Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-20
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

There are twenty-one prisoners in the
Los Angeles County Jail.
Several cases of mild diphtheria prevail
in Auburn at the present time.
There are thirty-two patients in the
Naval Hospital at Mare Islard
The first l6-mule team of spring arrived
in Bodie Monday, from Carson.
The Santa Cruz powder mills have dis
charged all their Chinese employees.
There is estimated to be 5000, 600 acres
of wheat planted in California this year.
1t is computed that there is gold ore
enough in Bingham, Utah, to run 1000
stamps 100 years.
There are some twenty families on the
road to San Diego from Lower California.
escaping the troubles there.
Saturday and Sunday the water in Stock
ton channel was higher than at any pre-
vious time for several years.
Artesian well-boring with new and i'm
proved machinery will be a vigorous in
dustry on the plains this summer.
The farmersiin the Pajaro valley are
sanguine of having good crops the approach
ing season. In every direction the grow
ing grain looks fine
Los Angeles orchardists complain of the
non-appearance of blossoms on their orange
trees, and fears are expressed that the next
crop will be short one.
C. H. Huffman, of Merced, expects to
harvest the coming season I25, 600 bushels
of wheat, to sack which will require 60, coo
sacks, which, at the usual price, will cost
81, 500.
The snow on the Salmon Mountains be-
tween Etna and Sawyers Bar, Siskiyou
county, is fifteen feet deep. Six feet of
new snow was added in the past two
weeks.
The Reese estate is now distributing
$3.50, 900 of accumulations among the lega-
tees. This makes 81, ,450, 600 distributed
by the executors so far, and yet but
tlife of the property of the estate has been
disposed Of.
The cabin belonging to E. C. Bullard,
situated near the Home Stay mine, Cornu-
copia, was blown to atoms last Wednesday
by an explosion of giant powder. Mr..
bullard had left few sticks of powder in
the oven of his nearly cold stove, and COM
menced work in his tunnel close by. When
ready for blasting he started to the house
to get the powder, and arrived in sight of
the cabin just in time to see it blown into
fragments.
A case of poisoning which resulted fa-
tally to one of the victims occurred at
Lodi, San joaquin county, last week. 1t
appears some children were out picking
what they thought to be mushrooms. By
mistake they picked some toadstools. The
children were all taken violently ill, while
in the case of the daughter of Mr.. Ram
sea little girl years old-the poison
proved fatal. The rest of the poisoned
children are doing well, and will recover
We said last week, says the Anaheim
Gazette, that the extent of the business
done in hogs in this part of the county
would astonish those people who had given
no thought to the subject. In verifcation
of this we cite the fact that since August
of last year one firm alone has collected
th ough the Bank of Anaheim S53, 900 for
hogs shipped to San Francisco. Another
gentleman has in the same period drawn
SIS, 600 through the bank in payment for
hogs.
Charles Gunther, the Prussan, residing
near Magalia, Butte county, who claimed
that he was brutally assaulted by some un-
known person on the night of the 5th inst,
died at Butte County Hospital on Thurs
day last. Before his death it was ascer-
tanned that all his wounds were inflicted hy
himself. He had no leaden balls, and shot
himself in the ear with paper bullets, hold
ing his pistol so close to one ear as to dis
color it with the powder. One or more of
the paper-bullets were taken from his neck,
which entered via the ear.
A letter from Goose Lake, Modoc county,
says: Everybody is out of hay, and stock
are dying on almost every ranch in the
county. / do not want to make things ap-
pear worse than they are, but it cannot be
much worse as far as stock is concerned.
Cattle are mere skeletons, and seem to ask
for food as they look at you. There is
plenty of grass under the snow, but three
feet of snow covers it so that it is impos-
sible for them to get at it. If change
does not come soon, people here will begin
to suffer as well as stock. 1t SHOWS, thaws,
then SHOWS again more than ever 1t is not
cold-40' to 50' during the day"
The fine qualities of giant powder as an
explosive were exemphfied Friday evening
on the sea-wall being built from Oakland
Point by the railroad company. A large
rock which had been dumped from plat
form car on to the top of the embankment,
rolled over the edge, and striking on a
giant powder cartridge with cap attached,
which had been left carelessly lying on the
ground caused it to explode. A loud re-
port was heard, and Portuguese laborer
who was standing near by was fairly blown
to pieces. A portion of the trunk and one of
the limbs were found four or five rods
away, but the rest of the body was not re-
covered.
In THE CURRENT.-A correspondent of
the RECoRD-U UNION, writing from Pleasant