Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-23
THE DAILY RECORD UNION.
PACIFIC COAST IrEMs


pupils.
The smallpox scare is over in Mendc-
cino county.
Redding, Shasta county, proposes TO
have $40, 600 brick school-house.
The red lands of the foothiIl counties
promise to yield largely this season.
Thieves have been robbing several school
libraries in southern Alameda county.
The new law forbids Trustees in Nevada
from contracting debts for the public
schools.
A colony of Napa men are looking for
grape land at Cloverdale, with view of
locating.
During February the Albion mill, Men
docino county, sawed $4,000 feet of lum-
Der per day.
In Carson it is found that Cinnamon sell
whisky to Indians. Recently three Celes.
tials were arrested for that offense.
The ranch owners of Long valley, Nor
gan valley and Upper Lake and vicinity
offer reward Of SIS each for coyote scalps.
At Belmont, New, Thomas Burns has
been convicted of the murder of Thomas
Mack, and sentenced to the State Prison
for life.
The taxable property in Grant county,
Oregon, amounts to 81, OSS, 007. Accord
ing to the Pendleton Tribune, the levy is
IS mills on the dollar.
Rice grows we'll in eastern Washington
Territory. From the crop that is to be
planted in Pomeroy this year, good yield
is expected next season.
An excursion is contemplated over the
G.. and c. Railroad In Nevada ON or about
the 10th of April, when the ceremony of
driving the last spike will be performed.
The new town of Toledo, situated on the
Cowlitz river in Oregon, is rapidly improv-
ing. A large warehouse has just been fin
ished, and many new building are now In
course OF erection.
Inter Lake is the name given to settle
ment in King county, between lakes Wash
ington, Union and Green, w. I. A church
was recently organized and church build
ing dedicated there.
The potato blight is announced on the
coast, causing CONSERVATION among growers.
The flooding of the tule lands gave promise
of fair prices for potatoes once more, and
the blight is discouraging.
BENJAMIN f. Porter, of San Fernando,
Los Angeles county, offers 1000 acres of
land and 600 sacks of barley per year,
for five years, for the location of the Nor
NAL School at San Fernando.
J. B. HeTett of White River, Washing
ton Territory, has COW which gave IN SIX
months S. 5O4 pounds of milk. This cow
has given 40 pounds of milk at single
milking, and IL pounds for day.
At Tacoma, w. T., tree is used for
church belfry. The tree was cut off
seventy feet above the ground, and sup
ports a 600 pound bell, which was pre-
sented by st. Peters Church at Philadel-
phia-
Persons competent to judge believe that
the raisin crop of California the present
year will reach I50, 600 to 200, 900 boxes.
Some of last years raisins were much
better than any before produced in the
State.
In the past twelve years Eureka New
district alone has produced close on to
500. 600. 600, while Lander, White Pine
and Lincoln counties would run the grand
total no to at least $50, 600, 900 more-to
say nothing of the contributions of Nye
and Etko counties.
Austin, New, boasts q calf with double
nose. Tom Jackson, special policeman for
Chinatown, in Virginia City, boasts cat
that never had but three legs. Last Fri.
day this fragmentary section of a cat gave
birth to a kitten that has four well. defined
and full-sized ears.
A young man, aged Is years, named
Arthur A. Davis, who was stealing his
way on freight train Sunday night, at Lodi
fell from the brake.bar and was run over,
crushing both hands and feet. He died
the next morning while the doctors were
amputating his limbs. His parents are II
Stoughton, Mass.
Frank Monroe. laborer on Hoag's
ranch, was struck by the engine of the
passenger train on the Northern Railway
on Sunday, when near Norman. Monroe
was drunk and lying by the side of the
track. He escaped with severe scalp
wound, which was dressed at Willows,
whittier he was taken by the train.
In Judith valley, Montana, out of Is, 525
sheep the loss has been something over %
per cent. great difference is observed
in the ratio of loss in acclimated as COM
pared with pilgrim sheep, for while out of
1915 head of pilgrim sheep the loss was
1850 or over a per cent, the loss out Of
10, $50 head of aoclimated sheep was only
1880, or less than IL per cent.
a Piute squaw the other day dropped in
at the kitchen of one of the citizens of
Virginia, New, and, complaining of hun
ger, was given the means of making a
square neal When she had licked and
polished off the plate she was asked how
many times she had eaten before during
the day. Fibe timer" was the honest
answer, set of with q complacent grin.
The Reno New Gazette is responsible
for the following: General Malone,
the new Senator from Virginia, who has
given the Republicans control of the Sem
ate, is a very small man. His weight is
only about ninety pounds. He was
wounded during the war, and gentleman
called to reassufe his wife, who had heard
the news. Don't be alarmed, " he said
"It's only flesh wound, +" "Ah, Colonel, ="
she sobbed, 'you don't know th'-the
General as well as II do Or you wouldn't
tell NINE he could b'-be wounded with
out strik' striking bone !"