Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Austin, New. is flooded with Mexican
dollars.
Denver, Col, is organizing Chamber Of
Commerce.
Browns Valley, Napa county, has four
wine-cellars.
Diphtheria is severe at Los Almos, Santa
Barbara county.
The Chico Record has entered upon the
fifth year of its publication.
Over 400 bills have already been intro
duced in the Colorado State Legislature.
Sam Cook, of Applegate, Or, had L, 900
pounds of potatoes carried off by the rain.
Cattle and stock are being stolen to a
deplorable extent in Lake county, Oregon.
The jacksonville Mill and Lumber Com
pany are shipping telegraph poles to Quay
mas, Mexico
The San Luis Obispo Tribune wants the
railroad terminus and wharf removed from
Port Hartford to Avila.
G.. N. Francis of the Napa Register has
bought out the interest of H 5. Spaulding,
and is now sole proprietor.
School Directors at Seattle, ". r., talk
of putting up { school-house that can ac-
commodate 400 or 500 scholars.
The ice-houses at Camp 20, Truckee, have
all been filed with the finest kind OF ice,
from to u inches in thickness
Denver, Col, is growing. The latest
suburb laid outi is Ironton, and lots are be-
| ing sold there with great rapidity.
What was few weeks ago the MolinelE
Hotel at Schelbonn, New, Is now or
wheels on the way to Cherry Creek.
The Carson New Appeal says that the
smelling works project has not been
abandoned by the people OF Carson.
The Governor Of Idaho has vetoed every
bill passed that has been introduo by the
Oneida and Bear Lake Mormon delegations.
Henry Thoman, well-kuovn citizen Of
Tia Juana valley, San Diego county, was
| thrown from his wagon end killed Sunday,
near his home.
Before next fall, it IS said the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad tr5cL nom Reno to
/ Virginia will be taken up, and narrow
gauge track substituted.
San Benito county has an area of $40
square miles, SO Of which are under cult
walton, a great portion of the balance be-
ing used for stock-raisiug purposes.
The San Diego Union says The work
on the California Southern grade is being
pushed with activity all along the line.
Contracts for some so miles more viii soon
be called FOR.
Above Mark West SPRING. this week,
the house of a Portuguese slid down hill,
turned over, and stands upside down in the
road. Some forest trees also slid down,
but are standing upright.
Port Ludlow, W. T., has lost the one
! great source of its life during the past Six
years, namely, the shipyard Of Hall Bros,
| the complete removal of which to Port
/ Blakeley has been effected.
Virginia City people still continue to
take a sort of melancholy interest in stocks.
! By twos and threes they are TO De seen
scanning the bulletin boards, gloomily and
/ in silence They have learned to respect
each others feelings
Some of the oldest almond trees in the
State are to be found in San Benito county.
On the old Pacheco PLACE, seven miles
northeast OF Hollister, some were planted
so years ago. They still bear an abundance
of nuts every season.
Donnelly, Dunno & Co have rented
1 about 10000 acres of the Quieu Sabe
Rancho, San Benito county. and intend es-
tabishing dairy farm at the Buena Vista.
/ This addition viii give this farm about
I20, 600 acres Of stock range
Spanish Springs Valley is an hours ride
northeast Of Reno, New, and there are
good roads over it. There are four or five
thousand acres of land lying idle that can
be had at or near Government price. Some
of it can be taken up as desert land. 1t has
a nice, warm soil, free from rocks, and
mostly from alkah.
The Oldest orchard in the State is said to
be at San Juan in San Benito comfy. It
was planted soon after the founding Of the
old Mission Of San Juan Bautista about the
year l775. The pear trees in it have grown
to an immense size, and, although over 100
years old, still bear an abundance of fruit
of the finest quality.
Phoebe Indians discovered that one of
their number had been murdered and an
attempt made to burn the body. 1t was
| found that he had been killed by Snake
Indian called zone Eyed Jack, who had
beat him to death with rocks. The In
dams pursued Jack as far as Bristol, New,
and intend taking summary vengeance.
Coroner Mitchell informs the Oroville
Reqiste1 that last week he buried two
Cinnamon, both having died from leprosy.
One from the Lava Beds, three miles be-
low town, on Monday, and the other from
Oroville Chinatown on Wednesday. He
also says that there is known to be two
more cases somewhere in the Chinese set
Elements.
The earth has cracked open near Muir
phys salt marsh, says the Reno (Nevada)
Gazette, making long fssure four feet
wide and of depth unknown. With
view to exploration, man was the other
day lowered into it by rope distance of
fifty feet perpendicularly, where the crew
ice began to dip at an angle of about forty
degrees. The man could see no bottom
and thought he had gone far enough, and
was hauled back to the surface.
a family living in the southern part of
town, says the Napa Reporter, underwent
great suffering during the recent high
| water. They were compelled to tear the
! ceiling out of the house and climb upon
1 the rafters to keep out Of the water. All
/ the food in the house that was not de-
/ stroyed by water was soon consumed and
being unable to procure more, they SUI
fered the intensest hunger. Sweet oil and
| like matter was consumed voraciously, and
for time helped to satisfy the cravings OF
( hunger, but this was soon exhausted, and
before the waters receded the family suf-
fered greatly.