Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Butte county has 4, 49s voters.

butte county mas q, 4So voters.
Denver, COL, is to have new evening
paper.
There are 705 registered voters in Lyon
county, Nevada.
A new paper called the Rereiile has been
started at Baker City, Or.
The horse distemper is prevalent over
the Truckee meadows, in Nevada.
An effort is making to have Salt Lake
City lighted with the electric light.
johnson, the murderer of Jenkinson, was
executed at Laketon, B. c., October lst.
A Frenchman in Santa Cruz has begun
to raise frogs for the San Francisco market
Over so 900 pounds of wheat arrived at
Winnemueea, New, last week from Para
disc
Sickness is common about jacksonville
at present. Typhoid fever is the principal
disease.
Apples are now IS cents per bushel at
Steilacoom, W. T. The crop in that Sec
ton is very light.
The advocates of the new spelling reform
in Oakland are anxious to cooperate with,
the Typographical Union OF San Francisco
A San Luis Ohispo gentleman has a
lemon tree in his yard twelve years old
from which he has gathered 1000 lemons
this season.
Some young ladies at HOLSTER are re-
ceiving subscriptions for the purpose of
buying a marble shaft for the grave of S.
II. Brummett.
In the San Joaquin Valley, in 10 days.
(fbarlaS A,,1a D,&Li..
and Marster's self-feeder, thrashed no
less than l49, 700 bushels OF wheat.
Patches of golden yellow now brighten
the dark slopes of the Sierra. They mark
the places where the frost has found alder
thickets and cottonwoods on which to set
its traces.
The snow on the mountains to the west
of Leadville is crusted heavily enough to
bear man without snow shoes. The
drifts are in some unsheltered places five or
six feet deep.
At Buena Vista, Col, lately some boys
threw rocks at Robert j. Derry, highly
respected young man. One of the stones
struck him in the eye. destroying it. As
he had lost one eye some time previously,
he is now totally blind.
Five out of train of pack animals,
which was being driven across the Mos
quito Pass, Colorado, were precipitated
down the rugged ravines and persisted in
the snow recently. Abandoned wagons
mark the track across the Pass.
| a number of papers have suggested that
a monument be erected to the memory of
Theodore Clancy, by a subscription from
the press of the State. One says We
second the motion with an amendment that
the amount be given to his wife.
Madison county, Montana, has 47,6SS
acres of land under cultivation, on which
was raised during the past year l04, 905
bushels of wheat, 40, sos bushels of oats,
$3.50 tons of hay, and twelve quartz mills
and five arastras turned out Sl25, 079.
This year placer claims cleaned up Sl66, l49.
An exchange gives the altitude of sew
| eral places in the Black Hills as follows :
| The highest point in the Black Hills is
Harney's Peak, 7,403 feet above the sea
level. The next highest is Crooks Tower,
| close by, which is 7 1913 feet. Bear Butte
is 4,563 feet high. Deadwood is 4, 750 feet
high, or PIT feet higher than Bear Butte.
/ The pending sale of the San Jacinto tin
mine, San Bernardino county, has fallen
through. The purchase price was to have
| been 1850, 900. The purchasing com
pany put up forfeit of $4,000 and SEPT
an expert out to this coast, whose report
was satisfactory, but the New York COM
pany afterwards failed, and their creditors
have attached the 1000 which had been
paid over.
Says the Truckee Republican Improve
ment is the order of the day in Grass VAL
ley. The town seems to have taken a new
lease of life, and awakened from the Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep into which it fell conse-
quent upon the shutting down of the ALI
son Ranch, Massachusetts, Hill, Scadden
Flat and other noted mines that made
Grass Valley famous as the boss mining
camp on the coast in the palmy days.
On Cave creek, Yavapai county, A. T.,
about three miles above the farm of Mo-
deski, a chief of the Apa,hes, is the cave
! from which the creek gets its name. Crawl
| ing in few feet on your hands and knees,
| you suddenly find Yourself in chamber
| so feet square and SO feet high, and brill
liant With stalactites. Leading from this
hall are numerous low passages which run
into other chambers. The cave has never
been thoroughly explored SO far.
The Carson tNa'ev.) Appeal says: The
| Chinese are gradually encroaching upon
| all the industries of Nevada The time is
coming when the men who employ Chi
nese labor will reap the whirlwind. Three
| thousand Nor goliaDs working at the lake,
where two thousand white men once
| thrived, is sad thing to contemplate.
The wedge has entered the State which
will eventually make the home of the
white laborer desolate, and times will grow
harder and harder.
| The already famous Chisum cave in Ten.
nessee Park, Col, grows more wonderful
as investigation proceeds. The Leadville
| Courier says new passage has been dis
covered that leads into sumptuous series
of chambers of unheard of beauty and ex-
tent, grand galleries lifting their ceilings
far beyond the reach of the miners feeble
candle dip to unexplored extent into the
mountains heart. In the midst of one
chamber that spreads and widens until its
further walls are lost in gloom smooth,
deep lake lies.
Says the Victoria (B. c. Coloaist.. The
landslide which blockaded the Thompson
river and completely stopped the flow of
| water for forty one hours, took place about
twenty Hllles dpoVe spence DrluSe Oh tne
evening of the 18th inst. Above the dam
the water rose about sixty-fve feet, cover
ing two farms and wauhlng off several
houses and large amount of grain. Har-
per's MILL at the mouth of the Bonaparte
river, was also damaged. Everything of
value was removed from houses out of the
reach of danger, but no damage was done
in that quarter, as the break was gradual,
the slide washing away from the top.
WE do not advocate the principles OF the Repub