Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-13
COAST AND STATE.

Los Angeles has very successful Science
Club.
The Territorial law of Utah allows girls
l6 years old to vote.
The Ventura Free Press now issues a
semi-weekly edition.
The Montana Territorial Insane Asylum
contains fifty patients.
Malignant scarlet fever is still raging in
Bitterroot valley, M. 7.
Brisk building is reported at Cloverdale,
Healdsburg and Santa Rosa.
A boy of l6 and girl of l3 were mar
ried a couple of weeks ago on the western
border of Montana.
Eight hundred head of fine cattle have
just been placed on the Chino ranch, San
Bernardino county.
Convicts in the Washington Territorial
Penitentiary are supplied with newspapers
at public expense.
Pompano, delicate saltwater fish never
seen in those waters before, have been
caught near Fort Candy.
About c, 900 acres of timber lands have
been located on the Lower Puget Sound
within very short time.
A lady in Greenville, Plumas county,
has tanned a snake, which she takes delight
in handling and caressing.
Truckee is infested with gang of ruffians
who furnish liquor to the Indians, and the
citizens threaten to revive "60l."
At Vallejo, when an opium den is raided,
the authorities offer for sale the pipes for
smoking the drug captured in the place.
J. w. Laniger, of the Buffalo Salt
Works, in Roop county, Nevada, sold $780,
600 pounds of salt during the past season.
San Diego reports two Irish potatoes
(Red Bermuda Variety which weighed six.
teen and twenty-one pounds respectively.
Madam Holt, of Jacksonville, Or, mourns
the loss of canary bird that had reached
the age of II years and died of old age.
Stockton wants three narrow gauge rail-
roads running out of that city-one toNew
Hope, one to Pennington and one to Locke
ford.
Over one hundred deer are reported to
have been killed within the last three
weeks between Honey lake and Long
valley.
A superabundance of tramps is one of
the inconvenience experienced In Eastern
Montana since the railroad penetrated the
Territory.
Engines on the Miles City Division of
the Northern Pacific will burn Montana
coal quarried from Cheyenne bluffs. A
contract has been let for 40, 600 tons of this
coal.
John Miller, of Douglas county, Oregon,
in blowing over the site of granarY
burned by the Indians in 1855, found
quantity of wheat in good state of pres
eryation.
A little boy near Miles City, NJ. T.,
strayed from home one night recently, and
was found late at night in the Rad lands,
four miles from home, asleep in clump of
sage brush.
Cabbages weighing thirty and forty
pounds were raised this year on Coos river,
in Oregon. A single head weighing sixty
pounds was raised in the same locality a
few years ago.
A serious cave has occurred in the Lin.
coin coal mine, Placer county, which will
stop operations for some months. It oc.
Cured under slough, the waters of which
are let into the mine.
The MADEIRA Flume and Trading Com
panys mills, near Fresno Flats, have cut
over eleven million feet of lumber during
the past season, of which about four million
feet are still at the mills.
A son of Lydia E. Pinkham, whose por-
trait adorns the advertising columns of two
thirds of the papers published in the United
States, died of consumption at the st.
Charles Hotel, Los Angeles, few days
ago.
A butcher at Fort Jones found 81 IS
worth of gold-dust in the stomach of cow
recently slaughtered by him. It was sup.
posed the gold was eutangled in the roots
Of the grass on which the COW had been
feeding.
There has been no mail from Heppner,
Or, for two weeks, except by special
From this source it is learned
that there have been over forty cases of
smallpox in that town and the immediate
vicinity.
The buffalo hunting in the vicinity of
Miles City, NJ. T., has been exceedingly
light this year. The immense number of
buffalo killed by the Zahl Brothers,
to over 1000, were killed near
Glendive.
The Montana Educational Association
will hold its first annual meeting in Deer
Lodge, December l9.h, 20sh and 2lst. The
Silver Bow County Institute have made
for meeting at the same tine
and place.
The SO called Sopori Mexican land grant,
which covers $50 square miles of land, has
been declared, by the Survey General of
to be fraudulent and invalid. The
land included within this claim extends from
San Xavier to Tubac.
The citizens of Union county. Oregon,
have made up purse of over 81 200, to be
paid the man who arrests and prosecutes to
conviction the person or persons who
murdered John Hawk, at Lostine,
in the Wallowa valley.
The Fort klamath road, via Rogue river.
is blocked with snow, which lies to the
depth of several feet on the Cascades. A
few teamsters have been caught in the late
storms, and some Of them have experienced
much trouble in reaching a place Of safety.
Miss Matte Ranev, of Garden Valley,
Napa county, feels justly proud because
except by the dogs who started
cut the animal, she killed good.sized bear
that entered her fathers premises, on Tues.
day last. She did it with her little shotgun.
A middle.sized Indian squaw passed
along c street, Virginia City, the other
day, carrying on her back stove weigh
ing fully $50 pounds. 1t was sustained
only by narrow band passing over her
forehead, ard she had carried it nearly two
miles.
The first steamer built in that vicinity
was launched upon the Feather river, near
Gridley, a few days ago. She is sixty.five
feet long, depth of hold three feet, width
thirteen feet, and is called the Herald She
will tow barges laden with grain down the
river.
Says the Gridley Herald -Four hunters
camped in the tules from Saturday night
until Monday morning. They brought
home loo geese. The party of Sacramento
young men hunting on Butte creek this
winter are four in number and ship about
l, 500 pounds of game per week to the Bay
City.
Farmers on Roberts Island have been
puzzled to account for the appearance Of