Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
COAST NEWS.

Ns.t,a, says the Reporter, has altogether
of Questionable characters.
The stone tablet contributed to the
Washington monument by the State of
Nevada was lass Friday sent East.
The steam thrashing machines in Scott
valley are kept going constantly, and large
forces of farm hands are employed.
The Nevada Daily Transcript is of age.
Il has reached the twenty-first year of its
publication. 1t is spirited paper, de-
voted to the interests of the section it
represents and faithful to the trust reposed
in it.
The men who managed the fireworks last
Fourth of July at Myrtleville, Idaho, are
now on trial for their official acts on that
occasion. They soaked six shaggy dogs in
camphene, set fire to them and let them
loose.
Linkville, Or, is growing fast, and is
becoming one of the largest and wealthiest
towns in southern Oregon. Property
lately sold there brought very high prices,
and the business men are all doing flour.
ishing trade.
Klamath river is now so low that it can
be forded at rifles, where the water is
not more than three feet deep. This low
stage, so unexpected, has troubled the
miners a good deal in gaining power for
their wheels, hence they are obliged to put
in more cribs for narrowing the water way
in order to gain heavier current to turn
the wheels used for pumping and hosting
out pay gravel.
Thus the Plumas National "Jab Jab "
man speaks 1.-The old and reliable
Mary sville Appeal has taken new depart
ure, and will send its boss business man,
Taylor, on collecting tour with Professor
Martin, who is to make balloon ascension
from Marysville on Admission Day. Head
the old thing this way, Taylor, and if you
fall inside of the Plumas line we'll scrape
up what's left of you and send it to your
sorrowing friends, c. o. D., and branded
More slickens from Plumas.'"
San Jose is to be lighted by electricity.
The Mercury says: From the position Of
the irons for the first section of the tower
for the electric light now in place at the
intersection of Market and Santa Clara
streets, one can form some idea of the
symmetry and beauty OF the tower when
it shall be completed. The angle of the
corner posts indicates the place in the air
where their upper ends will meet, which
will be two hundred feet from the center
of the street crossing. 1t will be, when
completed, such an ornament to our streets
as no other city on the globe possesses.
The plan and specifications for the new
Catholic Church were finished last Satur-
day by w. S. Moses, of this city. and
shown US on that day. The building is to
be 2S by so feet in dimensions, and lG feet
high, rustic covered, gothic doors and win
sharp roof like the Catholic Church in
Yreka. The roof is to be covered with
shingles and ornamented with verge
board cornice at the caves, and the founda-
ton to be of stone or brick, as may be de.
sired. The audience room will be arehed
and lathed and plastered, and the front
will be built SO that square tower or
steeple can be added at any time to match
the building, towards giving it a neat,
churchly appearance. i Yreka Journal.
There are quite extensive cotton fields
in Lincoln county, principally in the val.
leys of the Virgin and Muddy rivers, near
the Utah line. Most of it is picked by
Shoshone Indians, who are said to be ex.
ceedingly expert at the business. With
their funnel-shaped baskets suspended
between their shoulders, and the
nimble and shapely fingers char.
acteristic of their race, they gather
the cotton with both hands, casting
it alternately over each shoulder into the
basket Colonel Jennings, a cotton planter
at st. Thomas, Utah, says that Shoshone
squaw will pick double the amount of cot
ton of any field laborer in the South. The
amount of cotton raised in the Nevada
Dixie this year is estimated at hundreds
of bales Eureka New Sentinel