Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Redding people think there is fine
opening for tannery there.
j. f. Vinson, of Butte county, has
planted thirty acres of brown corn.
DR.. Ruth, the somewhat celebrated
marksman, is lying very i'll in Oakland.
The snow in the highest peaks of the
Wasatch range in Utah is about forty feet
deep.
Fredericksburg is the name of new
town started in Lander county, Nevada,
| recently.
John Webb, living on Clover creek.
| Shasta county, has started a band of
10000 sheep Cor New Mexico.
Yuba City carries the honor of having
/ the banner division in the State OF Sons of
Temperance in the point of numbers.
It's expected that fully 81, GOO head Of
sheep will be sheared at New York Bar,
Columbia county. Oregon, this season.
Near Haywards the cherry crop will be
enormous. Already the fruit is we'll de-
veloped, and in some localities is taking on
the first blush OF ripeness.
The Idaho Acayanche says that Shea,
who recently lost s.. 600 in gold coin by
! his wagon upsetting in the Owyhee is
camped near the scene of the disaster, and
offers to sell his interest in the s.. 600 for
81, 500.
Grading has been commenced on the Ne
vada and Oregon Railroad in earnest, and
Knox, the sub contractor to build the first
! five miles of the road from Reno, is en-
ploying all the men who apply at 81 25
per day and board.
At the University athletic games held
Saturday last at the Oakland race track,
r. 5. Haley, of the Olympic Club beat the
best previous record at 200 yards-2I3 Sec
onds, made by Prime, also Of the Olympic
Club he running the distance, despite the
rather heavy track, in 81 seconds from the
scratch.
Twelve men are employed in getting out
stone for the Government improvements
Mt the mouth of the Coquille river, in Coos
county, Oregon. Seven box cribs, cover
ing 2l0 feet, have already been placed.
TEE river will be deepened and its breadth
increased as the work progresses. The
work will continue about two months on
| the present appropriation.
The notorious outlaw, -" Billy, the Kid, :"
uINti ctlltuCG VI utdti III I4iuCOIH ldlf,
New Mexico, on Saturday killed Deputy
Sheriff j. W. Bell and United States Mar
shall Robert Olnger by shooting, aud ef-
fected his escape. He was involved in
! three murders \ large reward was paid
for his capture 10 Deputy Sheriff Garrett,
and he was sentenced to be hanged May
18th. Governor Wallace will offer large
reward for mis- reapprehension.
4 Piute Indian woman who speaks
pretty good English informed Gold Hill
New Ne,cs reporter, lturday morning,
that last Sunday Piute squaw living near
the Carson river beyond Satro killed her
three little boys, all the Oh ldren she had,
by beating them to death with club.
The oldest was not more than eight or ten
years Of age They had been sick with the
measles, or something OF the sort-perhaps
small pox-for some days, and she also fell
sick with the same disease. She finally
became delirious, and during one of the
paroxysnls she murdered her little ones as
described. she is still very sick, and
likely to die.
S. B. Weller, of Truckee, has very
valuable relic of the olden days of Califor-
MIA. It is a very fine cane made from the
piece of the wood from the head block of
Suffers old mill Mr.. Weller made the
cane from pieces of wood which he split off
tic block himself and joined them together
with glue. 1t has a heavy gold head,
mado from specimens taken from some of
Mr.. Weller's mines in early days, and it
contains about $50 worth of gold. On the
top of the cane is engraved a representa-
ton of the old Suffer mill as it stood the
day gold was first discovered. 1t is very
valuable relic, and brings back wildly the
memories OF the golden days of early Cali
forpia.