Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-23

chase stage feDDers.
At Alpire, Col. the snow was % inches
deep and s5iil falling, last week, and at
Buena Vista q snowfall of IS inches Is re-
ported.
The collections at the port Of New West
minister. B. c., for the quarter ending
on the 30sh Of September, foo5 up S33,-
| oil 20
The sonomA lnaen is indignant at tie
condition Of the plaza in that ancient city.
An appeal has been made 10 the citizens,
but they do not respond with the coin.
| AL kinds of game are IN force on the San
Joaquin. CUrlew are plentiful on the
plains, and a few geese have appeared on
the stubble fields along Maripoaa creek.
The people in MERGED and Mariposa are
beginning to make bacon. Last years sup
| ply went to Bodie and brought fair prices
This year the quantity put up viii be much
larger.
San Luis de Calabra Is the county seat OF
Costilla county, Col. IL a Mexican vii.
lage Of plaza and few adobe houses
There are but few ADglo-Saxons in the
vicinity.
The valleys along Payette and Crane
creeks, III Eastern Washington, are visited
with fatal cattle plague. Many cattle
are dying. A little black speck on grass
causes the disease, which is called the
black.leg.
The Nortdpcsf Tribune has been moved
TO Cheney, a town recently sprung up on
the North Pacific Railroad, sixteen miles
from Spokan Fails, ". t. It is said to be
the coming town between Spokan and
| Ainsworth
III raising the Nanaimo d. c. telegraph
cable at Saanich Inlet lately, the workman
! found the outer covering in places en-,
crusted with beautiful specimens of coral
lace, and in others thickly covered with
devil or jelly-fsh.
At Fort Benton, Montana elevation
2,75t feet), the average temperature is
about AZ; at Virginia City elevation 5, 2S6
| feetl, about 40'; at Deer Lodge elevation
4,168 feet, about 42'; and Fort Owen (ele-
vat4tion 8, 2S4 feetl, IL.
The Dalles (Or Times says The beach
is now almost covered with piles OF sub
stantial wood, boated here on bafges. In
few years we shall have to depend on
pine and fir wood, as our forests are being
rapidly Trimmed of oak trees.
A peculiar disease is affecting the horses
of Shasta. The Courier thus describes it,
They are first attacked by something that
in effect appears like a paralytic stroke in
| the hind legs, then it passes into the fore
legs ana through the whole body!
Indians have killed in four months $50
peasons in Grant county, New Mexico, SO
far as is known. The people are holding
- b,
ures upon the Government, and to de.
nounce the course hitherto pursued.
The Truckee Republican states that two
oficers-one from Truckee and the other
Sheriff of Sierra county-lasely met at
Sierraville. During the night the thieves
they were in pursuit of robbed the Truckee
officer of $50 and the Sheriff of gold
watch and 81 90
The Ukiah Dispatch says: Parties trav-
cling from Long valley to Round valley
came to point on South Eel river where
the trail had caved in. Half a mile or
more of the mountain had slid into the
river, forming dam and backing up the
river Tor more than mile. The water
flows over, making fall of from 20 TO 80
feet.
The Salt Lake Tribune states that the
museum OF that city has received another
addition to the collection of Manti fossils.
One specimen is very interesting to visit
ors, and will doubtless be so to scientists.
1t is the upper jaw and upper part of the
head of large fossil fish, with teeth of the |
saurian type, cylindric aud conical, sugges-
tive of carniyorous appetite that would |
do justice to an alligator.
An enterprisiug tramp was lately in Gil
roy preparing himself for a trip. With |
blacksmiths hammer he broke sand-rock /
and filled candle box with small pieces, !
telling the smith that he intended to make |
the stones pay his way. At San Ysidro
several families were persuaded to buy |
them at ten cents each. The humbug
avowed that no lamp would explode if one
CT the stones were kept constantly in it.
Two cars recently got away from the
men at the head of the Sierra Nevada
Wood and Lumber Company's incline at
Lake Tahoe. The Reno Gazette says They
fairly few down the track, which rises
eight feet in every twelve, making the mile
and half in the quickest time on record.
They struck a big pile of trees that stood
at the bottom OF the road. The cars were
demolished utterly. Wheels, axles and
timbers flew into little pieces.
Says the Eureka (Nev. Sentinel, There
is band OF 5000 sheep grazing over on
Hunter creek, that were started from
Southern California last spring. Through
the Mexicans in charge we learn that it
has been hard trip. At one place, in one
night, they got hold of some weeds that
killed !, 200 before they could be got off
the range. The flock will move up Hunter
creek, down Newark valley to Ruby, and
thence to the Wells and on to Ogden.
The Napa Register says that party went .
up the valley on hunt, October 18th, and
while in one OF the deep canyons east of
Calistoga they met with an exciting expe-
rience. The members OF the party were on
horseback, when terrible whirlwind, {
down the canyon, endorsed !
Abram Gridley, a man weighing 100 !
pounds, and carried him twenty or thirty /
eet upon the large rocks and boulders.
He sustained severe injuries. Several of !
.he party while in the saddle were blown,
With their horses, twenty-five feet or more, t
md boy was struck in the head with a !
arge stone.
Says the Napa Reporter The Vallejo
,xcursionists were delayed at the Napa de- :
Dot until after o'clock Saturday morning, !
IN account Of the railroad company's re. s
usal to move the train until the excur-
ionists put up 800 more for the cars. The
,eople from Vallejo on this occasion t
rowded the coaches with many more than g
he number allowed, and when the COM !
ANY ascertained this they told the excur-
ionists that they could either pay 500 q
more or go home the best way they might. 2
after considerable parleying the necessary
money was raised. Ia