Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-29
Pacific COAST ITEMS.

were all In good condition. Deer appear
to be more plentiful in the foothills this
season than usual, and hunters attribute it
to the fact that the cool spring aud sum-
mer weather had the effect of keeping
them down on their winter range to a con-
siderable entent, whereas it is customary
for them to range higher in the mountains
during the hot season.
Fort Spokane is lively and bustling. A
very pretty post viii ultimately be made of
it. Its present garrison consists of four
companies of the Second Infantry, Major
Smith commanding. Chief Moses was at
the fort to assist in celebrating the Fourth.
A council was lately held there between
Sims, agent of the Colville reserve, and
Moses, the object being to induce Moses to
relinquish ten miles Of the upper portion
of his reserve, on which silver. bearing
quartz has been found. The result was an
emphatic refusal on the part OF Moses to
part with his land, he stating that If the
whites found mines on his reserve and they
wished to work them, they could do so by
paying him for the privilege.
Thousands of fish are dying in Donner
Lake, and the shore of the same is liter
ally lined with their dead bodies. Mr..
lNShtio ibiOl q Att FNttftOh ppAhSh hhaS
he and another man picked up 563 dead
fish in distance of ten PAGES along the
shore. 1t was thought at one time that
the fish were diseased, but all the fisher
men on and in the vicinity of the lake are
now of the belief that some miscreant has
been exploding giant powder in the lake
for the purpose of killing the fish. Some
of the fish have been sent to Commissioner
DoI nj Ill
soon hear whether they are diseased or
not. Mr.. Teeters keeps the bodies of the
fish which come to the lower end of the
lake gathered up, and buries them every
day.-LTruckee Republican.
George W. Jackson sends from Furnace
vile this account of sad occurrence
Thomas Arthur, an old resident of this dis
trict, unfortunately was the innocent cause
of serious and perhaps fatal accident.
He had been out hunting, and upon re-
turning home his little son Phil. met him
and SAID "Pa, please shoot off the gun,
for want to hear it." To please his son
and wishing to get the charge out of the
gun, he took aim at an old trough, sending
the bullet through, when he heard shrek
and cry, and going to the trough, he
found that he had shot one OF his little
girls, the bullet passing through her alb
domen, producing frightful wound. 1t
seems that the child was in the trough
asleep Redding independent.
The population of Yuba county, by re-
turns of the census, Is as follows East
Bear River township 975; Wheatland
town, 635; Fosters Bar township, 49S
Linda township, 359 Long Bar township,
including the village of Browns Valley,
597 Browns Valley village, l6S; Marys-
vile township, including the city Of
Marysville, 5.0l2; Marysville city, 4,32l
first ward, 652 second, S44; third,
l,l06; fourth Including Chinatown),
l,7l9 New York township, 647 North
east township, pa Parks Bar township,
372; Rose Bar township, including the
following villages, 1896; Smartsville vii
lage, 372; Timbuctoo village, Sc; town of
Camptonville, 364 Slate Range township,
rs; West Bear River township, 81.
Total, ii 2S4.
Mrs. c. A. Foster, aged sixty, and John
Edwards, of Dixon, have eloped.
He has wife and children,
and she has a husband. The
Dixon Tribune of the 23d says Some
time since she sold ont 100 acres of
land " hich she owned in her own right to
a man named Richards, and recently (hav-
ing left her husband on account of con-
jugal infelicities of long standing). she has
boarded at hotel in town. Edwards,
who is comparatively a new conner to
Dixon, worked on Mrs. Fosters ranch last
winter; and since she moved to town has
been very attentive to her. On Tuesday
the two went to Sacramento, where she
drew a large sum of money, and they
bought tickets for Omaha. Five thousand
five hundred dollars is reported to be the
sum for which the ranch was sold, and it
is fair to suppose that the runaways took
about the whole Of that amornt with them.
Mrs. Edwards seems to have been taken
greatly by surprise at the abrupt depart
ure of her husband.
Some weeks since, says the Lassen Id
Uocdte, we published an account of the
manning of valuable stallion belonging
to Thomas McFadden, at Milford. Since
that time it seems that fiend in human
shape has devoted almost his entire atten-
ton 70 mutilatiug and killing horses be-
longing to farmers in that vicinity. Five
horses that were kept in the pasture on
the old Glascock place have been cut, ap-
parently with sharp knife, two of which
died. One of them was a handsome sad
dle-horse, owned by Otis Doyle. The ami
NAL had been caught and stabbed in the
breast, the knife severing the iugular vein
and penetrating the heart. Some of the
injured horses were wild colts, and it is
thought they were stabbed by a man on
horseback, armed with some kind of o
lance. No clue has been found to fix the
crime upon any one, but IL is sincerely
hoped that the brute, whoever he is, may
be caught and treated to dose Of twisted
hemp.
One of the greatest annoyances ranchers
on the adobe have to bear with is the
operations of that festive little insect, the
black gnat. From early spring until the
latter end of June, these pests almost
worry tx life out of man and beast. Then
they migrate to the sloughs and low lands
along the Sacramento. This year the
gnats were more numerous than usual,
and they are now making life decidedly
disagreeable in the neighborhood of Butte
City. One of the hands working with
the seed. cleaning outfit Of Cole & Stiles
informs us that Wednesday of last week
a perfect cloud of the insects settled on
separator at work in that vicinity and the
crew had to knock off for an hour or so.
They were so numerous that the belts
slipped, and there were eight sacks full of
them, crushed into a jelly.hke mass, taken
out of the machine before operations could
be resumed. Some of the men were so
badly stung that their faces looked as
though they had the measles, and in two
instances the swelling produced was so
serious that medical attendance had to be
summoned. Il [Gridley Herald.
A letter from Butte City. Montana, dated
July 5th, to the Phoebe Record, says that
although but short while ago it was
pretty much all Eastern people in that
town, the Westerrers are now pouring in
there. Real estate is at high figure,
property on Main street ranging from $500
foot and upwards, and pretty much the
same on the back streets. The saloons are
making money, and nearly all the business.
houses are doing we'll. There is great stir
and hustle in erecting machinery oD the
mines, and although the demand for miners
is well supplied at present, after the com-
pletion of the erection of machinery,
much larger force will be employed in min
ing. Woodchoppers and teamsters are
now in demand, but the way the people
are rolling into this country the want will
soon be supplied. A good meal, such as
you get in Phoebe for four bits, costs here