writes to the Washington Territory Board
of immigration, saying: ''We have
started some 800 by overland and about so
by railroad. Have about 500 more that
start by Jniy 18th. | have been over the
State considerable. and am of the opinion
that more than 10000 persons viii leave
Kansas this season for your Territory, be-
sides a large number for Oregon"
There are piled on the ground near the
Caistoga depot, says the Cdlistogidn, sew
eral hundred quicksilver TASKS, the same
being entirely new and the last of two car
loads Q,579) that have recently been re-
ceived at this place for the sulphur Bank
Mining Company. The TASKS were made
in Pennsylvania. and the cars in which
they came are the only ones that were ever
loaded in the East and run direct through
to Calistoga
Thousands of hogs are fattened yearly
ON the nut-grass and tule-roots of the
swamp lands bordering Kern and Buena
Vista Lakes, and along Buena Vista
Slough, below the big canal in Kern county.
Some 1000 have been shipped from the
latter section this year, and there are now
1900 or 5000 feeding on the range The
feed dried out very much last year from
lack of water, but the overflow this season
is reviving it again.
The Humboldt Times describes the Fresh
water railroad of that county, which is
being built by the South Bay Railroad and
Land Company, and its object is to bring
into market the redwood timber along
Freshwater slough. The road will be six
miles long, will cost 800, 1000, employs 100
men at present, and is nearly flushed.
Logs will be hauled by the first of next
week. Construction trains are now being
run over two miles of track, and the other
four miles are graded.
At Sheep Ranch, on Friday last, says
the Amador Sentinel of July 7th, 7. r.
Taggart, miner, had terrible experience
and most remarkable escape from death.
He had gone down to the .200-foot level
and was standing with one foot on the plat
form and the other on the tub, when the
latter was suddenly started. Taggart's
foot was caught in the bail of the bucket
and he was carried up some distance with
his head hanging down. His foot was
loosed and he fell, turning completely
over, and as he went down his arm caught
in a crack in the timber-work of the shaft,
in which position he hung until extricated.