Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Suffer county owes $40, SAT.
Kern river is very high from melting
SHOWS.
The new Redding church is nearly COM
pleted.
Placerville has a tiourishing White Rib.
bon Club.
There are 20 or 30 opium dens in WaIla
Walla, w. L.
Germans are settling near Rosalia, in
Palouse county, w. I.
The Cave Greek region, Arizona, is called
the Yosemite of Arizona.
The Pacific University, Forest Grove,
Or, has only fifty students.
Lyon county, New, has sold $4,000 in
bonds to California capitalists.
The Lyon county (Nev.] tax rate this
year will be So 05 on each 500.
Wild rice is being sown in the sloughs
on the meadows near Reno, New.
" GirnletviIle is a new town springing
up in Mohawk valley, Plumas county,
But l, 3O7 squirrel scalps were turned in
for March in Walla Walla county, w. I.
Henry Ford, of Carson, Nevada, has
litter of pups which are being raised by
large Maltese cat.
San Benito county farmers are forming
Protective Union to receive better prices
for their products.
Redding people rejoice over two papers,
and now are urging the project OF bridge
over the Sacramento river.
The Kern County Industrial Aid Asso-
citation have received an invoice of silk
worm eggs for testing silk culture.
The Arizona Journal says that the Papago
Indians have committed most of the late
depredations charged to the cowboys.
Seven stations are now equipped and
ready for business between Albuquerque,
n. NJ, and Fort Wingate, on the A. and P.
There is a 81, 600 statue of General
Washington in Capitol Square in Boise
City, Idaho. 1t was badly distigured by
unknown vandals lately.
Arizona pronunciation Mojave, No
harry ella. Heeler Cachise, Cdrchess
Wor. chucar; Hualapai, Wot-
lor-pi: Navajo, Na0-ar-ho.
The Ainsworth, w. T., Vigilantes, April
10th, gave seven courtesans and a man
named Smith five minutes to leave town,
or be thrown in the river. They left.
Fishing is lively in the Truckee, below
the Essex dam. About 600 pounds are
being caught daily, and shipped away
The price there is ten cents per pound.
NJ. NJ. Chaplin, of Jump -off-Joe, Or,
says that Rogue river was SO high during
the fore part of the winter that the back
water deposited rails in trees twenty feet
high.
Fort Logan, Montana, has been sold.
The reservation contains 2 400 acres, in
Guiding 100 acres OF hay land There
were fifteen bids, ranging from SO, 100 to
s., 200.
Governor Fremont, of Arizona, accord.
ing to the Prescott correspondent of the
Phoenix E,gpoSitor, goes East, with the
view of never returning as Executive of
that Territory.
The logging season at the Sierra Lumber
mills, at the head of Chico
Greek, will be open in few weeks. Aboat
Il, 000. 600 feet of logs will be delivered at
the three mills this year.
Contracts are let at Tombstone, A. T.,
for several buildings, to cost from 81, 600
to $40, 600. There are not less than GOO or
700 miners at work, and probably 200 me-
chanics and ordinary laborers.
A young woman named Mrs. Lille
Eaton committed suicide at Portland, Or,
Wednesday, by taking dose of poison.
She was very recently married, and her
it is said, abandoned her.
The first European eyes that rested upon
the snow-capped peaks of the Santa Gaia
lima mountains, Arizona, was in 1888, when
Father Mark, of Nice, described his jour
ney to the Moqui village (the city OF Cibola.l
The Tehama Tocsin says Captain Rot.
erts is negotiating with the farmers of Rice
vile and vicinity to get their carrying trade
for grain. He will run a steam wagon from
that town to McIntosh's Landing on the
river.
The MERGED Argus tells of two plucly
school teachers, Misses Alma and Alice
Garrison, OF Los Banos. One of them
drives ten miles to her school, and back,
each day the other drives five miles, and
back.
Carlton" The noted war correspondent,
says Imagine all New England, New
Y ork, Ohio and good part of Pennsyl
vania to be turned out to pasture past
IRE furnishing abundant grass in mid-win-
ter, and you have the capacity Of Mon
5ana.
Newspapers in Eastern Arizona are in
,reasing in number. The Enterprise, a
weekly, is published at Florence by Geo.
B. Taylor, formerly OF California. Pinal
mas now two papers, the Drill and the, En- |
es,prise, and ella has two, the Chronicle |
md the .SilUeT Bell.
Says the Helena, Montana, Herald We |
nave section of small white pine tree,
which is six inches in diameter. In the !
center is embedded cone of the tree in a
perfect state of preservation. 1t is three
:ourths of an inch in diameter and an inch |
md a half in length.
This is the Greenville Bulletins story /:
Some men at work in the woods of Plumas
county, few days since, found two chip
nunk squirrels, apparently frozen to death,
md threw them where the sunlight APP
,eared to give them life, for they scam
1ered away as well as ever.
The skeletons of three men were recently !
sXHufleu near Oal6 Lake Cltl. u SeLeiS-
nan who was conversing with Tribune
'eporter about the find, said it was almost
IN every day occurrence. "There have
,een not less than 500 murders committed |
n this valley alone, and its history, if
written, would be one of blood"
Messrs. Broad Barker, Kern county,
lave just completed their contract for con-
tructing fifty or sixty miles of distributing
litches from the Galloway Canal, which
las enabled many new settlers to commence
operations. They report that the old set
lers are becoming comfortably situated.
The land improves with irrigation and cul-
ivation.
Mrs. L. S. Tiff Of Denver is the owner
# the largest cattle range in the State of
Colorado. Its territory extends from Gree
ey to Julesburg, embracing belt of conn.,
ry about 100 miles wide, with herd con-
family numbering about %. GOO head of
attle. The sales of the past three years
lave been nearly 81 600, 600. Half an in
crest in the business was recently sold.