Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There are now four lodges of Freemasori
in Arizona.
Ell Paso county, Col, reports l52 mar
riages last year.
Stock cattle are only worth IS a head il
Pima county, a. I.
There were rs marriages recorded IL
Lane county, Oregon, during 1850.
Como, Sutro Tunnel and Gold Hill are
the three quietest villages in Western Ne
vada.
Parties who have visited Bonner lake
| this week say that it has not begun to
freeze yet.
Walla Walla valley, W. T., is 80 miles
long and Is wide, and contains 1900 IN
habitants.
The merchants of Colfax, w. T., have
signed an agreement to take Mexican
dollars at 80 cents.
The income of the stock -raisers of Mon
tana for 1880 is placed at between 81. $780,
900 and 100000
The real estate transactions in Seattle,
w. t, for the year ending December 81,
1880, aggregate the sum of $73S, 45S 80.
San Bernardino county has timber in the
mountains, not only for building and fenc.
ing but also cabinet and ornamental work.
sThere were l35 applicants for the several
positions in the Nevada Senate and Assem-
bly,, out of which number 81 were success
full.
The Arizona Legislature has under con-
sideration bill requiring railroads to fur
nish water to travellers and stock free of
charge.
A species of grass called " broncho" has
become quite abundant near Healdsburg,
Cal, and is proving an injury to sheep
men. 1t resembles the wild cat, only being
smaller and finer heritage, and Injuries
the wool.
a. E. T. Morley has severed his con-
nection with the Stockton Ildepen2ent,
and resumed his connection with the San
Francisco Bulletin as reporter. The In
dependent is now owned by joint stock
company.
Butte, Montana, reports young woman
who has not spoken for fifteen years, except
on one occasion. Her long silence is at.
tributed to intense and abiding indignation
at her parents for refusing to permit her
marriage.
There are several streams, the Uranos,
the La Plata, the Animas, the Florida and
the Los Pinos, in La Plata county, Col.
capable of irrigating the 10000 acres of
arabic land which it. contains. The eleva-
ton is only 5000 feet.
On January 81, 1880, a COW belonging 10
A. Sanders, of Molalla, Or, had calf. and
the same COW on December 22d of the same
year had two more calves, being three in
less than eleven months, and they are all
healthy and doing we'll.
The six counties of Klickitat, Clarke,
Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Skamania and Pa
citic, w. T., have total area of 8, $780, 095
acres, of which LBS, ST are surveyed,
and l,S43,275 unsurveyed. The settled
lands aggregate 4Sl, 907 acres.
Placer county is to have special cleo
ton on the 18th instant for the purpose of
filling a vacancy in the Board of Super
visors, caused by the death of Thomas
Dodds. The expense of the special cleo
ton, it is claimed, will be $1,000.
There are probably about eighty snow
mounds in and around Candelaria, New,
which have been thrown up by the frugal
denizens. They vary from three to ten
feet in hight. Their uses are to preserve
the snow for the manufacture of water.
The first vessel that entered the Yaquina
harbor was the Calamet, in 1856, loaded
with supplies for General then Lieutenant)
Sheridan, for the garrison at the Siletz
block houses. She was commanded by
Captain William Tichenor, now of Port
Oxford.
TIE degree of mortality among the In
dian population Of the various reservations
on the Sound, in Washington Territory, is
truly alarming, and out of all proportion
as compared with the white population.
Their Indifference to the laws of health Is
of course the cause.
The first number of the Arizoua Matag
Journal, an eight-pase weekly payer de
voted to the interests of mining and miners,
has been received. 1t is published at
Tucson by F P. Thompson, ex-Superin-
tendept of STATE Printing of California,
and is credit to its proprietor and the
locality where it is published.
An immense quantity of grain is lying
on the beach at L1mpoc that was waiting
shipment when the wharf was washed
away. There is a storehouse rs feet long,
100 feet wide and 20 feet high. with a
high, pointed gable roof, that is stored
full also, several barns aud houses, be-
sides about 20, 600 sacks uncovered, with
no hope of protection.
In Lake district, Vancouver Island
recently. the old Yale House, built
twenty-five years sgo, now occupied by
Mr.. Lindsay and his family, fell beneath
the weight of snow. The occupants were
half buried beneath rafters shingles and
snow, but dug their way out. The furni-
ture is badly broken. and the house is a
wreck of what was once the finest family
mansion On the island.
Snow lies on Saanich Peninsula, B. c..
to the depth OF two feet, the recent cold
rains having delayed instead of fastening
it's disappearance. The roads, fields and
stockyards are deeply covered, and the
roofs of many buildings have been crushed
beneath the weight. At South Saanich the
large stable of VIM. Thompson. where
were stabbed his best horses, fell in on
Thursday night, burying the animals.
The miners who went out to Alma, wy.
oming Territory, about two months ago,
SAYS the Virginia Chronicle, to work for the
Rocky Mountain Coal Company, are all
out of employment. After getting to work
they formed Union, and the last day of
December made strike for higher wages
and demanded the discharge of the Chi0a-
men, two of the company's pits being run
by Cinnamon and one by white men. The
Chinamen were all driven away and the
white men had control for few days, but
soldiers were brought from Evanston (which
is only five miles distant), and the Union
was broken up. The Cinnamon were put
back to work in all the pits. No white
men are now working there except few
| as bosses.