Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Or.
Humboldt county has 1855 inhabi-.
tants.
Klickitat county, W. T., has 400 in
habitants.
Delinquent tax of Jackson county, Ore
gon, Sl,503.
The assessment roll of San Mateo county
is Sl0,040,575.
Washoe county, Nevada, has l,6l4
school children.
Santa Cruz dairies made i55, 9SS pounds
of butter last year.
Crescent City wants county fair held
at that place this fall.
A large fyipg-tish was captured at Will
mington Tuesday last.
The population of Yolo is ll,5l9, of
which 500 are Chinese.
Population of Marion county, Oregon.
IA, 299 of Salem, 5,679.
The Indebtedness of Humboldt county,
Nevada, is over 500, 1000. and is increas.
ing.
Forty-seven grain cargoes, aggregating
81, i67 tons, were loaded at Long wharf,
Oakland, last year.
A Kern county farmer has amber sugar
cane which is already twelve feet high. 1t
was planted in May.
During the year ending June S0th the
Stockton Paper Mills produced over ), ,6OO,-
600 pounds of paper.
In Montana there are forty-six persons
in the insane asylum and fifty con-
victs in the penitentiary.
Thirty-two thousand head of cattle have
passed through Camas prairie, Idaho, for
the Eastern market this spring.
Moses Genot of Paskenta, Tehama
county, has killed nine bears this summer
while hunting cattle in the hills.
An effort is to be made in Bakersfield to
have an artesian we'll bored in the center
of the town, which will be accessible to
all.
The woods about Westport, Mendocino
county, are full of newly-pulled tanbark
and new ties, and there is call for more
men to labor.
A span of valuable mules belonging to
E. a. Palifka were shot seriously by some
unknown person near Michigan Bluff on
Thursday last.
Mrs. Dooly, an old resident of Michigan
Bluff, fell from sidewalk there few days
ago, distance of some IS or 20 feet, and
met with serious injury.
Messrs. Vanarnem, Palifka and several
others have formed prospecting party and
leave Michigan Bluff, Placer county, in
few days, to hunt for veins and placers.
The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle says that
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management of the Carson Mint, there be-
ing unreasonable losses in melting bullion.
The dreaded yellow flag is flying from
house on Central avenue, Alameda. The
patient is Mrs. Melinda johnson. The
lady caught the smallpox from relative
in San Francisco,
1t is reported that the South PaciSs
Coast Railroad Company has purchased ]
Big Tree Grove at FELTON,, at the handsome
sum of $40, 900, with the intention of
erecting fine hotel.
1t is reported at Oakland that Major
Fillmore. Master of Transportation, will be
promoted to the office of Assistant Super
intendent of the Central Pacific Railroad,
vice Fellows, deceased.
Water troubles are again agitatng the
people of the Central California Colony.
The Fresno Erpositor says: The colonists
complain that their vines and trees are
dying for want of water.
The Colusa county Assessor collected
this year 2.4SS poll taxes, which is 225
more than the greatest number of votes
ever cast in the county, and about 500
more than were ever collected before.
Red Rock, Montana, the present term
mus of the Utah Northern, is town of
about 600 people, The line dividing Mon
tana and Idaho is Is miles south at place
called Monida. where the elevation above
the sea is $3.50 feet, the highest point on
the railroad.
The Nevada State University Regents
have decided that the price of State timber
land containing nut-pine, cedar, juniper or
mountain mahogany be fixed at 81 25 per
acre, and that land containing other pine,
fir tamarack or other timber suitable for
manufacturing into lumber or timbers be
fixed at 81 so per acre. 4
: a few days since an Indian near Majors
ranch, Tuolumne county, was suffering the
pain of rheumatism in enc of his legs.
Concluding he could bear the loss of the
leg better than suffer longer, he laid the
leg across a log and with an ak chopped it
entirely off little below the knee, bleed
ing to death in few minutes. Each time
he struck the leg he hallooed, which at
tracted attention, or the facts would never
have been known.
The Bodie Ne,rs says: Over two years
ago Louis Sammons, the veteran pioneer of
Mono Lake, sank in that extraordinary
sheet of water the dead bodies of three
native born sons of the forest with a view
to petrlfaction. The other day he brought
in one body to land, and sawed of por-
tion of the scalp, which he left at the
Grand Central Hotel in this city. 1t is
just as fully piece of petrified humanity
as ever was seen. The remainder of the
body was again committed to the turbid
waters of the lake. 1t is Louis intention
to let the bodies remain in the water six
months longer, at which time he expects q
perfect petrifaction of the whole of them,
one of which he will send to the Academy
of Science at Philadelphia and another to
the Medical Museum at San Francisco.
The combination, "California Through
Death Valley" creates some excitement in
Utah, as the story of the piece bears
heavily on the Mormons. A recent letter
from member of the company, dated at
Ogden says: '' We played here last night
to big house. Our piece is strongly anti
Mormon, and this place is strong Nor
mon town. The audience last night was
half Gentiles and the other half Mormons.
The Gentiles were very enthusiastic, while
the Mormons had faces as long as your
arm, and Kissed whenever they got
chance The seats are all taken for to-
night. All she Mormons in town will try
and be there, and / expect that We will
catch it hot ! tell you that we are very
careful about how we roam the streets here.
We play in Salt Lake tomorrow night,
and am a little bit ticklish about my
windpipe. They refused to rent us the
theatre in Salt Lako, SO Corbyn had to hire
big hall there and build stage. We all
90 armed, as if we expected to be attacked
by some band of hostile Indians. 1t is
funny, amt it?''
From P. Sandusky, of Flat Willow creek
Ia. tributary of the Yellowstonel, we learn
that the remains of four white men were
recently found between Fiat Willow and
Mcdonald creeks, says the Benton (Mont.)
Record Three of the men were in bed,
covered with blankets and buffalo robes.
One of them had an ''oli reliable Sharp's
rifle grasped in his haad, with the end of
the barrel projecting from under the