Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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Clear lake, Lake county, is three or four
feet above high water line.
Steamboats, are running up Eel river to
Covelo, Mendocino county.
Peaches are IN bloom at. San Bernardino,
and plums and almonds at Niles.
A Santa Rosa dog pulls boys off wagons
when he sees them hanging on behind.
The Puget Sound iron works are pro.
nounced grand and complete success.
a new county has been created by the
Legislature of Arizona, called Cachise
Helena, Montana, prices Eggs, 81 per
dozen; wood, SD cord hay, S35 ton
Seattle's CIV. IT, city debt is being ex-
tinguished at the rate of about 500
month.
The Coos Bay Mail says a new channel
is said to be forming at the mouth of the
Coquille.
There is a town in Yolo county called
Hungry Hollow. Tramps generally give it
wide berth.
Sheep-men of Sonoma county report
heavy losses of lambs as consequence of
the continued rains.
The Lorellas rancho can show the largest
Duroc hog ever in Monterey county. 1t
weighs 200 pounds.
The Denver Col Ne,Cs states that Gov.
ernor Tabor will contribute library and
art gallery to that city.
1t is said that Mrs. Bowers, the Washoe
seeress, did not predict the Franktown
fiood-in time to save her furniture.
Through the office of Wells, Fargo &
Co., S52,000-or $1,000 a week-left
Goldendale, Washington Territory, during
1880.
There is only one Confederate soldier
in the Nevada Legislature this session, and
that is Senator Henderson, from Lincoln
county.
1t is estimated that it will take SOC, 600
to replace the bridges carried away in the
Santa Rosa Road District alone, during the
recent storm.
The material of the late Bodie Standard
is stored in Los Angeles for freight charges,
and the teamster who took it from Bodie
refuses to let it go.
| The Bodie Free Press says that in that
town, lately, a Chinaman went against
tan game with 81, and in half an hour won
1890, breaking the bank.
Sixty converts is the result of the pro-
tracted revival meetings which are being
held in Petaluma. And still there is no
abatement of the interest.
Lodging house keepers in Carson, New,
are complaining about the large number of
strangers who fail to come to time in the
matter of settling for their rooms.
OF the S2S, 992 81 due from the taxpay
ers of jackson county, Oregon, SIS, 559 "a
have been collected. Last year at this
time but Sc, go "A had been collected.
Out of 1886 teachers in the State of
California it is said but 463 are Normal
School graduates, and 1879 of these grad
uated in some other State than California.
The bonded Indebtedness of Santa Cruz
county, including STA 600 of railroad
bonds in litigation, is S201,3 The
amount OF coin in the treasury is S56,-
002 81.
y One of the three old craters at the south
end of Mono lake has been industriously
smoking for week past, at intervals send
ing up dense columns of vapor, smoke or
something else.
Returns of the fisheries of British Co.
lumbia for 1880 are S7I3, 335, which en-
| ployed four steamers, three to 30 tons 10
schooners 10 to 10 tons 3l5 fishing boats,
and l l,SlS fishermen and sailors.
A dog belonging to C. B. Masters, of
| Roseburg, Or. was found to be mad Sun
day morning, 23d ult., and was immedi-
ately shot. This is the first instance of
hydrophobia that has ever been known in
Douglas county.
In Teton Valley, Montana, by the recent
floods people were driven from their homes
and obliged to seek safety on the hills. A
number were caught in their houses, were
unable to reach the hills, and some were
compelled to climb trees for safety.
William Ross, of Lake county, killed six
deer and two panthers in one days hunt
among the hills near Lakeport few days
since. One of the panthers weighed 400
pounds, while the smaller one pulled down
the scales to the tune of 375 pounds.
In Carson, New, according to the Appeal,
woman arrayed in male attire, and so
thoroughly disguised that few were aware
of her real sex, lately visited a gambling
house to buck the tiger" pocketing $500
i'll the short space of fifteen minutes.
The Oroville Mercury, speaking of food
damages, says: g In our county the loss
is great bridges swept away, reads oblit-
| Grated, stock drowned, growing crops
buried, land torn and furrowed, ware
usesdestroyed, barns and housesruined. "
That part of Benicia which enjoys the
sobriquet of Bottle Hill has cast aside
its sleepy air and inaugurated series of
improvements. Houses are being reno.
waited and painted, buildings going up, and
general air of activity pervades the local
ity.
During the snow storm about the middle
Of January the snow so completely block
AIDED the roads leading out of Elk City,
Idaho, that it took, upon one occasion,
seven men to take the sacks containing the
letter mail from Silver City to Reynolds
creek.
AT the Nanaimo (B c. coIlieries (plant
valued at Sll0, 000) 3l3 hands are employed.
At the Wellington collieries 525 hands are
employed, at wages ranging from 81 to
So IS per day. The miners earn per day
from 50 to 81 so. The value of the plant
is S245, 600.
Bear Creek, at Central Point, Jackson
county, Oregon, has cut for itself new
channel, leaving the county bridge at that
place spanning dry gulch. A large force
of men and teams are employed in turning
it back into its old channel, SO that the
bridge may be made serviceable.
The expressman carrying the mails be-
tween Mount Idaho and Silver City, Idaho,
two weeks ago was delayed by a tree fall
ing on him, and he was compelled to re-
main alone for five days with no other
shelter than an old shed on the trail. He
was finally removed to Newsome creek,
where he is well cared for and is doing
well.
Stock men on the Missouri river, near
Benton, Montana, have been puzzled at the
disappearance of their cattle. A few days
ago one Of the herders solved the puzzle.
At that point on the river ice had formed
while the river was high, and after the
water had receded there was long slope
of ice, which ended in an air-hole. The
herder saw several hundred cattle approach
the place. The leaders stopped at the head
OF the chute, but they were crowded for.
ward, lost their foothold, and nine of them
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