Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

$50, 000 have been placed on the market
Grasshoppers by the million are reported
on the Tucannon, in Washington Territory
Several new and substantial buildings
are being erected in Colfax, Placer county.
Columbia county, Washington Territory,
claims 5000 inhabitants east of the Tu.
cannon.
Pierce county, Washington Territory, is
free from debt and has So, 700 p in the
treasury.
Hay was sold one day last week in Sui.
sun valley for 81 in the field. The hay was
not baled.
The assessment of Columbia county,
Washington Territory, this year, will reach
81. 500, 900.
The assessment roll of Solano county
will foot up $40. 500, 900 this year, against
IS, 100000 last year.
Twenty-Five buildings, including stores
and dwellings, are being constructed at
Spokane Falls, w. T.
There are row but seven prisoners in
the Stanislaus County Jail. This is less
number than for some months.
Moscow, w. T., now supports two meat
markets but no saloon. 1t used to support
two saloons and no meat market.
A Umatilla Indian purchased in Walla
Walla, ". T., last week. spring wagon
and harness, paying therefor 5000.
Conrad Wiegand, the well-known assay
or, committed suicide at his assay Office on
c street, Virginia, New, on Monday.
The population of Ellensburg, the
county seat of Curry county, Or, is
about 200. The chief industry is salmon
fishing.
From the number of names taken by the
census enumerators in Vallejo, the popula-
ton of that place is estimated at 1900. 1t
had 6,39l in 1870.
The Sheep Commissioner estimates the
value of the wool clip in Walla Walla
county, W. t., at 500, 900, estimated value
of sheep, Sl50,00O.
A place in Oregon is named Chinacum.
And the first Chlnaman that accepted the
invitation was run out of the place with
rocks by the local Kearney.
There are over 600 school children in
Lewis county, w. T., and q school dis
tricts. The total school fund collected
during the year was S2,624 %.
It is reported at Salt Lake that Fort
Bridger, which was abandoned some time
ago, is to be reoccupied by several compa-
mes of the Fourteenth Infantry.
Two attempts have recently been made
in Union, Or, to enforce the gambling
law, resulting III victory for the gamblers
and $500 expense to Union county.
Owing to litigation the powder mill in
the suburbs of Vallejo has been shut down
for the past four days, and it is not known
when it will recommence operations.
Kittitass valley, Yakima county, W. T.,
is 30 miles long and Is miles wide, and is
one of the most beautiful and fertile of the
many valleys of Eastern Washington.
There is an artesian well at the Benicia
barrack that has been sunk 400 feet, at a
cost of $50, 000 and yet water has not
been reached. All the apparatus for sink
ing the we'll is upon the ground and all the
material necessary. The lack of funds now
retards the work
There are now in course of erection over
twenty-five new buildings in Globe, A T.,
and more than double that number are
contemplated. Lots are in demand, and
those that could not be sold for from SO
to S25 less than year ago, are now selling
at from $500 to 81 900.
The men engaged in driving logs down
the Yakima river, in Washington Terri
tory, suffer severe hardships, being almost
constantly in the cold water. Many of
them are becoming afflicted with swelled
legs, sore feet, rheumatic ailments and
other troubles consequent upon exposure.
There is at present lively stampede of
Cinnamon going on IN this vicinity, says
the Oroville Mercury. The number leav-
ing here within the last three weeks is va
riously estimated at from 400 to 600. Rail
road building in British Columbia and Ar
iona, and the stone quarries at Niles are
the loadstones attracting our heather pop
ulation.
j. ID. Redeem, Coroner of Placer county,
on Monday held an inquest upon the body
OF man found dead last Sunday in barn
belonging to d. McRae, near Roseville.
The man went there last Friday, and ap-
peared to be in the last stages of consump-
ton. Papers found on his person indicate
that his name is ]. Murphy, native of
Germany, aged 0O years.
The precipice over which the little twin
daughters of William Bonham of Grant
county, Oregon, fell while out at play near
their home was forty feet high. Neither
was dead when found, as has previously
been reported, but one lived about four
hours and the other had an arm fractured
and received an ugly cash in the temple,
but is in fair way to recover. The es-
cape from instant death is almost miracu-
lous.
Yesterday morning, gays the alameda
County Reporter of June 18th, a Danish or
Swedish woman, evidently insane, was
found on the salt marsh some distance
south of the Warm Springs Landing.
Constable Trefry was notified, and he took
her before Justice Conner, by whom she
was ordered before the Superior Court for
examination. She gives her name as
Louisa da Meta, and says she is from Sac
ramento.
w. G. Armstrong, S. Torres, II. Collins
and j. c. Collins, all typos employed in the
San Francisco Bulletin Office, are out with a
challenge to an equal number of compost
tors for type-setting match of from one to
eight hours duration. The match to be
for from $500 to 81 900 side. This chal-
lenge is open to all compositors on the Pa
ciGc coast. II desired, either of the four
will make an individual match.
Cat-poisoning is now lively in some
parts of the town, says the Virginia En-
terprise There is ample field fer this in
dusiry along the whole Comstock range.
Times have changed in this city since the
days when blear-eyed, lop-eared old tom
cat was thought cheap at so. Not few
old settlers Will remember when cats were
brought over the mountains by the freight
teams in coops such as are now used for
the transportation of chickens. OF course
they fought all the way over the noun
tains, and when the remnants OF a lot were
taken ont in this city it was thought good
luck to get out cat with even one eye.
THE problem of living in malarial dis
trict is solved by using Hammers Cascara
Saprada Bitters