Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
The Ogden. Utah, junction is dead.

The Ogden, Utah, junction is dead
There are eighteen artesian wells in Aus
tin, New.
Stock is dying fast in the Petrolia re.
glon. Humboldt county.
Four men were killed January Goth by
snow slide at BELLEVUE. Idaho.
Red Bluff is driving out hoodIums and
fning immoral characters of that burg.
a shoemaker's shop has been added to
the Indian school at Forest Grove, Or.
DR.. Cole, of Calapoola, Or, had $500
worth of goats killed by dogs recently.
Six persons were baptized in Dairy creek,
near Hillsboro. Or, the 23d Of January.
Lodi is proud of 5-year-old boy who
speaks both English and Spanish fuently.
Diphtheria has disappeared from Rose
burg, Or. Three cases and one death
made up the record.
A stage-driver was eleven hours lately
in going from Rock Point to Grant Pass,
o., distance of fifteen miles.
Carson, New, mas man who can speak
five dialects of the Chinese language. 1t
took him 10 years to learn them.
a good portion of Curtis Wilson's ranch,
in Green valley, Solano county, has been
washed down Green valley creek.
There is very little snowin the mountains
of Kern and the water supply is going to
be short the latter part of the season.
Judge I. Hart Hyatt, an old resident of
Yolo county and journalist half century
ago, died last week at Winters, at the age
of 10
The Great Register Of Los Angeles coun-
ty bears the name of Joseph Green Berry
Henry Marcus Cassius Brutus Croas
Haynes.
Says the Ne,c Era Of Benicia Freight
trains pass between Suisun and this place
each day, and the track is all safe and I'M
damaged.
The railroad company have reduced
freight on grain from Big Meadows to
Winnemucca, New, and no grain is taken
by teams.
The Ceur d'Alene Indians have appro-
priated 81, 800 toward the erection of
new church at Hangman Mission, Wash
ington Territory.
The buildings of The North Carson mine
are now place of refuge for tramps. Such
is the evanescent glory of things on this
mundane sphere.
The receipts of the town of jackson
vile, Or, for 1880 were 81, 225 OF, and the
expenditures 81 GAG 20, making an indebt-
edness of 1924 &c.
The county bonds of Shasta county are
nearly all sold. The debt of the county is
over $50, 600; at per cent the annual in
terest will be about So 600.
Paradise New men say the center of
Paradise valley IS vast lake, aud COM
lnunication between the east and west sides
of the valley is wholly suspended.
Father Brouillette O'Leary, who is Off
cially inspecting Indian agencies, pro-
nounces the Tulalip W. T., school the best
Indian school in the United States.
The age of the oldest convict in the Ne.
vada State Prison is 80 years, and the,
youngest is Is years old Among the l5l
prisoners confined there are Is murderers.
The Alpha quartz mine, Nevada county,
cleaned up last week $50 ounces of email
gam, worth 81, l00 as the result of three
mems and two boys work for three weeks.
There is a probability of the capital OF
Arizona being moved from Prescott to
population and easier of access than the
former.
The steamer Solano was unable to enter
the slip at Benicia one day last week, be-
cause of large roof which had foated
down the river. The Solano lowed it out
to the channel.
A vein of stone.coal eight feet in thick.
ness was discovered recently on the farm
of James Lindley, near Lebanon, Or. The
coal is pronounced by experts to be of ex-
cellent quality.
Stock men in Yakima county, w. T.,
report cattle in a deplorable condition,
hundreds of them starving to death. They
say that any number OF cattle could be
bought for 81 head.
There is wailing and crashing of teeth
among the Chinese miners near John Day,
Grant county, Or. There is scarcely
claim there that has not been invaded by
water and much damage done.
The hydraulic claim formerly known as
the Knickerbocker, just above Sargent &
Jacobs claim at Quaker Hill, Nevada
county, has made cleanup of g, 002, af
ter q run of twenty days with one monitor.
The expense was $3.50, leaving gain of
81, $50.
At Cape Mendocino two ribs of some
marine animal have been dug out of bank,
far above the modern tide-mark The ribs
are eighteen feet long and twenty inches in
diameter at the end where they connect
with the vertebral column, and the esti-
mated weight of each is 500 pounds.
William Spargo, whose claim is located
on Deer creek, opposite the Noun aineer,
a couple of miles below Nevada City, lost
50, 600 worth of property during the late
freshets, sulphurets valued at 81 600 being
swept away and other damage DONE to re-
pair which will cost him 81, 900 more.
The Registrars report of births, deaths
and marriages for 1879 in British Columbia
gives the total number of births registered
in the province as 223 Marriages foot up
1876, being an increase of Is over the former
year. Deaths show an increase over the
preceding year, the figures being 96 in 1879
to 81 in 1878. Eleven of these deaths were
violent ones.
While the funeral cortege of the late
jeremiah Luckey was crossing slough in
the river bottom near Eugene Or, the
hearse was drawn into deep water, and it
was only with great difficulty that the
driver and DR.. Shelton, who occupied
seat on the hearse, saved themselves and
the horses from drowning The coffin was
at last secured from the hearse and carried
across the stream on foot-log.
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