Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-27
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Lone Pine, Inyo county, reports a case
of smallpox.
The Bear river dam has been accepted by
the State authorities.
The Nevada State Printing Office is
about ready for business.
The Carson New Daily appeal proposes
to publish weekly edition.
In Salt Lake county, Utah, there are
20, 29l natives and IL, 6S7 foreigners.
The Piutes take large quantities of
Truckee trout to Winnemucca, New.
DR.. Schultz, of HOLSTER, owns tract
of land 60 by 80 leagues in Lower Cali
fornia.
The Willows Journal says that the
smallpox has entirely disappeared from
that section.
Violets, tube-roses and the loveliest
varieties of flowers are in full bloom in
Santa Barbara.
The San Juan Times says that there is
prospect of railroad being built from
Marysville to that place.
A whole family named Chase were acct
IDENTIFY poisoned near Port Kenyon last
week, but are recovering.
A petrified woman has been found in
Cascade lake, Nevada. The relic is small,
scrawny, brown and hideous.
The business of the HOLSTER Postoffice
for the year 1880 shows decided increase
over that of any previous year.
Thomas j. Tenant is stocking the
streams of Nevada with catfish, under the
direction of Fish Commissioner Parker.
Several instances of teams mlring down
In the roads, and being with difficulty ex-
tracted, are reported from parts of Tehama
county.
The rabbits about Walla Walla, W. T.,
are so fat that they are unable to run in
the snow, and the feet-fcoted Klickitat
youths catch them alive.
The Litton Springs, Sonoma county,
teacher, whose horse was shampooed and
painted like a zebra, has sued the parents
of some of the bad boys for damages.
The proceedings in the election contest
for Assemblyman in Monterey county
Sargent against Kilburn-have been dis
missed and the contest abandoned by Sar-
gent.
An emigrant train of eight teams and
about 800 head of horses and 500 head of
cattle passed through San Diego recently
from Ventura county, en- route to Sonora,
Mexico.
Workmen engaged in boring for water in
the Wimmera district, Victoria, B. c.,
claim to have brought up fruit-stones from
a tree which they discovered at depth of
250 feet.
Sierra county contains 6,623 people,
classified as follows: Males, 4,740; fe-
males, 1883; native, 3,457 foreign, s.
1876; white, ), 33S; Chinese, $50; In
dians, II; negroes, %.
Mr.. Skibbe of The Dalles, Oregon, made
bet of 5000 that he would be married in
month, and lost the bet because the
freeze-up kept his intended and he apart
until the month was up.
The San says the Colusa levee is com.
pleted, and thinks it is all right for the
winter. The levee will stand twenty
seven feet raise, aud the San says twenty.
five feet is the highest Colusa has ever
had.
The summit cut on the O. r. & N. Co.
grade between the Touchet and Tukannon
is 1000 feet long and 26I feet deep at the
deepest point. 1t is made 80 feet wide at
! the bottom, so as to admit the use of side
tracks.
The population of the five counties of
Eastern Orepon-Baker, Grant, Umatilla,
| Union and Wasco-as rendered at the last
census, was 1921. There are eleven
papers published in the same section, or
one for every 3 204 of population.
A nine months old daughter of l..
Strosser. German resident of Hillsboro,
Or, died recently from being poisoned by
tobacco, she having eaten as is supposed,
the stump OF cigar, The little one was
taken very suddenly i'll and died in spasms,
after three or four days suffering.
There is well on the line of the N. P.
r. R., situated about twenty-five miles
from Ainsworth, W. T., which is l27 feet
deep. The singularity about the well is
that it is frozen up. Not only is there ice
in the well, but it is froze SO hard down
there that fine force pump was broken.
The Chico Recorder says: Beavers have
appeared in considerable numbers on Butte
creek, near Durham station. They have
constructed several dams across the stream
near the wagon road bridge, and their
signs are plainly seen for three or four
miles below. A few days since one man
killed three with dogs.
The Salt Lake Tribune says Several
rounds of granite have been placed on the
Mormon Temple this year by workmen who
have scarcely seen cash enough to buy a
tin whistle. The Lords representatives
in Zion pocket the money and feed the
honest laborer on cabbage, carrots and
shinbones.
The Las Vegas IN. NJ, Optic says that a
desperate named William Bonrey is now
at the head of twenty-five well-armed men
in the neighborhood of Fort Sumner. He
is possessed of considerable talent, and is
one of the best shots in the country. He
spent number of years in Southern New
Mexico and Arizona.
Two drunken fellows were put off the
train near Alamosa, New Mexico, recently.
One of them made his way back and re-
ported that his partner had frozen to death.
An engine was run out to look for the man,
and it ran over him about a mile out. 1t
is not known whether the man was dead
before the engine struck him or not
The hunters are said to be playing sad
havoc among the buffalo in the Yellow
stone region, Montana Green hides are
worth 81 each at any of the stations and
81 80 pied upon the ranch, and men are
employed by the month to hunt and skin
blffalo. Seventy five dollars per month is
i paid, and all the loose men in the country
are said to be employed. Some of them
make s25 per day.
Travel has been fearful from the Salmon
river to idaho The stage was SO hours
crossing the desert. Night overlook them,
and the driver unhitched the horses, and
in company with the single passenger,
struck out for Snake river, but failed to
make it. They scraped the snow away
from the sage brush, and after repeated
attempts, succeeded in building a fire.
The thermometer was so low that the two
men had to dance around the fire all night
to keep from freezing.
The Victoria iB. CT Standard says that
considerable extent of fertile land is sit
mated at the head of the Alberni canal.
| Vancouver Island. The best authorities
agree in estimating the amount of this
land, easily available for agricultural pur-
poses, at about sc, 600 acres but there is
much more that could be brought into use
by clearing off the timber. The character
of the land alluded to is mostly deep black
soil, covered with a luxuriant growth of
fern, with scattered ciumps OF alder
Says the Seattle. wv IT, Inteliigencer :.
j. NJ. Flowers, of Skagit, informs us that