Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-06
NEWS TAILINGs.

The hare and hounds race at Salt Lake
on Monday was big success.
There will be 10000 acres of land cult
waited in the Black Hills this year.
Helena, Mont, prophecies that she will
double her wealth and population in three
years.
Notwithstanding the GOODNESS of the
weather, grass is sPringing up everywhere
in Nevada.
Tuscarora saloon-keepers, when they get
tired of the rush of business, vote them
selves holiday, shut up shop and go fish
ing
The man Sam Black, shot in dance
house row at Bodie on Tuesday by sport
ing man named Pierce, is not expected to
live.
Cottonwood and fig trees are being set
out along the levee constructed last year
on the shore of Tulare lake, from Cross
creek to Kings river.
A Grangeville correspondent writes to
the Visalia Delta that G. O. Pher was
murdered near that place on All Fools
day. The particulars are too long and
blood-curdling for this issue.
Says the Yreka Union: An unwonted
phenomenon is seen on the roads nowadays.
While one side of vehicle will be rolling
ON solid frozen snow, the wheels on the
other side will be throwing up dust. Clio
rious weather
The prospects of an unusually prosper
GUS year is causing business of all kinds to
boom in Hanford. New buildings are
being constructed, the erection of other
new ones contemplated, and older ones are
being improved.
IA resident of Centreville has a disguised
pigeon Instead of handsome pair OF
young fedglings Easter morning. the large
egg upon which she had made such pleas
ant calculations proved bouncing big Leg
horn chicken. The disgust was mutual,
and the chicken, being the weaker of the
two, succumbed to his fate.
The petition which was gotten up and
circulated among the citizens of lone City
for their signatures, to change the name of
clone Valley" to lone Postofice, and for
warded to Washington some few weeks
since, has received the attention of the
proper authority there, and the name has
been changed to " Ione" as petitioned for.
The Good Templars of Salinas and Cas-
troville intend to send a joint delegation
to Monterey soon to assist in organizing
Lodge there. They have received assur-
ances that sufficient number of persons to
start a Lodge are ready to unite with the
Order. Some of the leading citizens of the
old capital have expressed their willingness
to take an active part in the movement.
The Reno Gazette is responsible for this
A man about to marry was seized with
lockjaw in Winnemucca very early on last
Wednesday morning, and rushing to a
drug store, he beat upon the door for adj
mittance. The proprietor, on opening the
door, mistook his visitor for tramp, and
knocked him down. Strange to say, the
mans lockja was instantly cured by the
blow.
Arizona items There is steady and
healthy progress in the mines near Yuma.
Capital is being invested in Silver District.
-. The Colorado and Silver District Rail-
road Company, location, Yuma county,
Arizona, have filed articles of incorpora
ton The Arizona Democrat SAYS that
by next fall the New York syndicate will
have 300 men at work ON their mines in
Peck District
Says the Seattle Intelligencer Eleven
miners from Ruby Creek arrived on the
Josephine last evening. 1t is idle to tell
their story, as it is the same one told by
hundreds of other men from the same dis
trict. They are satisfied the gold is there,
and that it can be got out little later in
the season in large quantities. They will
soon return. On the various creeks up
there not less than GOO claims have been
taken.
In sinking well at the proposed town
of Keller, Inyo county, an abundance Of
good water was struck at depth of thirty
three feet. The ground toward the bot
tom of the well is a perfect river wash,
out of which a fair ''color of gold can
be obtained in nearly every pan of it. Cap
this was the ancient channel of Owens
river, or some antediluvian stream which
debouched into the Gulf of California.
Little blocks shall all remind us
What block-heads are yours and mine,
When depart and leave behind US
Still uusolved the final line
The problem that perhaps another
Donkey VIII with might and main
Sweat and toll and swear and bother,
Try to bring out right again.
Let us then be up and doing,
Nrestle now moro with fate
Cease the phantom gem pursuing
Throw the burned thing in the CRATE
Haywards Journal. The prospects for
full crop of fruit vegetables and grain
about this part of the county are very ia
vorable at the present time. Some uneasi-
ness was manifested among farmers a few
weeks ago, caused by the continuous north
winds, which Slapped the moisture from the
L. v,a1 80
in its very infancy, but all of these fears
have been allayed by the copious rains that
have drenched the county within week
This anxiously looked for aid has revived
growing crops, and the few warm days fol-
lowing the rain started things forward
afresh.
Visalia Delta, April I'd: The Deer creek
settlement at Noradell is rejoicing over an
abundance of water in their ditch. 1t was
turned in last Friday. While it was being
done one of the riparian claimants appeared
on the scene and demanded that they
leave portion in the creek, saying
he had consulted lawyer and could
prosecute them if they took it all. The
Superintendent, however, ordered them to
turn it all in and take the chances, which
they did They are now running water to
irrigate some 40 acres each twenty -four
hours. There are some 1900 acres of
grain in the settlement.
James Ord, young man about is years
of age, shot and killed on Sunday last, on
the Los Pueblos rancho, on the Ball place,
about twenty miles from this city, Cali
fornia lion. The young man has band of
400 Angora goats on the ranch which he
was driving home TO the corral early in the
evening, and passing some brush on the
creek the lion sprang out and fastened his
teeth and claws in one of the goats within
twenty yards of Ord. Ord fortunately had
his Winchester rifle with him, and while
the lion was busy with the goat, he was
killed by a couple of balls from the Win
CHESTER Santa Barbara Press, March
3lst.
A very brilliant meteor was seen on Mon
day evening of last week, south of the
Tuolumne river, about o'clock. Its course
was from east to west, descending towards
the earth on an angle of about fifteen de-
grees. While on its course there were two
partial explosions, sending out streaks OF
light in all directions. These occurred at
equidistant points in its course, from the
starting point to its terminus or final ex-