The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-08
NEWS NOTES.

1t is said Denver will put up 3d.
000,000 worth of new buildings this
year.
On the 26th of May, Montana cele-
brated its seventeenth anniversary
as territory.
San Diego sent a ship direct to
Liverpool, with cargo of 2,OUO tons
of wheat. This is the first ship sent
direct from that port to Europe.
Lille Smith, of Corralitos, CAL,
aged 10 years, is creating an excite
ment in jacksonville by her rifle
shooting. She breaks glass balls,
hits l0c. pieces, and performs other
feats of skill.
The famous bicyclists, Professor
Merrill and Mr.. Bennett, arrived in
Truckee about o'clock on Thurs
day afternoon and created quite a
sensation. They are to make the
trip from San Francisco to Boston
in sixty days, stoppages included.
Melrose, the place that is soon to
be the terminus of the u. & n, is
thirty miles from Dillon, thirty-fVe
from Butte, five from Glendale, fifty
from Virginia City, and about leo
miles from Helena. 1t is situated
IN Silver Bow County.
At Grass Valley, Cal, en- Wednes-
day night about 10 o'clock, John
Harvey, in a fit of sOmnambulism,
walked out Of window in the sec
ond story of the Wisconsin Hotel,
and fell a distance of twenty-five
feet, knocking out ten of his teeth,
fracturing his upper jaw and break
ing his lower jaw in two places.
The Virginia City Enterprise says:
In all directions we hear of laborers
| wanted to do various kinds of work.
This is rough on the tramps. They
are quite beWildered, and hardly
know in what. direction to bend
their steps to avoid stumbling upon
a place where they would find work
staring them in the face.
The Bodie expedition against the
Chinese labOrerS on the new rail
road has ended disastriously. The
Miners Union concluded that a
railroad built partly by Chinese
would bring lumber into the camp
in as good condition and as cheaply
as a railroad built entirely by white
men; and we think they were about
right.
Virginia Enterprise: The small
pOx scare has hurt the PluteS in
| their fish selling. People will not
buy fish of them and don't want
them to come about. Captain Sam
is indignant. He dams the small
pox. He says: "S'pose one ole woman
see some spots on trout, she think
um pish got smallpox"
The surveyors headed this way
from Stockton, Utah, says the
Eureka Sentinel, are said to be
within fifteen miles of Eureka.
They are expected to get through
early next week. The E. 81 P. has
also sent out a accommodating force.
This makes three parties in the
field. Ii Eureka does not get a rail
road from some one of them, she
will be playing in very bad luck.
The present value of vineyards in
California is reputed by President
Harazting, of the state board of
vinicultural commissioners, to be
about $35,O1O,0O0, the income from
which amounted last year to 49,
100000. He is of the opinion that
within three years the vineyards
will be yielding to their owners So
| 100000 year, or 10 per cent. on the
$50,000,000 valuation.
The Winnamucca SLIDER State is
informed that many sheep are dying
in the eastern part of Humboldt
County from eating wild parsnips
| and other poisonous weeds. That
paper says: The stock of the par
snip is not poisonous, but the ground
is so soft in many places along the
river that cattle and sheep pull up
the roots when feeding on the
leaves and eat them. AS a general
thing they die from the effects of the
poisonous roots in a few hours.