Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-21
THE DAILY RECORD ENIoN.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Only three prisoners confined IN the Men
docino county jail.
Two cases of highway robbery near Napa
within the past week.
There are but four prisoners now con-
fined in the Yolo county jail.
Caspar (Mendocino county, Good Tenn
plars are building 81, 500 hall.
Five persons, heads of families, lately
united with the Second Congregational
Church, San Bernardino.
1t is estimated that in Carson City, New,
at least $50 coo is paid annually to the
Chinese laundrymen and cooks.
1t is the intention Of the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad to build suspension bridge
across the Salinas river in the spring.
Al Bellevue, Idaho, the snow is from
four to six feet deep. Avalanches are
frequent and many people have been
crushed.
Mr.. Moss, who drove band OF cattle
into the Malheur country last fall, has
offered hall of them to any one who will
feed them till spring.
A large force of men have been busily en-
gagged repairing the California Pacific Rail
road between Woodland and Knight
Landing during the past week.
The bonded Indebtedness of Santa Cruz
county, including $4,000 OF railroad
bonds in litigation, is S20l, 300. Theamount
of coin in the treasury is S56, 002 "a.
Says the Red Buff Peoples Cause:
Tehama county is loser probably, in private
and public property, to the amount OF
$3.50, 900, but the ny draulic miners did not
do it,
At Mjllville, Shasta county, according to
the Democrat, the recent high water sur
rounded and flowed across the town, COM
ing into many houses, sweeping away the
bridges and causing much loss.
A dead horse was found in the reservoir
of the Jackson (Amador county, water
works last Monday. As soon as the news
was circulated over town, hydrant water
became suddenly unpopular as beverage.
1t is rumored at Los Angeles that Colonel
Peter Donahue will at once proceed to
build railroad from Los Angeles to the
Pacific Coast Steamship wharf at Whining
ton. as a rival of the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
1t is estimated that over 500, 900 worth
OF logs, ties and timber have gone down
the Columbia, past Vancouver, W. T.,
within a week. The water was covered
half mile wide for four days, going to sea
at the rate of four miles an hour.
The chief bridges on the military wagon
road across the Cascades from Eugene have
been carried away. Grades have been
washed out and laud-slides have covered
the roads so that it is doubtful if travel
can be resumed until late in the summer.
Among the persons who are attending
Court in Fresno are w. [. Henderson and
VIM. Howard, who were members of Cap
tain Loves command, and aided In the
killing of Joaquin and Steve Cunningham,
who arrived Ill California with Stevenson s
regiment.
Several years ago the line between Trim
ity and Mendocino counties, and a small
portion of the line between Trinity and
Humboldt were surveyed at the joint eX-
pense of the counties interested. The rest
of the boundary of Trinity county has
never yet been surveyed.
There are double the number of married
men employed on the Comstock than single
ones In spite of this fact a great many
families are in actual want. Store people
refuse to trust them, their friends are with
out means, and many wife and child goes
to bed feeling the need OF food.
South of Lone Pine, Inyo county, there
ale few GASES, 0lancha and HAWAI-
Meadows, where grass grows, but no grain,
on account of insufiiciency of water.
Owens Lake, the Dead Sea of the West, is
large body of water, is miles long, and
is wonderful mixture OF salts, bOrax and
other substances.
1t is stated that the orchards and vine
yards in the vicinity of Vacaville, Solano
county, aggregating some 600 or 700 acres,
are yielding $50, 600 per annum, and each
fruit farm is witness that every acre OF
good land there, in three or four years, can
be made to produce annually net income
of from 500 to 1000.
The Congregational churches of Dakota
are about to establish a college and have
invited offers from different localities.
Tyndal, a year-old town, offered s., 600
and land Valley Springs, having 100 in
habitants, offered IS, 600 Yankton, &c.
900 cash and valuable land. Action has
been deferred till next May.
A well was recently sunk in front of the
hotel at Linkville, Or, and at the usual
depth an excellent spring of good cold
water was struck. 1t being thought ad.
visable to 90 deeper, the workmen pro
ceeded a few feet farther and struck a
heavy stream of boiling water, such as Is
frequently found In the Klamath basin.
An heir of the Castro family has COM
meneed suit to recover all of the land II
what is commonly known as the Santa
Rosa grant, lying south of Santa Rosa
l. t1r5Il
commence suit in a few days against over
100 owners of land on the north side OF
the same creek. 1t Is said to be black
mailing suit,
The Carson appeal says On Tuesday
evenings train was a Mrs, Riordan of Vir,
ginia, bound for Havana, Cuba, to collect
S25, GOO prize which she won in the Jan
uary drawing of the Havana lottery. a
San Francisco banking house offered to dis
count the prize at ten per cent, but the
lady concluded that she could save nearly
s. 600 by making the trip.
The recent earthquake at Cholame, Mon
terey county, was a severe one. On the
Parkinson ranch mud and water wer,
thrown ten feet high One large spring
boiled out water blood-heat for day Of
two, but gradually cooled off, At another
place it threw up large sulphur spring
aud the ground sunk about four feet
There was a loud explosion preceding the
first earthquake.
A letter from the Wood river country
Idaho, says in many places are to be seer
the rifle pits and holes sunk in the bedrock
by the first parties who passed through the
country locking for placer mines and fight
ing Indians. There were large partie,
from Boise Basin and Rocky Bar who
secuted through the country as early a:
1910 In one place three skeletons were
fouad ina rifle pit.
The loss of the bridge across the soutl
fork of Smith River has forced the mail
carriers to adopt somewhat primitiv,
plan of crossing the river, but which ha