Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


S25 per ton.
The Los Angeles Free Library loaned
974 books during May.
Implements of the stone age have been
uncovered near Susanville.
Thirteen hundred Italians arrived in
Colorado last week to work on the South
Park Railroad
The Pit River Indians have returned to
their villages from their annual ot-dig-
ging campaign.
All crops in Mason Valley, New. are
about a month earlier than usual, includ-
ing mosquitoes.
Indignation exists in Los Angeles at the
neglect of the Attorney. General to decide
on the title to the site for the branch Nor
NAL School.
Fifty thousand pounds of condemned
car wheels have been shipped from the
shops at the Dalles, Or, to be run over at
foundry.
Campo, San Diego county, claims "the
cake this year for the first flour from the
new crop of wheat, which was cut, thrashed
and ground on Monday, the 9th instant.
The Piutes in Nevada, along the line of
railroad, complain that many of their
young married squaws are running off
with strange bucks, and are going to Wood
river.
There is indignation at Orc Grande he
cause the Postoffice has been located at
Desert Station, six miles away, instead of
at Orc Grande, where nine tenths of the
people reside.
The Stanislaus NeocS says the three
rivers of that county are all falling rapidly
1t is feared by many that the navigation
on the San joaquin will close earlier this
season than usual.
In the office of the Petaluma Argus is
stalk of cheat, upon the top.root of which
question, says the Argus, that this grain is
the parent of the stock.
Gilroy shipped so, 502 pounds of cheese
| in May, which indicates that about 3, 600 |
cows are being milked. The Record esti.
mates that the place realizes So, 500 a year
from the sales of cheese.
San Hilario Mexicans, n. NJ, are said to
be hilarious at present over vein of water
| found on the top of hill when digging fer
clay for 'adobes." Heretofore they had
to haul water from the river.
The following is the assessment of the
property of Prescott, A. T., furnished for
the year 1881 Real estate, 1868, 009; per-
sonal property, 1888, 727; total, S64S. 936. |
| The total for 1880 was 5000. .444.
Levi Davis, of Forestville, Sonoma
county, has sold over 500 worth of carp
from his ponds this year, and has 10000 |
large and small fish remaining, The ponds
cover less than an acre of ground.
A large sand.hill crane flew against the
headlight of locomotive on the S. p. r.
R., in 1ulare county, recently, with such
! force as to break the glass. The bird was
stunned, and captured by the engineer.
Lloyd Stone of Shasta valley has shown
the editor of the Bieber Tribune some pic
ture frames made from porous rock called |
by some obsidian. 1t is of a bluish-gray |
color. 1t is as light as cork, and floats on
the water like wood.
Work on the new Court house at The
| Dalles, Or, has been suspended. a num-
ber OF taxpayers have sued to restrain the
work, on the ground that the State Con-
stitution prohibits any county running into
debt for more than $1,000.
Utah has sixty-six Incorporated cities.
Salt Lake City and Ogden were properly
chartered, but the other sixty. four are in
considerable towns and small villages.
They were thus incorporated for the pur-
pose Of claiming land grants.
Sheep Rock is ON the eastern side OF
Shasta valley, Siskiyou county, and is
about mile and half long perhaps l,000
| feet in hight, with a nearly precipitous
rocky face. 1t was once the abode OF nu
merous mountain sheep, hence the name.
Live Oak is town OF about $50 popula-
ton situated in Sutter county, seven miles
south of Gridley and ten north of Marys-
vile. IL is surrounded by the best agri
cultural lands in the county. Timber is
| plentiful. Grain and wood are the leading
products.
| Messrs. lie Baron and Costello recently
lost a raft with 200 railroad ties and
fifteen cords of wood, aggregating $500 in
value. through being shipwrecked on the
| Big Eddy of the Clearwater, Idaho Some
of the navigators lost their clothing and all
narrowly escaped
The Prescott "a. T) Democrat says that
it is not true that Mrs. Jessie Fremont
ever organized classes in history among
the grown-up sons and daughters OF poor
settlers In Arizona" The "poor settlers
in Arizona are able to and do support
their schools by public taxes.
! A new town will soon be laid out at the
| junction of the Touchet, seven and half
miles below Waitsburg, w. T. 1t will be
the halfway station between Dayton and
WalIa Walla, and will contain 100 acres
A ditch two miles in length Will supply the
new town with an abundance of water.
The project of tapping Eagle Lake and
conveying the waters thereof to the sage
l. i = VI u l.
ing forward steadily. Three shafts have
been sunk along the line of the proposed
cut. The tunnel will be 5000 feet in
length, and the soil is of such character
that il can be made into cut if desirable
The French paper, Union NouceHe,
published at Los Angeles, says Our
countrymen are increasing here very rapid
ly. There is perhaps no other point in the
United States where the French popula-
ton grows more quickly than in Los
Angeles. For one returning to France,
there are ten coming. They augment here
by hundreds every year.
Eagles Nest is the name of a locality in
the Seldom Canyon, New Mexico, where
pair of American eagles have built their
nest in the face OF cliff which towers up in
the air and overhangs the railroad track.
In this canyon is little opening or cave
in the rocks. within thirty feet of the track,
where wildcat has built his lair and sits
in the mouth of his den and watches the
passing trains. He has been sEot at sew.
eral times, but has thus far escaped.
In reply to newspaper insinuation that
Virginia City is going to decay, the Chron-
iele OF that place says We are going to
pay tax OF s. on the 500 this year, and
we have the most fourishing and hearty |
lot of paupers here that ever ths sun shone |
upon. We pay $4,000 year to maintain
the INDECENT, and there is no other place in
the world where gentleman who will not
cut wood for 81 80 cord can so readily obtain
from the sympathizing authorities an order
for few weeks provisions, a plug hat, or
such other assistance as his sad condition
calls for,
Hint to the Lean.
The cause of leanress, when thsre is no |
positive disease which produces it, is an i'm
rerfeot assimilation of the fond The weight |