Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-28
MATTERS coAsrwIsE.

Violets and roses are in bloom at Grass
/ Valley.
Eight costly residences are to be built in
Red Bluff this year.
Winnemucca and Austin, New. are en-.
forcing the vagrant Act.
Salmon weighing eleven pounds have
been caught in Knights valley.
One hundred thousand Michigan white.
! fish have been placed in Bonner Lake.
There are 100 head of cattle frozen in at
the mouth of Chip Creek, Montana, cor
rallied by the ice.
Reno, New, has merchant who played
with Sara Bernhard when they were both
children in Alsace.
Down in the Sanpete District of Utah
there is a vast deposit of coal, which is
unequaled in the West for making coke.
A sherry house was recently fired up at
| st. Helena, Napa county, with over 80, 600
gallons OF wine. 1t will take three months
| to cook
The Oregon Improvement Company is
| said to have contracted with the Central
Pacific Railroad to supply all its coal for
one year.
By landslide near the mouth of the
Russian river, sixty head of hogs and five
cows were killed, and barn and dairy
house were demolished.
Farmers are busy sowing grain in the
vicinity of Kingsburg, Fresno county, and
seeding will be continued on irrigated
lands until late in March.
General Joseph Lane, of Oregon, is suf-
fering considerable from the effects of
gunshot wound received years ago during
the Indian wars of that State
1t is estimated that the entire loss of
sheep in Meagher valley, Montana, will
reach 10000 head, and is not confined ex-
| clusively to uuacclimated flocks.
At Nine Mile, Montana, there is four
| feet of snow in the camp. Seven white
men and about fifty Cinnamon constitute
the population during this winter.
Idaho has now a rigorous law against
opium dealing and smoking, and
| it is expected that the business will be
crushed out of existence so far as white
people are concerned.
The Board of Regents of the Nevada
State University have made their biennial
report, from which it appears that the total
number of pupils in attendance has been
| 4S-boys %, girls 25-and that the expen-
diture has been Sll, 995.
At Leadville, Colorado, February 10Th,
Constable Robert E. Pippin drove through
the streets in an intoxicated condition.
| He attempted to shoot dog. The ball
| flew wide of its mark, and entered the win
| dow of the house of julius Kolsch. Mrs
| Kolsch was in the room, and the ball
passed within three inches of the lady's
head. Pippin was arrested.
A mob on the Lower Animas Colorado,
| caught a rancher named Welfoot They
| took him to Pennington, held a meeting,
| that 'the men who shot Mrs. Stockton
| were no better than Porter Stockton"
| The sentence for this remark, passed by
| the band, or mob, was that Welfoot should
leave the country in ten days, and if found
| in that country after that time would be
| killed on sight.
At Sutro, New, has been organized what
! is called the Comstock Prospecting Asso-
citation. The object is to send a man to
the Black Range, New Mexico The As
ISOLATION have issued IS shares of stock, of
the par value of $50 per share. They first
| issued but 80 shares of stock, which was
taken instantly, while so many friends of
the parties engaged in the enterprise were
so anxious to participate that 25 additional
shares were finally issued. The Associa-
ton is said to have private information,
and are very hopeful
A drunken maniac at Leadville, Col,
by the name of Henry Freest, came. home
| last Friday night and at once began to
choke his wife. He flung her against the
wall with terrific force, after which he
kicked the woman so brutally that it is
thought she will die Her piercing screams
brought three men to the house, who found
the door locked from the inside. They
broke open the door. When Freest saw
the men he tried to shoot them, but their
united force was sufficient to overcome the
iend, and he now awaits justice behind the
Jail bars