Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-28
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

A new railroad hotel is to be built at
Tucson, Arizona.
A Court house is about to be built at
Phoenix, Arizona.
Ten thousand dollars are being raised
for fruit cannery at Napa City.
Coyotes and California lions are killing
numbers of sheep in the southern portion
of San Benito county.
The town of Newcastle, W. T., has been
plated by Surveyor Whitworth, and all
the houses numbered.
The Territory of Arizona paid in the
month of February to the General Gov
eminent 81, 632 internal revenue taxes.
Cattlemen from all the great ranges re-
port the losses in Washington Territory
as fully 80 per cent. in the Malheur coun-
try.
The County Courthouse and lots at
Steilacoom, w. T., will be sold by the
Sheriff of Pierce county on the 30th of
April.
A handful of S-penny nails were taken
from the stomach of cow recently butch
cred at Healdsburg Eight of the nails
were full length
A Geyser Peak, Sonoma county, farmer
says that a wild boar, that had killed fifty
sheep in the past two or three years for
himself and neighbors, was killed few
days since.
The largest purchase of hides in one day
that ever took place in Custer City, Mon
tana, was made by, merchant named
Hubbell lately. Over 2S9 buffalo robes
and 200 antelope and deer hides was the
result.
The railroad company is sinking another
well at Tucson, A. I. When the new one
reaches water level drift will be extended
through to the old one, which will form
reservoir that will secure supply of water
for any emergency.
The Commissioners have selected loca-
ton for the Insane Asylum, soon to be
erected at Reno, New. The Gazette SAYS
The site chosen for the asylum is about
quarter of mile southeast of the prison
walls, and about 300 yards from the river
SAYS the Gold Hill News Day by day
the probability becomes greater that there
has been change in the control of the
Sutro tunnel The bonanza firm have not
secured that control, but John W. Mackay
has obtained it in his own name and right
The militia of this State, says the Carson
New Appeal is composed principally of
| miners. Under such circumstances what
would the State do if there were an up
rising of miners against mine owners? The
trouble recently at Lewis District suggests
this query.
Gardening has been in progress for two
weeks in the vicinity of Columbus, w. T.
The green hills, the warm sunshine and
the occasional west winds tell that spring
time has come. The sandy soil of the
river side is fit for culture much sooner
than the hill land.
The owners of the Big Meadows Irrigat.
ing canal, at Winnemucea, New, are max
ing arrangements to supply water for irri-
eating purposes to all who desire it. They
are also said to be negotiating for the pur-
chase of all the State and railroad lands
which can be irrigated from the canal
The Arcata Leader says that G. Mer-
chant, of Eureka, was lately lost, near Fort
Baker. and wandered about for two days
| in a two-mile circle. He was found COM
pletely worn out He was within few
hundred yards of cabin and in plain sight
of pieket-fence, but was so bewildered
that he had not seen either.
Bellevue, Idaho, is $500 feet above the
level of the sea Ketchum $500, and Ca
lena 6, 800. There is now depth of three
feet of snow at the former place. Bellevue
contains about 800 houses, and is laid out
on the banks of Wood river. It is ex-
pected that the place will have popula.
ton of l0, O00 or Is, 900 this season.
Montana Territory has 1871 Indians,
divided into the following tribes and
bands Blackfeet (Bloods and Piegansl
:, 500 Mountain Crows, ,, l50 Flatheads,
1914; Pen d'Oreilles, SIS; Kootnais, 1888
Flatheads of Bitter Root, 295 /; Yankton-
ais, Missouri river, 4, 043; Assinniboines,
], 400; Gros Ventres, LBS; Assinni-
BONES, Missouri river, 977 River Crows,
900.
In the Tucson, A. T., jail fifteen pris-
oners are confined in one room, and would
have escaped Thursday night had not the
jailer counted them. Finding only four.
teen prisoners in the room he raised an
alarm, and on investigation found the ff-
teenth man at work in tunnel which had
nearly pierced the mud walls of the Jail.
This is the fifth unsuccessful attempt to
break jail.
SAYS the Arizona Journal It is the or
ganized gang of desperadoes who ride into
towns and terrorize observation-disclosures that we
are concerned about. They visit the
ranches of the farmers and drive off their
cattle ride into churches and dispense the
congregations ride into saloons and shoot
out the lights and when demonstrated
with have the ready bullets as an answer
to all complaints.
Says the Pinal "a. IT, Drill. One year