Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

county.
The Tombstone (Arizona) townsite fight
is still raging.
The Wallapais Indians. Arizona, are said
to be starving.
Mail carriers report an unusual fall of
snow in Wasco county, Oregon.
The population OF Santa Cruz county is
l2, sol, of whom ,24S are males.
The Little river mills, Mendocino coun-
ty, have shut down for the winter.
The dedication of the Masonic Temple
at Oakland takes place on December 9th.
There is an epidemic among horses at
Umpqua Ferry, Or. and a number have
died.
The Indian Church at Puyallup, W. T.,
numbers 220 members. Rev. Mr.. Mann is
pastor.
Two new vessels are being built in Hum
boldt bay, one to cost Sl4, coo, the other
$4,000.
The Government crih-work at Coos Bay,
Or, has proved very effective in improving
the harbor.
Grizzly bears are disagreeably numerous,
and stock suffers theretrom, in some parts
of Lake county, Oregon.
W. S. Lotion claims to have found gold
on the head of DORIS creek, Lake county,
Oregon, in considerable quantity.
Wm. Bybee, of jackson county, Oregon,
has sent in the past twenty years 10000
fatted hogs to the California market.
Work is progressing on the new town
hall at Jacksonville, Or, and it will be
completed during the fore part of 1881.
Beavers are quite numerous along the
banks of the Feather river. Those taken
are reported very large, and their fur fine
and saleable.
A deer was run into the reservoir of the
Amador Canal Company, near Sutter Creek,
Amador county, Friday, and killed by Mr..
Walkmeister.
The assessment rolls show the value of
all property in Alameda county to be
$50 736, 600; deducting mortgages there
is $40, 299, COO
The Oregon AstoriGn says there are &c.
600 cases of salmon at Pillar Rock, 10000
at Clifton. and at other points about %, 600
cases yet to ship.
The Board of Supervisors of Alameda
County dkS s@9dih SCbSinS cSlbe-lCO aOO0I ohO
boundary line between Alameda and Con-
ira Costa counties.
Hotels at The Dalles, Or, are crowded.
The Umatilla and Cosmopolitan are feeding
over 800 people every day, and the number
is steadily increasing.
The total vote for Delegate from Wash
ington Territory in 1880 numbered Is, SOB,
and that OF 1878, l2647-a gain of 3, ,l76,
or little over 25 per cent.
The most costly building in the country,
when completed, will be the Mormon
Temple at Salt Lake City, the cost of
which is estimated at S27, 0G0, 900.
Jo. Wall, of Humboldt county, lost his
way in the mountains last week, and was
showed in for two days in deep gulch and
badly frozen. He is in the Eureka hospital.
Sand Island, near the mouth of the
Columbia river is to be converted into a
salmon fishing station, which will also be
provided with complete ife-saving outfit.
There are three sheep buyers in Bakers
field from Utah, who propose to purchase
20, 600 sheep to drive to Utah in the
spring. They are paying 81 so to g per
head.
his field in the northern part OF Marysville.
turned up with the sod an old gold watch
that had apparently been buried there
many years.
Considerable syrup has been made from
watermelons by George Jackson of Rogue
river, Oregon. The melons are run through
cider mill and the juice strained and
boiled down to the proper condition.
Says the Portland Oregonian Andrew
Berger, pauper. died last week near
Springfield. He had trusted his children
with his property, and in return was thrust
out upon the charity of the cold world.
Both Montana and Dakota are rapidly
filling up. Where last year there was
nothing but a wilderness along the river
bank, this year there are squatters' cabins
scattered everywhere, villages, and some--
times mining towns.
Josephine county, Oregon, has veteran
of the war of 1912. His name is Hosea
Brown. He is now in his Goth year, draws
his pension, and though bent by weight of
years is active mentally and physically and
makes bee culture speciality.
All the inmates of the Nevada State
Prison. l26 in number have just been vac
cinated-all except one man, who thought
he saw in the operation a job put up to
place mark upon him by which he would
be known after being turned out.
Says the Portland Oregonian The pot
latch on Guemes Island, W. T., was at
tended by 8, 800 Indians and about $50
canoes. The practices INDUCED at these
gatherings are demoralizing in the ex-
treme, and should be discountenanced by
those in charge of the Indians.
A. B. White and John Sharp, of Marys-
vile, says the appeal, and a gentleman
residing at Sacramento, have purchased
the famous Contra Costa horses, Tommy"
Barney and Jack, the Clown, edu-
Gated by John Sherman, together with the
show outfit, for the handsome sum of
So 000
The Carson and Tahoe Wood, Lumber
and Filming Company have shipped to the
terminus OF the fiume at Carson 20. COO, 000
feet of lumber and 20, 600 cords of wood as
the work of the past season. The company
has two sawmills at GIenbrook Mill No.
l sliced u 600, 600 feet of lumber this sea-
son, and the new mill cut the balance.
Says the Anaheim Gazette Many months
ago, while in the vicinity OF Garden Grove
and Westminster, we saw pear and prune
trees growing on land so strongly impreg.
mated with alkali that salt grass was the
only other vegetation which it nourished.
The fruit was finely favored and in nc
degree tainted with the character Of the
soil.
Owing to the Importance lately assumed
by the California District, Arizona, it has
been determined by the Southern Pacific
Company to make San Simon regular
station, instead of side track and water
station as first intended. depot build
ing will soon be erected, and regular ship
ments will be made from there thereaf fter.
The total population of Placer county,
according to recent issue of the Census
Bureau, is ID, 226, of which 9,5l5 are males.
All females 9,0l5 native Americans.
5,2ll foreign born ll,S7l whites. 2. 355
colored. OF the total. 9 lq6 are Cb;na.a