Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05
COAST AND STATE.

A cave containing two petrifed Indian
children has been discovered in the Judith
Mountains, Montana Territory.
The value of the total ore product of the
Hecla Company's Lion City Mont. mines
to date ia estimated at between S., 600, 900
and Sc. 600, 900.
The railroad town of Rock Island, in
Missoula county, Montana, consists of
thirty-seven tents, fifteen of which are oc.
cupied by saloons.
Deer Lodge city, Mont, will remain the
for some months. Business is better, and
the prospects of the town brighter than for
years.
Some pretty mean things have been said
of Leadville, but they should all be taken
back. She has set shining example to
other cities by putting her Mayor and
Common Council in Jail.
At Mazatlan the black small pox is rag
ing with great violence. There have been
| fifty deaths so far. 1t is spreading in the
country, and but few instances are men
toned of recovery from its attacks.
In about couple Of weeks the mails
&.
| as the Oregon Senators will then be away
from Washington by reason OF the ad
journment of Congress. Yreka Journal.
Some sscrilegious person lately entered
the Baptist Church, West Prescott, A T.,
opened the organ with nail and totally
demolished the keys, strings etc of the
instrument, after which he tore to pieces
large map.
The figs of the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada are pronounced by competent
| judges to be superior to those imported
| even from Smyrna. Yet the importation
OF the Smyrna figs runs up into millions of
dollars in value.
A sharp fellow, hard up, bought 25 cents
tive cakes, went into Gridley and sold it
zens for eucalyptus soap, warranted to cure
| all the ills man is heir to.
The little l5.month-old boy of I. N.
| Messenger, who lives about two miles north
of Fairview, in Fresno county, recently
crawled from the point where he was play.
ing on to the ground, and before the little
| fellow was missed by his mother he had
got to the mouth Of deep well, contain
ing three feet of water. His mother found
| him short time afterward drowned at the
bottom of the well.
The water in the Feather is now clearer
| than it has been for several wears. The
! volume is small, but the channel is mar
rover and deeper than it has been for
several years, and the presence of sand
| bars is not as noticeable, and the impedi.
ments to navigation are less than usual
| This is due TO the waters not being over
burdened with slickens, hence they are
capable OF securing out the channels.
Since the cars have resumed running to
Single Springs there is quite noticeable
| increase in the amount of travel. Our own
| people so below oftener, and the number of
| strangers among us are much more numer-
Gus. Were the road completed to this CITY,
the through travel, we believe, would be
more than doubled Immediately, and would
rapidly increase as the fact became gener.
ally known.-[Placsrville Republican.
On Monday night some bold thief went
| to Frieslsben's ranch, near Oroville, en-
tered the stable and stole a favorite work.
horse. Evidently the thief was acquainted
with the premises, and as he passed close
by place where several dogs slept at
night, must have been come one quite
familiar to the animals, as they gave no
alarm. Some men were also sleeping in a
building close by. In his exit the thief left
all of the gates open, as well as the stable
door, presumably to give the impression
that the horse had strayed away. The
horse stolen is clay bank or dun : is IA
years old; l5l hands high; black stripe
along the back large, clumsy, dark
ored legs; Roman nose with sunken eyes,
and has sleepy look.