Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-03-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Nevada City reports case of lOckjaw.
Auburn is to have q six-day pedestrian
match.
The visalia races last month were
failure.
Benton, Montana, is to have a Baptist
church.
The oiai valley is crowded with health
seekers.
Wheat worms are injuring the crops near
San Juan.
The Santa Clara town elections occur on
April 4th.
Lectures on Utah geology are in progress
at Salt Lake.
Coal has been found at Big Meadows,
Plumas county.
The Santa Barbara Art Loan Exhibition
netted about $500.
Another fine fsh-pond has lately been
made at Grass Valley.
VIM. Sechnist, of Denver, Col, was
killed by Jersey bull last week.
The Calaveras Advertiser has been con-
soidated with the Calaveras Citizen.
The new register at the Vancouver Land
Office, w. T., is but three feet seven inches
high.
Rents az Aspen, Col, are very high, a
house. 20 by 80 feet, commanding 500 per
month.
A sheep in Klichitat county, w. T., was
snowed in for twelve days without food,
but recovered.
a thoroughbred horse, valued at s2, 900.
was accidentally killed the other day in
Amador county.
D. d. carp, of Juniper Canyon, Una.
tilla county, Oregon, recently killed s.
rattlesnakes in one day.
There are eleven patients in the Mono
county Hospital, nearly all of them af
ficted with chronic diseases.
The bonded Indebtedness Of the town oi
Holiister is SIS. 900, on which interest is
paid at the rate of 10 per cent per annum.
Sealing so far at Cape Flattery, w. T.,
has been failure. Seals are plentiful, but
the weather is too rough for the light In
dian canoes.
Fifty-four marriage licenses were issued
in Columbia county, w. T., during the
year 1880. and eight in the first six weeks
of the present year.
Forty acres of land near Hook Mason's
ranch, in Nevada, have been located by the
c. and C. Railroad Company for the site OF
the proposed town of Mason.
Seven guns belonging to the Emmet
Guard were destroyed by the recent fire
which consumed the building at the range
near the Virginia New cemeteries.
The entire Santa Maria valley, says the
Guadalupe Telegraph, is under cultivation
from north to south and from east to west,
and an immense yield Is expected this
year.
A Union Pacific train, few days ago
ran into a band of antelope several miles
east of Rock Springs Col, and killed {
number of them. The locomotive steps
were broken off.
During the past three months there
have been sold in Jacksonville, Or, alone
over ), 600 deer skins. Deer will average
about 60 pounds, SO that within few
months the deer-slaying population have
consumed 300, 900 pounds of venison.
Says the Los Angeles Commercial One
of our citizenss few days ago bought g
load of wood from Mexican, and II
shaking up some Of it shook off from the
roots some fine samples of native silver
He is now anxious to find the man whC
sold the wood.
A few days since Mr.. Ramsey, living oil
the Nipomo ranch, San Luis 0bispo county
was leading cow with lasso, when !
full-grown deer jumped up near by. Mr.
Ramsey removed the lasso from the Gov
and gave chase, threw the lasso on the dee
and brought him down and killed him.
Near Buena Vista, COL, March lst
Messrs. Van Wetering and O'Connor, civi
engineers, while surveying the William
Penn lode, on Sheep Mountain, were car
ried a thousand feet down the mountail
by suowslide and narrowly escaped in
slant death. O'Connor's leg was broken
Some enterprising citizens of Olympia
w. T., are about forming company t,
purchase an artesian well-boring machine
the object being to find out whether ther,
is salt oil or coal in paying quantities
This enterprise has been thought of fo
some time, and the cost of machinery vii
not exceed 81, 200.
The Tulalip Agency, W. T., consists o
Eve reservations, covering an area of eighty
three square miles, and containing popu
lation OF 9, S93 Indians. Their instruction
includes the principles of farming and othe
branches of mechanical labor among th'
boys, as well as cooking, washing, sewing
and other useful domestic arts among th'
girls The average school attendance dur
ing the year was l02 pupils. About 2,40t
of the Tulalip Indians are attached to thu
Roman Catholic religion.
There are now about $50 persons at As
pen, Col, and many of them are engaged
in house building, there being no less thai
400 houses in course of erection. The saw
mills have orders on hand sufficient to em
ploy them until July LIST at $50 per hun
dred. Among other enterprises which ar,
soon to take shape are bank, a newspaper
a theater and two hotels. Three smelter
are reported to be on the road in. The dis
taDce between Aspen and Leadville is Il
miles, but this viii be greatly reduced BY
4 new road