Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Cock.fghting at Reno, Nevada, nearly
every night.
Eagles are killing lambs at Iaqua, Hum.
boldt county.
A jet-black deer has been seen in FL
Dorado county.
There were forty. eight deaths in Oak
land in December.
Louis Pierce's estate, Suisun, is inven-
toried at sos, 600.
Valleio's haunted house continues to
furnish spectral tales.
In Sonoma county last year there were
AZ marriages, PIP deaths and 293 births.
Laramie county, Wyoming Territory, has
paid out 81, 900 as wolf bounty within
year past.
Contra Costa county has 80 districts and
50 schools, and pays its Superintendent
81, 500 year.
The Office of the Boulder Mining Com
pany at Cataract City, Montana, has been
destroyed by fire.
The average amount Of wool sheared from
each sheep in Coos county, Oregon, last
year was 4 Is pounds.
Denver, Col, proposes to form COM
pany to put up large building and mold a
national mining exposition.
A young daughter of Byron Waters, San
BernardIno, was severely burned last week
and narrowly escaped death.
For the first time in the history of Mon
tana sleighing is good the entire distance
from Bohemian to Virginia City.
Jerry Forney, colored man at Santa
Barbara, is arranging al exodus of coiored
people from his old home in North Caro-
lima.
The first flock of sheep brought to Mon
tana for the purpose of wool-growing were
brought from the Pacific coast in the year
1874.
The cold weather in Idaho has shut
down most of the churches. Only two are
in operation at Boise City-the Methodist
and the Catholic.
The Government is rewarding the Indl-
ans of Devil Lake, D. T., with flour mill
for their industry in raising 10, 600 bushels
of grain last year.
Three temples are being built in Utah by
the Mormons-one at Salt Lake, one at
Logan and one at Manti. Their cost will
aggregate many millions.
Jennie Taylor, the only woman in the
Nevada State Prison, has been pardoned.
Jennie was convicted of an assault with in
tent to kill, in Winnemucca and sentenced
to two years imprisonment
Farm hands are so scarce in MERGED
county that when E. M. Stoddard was
seeding Ell Captain Park with barley he
found it difficult to obtain necessary as
sistants, even at the rate of 81 per hour
The difficulty between the settlers OF
the Central California Colony, located in
Fresno county, near the Fresno switch,
and the colony authorities, has been settled,
and the colonists have received their deeds
The underground surveyors in the hot
Comstock mines, as well as the miners, use
respirators filled with ice. The contriv-
ances are made of gauze wire to fit over the
face, and piece of ice put inside the mask
keeps the air cool.
Oregon papers are recalling that there
are now almost as many voters in Curry
county alone as there were in the whole
district embracing Oregon and Washington
at the time that the Provincial Governor
was elected in 1915.
The Utah and Northern Railroad has
twenty. one locomotives actively employed
and fifteen new ones ordered. AS each
locomotive requires ten box and two flat
cars, the total rolling stock for 1881 will
be 72O cars and thirty six locomotives.
The Independent is the the title of a
semi-weekly journal published at Oakland,
with Dan w. Gelwicks as editor. Its
typographical appearance is excellent, and
if kept up to the standard of the first
number in the way of matter, cannot be
otherwise than success.
The finest team ever seen in San Bernar-
dino, passed through that place last week
from Bodie, bound for Arizona. 1t con-
sisted of twelve horses weighing from ], 200
to l,500 pounds each. They drew three
| freight wagons and took 5000 pounds of
barley and lot of baled hay.
A snow.slide recently occurred at Brown
Mountain, near Silverton, Col, covering up
the Pride of the Alps mine. The foreman
and the blacksmith were in the cabin at
the mouth of the upper tunnel, and escaped
destruction by rushing into the tunnel.
The shop was completely demolished.
Says the Eureka New Sentinel " In
the old drifts of the Bullwhacker mine are
fungi, which grows from the bottom of the
old timbers to the tops, and is as white a.
the snow. A slight skin forms covering,
like that over mushroom, and the mo-
ment that is broken the size and beautiful
form disappear, leaving but fiaky, skinny
substance clinging to the post.