Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-08
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

ElSnty-One teachers were III aIlenudnce
at the Marion county, Or, Teachers In
stitute, last week.
Most of the grain remaining in store at
Yoncalla Station, Or, was sold last week
at GO cents per bushel.
Fully one-third of the scholars of the
public schools of Eureka, New, are absent
on account of sickness.
hall. The building will be three stories in
hight, with four business stores down stairs.
A law re. districting Arizona Territory for
judicial purposes, places ella county in
the Second Judicial District Yuma, Mari
copa and ella constitute the district.
On every stage entering Phoenix, A. T..
come men of capital from the East, and old
miners from California and Nevada, bound
for the rich mines in the Cave Creek dis
trict.
Complaints are made of the wholesale
slaughter of deer in Trinity county. 1t
is reported that white man and four In
dams have killed over 900 deer for their
skins.
Says the Colusa Sun. G. w. Ware, of
Colusa, has planted ON his Cortina farm
now some 800 acres of cotton, and is con-
tinuing the work. He will have in all
some 500 acres.
The Oldest mining location in Mono
county is in Jordan District, west of Mono
lake. and between the old Mono placer
diggings and the mouth of Mill Creek
canyon. 1t was made in 1854.
The new vault now in course of con-
struction at the San Francisco Mint will
store SO, 100000 in standard dollars. The
Mint already holds $40, 100000 and the
Sub-Treasurer has 81, 962, 900.
A Nevada City teamster is in the habit
of smoking pipe while he hauls loads of
powder through town. The Herald tt inks
the smoker is likely to hear big report of
himself some day.
No mail has run since the lst of Deem
Der last from Warrens, Idaho, towards
Lewiston. The only mail from Warrens
to Boise City comes over the Little Salmon
Mountains by way Of the Weiser.
In Mendocino county deer are killed the
year round, without respect to size or con-
dition. The pop of the murderous Win
| chester is heard every day, while the bay
of the hound is taken no more notice OF
than the bark of the house dog.
The Lessen Adcocote, published at Susan.
vile, has changed hands, D. C. Hyer with
drawing and A. L. Shinn becoming propri-
etor. The Adcocate has heretofore been an
excellent local journal, and the present pub.
Usher promises that it shall continue as
such.
1t is stated that the Indians, at the
Il &c e L. Al. IL.
Harmony Mountains, eight or nine miles
from Winnemucca, New, sacrificed squaw
on the grave. They are very reticent re-
garding the matter, but say that the squaw
was witch.
The TOWNSHIP OF Lundy, Mono county, is
almost clear of snow, which has also dis.
appeared from the ridge on the north side
of the canyon below the lake, while south
of the town, in the ravines OF Mount Gil.
christ, the snow is forty to fifty feet deep
in some places.
A large grain and storage warehouse is
to be built about mile west of Seal Bluff,
on the line of the San Pablo and Tulare
Railroad. The house will be furnished
with ample grain platforms and scales, and
will be connected with the railroad by
1900 foot side switch.
The Yellowstone ranges during the past
winter have been the most favorable for
stock of any extensive ranges in Montana.
Taking all the cattle herds which range
from Glendive to the mouth of Bear river
on the Upper Yellowstone, the losses will
not aggregate over ten per cent.
There is a colored woman in Carson,
New, over 100 years old. The Appealsays
she appears to take as much pleasure in
personal adornment as her younger sisters,
aud moves about the streets very spryly.
She was born in Virginia, and lived at one
time on the John Randolph estate at
Roanoke.
Tom Fillebrown came in to-day from
the Walker lake end Of the narrow gauge
railroad, says Virginia New paper. He
gave the reporter some items about the
lake that are not generally known. For
instance, the lake is about 81 miles long
and IA miles wide in one place, and is
900 feet Deep The water is strongly
impregnated with soda, and yet the lake
at the northern end contains trout in
abundance-much finer favored fish, Mr..
Fillebrown gays, than those taken from
Lake Tahoe. Z" At t'other end of the
lake, remarks the narrator, "you might
fish till the hair on your chin was a mile
long, and you'd never get bite"