Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tramp and burglar items are abundan
at Winnemucca.
. La Noria, Arizona, is new village clos
to the Sonora line
The Indian farm at Fort Keogh, Mon
tana, is a great success.
The.true Canada thistle is taking posses
sion OF farms near Franktown.
A Chicago firm contemplates starting
large marble yard in Salt Lake this fall.
A letter from Bonanza, Idaho, tells o
five violent deaths in the course of eigh
days.
Rev. E. Coleman has resigned the rec
torship of Grace Church, Suisun, and gon,
East.
] Last year there were nearly 3, 200 wagons
sold in Salt Lake. This year the sales will
exceed that number.
The Newell Colony, Washington Terri
tory, have selected land ON Sherman
prairie, Is miles from Olympia.
The S. P. r. r. Co. are excavating in
the hill below the High School. house, Santa
Cruz, for site for new depot.
There are at present twenty-five thrash
ing outfits in active operation within fifteen
miles of the town of Livermore.
Scared by two wild hogs they took for
grizzlies, a party of Lakeview, Or, hay
makers ran from their camp, and the hogs
ate their provisions.
The survey on the Carson and Bodie
Railroad is finished, and work is soon to be
commenced on the road between Wads-
worth and Virginia.
Nearly all the buildings on the west
side of Main street at Eureka, New, that
were scorched by the fire, are repaired, or
are in course of repairs.
During the past few weeks the water
supply of Livermore has been extremely
scant. Last week it failed entirely up in
the higher portions of town.
A stick was cut in the Tacoma mill,
| Washington Territory, last week, to put in
the ship Dashing Wave, that is 100 feet
long and 24xl4 inches in thickness.
A couple of colored people in Bodie are
strongly attached to each other, and he
addresses her as his " luscious brunette"
while she responds with my precious
black-and. tan.
Four new towns have been started in the
Wood river country, Idaho: Belleview on
Lower Wood river, Leadville and Galonce
on Upper Wood river, and Saw Tooth City
near Galena City.
Twenty-Five surveyors are at work in
Esmeralda county, New, and last week
they were attacked with fevers and dysen-
terry. In three days seven men were laid
up, and others since.
Frank McCutchan, an attache of the
Nevada City Free Lance, will take few
days vacaticn-all through inserting his
digits into the press while that delicate
piece OF mechanism was in operation.
A bull recently astonished drug clerk
in Oroyille by entering the store unan.
nounced. In order to get rid of the bo-
vine the knight of the mortar and pestle
fired charge of kerosene from an India
rubber syringe full in his face. The dose
had the desired effect, and the animal
turned tail, roared with pain and fled into
the street.
The Butte Record tells of new kind of
wheat grown in that vicinity. 1t has a
stiff straw and very coarse long beard
The head is about the length of an
ordinary sized head o. the white Chile
variety. From the base to halfway up
and surrounding the main ear, and growing
directly from its core, are from six to eight
smaller ears as perfect in development as
the center ear. The berry is plump and
very bright in color, resembling in size and
form the large, white Club, and is very
hard and finty.