Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-30
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The entire route of the proposed new
railroad from Santa Rosa to Benicia has
been surveyed.
The Ashland (Or.) Woolen Mills have
bought 10000 pounds spring clip at 22A
cents per pound.
The Utah and Northern track is now
laid to point about twenty miles north OF
Dillon, Montana.
The frost of Friday and Saturday morn
ings has done considerable damage to the
vineyards and early corn in Napa Valley.
The Virginia City Enterprise says the
Chinese are buying all the ground in Gold
Canyon that they can purchase, for placer
mining.
George Brooks was shot in the cheek
near Los Gatos, Santa Clara county, Satur.
day, by Thomas Emery. The wound is
not fatal.
According to the st. Helena Star, which
presents figures in detail, there are almost
5000 acres in vineyards in Napa county,
north of Yountville.
The infant child of Captain Davis, of the
bark H. Buck, in quarantine at Victoria,
B. c., died Friday Of smallpox. The ship
will soon be released.
The combination of scarlet fever and
diphtheria has caused apanic in Marshfield,
Or. The public school was temporarily
closed in consequence.
One day last week Theodore Anderson,
who lives at Hoyt's old crossing, on the
South Yuba, killed rattlesnake that had
sixteen rattles and button.
The Catholics of Los Angeles last Mon
day presented S400 to Bishop Mora, who
started East on Wednesday, and will pro.
ceed to Rome to see the Pope.
Ex-senator Booth, of California, has de.
cliued the invitation to deliver the Fourth
of j liy grafton at Portland, and ex-senator
Sargent has been invited instead.
Ground has been purchased, a subscrip.
tion of $1,000 or 81, 400 raised, and the
lumber is being put on the ground for a
new church at North Yamhill, Oregon.
Freaks of lightning are reported along
the Oroville and Chico road. Telegraph
poles were split, a hay field burned, and a
sheep-herder temporarily stunned by a
shock.
The Masons of Red Bluff contemplate
the erection of building. Plans, specifi-
cations and detail drawings have been re-
ceived. The Good Templars also talk of
building hall.
Many sheep are dying in the vicinity of
Winnemucca from eating wild parsnip
roots The stalk of the plant is not hurt
full, but the ground being soft the sheep
pull up and eat the root.
There is general revival of business at
Olympia, w. T., and prospects are bright
ening. The lumber trade has doubled in
the last three months. Laborers are scarce
and command high wages.
The bicyclists had hard time crossing
the Sierras. Bennett rolled down bank
over thirty feet, and they were obliged to
carry their machines on their shoulders
and walk fifteen miles through the snow.
Since the small pox scare began at Vir.
ginia City, the people refuse to buy fish of
the Indians, much to their disgust. Cap
tain Sam says: "S'pose one ole woman see
some spots on trout, she think um pish got
small.pox :"
Saws the Reno New Gazette P. n.
Marker and other wood contractors are
asking for men and cannot get them.
There has never been year in Nevada
when the development of the States re-
sources has made such demand on labor.
Ahalf breed American boy, about twelve,
knocked a companion of the same age down
in the public street at Los Angeles Satur.
day evening, snatched his watch from him,
and made off. He was arrested a short
time after and made to give up the stolen
property.
A Chinaman was killed by lightning
near Carson few days since, being liter
ally split in halves, says the Bodle Free
Press. This is the second person killed in
Nevada since the admission of that State.
A miner was instantly killed near the
highest peak of Treasure Hill, White Pine
county, in 1869.
Lafayette Searl buckled on revolver at
San Diego, mounted horse and went in
search of fight, which he was soon &C.
commodated with. He went down to Ed.
Jones' corral and opened fire on the pro-
prietor, who went into the house, got a
pistol and perforated Mr. Searl in the right
breast. The wound is severe, but not fatal.
On Friday, a train of cars loaded with
brick for the new asylum building at Stock
ton escaped from controland bolted through
the wall and into the basement, when the
floor fell and stopped the progress of the
cars. The gap made in the wall was twelve
feet wide Nobody was hurt The aeci-
dent was due to carelessness on the part of
the railroad men.
The borers OF the artesian we'll at Ma
tional City, San Diego county, struck flow
ing water at a depth of 33S feet on Fri
day, and it has been flowing ever since and
increasing The people regard the success
of this well as the most important thing,
next to the railroad, that ever happened
there. Other wells will now be undertaken
in various directions.
The Olympia CIV. T.) Transcript says !:
During snow-storm, a,year ago last win
ter, good sized tree fell, between two
others. As it was across the road the butt
more of it. The tree still hangs several
several feet from the ground, and is green
and growing. The superstition is that the
sap from the two trees, between which it
fell, keeps it alive.
The express from the depot to Dutch
Flat was stopped Friday night at $50
o'clock, when just below the brow of the
hill coming into town, by two masked high
waymen, armed with shotguns. They de-
manded the Wells, Fargo & Co. express
box, and on receiving it left. Their masks
and a rude pistol, carved of wood, were
found Saturday morning near the spot.
The express box and the robbers themselves
have not yet been found. 1t is thought
that the box contained about S25.
A young man who had been spending a
few weeks in San Francisco, says the Car
son (Nev. Appeal, was telling his maiden
aunt about the loudness of the theaters.
"Oh, Billy" said she, with upEfted hands.
chow can you attend those horrid shows
where the performers have so little on"
"That's nothing" said the boy, gravely ;
:" went one night to place where the
performers had nothing at all on not a
stitch, I assure you." The old lady tainted
away, and when she came to her senses
was informed that it was an exhibition OF
horses at the Hippodrome, and they per-
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