Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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Brother Jonathan has been commenced
again at Crescent City.
Great Salt Lake, by the Government sur.
vey just completed, is found to be 90 miles
long and 43 miles wide.
Salt Lake miners just returned from
! Idaho and Montana say the high water is
/ playing havoc with the bridges
During the week ending June 29th 3.
993 pounds Of wool was shipped from Cal
istoga to Napa and ether points.
The number of school children in Oak
land is estimated at 3, S74 boys and 4,099
girls. There are 1873 oolored children,
The Chico Daily Adse,fiser has enlarged
! and is now published as morning paper.
1t flies the banner of Garfield and Arthur.
Reports from the Dalles, Oregon, show
considerable damage by water The Of
fees OF the Inland Empire and Times are
submerged.
Miller s Lux's irrigating canal is to be
extended down the valley into San Joa-
quin county The extension viii cover
many thousands of acres.
There are SOC patients now in the Napa
Insane Asylum. 1t is said that only about
one third of them are natives of the United
States, the other two thirds being mostly
Europeans.
a resident of Fort Jones, who was mar
ried in that village week ago, gave notice
in the local papers the day preceding the
event, and invited all residents to attend
the church and witness the ceremony.
Some Denver ladies caught an eloping
wife and at first determined to shut her in
q room with mouse, but yielding to her
prayers they allowed their sense of Justice
to be tempered with mercy and ducked her
in frog pond.
There is talk of building a road from
Charleston, Arizona, to Hermosillo, in So
nora. This road would be about 200 miles
long from Benson), and will run through
the richest mineral and agricultural dis
tricts in Sonora.
The Ordnance Department at the Mare
Island Navy Yard is placing old cannons
IN the ground, muzzle down, to serve as a
fence around the gun park. Chains Will be
passed through the butts from gun to gun
to complete the fence.
: Trout, two feet and one inch in length,
were caught in Lake Enor Tuolumue
county, by q party of surveyors last week
These trout were deposited in the lake five
years ago by II. Wolf & Co. of Columbia
and this enormous growth has compen-
sated them for their labor.
Rev. Il. Patterson, of Hillsboro. will
have two sons in the Oregon Legislature
this year, one from that county and one
from Polk, a strong Democratic county
Both of the legislators are Republicans
I L r-%+ra1l e C.lTE,y.,,,,
law OF Rev. Mr.. Patterson.
Sheriff McQuade of Tuolumne, after a
five-days' chase, night aud day, overlook
and arrested in Stanislaus county, near
Oakdale, horse thief named c.. H. Heus-
man. alias John Thomas, and brought him
into Sonora. He had stolen fifteen horses
and mules since March last.
An intelligent Italian, who has been
familiar with olive culture from his in
fancy, says that eventually the olive of
Tulare county will surpass the best pro-
duced in France or Spain. It is now
larger and of better flavor, and yields an
oil equal to the imported article.
The breaking of Prices dam, in Ophir
canyon, near Franktown, New, on Sunday
evening, occurred but few moments after
the passage of the train on the Virginia
and Truckee road. Had the break occurred
five minutes sooner the train would have
been swept from the track and terrible
disaster caused.
An Indian in Yellow Jackets band, says
the Amador Sentinel, was discovered to be
sick with the smallpox about mile from
jackson, last Saturday. Prompt measures
were taken to quarantine the whole band,
and while the sick man receives all neces-
sary attention, an armed guard day and
night prevents the communication of the
disease.
Enrique Leon, native of Spain, aged 80
years, died in San Diego last Thursday, of
disease termed Cardiac asthenia,"
which, according to the certificate of
death fled at the Health Office, was con-
tracted at San Rafael, Lower California,
induced by nervous prostration from being
sentenced to be shot, and led out for that
purpose.
The number of children between the
ages of and II years who have attended
school in Oakland for the last year is
White, 5,593 colored, 49, The number
Of children in Oakland between and II is
1913. About $500 children do not at
tend school. The increase in the number
of school children over last year is l5S
The Central Pacific Company's ship yard
at West Oakland is at present the scene of
great activity. The yard, which is the
largest on the coast-Mare Island Navy
Yard excepted-is crowded with craft in
the various stages of construction, from
the keel on the stocks to the finished
steamer, awaiting but to be launched, to
begin its career of usefulness.
Santa Barbara has quite a sensation.
Two young ladies, sisters, recently came
to the place ON visit. They became
leading members of the church, stood in
with all the reforms and sewing societies
and were plying the trade of common
thieves all the while Finally some officers
who suspected them searched their rooms
and found articles which had been pilfered
from nearly every house III town. They
even went so far as to steal the altar cloth
of the church to make table cover Of
B. F. Butler, of Lovelock, Butte county,
is engaged in building fore-and-aft
schooner, with which he intends taking
sea voyage to Central America. The craft
is 80 feet long, and her carrying capacity
is rated at % tons. When completed, the
vessel will be hauled by big bull team to
the Sacramento river, where she will be
rugged and foated down that stream to salt
water. When in Central America some
years ago, Mr.. Butler discovered valua-
BILE ledge of silver quartz, and the object
of this expedition is to take a party of 10
or l5 practical miners to the deposit and
develop it.
ANTHONY De COSTA, of Fairhaven, Mass,
owns an interesting old document-a deed
from King Philip of Mount Hope, Chief
Sachem Of the Pokananket tribe of In
dams, conveying Vests Island, in the