Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-31
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS

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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS
Coal oil has been found near Fremont.
Tombstone, Arizona, is to have private
academy.
Churchill county, New, has population
Of only 775.
The Tehama County Hospital is being
investigated.
Horse thieves are plying their trade near
Santa Barbara,
A strange epidemic is destroying the
Reno New hens.
Local option petitions are being signed
in San Luis Obispo.
Three buildings were blown over by the
wind at Robinson on the 18th.
More than half the taxes of Maricopa
county, a. T., are delinquent.
During 1880, POI buildings were erected
in Portland, Or, costing nearly 5000, 900.
Seattle's (W IT, city debt is being ex-
tinguished at the rate of about 500
| month.
Thirty thousand bushels of wheat re-
main unsold in the farmers warehouse,
Irving, Or.
Henleyville, Tehsma county. has been
having continuous Methodist meetings for
over two months.
The new county of Cochise, Arizona,
contains most of the well-developed mines
of that Territory.
Redding is now agitating the question of
having free ferry built across the Sacra.
mento at that point.
The report of smallpox among the Indi.
ans on Pyramid reservation. Nevada, is
authoritatively denied.
The people of Covelo observed the ami
versary of the battle of New Orleans by
firing thirty-eight guns.
| Last year the county of San Luis Obispo
produced 7S6,552 pounds of cheese and
1875, 900 pounds of butter.
Last year 200 cords of tan bark were
peeled and shipped from the neighborhood
of Lorenzo, Santa Cruz county.
There are four persons in one family af.
fiicted with smallpox in Stockton, Mrs.
O'Keefe and her three children.
During the recent revival in Red Bluff,
thirty-five persons are said to have been
united to the Methodist Church.
At Homer, Mono county. the cotton
woods and willows are budding out, and in
some places blossoms have appeared.
Much sickness prevails in Whatcom
county and Skagit valley, w. I. Scarlet
fever and diphtheria are the chief diseases.
1t is estimated that fully 500 new houses
will be erected in Salt Lake this year.
Preparations are being made for an active
season.
At Reno, New, last week, Japanese
fled with County Clerk Osburn declara-
ton of intention to become citizen of the
United States.
! The Indians are building big sweat
house near Drinkwine's, Mono county, and
will soon nave pow.wow. Their rancherie
is quite village.
In Idaho, recently, two ladies were snow
bound in mining camp. Six or eight men
improvised a sled and hauled them twelve
miles to Boise City.
1t is rumored that the watchmen on the
Mare Island Yard are to be laid off on the
lst of the month until July lst, on account
| OF the shortness of funds.
! Marcus Holmes, 80 years of age. died
in Santa Clara recently, having taken no
food for twenty-four days, and was per-
feet skeleton when he died.
The Spring Valley Hydraulic Gold Com.
pany, Butte county, have ordered four of
Edison's maxim electric lights from the
East, with which to light their claim.
A number of saloon. keepers of Elmira,
Solano county, were arrested on Sunday
for keeping their saloons open on that day.
They were convicted and fined $40 each.
Mr.. Nef, of Wagner creek, Jackson
county. Or, has raised the past season
some 400 pounds of tobacco on his farm
It is of excellent quality and the yield
was quite large.
Several experiments lately made on the
Calistoga Hot Springs grounds already
prove that the gas escaping from two of
three points on the property can easily be
confined and utilized.
Miss Laura Hoxter he's been admitted as
| Junior partner IN her fathers large mer-
camille business at Forest Grove, Or. She
has been confidential clerk and bookkeeper
In the establishment for the past three
years.
Judging from the tenor of the Ukiah
| papers, the stockholders of the Mendo-
cino County Agricultural Association have
lost interest in the Association. The Sec.
rotary has failed thus far to get quorum
together for the transaction of business.
One of the important industries of Curry
county, Or. will, in the not far dis
tant future, be salmon-fshing. Checto,
Pistol river, Rogue river, Euchre creek,
Elk and Skies rivers, and Floras creek are
important streams with view to the
prosecution of fishing enterprises.
About sixteen miles from Reno, New,
on conical-shaped mountain, between
Deep Wells and Wilcox's, there is stump
of petriied juniper tree standing upright
in the ground. The trunk is about eight
inches in diameter, and it is broken off
four or five feet from the ground The
wood is entirely petrifed and as hard as
rock
A snow. slide has destroyed half the town
of Decatur. the houses were not only
buried but destroyed entirely. The noise
of the avalanche of snow, powders, broken
trees, etc., was appalling, and heard ct
chihuahua, three miles away. At first it
was supposed the whole town was de.
stroyed, and no hope was felt for the peo-
pie, but investigation revealed the fact
that but half the town was overthrown.
Says the MERGED Star. An examination
of the body of Hines, the man alleged to
have been shot by the girl Lizzie Kerns at
Grayson, Stanislaus county, last week,
showed that in addition to the shot which
entered his head his skull had been broken
In with an ak or Ratchet. The general
impression of the people of Grayson is that
the girl did not commit the deed, but that
it was done by some other party whom she
desires to shield.
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