Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-27
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Inc Salinas SCHOOLS are to be closed Tor
want of funds.
The Monterey county hospital contains
thirty inmates.
There are four new houses building in
Modesto at present, and Others in contem-
plation.
Sturgeon, San joaquin pike and salmon
trout are running in small sloughs out on
the MERGED plains.
More workmen are employed at the
Mare Island Navy Yard at present than
for some time past.
The yield of quicksilver in this State
during the past year was 1864 TASKS,
against SO, 4S4 in 1878.
Over FIVE thousand gophers were killed
at Patterson's ranch, in Tulare county, ON
Thursday, by B. NJ. Baird
Santa Cruz school district is compelled
to raise special tax or close its schools in
May, owing to the treasury steal.
Eleven families passed through Tulare
on Saturday last from Los Angeles county,
ON their way to Washington Territory.
The mail from Beckworth to Genessee
valley, in Plumas county, is now carried on
snow-shoes, the road being entirely block
AIDED.
The Antioch public schools have closed
for two weeks on account of the number of
pupils compelled to be absent being afflicted
with the measles.
Several families have left Albion, Men
docino county, to avoid diphtheria. The
school there has been closed since the first
appearance of the disease.
A party of New York capitalists are on
visit to the Temescal tin mines in San
Bernardino county with view to purchas-
ing them from the present company.
The Plamas National is informed that
the Truckee and Plumas railroad prospects
are on solid foundation, and that there is
every reason to think that the road Will be
built.
John n. White, sub-contractor on the
Susanville Iassen county, and Alturas
(Modoc county, mail route, has thrown up
the contract, and there is no mail service
on that line.
The Lackawanna was taking powder at
Mare Island Saturday. The ships officers
expected to be assigned to the special duty
of conveying the recently appointed Com
mission to China.
The amount of money in the Santa Clara
county treasury shows an excess of rs
cents over the amount as shown by the
Auditors books-a balance of % cents in
favor of honesty.
Lake trout will soon be moving up Kern
river from Tulare lake. They cannot now
reach the river from Buena Vista lake.
owing to the dam at the head of the Buena
Vista slough canal.
The stream of south bound passengers
seems to increase steadily, says the Los
Angeles Journal Every train brings an
increased number. The larger proportion
of them 90 on to Arizona.
Santa Cruz is jubilant over the compile
ton of the South Pacific Coast Railroad,
and is now agitating the propriety of CIV
ing a public reception to the officers and
managers of the road when its formal open
ing takes place.
| A movement is on foot in Santa Rosa,
seconded by prominent and wealthy resi-
dents of Sonoma valley, to open line of
broad gauge railroad to connect Northern,
Western and Central Sonoma with the
trank line at Benicia.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
| intend to build fences at the most exposed
places on the Colorado desert to protect
their track from sand drifts. The fences
will be similar to the snow fences on the
line of the Central Pacific.
Thirty tons of Eastern mail matter, de-
layed by the snow blockade, was received
at the San Francisco Postoffice on Satur-
day, and ten tons ON the following regular
train, making forty tons received in one
day, all of which had been assorted and
distributed on the opening of business yes
terday morning.
The Grass Valley Union says: 1t will be
necessary for the State Board of Equaliza-
| ton to extend the time for assessment of
property IN mountain counties beyond the
first Monday in July, for the reason that
the high mountain region of those counties
will be covered with snow until after that
time, and much property cannot be reached
if the assessment is sooner made. In this
county the lumbermen of Meadow Lake
Township will not be fairly at work before
the LIST of July, and to attempt to assess
them sooner much property would escape
altogether.
On Friday evening about 64 o'clock,
Henry Wilkins, a German in the employ
of F. Quint, farmer living about two
miles east of Willows, Colusa county, was
instantly killed by ball from Winchester
rifle which he was carrying. Deceased,
who had been herding geese, was returning
to the house, mounted on a mule, carrying
the rifle In front of him. 1t is supposed
that the mule commenced bucking and
that the gun started to slip from the saddle
to the ground, when deceased caught it,
and in drawing it up to its former position
the hammer caught his oyeralls and ex-
ploded the piece, the bullet striking VIII
kins in the chin, passing through and COM
ing out at the right and rear of his head.