Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-14
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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| been over $500.
A City Hall and Jail will be built in La
fayette this spring.
Guerneville has been flooded three times
in the past three years.
The old Millerton town site, Fresno
county, is slowly caving away.
Dogs have killed over 300 sheep for
Thomas Manning, of Lake county, this
winter.
The Marshall and Petaluma road is
closed. most of it having migrated into
Tomales bay, bridges, roadbed and ALL
In Kittitas valley, W, T., the price of
hay now ranges from $50 to S25 per ton,
and hardly any can be found at those fig
ures.
August Bittner and Grin Morrill, have
been expelled from all rights and privi-
leges of Masonry by the Grand Lodge of
Idaho.
A small grist-mill has been built on Ten
Mile, southern Oregon, which will be
great convenience tosettlsrs in that isolated
region.
A party of seven prospectors, while
camping on a mountain In Arizona, at an
altitude OF 100 feet, were all struck with
paralysis the same night.
The beech combers at Astoria, Or, are
reaping harvest from the immense
amount of drift wood coming down the
river caused by the floods in the interior.
The Mint building and adjoining grounds
at The Dalles have been turned over to the
Nasco Independent Academy Association
by the State agent J. A. Campbell.
Mrs. John Brown is the mother of the
first child born in Cheney, w. T. The
North Pacific Railroad Company, it is ru-
mored, will make the little one present
| of town lot.
1t is thought that Lake county has put
its foot in it IN the lawsuit to which it has
| invited the Sulphur Bank mine, in the mat
ter of taxation. That company has ac-
| eepted the wager of the battle.
A gourd is to be shown at the Santa Bar
bara Art Exhibition which was raised in
1853, and carried through the Revolution
ary War as a shot gourd. 1t was in several
battles-Y Yorktown Bemis Heights and the
surrender of CORVALLIS.
BY the building of the Carson and Colo
RADIO Railroad and the B. NJ. and A. Rail-
road Churchill county farmers are deprived
of one of their most lucrative resources.
Heretofore they have had a market for all
their hay and grain at their own doors.
Soon after the workmen on the Santa
Clara coal mine, Los Angeles county, left
the mine for dinner on Saturday the mine
caved in through all its length. Had the
accident occurred FIVE minutes sooner, not
one of the fourteen miners would have es-
capped death.
Dona Ana, New Mexico, was town of
historical remembrances and dilapidated
ruins until the recent advent of the rail-
road there Now civilization and seven
| teen saloons hold sway, and are rapidly
| forcing both remembrances and ruins into
the background.
| A landslide occurred few days ago
near Rough and Ready, on Deer Creek,
| Nevada county. The earth rushed down
the canyon with such force that it swept
everything away 1t struck the hosting
works of the Forlorn Hope mine, totally
demolishing the building
! Says the Santa Rosa Republican, w.
| S. Staley has discovered Golgotha of the
| antediuvian world in the gulch on the
| Wall place, near this city. The bones are
| of enormous size, and petrifed, of half-a-
dozen extinct creatures, some of them,
thigh bones, are six inches in diameter.
At FL Paso, or near there, where the
junction of railroads is to be made, it is
stated that all the roads centering there,
three or four in number, are to Join and
build huge depot house. The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe has fifty acres there.
the arrangements for work are going
o. satisfactorily.
The road between Spokane Falls and
Walla Walls, ". T., is strewn with dead
horses and cattle. At one place were
counted not less than silky three head. At
Big Bend, once the winter paradise for
stock, snow is two feet deep, and covered
with crust of ice two inches thick, and
fairly dotted with carcasses.
The last Montana Munchausenism is to
the effect that the cold was so intense last
week in Madison Valley that'the wind was
unable to blow, and ducks prairie chickens
and other feathered game, in endeavoring
to reach the Geyser Basin, were frozen
solid in the air, where they will be COM
PEELED to remain until the spring thaw.
They are catching wild hogs in the
South Fork swamp, Modoc county. Some
OF these animals nave Deen running IN the
tules TOR nine years, have attained an i'm
mense size and are very savage. One of
them killed two dogs in the endeavor to
capture him Some have tusks two inches
in length.
The big iron hub for the Yellow Jacket
works weighs q tons, and is so large that
it could not pass through the railroad tun-
mel at Gold Hill, New. Forty-two horses
were required to haul the truck on which
it was placed up the hill to the Divide,
when - of the horses were taken off. The
casting was taken to the railroad depot in
Virginia and placed on a car and taken to
the jacket works. In order to get it
through the Virginia tunnel it was neces-
sary to remove three sets of timbers from
the south end.