Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-17
PAG1FIo COAST ITEMS.

nearly all harvested.
Dormer, of the Candelaria True FsSspye.
calls Bodie Had-Shot Gulch.
Farm hands are in demand at Reno.
New, at $40 a month, board and lodging.
The population. of Whitman county.
Washington Territory, IS estimated at
!, 100.
The Union Pacific is pushing the r. d
from Echo to Park City, Utah, and ;.
quires more men.
Bodie, with all is barbarities, ex
over the fact that it has never been
graced with a wife murderer
The population of New Tacoma. w.
IS 720, and of Old Tacoma 3S3, givin
total of l, 1913 in the Tacomas.
Within a few days wood drive Of
nearly 10000 cords will be started down
the Carson river from Markleeville.
During the past twelve years Santa Bar
bara has had eight newspapers, only one of
which, the Independent, now survives.
A little Indian trouble is brewing in the
Spokane country, Washington Territory,
growing out of white men cutting timber.
The exports of she produce OF Los Nietes
valley, through the Downey railroad de-
pot, for the month Of June, foot up total
of S65. ISL pounds.
A large settlement of Norwegians have
taken possession of Wild Horse creek, in
Umatilla county, Oregon, and are all
steady, Industrious people.
The Truckee Republican states that a
party of six from Boca caught 625 trout at
Independence lake last Sunday The
party only fished six hours.
Cloverdale has supplied itself with an
outfit of buckets and long ladders, to be
used in case OF fires. These necessities have
been placed in different portions of the
business part of town, where they would
most likely be needed.
party of United States engineers,
with a gang of laborers, have been en-
gagged on the north side of Putah creek,
near Dixon, for several weeks, building q
tower seventy feet high, to be used as a
station in the calculation of base and
meridian lines.
The Yakima Indian reservation, in
Washington Territory, will yield splen.
did harvest this year. The Indians last
spring cleared off and put in much more
grain than usual. They are beginning to
see the Importance of looking out for them
selves. They use the most improved agri.
cultural machinery
A Butte county Justice of the Peace is
in stew. He recently married couple
upon the presentation of license issued in
Yuba county. The license cannot be re-
corded in the latter because the ceremony
was not performed within its boundaries.
and no authority having been obtained for
the nuptialsii in Butte county, the officials
there have no fright to place it Oh the
records.
Monday next the California and Oregon
Railroad Company will put large crew of
men at work building a new depot freight
house and dining-room at Biggs. Nine car
loads .of lumber are on the ground ready
for the carpenters. When the structure IS
completed trains will take meals at that
place instead of at Chico, the southern ex-
press stopping for breakfast and the up
train for supper.
Sam Davis, whose marrisge was an
nopnced few days ago, publishes the fol-
lowing in the Carson Appedt.' :" A barber
has invented q hair tonic which makes the
locks of a man so slick that they will slip
completely through the fingers of his wife
when she attempts to drag him out to the
wood. pile at o'clock in the morning. The
inventor expects to become a millionaire"
This is an ominous item TO come from a
newly married man.
One of the Census Enumerators who visited
Roberts Island reports that it Is impessi-
bic to tell the color of the horses, the mos
quitoes cover them so thickly. Mems
hands at work, if ungloved, are covered
thickly. Mosquito netting is fastened
about the rims of mems hats and tied
closely around the throat to keep the mos
quitoes from covering the face, filing eyes,
nose and ears. Gangs of men strike and
refuse to work, finding rest neither at
night or day.
The Registry Agent at Phoebe, New, has
taken new departure. He thinks, says the
Record, that as the county treasury is not
in plethoric condition, and being allowed so
much per name for registration, that he
will institute the idea of collecting from
voters themselves. Each Democrat will
be charged twenty-five cents for registra-
ton, and fifty cents from each Republican.
The Justice thinks that by this plan Lin
coin county will be enabled to give
large Democratic majority.
Sheriff Kyle of Eureka arrived in Carson
this morning, says the Carson New I'ri-
bane of July 18th, having in charge three
Cinnamon, two of whom have been sem
fenced to two years each in the State
Prison, and the other to one year. The
crime for which they are to be imprisoned
is for selling opium and keeping opium
dens In these cases Judge Rives gave
them the extent of the law, for the purpose
of making an example of them, and to de-
ter others of their countrymen, if possible,
from selling the seductive drug.
July 9Th, at Arcata, Humboldt county,
the cannon used burst at the sixth dis
charge Fragments were hurled in every
direction. A piece weighing thirty-one
pounds was thrown over brick store and
through saddlery shop into wood house.
A large piece made deep hole in brick
wall Another fragment broke watering
trough. The town pump was ruined. One
piece landed in a store and another IN a
stable. Says the Leader. The cannon
literally went to pieces, and strange to say,
of all those in the vicinity OF the explosion
not one was seriously hurt.
The Green Mountain mine is located on
the Green Mountain, back of the Crescent,
sixteen miles from Quincy, Plumas county,
and is owned by company of New York
capitalists who have abundant means and
are developing the ledge in every possible
manner. They have l50 men at work
erecting a sixty.stamp quartz mill, build
ing roads, running tunnels, etc. Two
mills-one ten-stamp, the other twenty
are constantly working the rock extracted.
The vein varies in width from twelve to
eighteen feet. It is low-grade rock, av-
eraging $40 per ton.
FISHING AT MONTEREY. all ac-
counts there must be some excellent river
and bay fishing in and around Monterey.
A correspondent writes as follows On
Saturday last A. l.. Tubbs and his two
sons caught 290 trout, 20 of which were
from eight to ten inches in length, in the