Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Snow fell last week in many parts Of
Montana.
June 30th Nevada City will illuminate
with electricity.
Tulare county harvesters are toiling from
daybreak to dark.
The coast redwoods OF Mendocino give
employment to over 700 men.
More field hands are wanted in Kern
and the Upper San joaquin region.
Alumber yard has been started at Point
Arguelo wharf, Santa Barbara county.
Over twenty railroad suits have been
commenced against parties about Hanford.
a Canadian company of cattle.growers
have bought IL, 900 head of stock in Mon.
tana.
The railroad company are building
water tank to hold 10000 gallons at San
Diego.
The Oswego, Or, iron works make
twenty-five tons of iron every twenty four
hours.
Extensive improvements are being in-
augurated at the National Park, Yellow
stone, Montana.
There is now on the road from Southern
California to Montana and Idaho over 200,-
600 head of sheep.
The Principal of the New Westminster
(B. G. school was recently fined for using
corporal punishment.
A Cochise county, Arizona, Grand Jury
recently found thirty indictments, nine of
which were for murder.
The interior papers of Nevada complain
that the country is being flooded with mu-
tilated aud other debased coin.
A colony of cats lately t,Sekleti s Tulare
farmer and he was badly bitten, but at last
whipped his uncanny assailants.
The people of Napa vote next Tuesday
upon the question of creating debt Of
100000 to supply the city with water.
George Walker, the Lompoc saloon
keeper, whose place was twice destroyed
by bombs, has finally departed for other
fields.
In three years past, Jasper Woollery, of
Puyallup Valley, w. T., has killed los
bears, besides numbers Of wildcats and
cougars.
A Colorado Springs rancher recently ex-
hibited lamb with two brains, three
eyes, three ears and double spine, but it
has since died.
Millions of white crickets have appeared
on the hills north of Reno. There are
three distinct species of this pcst-white,
black and red.
Point San Quentin is excited because
some gold nuggets were picked up in
gulch west of the prison. Lively prospect
ing is now going on.
From an eight.inch well. less than a
hundred feet deep, the Fresno Water Conn.,
pany pumps l20, 600 gallons of water daily
enough to supply the town.
The Natural Bridge in Tonto Basin, Ari-
zona, is certainly a great wonder. The
canyon it spans ia 400 feet wide, and the
arch is $50 feet above the stream.
The earnings of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway for the first week in June
were Sl24, $50 rs. The earnings for the
same week in 1850 were S54, 637 27.
Mary A. Hughes, IL years of age and
one of party of picnickners from Vallejo
to Green Valley Falls, last Tuesday, fell
100 feet down the mountain side. She mas
since died.
A correspondent of the Santa Barbara
Press describes the Nojaqui valley in the
Santa Ynez range, and speaks of the roman
tic and picturesque Zaca Lake which is
near the summit of the mountains, sur
rounded by fringes of pine.
Two dwellings ON the corner of Mag
nolia and Seventh streets, Oakland, were
almost entirely consumed by fire Wednes-
day evening. The building in which the
fire originated was owned by Mr. Bar
rett, and the other was the property of a
Mr.. Hinckley. The fire department
worked at disadvantage at first, as water
was scarce and the hose burst. The loss
was about $4,000 Insurance, so far as
known, 81, 100. The fire is supposed to be
the work OF an incendiary.
The remains Of Samuel Bell, who was
killed by train at Benson, Arizona, on
Wednesday, have arrived at Oakland.
Mr.. Bell was for many years engaged as q
postal clerk on the Central Pacific Rail-
road He was veteran of the late war,
and served through the entire struggle,
and was First Lieutenant when the war
closed Latterly he was employed on the
Southern Pacific Railroad. He was
member of Oak Leaf Lodge, No. 80, A.
O. U. W., and leaves wife and two chill
dren, who reside at 42l Brush street in
Oakland.
News is received that Pat Holland, one
of the best known men on the coast, had
been killed near Tombstone, A. T., by
being thrown from buggy. The accident
occurred on the Sth of June. Mr.. Holland
and saloon keeper were out riding when
the horses took fright and ran off the
grade. Both men were thrown out, but
Holland struck against rock, and was so
severely injured that he expired soon after
being taken to town. The deceased was
an old-ti,ner on this coast, and had been
in every mining camp discovered. He was
a pressman by profession, and had been a
newspaper man for many years. In Bodie
he conducted the Union, and owned the
first newspaper in Phoebe. lie also ran a
paper in Virginia City.