Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-07
THE Daily REC0RD-UNI0N.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS
San Jose reports case of varioloid.

San Jose reports case of varioloid.
The Santa Monica hotel is to be reopened.
San Bernardino is attacked with the
mining fever.
Mendocino county is TO spend 81, 800 on
the Navarro bridge.
Russian river cut out a great deal of
land during its recent rise.
The injury at Franktown, Nevada, by
the flood will reach $50, 600.
The Yolo County Clerk issued twelve
marriage certificates in January.
Severe storms and great floods begin to
be reported from Utah and Idaho.
A prospector blew up one of the old
smelling furnaces at Oreana, Nevada, re-
Gently and got s., 900 or So. 600 worth of
bullion out OF the ruins.
a tree has lately been cut by railroad
loggers near Olympia, w. T., that was y
feet without limbs, straight as an arrow
and without knots or flaws.
Luther Waggouer is now taking census
of all the mineral products Of that portion
of California south of San Francisco and on
the ocean slope of the Coast Range.
January 20sh, near Old Cow creek, about
fifteen miles from Millville, Shasta county,
J. J. Huff0rd had battle with a large
sized lynx, and succeeded IN killing it with
a stone.
Some person told Bodie woman that
crotOn oil would remove freckles, and the
experiment was tried. The freckles are
gone, and it now looks as though most of
the face would go with them.
The Tucson Journal says that the whole
of western New Mexico is in terror from
the Apaches. Drivers viii not 90 out with
the stages, and with good reason, when the
military guard offered was only three cav
alrymen per stage.
The gradual withdrawal of the great
cattle kings to less populous localities is
opening mp to Klickita5 county, w. T., a
new era. Having passed successfully
through the hunter and trapper period,
now, at the close of the grazing period, we
are emerging into the higher plane of agri
culture.
A Leadville, Col, man, named Philip
Jordan, being jealous of his wife, procured
a coa-Oil can, poured the contents over her
dress, and lighting match, applied 1t to the
garnet In an instant the woman was en-
shrou,led by flames. The presence OF
MIND Of her daughter in throwing a quilt
around Mrs. Jordan saved her from ter
ribe death.
In Oregon canyon, near Greenville, Plu-
mas county, jackson EIdridge was
awakened Saturday night by the rushing
OF a land slide, and, with his wife, made
hasty exit from the house. His wagon
shed vas crushed, the wagon demolished,
but the slide stopped at the edge Of the
porch, leaving the house uniniured. His
gard N and orchard are buried five feet.
John Humphreys, of Camptonville, was
recently hunting, and came upon band OF
halt wild hogs. Firing into the herd he
killed one, when the others rushed upon
him, and would have torn him to pieces
had be not succeeded in reaching tree and
Gin bed up into the branches. He had
lear ed the gun against the trunk, and
reached down to secure it, when, by some
means, ii was discharged, the load taking
eff ct in three fingers, ranging upward
through the arm.
D. scribing the Franktown reservoir
break, the Reno New GG-ete says: The
immense powders in the bottom of the
detile were thrown into the air Ike peb-
j
the air was filed to the hiaht of 100 feet
above the gorge by the earth flung up by
the advancing wave and the great cloud
of mist which rose above it and marked its
progress. The roar Of the rushing food
was heard distinctly at Washoe City,
nearly five miles away.
A seven-year-old boy in the Bodie school
is slow to learn, and the teacher finds it a
difficult job to teach him to pronounce
words. Yesterday she had him spell
q farm, d" house, "borse, and other short
words, bat he could not pronounce any of
them. he finally cane to the word
dress" After drawing out the letters
the teacher impatiently inquired Well,
" hat does that spell?" 4 don't know,
" What does your father do the first thing
when he gets up in the morning." Take
a drink OUT OF bottle" He was allowed
to take his seat.