Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Alpine county contains four school dis
| tricts.
Dillon, Montana, is to have Methodist
church.
A number of camphor trees have been
planted in Anaheim.
It is said that Southern Wyoming wants
to be annexed to Colorado.
Coyotes howl nightly on the meadows
near Bridgeport, Mono county.
The Angora goat business has not proved
profitable in Washoe county, Nevada.
There are three benevolent schools in
Portland, Oregon, for teaching Chinese.
Paradise Valley, New, raises Is, coo
acres of wheat yearly and has no flour
mill
The rope with which Thomas was hung
at Seattle, W. T., was divided into inch
pieces by relic hunters.
During the recent revival in Red Bluff
thirty-fve persons are said to have uni ed
with the Methodist Church.
Turner, Or, is miniature Venice at
present, as the citizens have to 90 from
house to house on float boats, slliffs and
rats.
The Vallejo Chronicle says that there Is
a gang of about twenty-five hahitual Grim
inals IN that place, and calls public atten-
ton to the fact.
Ira Buck, while out hunting one day last
week, shot and killed large coyote on
the South Yuba Nevada county. 1t was
a monster, weighing IS pounds.
The Chico Record learns that the Colby
ferry has started mp again and is now run
ming. This is the only ferry at present
running on that section of the river.
The gentlemen who purchased the Cor
ralitos Touring mill, Santa Cruz county,
are at work preparing it for reception of
the machinery necessary for e paper mill.
At Pleito. Monterey county, the rainfall
is said to have been eighte. inches during
the month of December, which is the larg.
est amount falling in one year since 1862.
The Carson (Nev.l Appeal says that the
page on the left side of the Speaker of the
Senate has worn out two pair OF shoes car
rying to the desk new bills introduced by
Senator Powning.
One herdsnlan in Klickitat valley, W.T.,
is losing twelve sheep day from cold and
lack of feed. Very little hay was put up,
and the cattle and horses also suffer much,
getting into the deep gulches, where it is
almost impossible to reach them.
Many families living on the island below
Riverside, Or, were surrounded by water
by the recent floods, and parties went
from town in boats to rescue them. The
mills in town were stopped, the water be-
ing SO high as to put out the fires.
James J. Murphy, miner, started from
the Tioga District for Lundy, Mono county,
four days ago, and was caught in severe
storm. He came to Lundy Sunday night,
with his feet hands and ears frozen. He
had been without food and blankets during
the four days.
Stockton has little romance. A broth
er and sister who had been separated for
thirty years, having bychance been brought
together aud making recognition. Both
had been living in Stockton for the last
twelve years, but unknown to each other.
1t was happy reunion.
Two explorers named Lambert and ca.
ruthers discovered last summer large
cave on the Dry Fork of Arrow creek, IN
the Belt mountains, Montana, in which
was half an acre Of solid ice of unknown
depth. At the time of the discovery,
about August lst, the ice was covered with
ten inches Of water, which prevented
thorough exploration of the cave. The
Fort Benton Press says that the ice gives
every Indication of being in great body,
and it is believed. from It's appearance, and
the fact that In the hottest season only
few inches of it was melted, that it is per-
petual The cave is described as being
great resort for game, as all kinds were
killed close to its entrance.
The Gridley Herald says: " Ranchers
are not bothered so much as usual this win
ter by geess. This blessing is the result of
a vigorous campaign having been waged
against the pests by the hunters. As an
evidence of the immense slaughter enacted,
we learn from parties whom we believe to
be reliable that there is two-acre tract of
land near the sink of the Cherokee slickens
canal where the ground is covered with
feathers to the depth of ten inches. All
persons killing geese in the vicinity have,
at the request OF the party owning this
land, gone there and picked them. The
rancher intends permitting the feathers to
rot by the action of the climate and then
plow them under aud use the tract as
potato patch. He states that the decom-
posed feathers cannot be equalied as fer
tilizar.'