Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS

Idpe UTILITIES III ooccorO, IN. NJ, May
7th.
Much building is going on at Nevada
City.
Chico has organized Good Templar
Lodge.
The Las Vegas, n. NJ, street railroad is
nearly completed.
Ukiah Indians have gone to the coast on
their annual hunt.
Carp are being shipped from San Ber-
nardino to Arizona.
The Cathol' cemetery at Redding was
consecrated last week.
new water company has been organ
lied at Tombstone, A. I.
The San Diego Neps says that rust has
appeared in some parts of that county.
Redding is now being canvassed with a
view to establishing planning mill there
The stock.raisers of Siskiyou report that
the pastures are unusually good this year.
Stages on the Weaverville and Redding
route entered upon summer time last
Thursday.
Grasshoppers are as thick as the leaves
on the ground in some places at Old San
Bernardino.
A living ichneumosaurus, commonly
known as the ella Monster, is on exhibit
tion in San Diego.
In Colusa county, although joint-worm
may be found in almost every stalk of
wheat, the San says it does no harm what
ever.
State Fish Commissioner Parker last
Friday placed LOCO land locked salmon in
Truckee river. They were hatched at
Carson.
A railroad man tells Los Angeles paper
that the thermometer at Dos Palmas, on
the Colorado desert, registered ll6' in the
shade last Sunday.
Postmaster Donaldson of Cahuenga in
forns the Los Angeles Commercial that
there is an Indian on the Rancho Escorpion
who is now l40 years old.
The Kern County Record is the name of
an exceedingly neat and spicy little weekly
just started at Bakersfield by John H. Lee.
In politics it is Republican.
Forty acres of wild currants in the San
Fernando Valley, Los Angeles county, oc-
cupy men, women and children, who 60
there and gather the fruit by the bushel.
The greatest elevation of the railway on
the new overland road is AGA feet at
Dragon Summit, Arizona. Its general
elevation through New Mexico is 1900
feet
A train of fifteen wagons and thirty-five
men passed through Los Angeles Thurs
day, en- route from Bakersfield to work on
the line of the Southern California Rail-
road.
The residence of John Moore, about five
miles from Gridley, was totally destroyed
by fire on Saturday afternoon while the
family was absent. Loss, about 81 200 {;
no insurance.
The Pimas on the Agency in Arizona are
succeeding in farming. There are about
1000 Indians on the reservation. Water
has lately been brought through six.mile
ditch from the north branch of the Gila.
There are now at Hawthorne New two
hotels, three stores, seven saloons, two
barber shops, one harness store, one hay
and grain yard, one blacksmith shop, three
Chinese wash. houses and about two dozen
tents.
And here comes another. 1t is called
the Mora County Pioneer, and is published
at TIptonville, New Mexico, by Holmes &
Wallace. No. l of the first volume cor-
independent in politics, and claims to
have come to stay.
The language of the Tegua Indians, New
Mexico, is said to present some curious
pathological characteristics. 1t bears
marked resemblance to that of the Maya
race, inhaiting Yucatan, on the banks of
the Tsumacinta river, in Tabasco and Qua
temala, Central America.
The valley of La Arlbac is twenty miles
in length, and contains some of the finest
farming land in Southern Arizona. 1t ex-
tends from the Tumacacorri range on the
east to where the old Barboquivira guard
west. 1t is one of the most delightful
spots in the Territory, and after the sum-
mer rains is said to be an Arizona paradise.
Chinese teamsters have made their ap-
pearance in Winnemucca, Nev.,, but when
their horses get baulky they have to hire
an American blasphemer to throw the
necessary cuss words at the head of the
beasts. They now have a proficient
swearer on regular salary, whose work
gives the best of satisfaction. If the busi-
ness increases there will be plenty of work
for good, reliable swearers at $50 month.
Persons applying for the place must give a
practical test of their powers on the spot.
Fancy swearers and experts can easily get
500 month, as some of the mules will
not move unless the oaths are of extra
quality.