Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-03-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Prescott, Arizona is improving rapidly.
The city tax in Healdsburg is fifty cents
on the 500.
The Nevada Legislature cost that State
nearly SIS, 600.
Cattle in the Topto country, Arizona, are
dying with the blackleg.
The people of Arizona are clamoring for
the Legislature to adjourn.
There is project on foot to organize an
Electric Light Company at Chico, with
paid up cash capital OF $4,000.
There are sixty-four children in the
Nevada State Orphan Asylum, and they
are described as " healthy and rosy lot. !"
The dust in Virginia, New, is four
inches deep. and everything is now ready
on the Comstock for raging, tearing
Washoe zephyr.
The town of Lundy, Mono county, was
attached last Thursday for S., A man
named Boomersbine has, it appears,
patent for the land upon which the town
stands.
Orange trees have been in such de-
mand at Santa Ana that everything in the
shape of one is bought up and many more
are wanted. AS the price is very high
many are concluding TO wait another year
before planting.
The Idaho Statesman of March lst says:
Last week at Walla Walla, Brooks & Ger
maine completed the sale of 5000 head of
cattle April and May delivery, to drovers
from Wyoming The price to be paid is
50 10 per head. The cattle are now in the
Crab creek country. This is the first sale
of the season.
A certain editor of weekly paper made
a practice of stopping the press to an
nounce, if he had nothing of more impor-
tance to announce than dog fight. One
week everything was as dull as Patent
Office report, but the ruling passion cropped
ont as follows We stop the press to an
nounce that nothing has occurred since we
went to press to stop the press to announce
it.
A force of men has been engaged for
week past, says the Truckee Republican, in
building new wharf at Tahoe City. As
the bottom of the lake at that point is of
cement, which prevents the driving of
piles, the wharf is to be built on cribs It
IS also reported that number of wealthy
San Francisco people are about to build
some handsome villas at different points on
the lake which will cost in the aggregate
about $3.50 900.
Cass Davis, boy about 10 years of age,
son of Edward Davis, well known resi-
dent of Oroville, while playing short dis
tance from town on Saturday, was wounded
in the head by a stray rife shot. It is not
known by whom the shot was fred. The
bullet lodged in the brain, and the pbvsi-
clans have been unable as yet find it. The
boy is yet alive, but the chances for his
recovery are small. This is the second
case of the kind that has occurred near
Oroville within the last three months.
The Arizona Democrat says There GER
tainly never was Governor so belabored
and abused by newspapers of his own
party, as is the present Governor of Ari-
zona, Hon. J. C. Fremont. We do not know
how he feels about it, for he is a man who
generally keeps his own counsel, and, if he
had any grievance at the hands of the
members of his own party (which he first
organized and led to battle in 1861 he
would not be likely to confde it to Dem
ocrat. Il is no quarrel of ours, to be sure,
but it strikes us that his fellow-partisaps
are very severe upon the " Pathfinder"
their hero of generation ago.
There is a fish in Pyramid Lake. says
the Reno (Nev.) Gazette and sometimes in
the river, which the Indians call couyouie.
They weigh about two and a half pounds,
and resemble the whitefish, some having
been caught weighing as high as four or
five pounds They come up as far as
Wadsworth in the summer to spawn.
Alvaro Evans says the couyouie is the best
fish in the river. Comparatively few
people know anything about the fish.
Pains will be taken to secure few speci-
mems for the California Academy of
Sciences. Old anglers say they never saw
a fish of the same kind in any other waters.
Il may be that the couyouie is a species of
fish peculiar to the Truskee and its lakes.