Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Snohomish City, W. T., has new jail
also an occupant Tor it.
The Vacaville neighborhood will ship
| so, 600 boxes OF apricots this year.
The Daily Ledger of Marysville comes tt
hand considerably enlarged and improved
A Mendocino man recently lost 800 kids
the late cold and rainy weather killing
them.
Several white deer, it is stated, have re-
Gently been killed on WILDLY Island,
| Puget Sound.
Very soon work at the Branch Prison
will commence in good earnest, says the
Folsom Telegraph.
A large number of residences are in
course OF erection in Salt Lake, and many
more are contemplated.
The British Columbia Lunatic Asylum is
crowded, and they want to send the over
plus to Steilacoom, w. I.
There are $50 platform cars being loaded
with wood at Truckee now for Rockin.
Each car will carry about six cords.
| A band of 5000 head of sheep, LOCO
ewes, LOCO lambs, and 5000 dry ewes,
left Red Bluff Thursday for Denver, Col.
The initiatory steps are being taken to
raise money to build new Methodist
church at Philomath, in Benton county,
| Oregon.
The killing of Dooley last week at
Fresno is the first instance where man
has been even seriously injured in a row in
that town.
The old parsonage property at Corvallis,
Or, has been sold for enough to buy a
good lot adjoining the church and procure
the lumber for the new parsonage, which
will be erected soon.
Forty eight convicts are now in the Ter
ritorial Penitentiary at Seattle, ". I. The
number at the opening of that institution
was thirty eight, and the gain in a year
and three quarters only ten men.
A train of ten wagon, eight families
twenty-eight persons in all-passed through
Red Bluff Thursday morning, bound for
Walla Walla, W. L. They left the county
of Los Angeles about six weeks ago.
The people of Mono and Inyo counties,
California, says the Carson appeal, desire
to be annexed to Nevada, as they believe
the mining interests of the district in
which they live should properly belong to
Nevada.
The State Board of Equalization has as
sessed the Nevada county Narrow Gauge
Railroad at S227, go, or at thevalue of $l0,-
054 per mile. The Grass Valley Union says
the assessment is heavy one, and more
than the property would bring if sold at
the most favorable price.
The bodies of four of the victims of the
recent canoe disaster on the Skagt river,
in Washington Territory, have been recov-
cred that of young Ball being found on
the bank of the river four feet above the
waters edge, whittier he had crawlcd, it is
supposed, and died from exhaustion.
The harbor improvement at Coos Bay,
Or, is progressing very well for such rough
weather. 1t is the intention to make a
breakwater 600 feet in length already $50
feet of it is completed and the cribs for the
remainder are nearly finished and only
await the weather to be placed in position.
One day this week, says the Trinity
Journal, A. G. Dyer, who has cabin on
Buliychoop, went to fix it up, it being sadly
In need OF repairs, but when he got there
no cabin was in sight. Cabin, ranch and
everything else had been removed dis
tance of about three miles by large snow
slide.
There are several residences going to be
erected here this summer, says the Truckee
Republicans. The railroad TOWNSHIP agent
says there is considerable inquiry after
lots. When the railroad shops are brought
here it is reasonable to expect large IN
crease to our population, and, as conse-
quence, more building than usual.
Mormon Island held her annual school
picnic Monday. 1t seems queer that Nor
mon Island, or Niger Bar, should have
children, or women, or men with clean
shirts, to go to picnic. In 1856 s the
place was hive Of red shirts, rocking long
toms or gophering in the banks after that
coarse gold dust. The only attempt at
would be creased boots, and relaxation at
the bowling alley, or little trip to see
chums up the river.
The Fresno E1positor says that the re-
ceding of Tulare Lake has brought to view
stnmps of oak trees, still well preserved,
that are three and four feet through. Still
further out in the lake the remains Of will
low copse can be seen, and in fact are so
abundant that at certain points it is i'm
possible to use seine. From this it would
seem that Tulare Lake must at one time,
and for very long period, been very much
smaller than it now is. A Mr.. Powell,
while blowing recently near the present
shore of the lake, unearthed granite
mortar and pestle weighing upwards of
fifty pounds.
The editor of the Aurora New Herald,
while viewing the horizon the other day,
accidentally witnessed sight that moved
him to observe 50 1t is noticeable that the
Piutes employ only the old, broken-down
squaws in packing wood and other heavy
burdens, while the young, lusty, plump
virgin pullets lie around and bask in the
sunshine, or play Skinny for the amuse-
ment of the bucks. A poor old squaw,
resembling a condemned mailbag, and
with hardly rags enough to cover her
wrinkled hide. labored past our Office the
other day, carrying load that might rup-
ture the kidneys of jackass, while
voluptuous maiden of 200 pounds waddled
behind in gorgeous attire, occasionally
prodding the old woman with stick to
make her climb the hill faster"
A meeting was held at Harysville on
Wednesday evening, composed of citizens