Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Park City, Utah, has case of bigamy.
More artesian wells in San Bernardino
valley.
Dillon, Mont, is the new county seat of
Beaverhead.
Two more colony schemes in Los An
geies county.
A few grasshoppers have appeared in
Sierra valley.
The last tract of land at Pasadena Colony
has been sold.
Finely-mottled marble has been found
near Calistoga.
New species of diatoms have been found
in Sierra valley.
The Good Templars of Geyserville have
purchased hall.
Baker City, Or, is 1928 feet above the
level of the ocean.
Stockmen are plentiful in southern Ore
gon buying cattle.
The mining outlook in Jackson county,
Oregon, is very bright.
Blocksburg, Humboldt county, is to have
a log Jail, to cost $3.50.
A clearinghouse to cost S., 900 will be
erected on the Southern California Uni
vegsity grounds, near Los Angeles.
1t is proposed to carry canal through
the main street of Red Bluff, and so use
the water of the Sacramento for manu-.
featuring purposes.
Parties have lately been violating the
law by killing trout in the Devils Den and
Little Sulphur creeks, Sonoma county,
with giant powder.
Wheat is quoted at 80 cents per bushel
at Vancouver, W. T.; potatoes, so cents
per bushel; butter, 80 to 35 cents per
pound eggs, l6 cents per dozen.
John 7. Reel, says the Klickitat wv. T. J
Sentinel, reports loss of 800 head of sheep,
and says that it was common thing to see
horses eating the wool from dead sheep.
A Eureka, New, man is said to be ex-
hibiting horned woolly pig, weighing 20l
pounds. Its horns are about four inches
in length and project from the animals
head.
At Leadville, Col, lately, 4, 500 citizens
petitioned the City Council to close the
saloons, business houses, theaters and
dance halls on Sunday. The Council re-
| fused.
Several nuggets of gold have been picked
up in different parts of Butte county dur
ing the past few weeks. Most of them
have been found in old ground and uncov-
cred by the recent high water.
The Seattle, W. T., Inteligencer says
that the apple crop of 1881 is in danger.
The trees are said to have been visited by
a black fly, which has left its eggs, and
when these hatch the bhghting of the trees
will begin.
Iro Harder, the mail carrier between
Fire Hole and Henry's lake, became snow
blind lately. He was so badly blinded
that he was compelled to lay in the timber
for three nights and days before he was
able to make his way to the station.
Says the Santa Rosa Republican,. A fine,
substantial bridge is being built across the
Gualala river 1t has span of 100 feet, and
is % feet above low water. 1t is made of
single pieces of timber without splicing.
The stringers are about 20 inches square.
Says the Prescott "a. IT, Democrat :.
Parties have struck rich vein of ore about
two miles and half south of here. The
rock shows white, native silver like snow
or frost fakes No less than four leads
have been found, and the rock is declared
very rich.
The Santa Cruz Courier and Local ITEM
issued an eight-page edition on the 10th,
the larger part devoted to statistics of that
county and its resources, making as a
whole valuable paper, and evincing COM
mendable enterprise on the part of the
publishers.
1t is reported that the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company is to extend its track
from the present terminus at Wilmington
about four miles down to the bay, to the
new wharf of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company at deep water in the harbor, to
avoid hghterage.
Six murderers, one charged with may
hem, four burglars and two men charged
with grand larceny make up the list of
persons charged with felony now in the
Butte county jail. a number of persons
are confined there on charges of and SEN
fences for misdemeanors.
Northwest Sonoma county is land of
green pastures kept in perpetual verdure
by the ocean fogs There are deep canyons
filed with tan-bark oaks. Remote from
sawmills there are groves of huge redwoods
waiting for the wants of commerce, and
there are brawling trout streams leaping
among the rocks.
On the 10Th of October Geo. A. Wheeler
strangled his sister-in-law, Adella J. Til
son, at San Francisco, under circumstances
unparalleled in the annals of crime on this
coast. On the 10Th day of November he
was indicted by the Grand Jury. On the
10Th day of December he was arraigned for
his crime. On the 18th day of January he
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, and on the 10Th day of February he
was sentenced to be hanged on Tuesday,
the 10Th day of April, by the neck until
he was dead. Evidently 10 is an unfortu-
nate and unlueky number with Wheeler.