Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
A vegetable peddler in Bodie is said to
have leprosy.
The Democratic Press, Port Townsend,
w. T., has suspended.
The Bigler-Tahoe controversy continues
to interest the Nevada press.
In one month VIM. Remnant of Union
county, Oregon, lost his six children from
diphtheria.
The average OF the wheat prices paid at
Eugene City, Oregon, for four years past is
70I cents per bushel.
The flagstaff at Eureka, New, fell in
the recent fire. 1t was 100 feet high, and
was called the finest one in the State.
One hundred dollars reward is offered by
Colusa gentleman for the discovery of
the man who recently poisoned valuable
pointer. ff
1t is said that there are about l.500 per.
sons in Candelaria, New. The Northern
Belle works 200 men, There are % saloons
in the town.
Saw Tooth City, Idaho. is located in
Beaver Gulch,. and on the edge of Salmon
valley Il is over s, 900 feet above the
level of the sea.
Deer are more plentiful in Boise county,
Idaho, than ever before since settled by
the whites. The increase is attributed to
the decrease of the Indians.
At the present time there are twenty
four inmates in the Napa County Infirmary,
more than have been at that institute at
any one time for many vesrs
Within the last four weeks about 90, 900
head Of sheep have been taken into Hay
stack Valley, Grant county, Oregon, from
Wasco and Umatilla counties.
The notorious Bender family used to re-
side at Forest City, Sierra county. The
Free Press gives quite an interesting &C
count of their career at that place.
Rebuilding has begun at Eureka New.
10 Mendez was the first to get lumber on
the ground A number of substantial
brick structures are in contemplation.
Walla Walla, w. T.. is in urgent need of
a new Jail. The present one contains but
three cells, and in these are frequently
huddled together from Is to 20 prisoners.
On Tuesday last the large target used by
the soldiers at the Benicia Barracks sunk
into the tule, and it took twenty men with
a hydraulic hosting pump two days to
raise it.
| Says the Eureka tNev. Sentinel A Buell.
street lady kept her money in her spring
mattress. During the fire the mattress
was carried out and $3.50 in it turned up
missing.
The Chico Enterprise reports that John
Rowless, of Butte county, recently shot
three bears and two California lions In one
| day, and also captured two bear.cubs,
which he took home.
Owing to the failure of the contractor to
furnish the necessary stone for the State
Normal School building in time, the force
of laborers and brick masons at the build
ing has been reduced to about fifty hands.
| The Carson and Colorado railroad is to be
extended to Candelaria, New, as rapidly as
money and labor can build it. The road will
also be extended southwark from that piont
certainly for a distance of fifty miles, and
possibly much further. There is talk of a
Belleville connection.
A runaway occurred at San Diego last
week, and an oaken splinter an inch in
width penetrated the foot of one of the
horses, entering at the center of the
''frog" and coming out at the hook. 1t
took the united efforts of three strong
men to wrench it loose.
The International Hotel, Eureka, which
cost $50, 900, was deemed to be proof,
and per consequence nothing was removed
from it but the building was swallowed
up in the recent conaagration. The own
ers, Mr.. and Mrs. d. H. Hall, are left
penniless in their declining years.
1t is stated that the Indians on Lemhi
Agency, Idaho, are somewhat excited over
the prospect that they will have to leave
the reservation. Ten boy has called his
braves together and they have had grand
pow-wow. Ten boy claims he did not
understand the treaty when he signed it.
One of the lady teachers in Reno pub
lie school, few days since, was laboring
with an urchin on the science of simple
division. This is what came of it "Now,
| Johnny, if you had an orange which you
! wished to divide with your little sister,
how much would you give herr" Johnny
"a suck"
The question of moving the capital of
Idaho from Boise to Backfoot is being
agitated. This latter place is located in
Oneida county, within one mile of Snake
river, and about two from Blackfoot river
on the line of the old emigrant road. Its
altitude is about 4, 600 feet above sea level,
giving it climate extremely hot in sum-
mer and cold in winter.
j. w. Brown, who resided for years
near the Sink of Humboldt, informs the
Winnemucca New Siirer State that the
report that the lake is dry is not correct.
West of the island, where there is several
feet of water some seasons, is now an akali
fat, but the east lake is not dry. and has
not been since whites came to the country,
nor within the memory of the Oldest Pr
utes. This arm of the lake is seven or
eight miles long, and from two to three
miles wide, extending over an area of sev-
eral thousand acres.
In 1874 a party of men left Council
Bluffs, Iowa, to go to Oregon. They came
across the plains, and when they reached
the hunting grounds of the Shoshones they
procured an Indian guide named Truckee.
This Indian accompanied them as far as
Suffers Fort. In traversing this region
the Indian told them of a rapid river that
flowed from one great lake to another. The
party did not reach this river as soon as
they expected, and they began to look
upon the "Truckee river" as river of the
mind, flowing fiction. Truckee river"
was for time frequent jest upon their
lips, and when at last they reached the
stream he described they had already
named it. From Truckee river to " the
Truckee" was transition natural and easy.