Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-08
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Walla Walla, w. T., is soon to have gas
works.
Brass works have been established at
Portland, Or.
Lakeview, Or, has two newspapers and
500 inhabitants.
The Montana Penitentiary has fifty
seven prisoners.
Ten sea otter skins were recently sold at
Gray's Harbor for 5000.
Coyotes are said to be committing sad
ravages in Shasta county.
Seattle, W. T., expects an enormously
increased coal trade this year.
It is expected that in 1881 the Utah and
Northern Railway viii be extended at least
100 miles.
The Big Klamath lake, in Oregon, will
be navigated by iat-bottomed steamboat
this year.
Snow is SO heavy at Silver City, ]. T.,
that the roofs of houses are crushed IN by
its weight.
Washington county, L. T., is $50 miles
long, 100 miles broad, and contains I,2Oo
inhabitants.
large acreage of tobacco will be
planted in the Puyallup valley, W. l.,
during the coming season.
Along Russian river the hills, which have
been cleared by lumbermen, are SAID to
afford splendid fruit land.
A Chinaman fell through the ice and
into a creek at Canyon City, Montana, one
dav recently, and would have been drowned
~ - o,o Ao.4aJ u-ithin reach of
white man on the shore.
California Central Railway, Yosemite
Division, 3" is the name of projected road,
which will have its initial point somewhere
ON the line of the Central Pacific Railroad,
in MERGED or Fresno county.
A report comes from Walla Walla to
the effect that while the body of Thomas,
the murderer, was lying in the Catholic
Church there, after the execution and be.
fore the interment, it was robbed of a gold
ring.
The first number of the Pacific Coast,
published at HOLSTER, San Benito county,
BY J. S. Hay, has been received. 1t is a
80 column journal. geographically neat,
and its pages are well filled with interest
ing local and other matter.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company is preparing for sixty miles OF
road from the mouth of Meacham creek to
Orc Dell, in Union county, Oregon. The
Pendleton people have offered bonus OF
$4,000 to have the line extended to their
town.
A man engaged in hauling lumber in
Miles City, NJ. T., short time since, was
caught under load which overturned In
the snow. For seventy six hours he re-
manned in that terrible position, slowly
freezing to death. When discovered he
was past all help.
California is credited with a Chinese
population of 75,025, while Oregon has
$500, Nevada 1920, Idaho 3,37S, Wash
ington Territory 8, lS2, Wyoming 504, New
York TAI, and Louisiana Alb. There are
few more scattered among the other States,
the aggregate being l0l, 250.
There is a war going on between the au-
thorities of Nevada City and the Chinese
laundrymen. The City Trustees passed an
ordinance levying tax of $40 quarter
on every laundry in town, and now the
Chinese refuse to pay it, saying that bust
ness won't allow of such extravaganza.
The Marshal has closed five of the laun-
dries up. The Chinese say they will fight
the city in the Courts to the bitter end.
A Portuguese named Joseph R. Silveria
killed his wife by shooting her in the head,
and then sought to poison himself, at their
home near bakersfield, Kern county, re-
Gently. Three days previous to her MUIR
der the poor woman gave birth to child.
The cause of the tragedy is unknown, but
is presumed to have been the jealousy of
the husband, who had an idea that Grim
inal relation had existed between his wife
and a man named Williams