Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Pear trees are in blossoms at Santa Cruz.


Red Bluff has had Chinese kidnapping
case.
The population of West Denver, COL, is
5000.
W. N. Bowen has bought the Solano
Republican.
The Wallapais Indians, Arizona, are
said to be starving
Sugar cane, grown near Phoenix, Arizona,
this year, was very large and thrifty.
On the Colorado river reservation, Ari-
zona, there are 150 Chemihuaves and $50
Mohaves.
There were upwards of 1,600 tons of
wheat raised this season on the Coquille,
in Oregon.
The Nevada Tri- Weekly Herald has COM
menced a new volume. 1t is an excellent
local journal.
A number of Indian mounds near Santa
Monica were recently opened, but little of
interest came to light.
1t has been decided to issue 100, 900
shares of stock at 81 per share to erect re-
duction works at Carson, New.
A pile of Stag from an old Spanish fur
mace has been found on the top of high
mountain on the Cuiebra North Fork, Col.
During the late storm a large tree was
blown down near the Marion county (Or.)
Poor House. The tree in falling struck
COW, killing her instantly.
Young barley plants in the fields of j.
R. Whitney, Saratoga, already show blades
six and seven inches long, though the seed
was sown but three weeks ago.
a. T,l.
week has brought the highest tides of the
season. The flow of the tide is evidently
not obstructed by the crib work near the
entrance.
Thomas Barry, of Eastern Idaho, has
recently bought in Fresno county about
5000 head of sheep. He will start Mon
day next with the sheep for Idaho, by way
of Walkers Pass.
The other day Salt Lake had visit of
what the Indians call 'pogonip" weather.
which is cold fog, full of particles of
floating ice, and very productive of pneu-
monia and other lung troubles.
There is Moqui Indian living in one of
the seven village of those people in Ari-
zona, who is said to be worth at least
S25, 900. He trades in silver ornaments,
| and is also an extensive raiser of sheep.
Within eight miles, (northwesterly) of
Fort Garland, near the foot of Sierra Blanca,
the highest mountain in Colorado, and ly-
ing almost vertically between the granite
of the mountain and the slate and lime
stone of the valley, is one of the best, if
not the best, copper mines yet discovered in
that State. The vein at the widest place
is about 100 feet.
Owing to the fact that the people of
Boca, Nevada county, were troubled to
such an extent by tramps sleeping in the
barns, woodsheds, etc., they went to work
and erected g tramps' house" put fire.
place in it and fixed it up so that these
impecunious individuals could have place
where they could be comfortable without
infringing ON their neighbors. At times
the house is well patronized.
There are comparatively few of the Ia
borers who worked on the dam and levees
remaining in Marysville, says the Appeal.
Some have gone to work on farms and 9TH
ers have wandered back to San Francisco
and Sacramento. The result is that there
is much less drunkenness and brawling
here, few arrests are necessary, and the
city is the gainer for very few of those ar
rested had money to pay fines, and there
fore had to be boarded few days.
The other day the editor of the Dutch
| Flat Forum concluded to have some fun
with his subscribers, and announced that
the Forum would cease publication until
" next winter" Of course his contenpo-
raries forgot that winter, technically, began
the very next week, SO accepted the an
nouncement as bona fide suspension and
wrote their obituaries of the Forum. One
said it was good thing the Forum had
stopped, for it had never amounted to any,
| thing; another wondered it had lived as
long as it had another said the late editor
would probably go back to sand-digging,
where he belonged and yet another con-
graduated the people of Dutch Flat on
their good sense in withdrawing their pat
ronage from and thus causing the suspen-
sion of the Forum. The editor Of the Dutch
Flat journal is said to be highly elated
over the success of his joke. and is pre-
pairing others to be used on those editors
who were SO free with their remarks.
| Says the Eureka New Sentinel. Bill
McKeon, a printer, left Bodie few days
ago, bound for Eureka Just before he
pulled out friendly ~ barkeeper gave
Bill four bottles Of suthin' to keep him
warm on the road. Bill knows the where.
lore OF pneumonia at Bodie, and did not
taste the stuff. He offered the stage
driver nip, and then Bill had to drive
into Carson. He boarded freight train
for Reno, and his good health was winked
| by the conductor as he quaffed the LIQUID.
Bill had to report a conductor taken with
heart disease at that end Of the route.
The same medicine paralyzed two ticket
punchers on the G. p, and Mac got into
Eureka Friday night with two bottles of
the pizen intact. Bill wanted work, and
he passed the truck around to the Sentinel
corps. The stuff did its work effectually,
but if the stomach-pumps don't give out
the crew will be all right by Tuesday
morning. Mac says the liquid is made in
Bodie, from old boots, scraps of iron,
snow-slides and climate, and it only takes
couple of 'snorts to craze man of
ordinary brain-power.