Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-22
COAST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Ogden has case of hydrophobia.
The Bodie Free Press says the hotels
and guests of Lundy are all full.
There will not be a third of peach crop
in Utah this season, and the few that are
raised are very inferior.
There are fourteen gambling houses in
Butte. Montana, in several OF which three
or four different games are run. Also five
Chinese gambling houses.
The Salt Lake Postoffice has been de.
clared a frst-clasa Office, and is the only
out free delivery.
The building boom seems to have struck
Salt Lake City. There is hardly block
in the place but foundations are being put
in for new structures. The demand for
tenement houses and the present high rents
are inducing capitalists to invest in build.
ings.
Half the silver hali-dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeits
made by Chinese in San Francisco. They
are described as exactly the weight of the
genuine ones, and only one thirty. second
part OF an inch larger in diameter. Tney
contain only Is cents worth OF silver, which
is all on the surface.
There Is a curious geographical fact in
connection with the Kootenai river. Its
course Is in the shape of horseshoe It
rises In British Columbia, runs into the
United States and waters vast region,
and then circles back to the land of its
birth and empties into the Columbia in
British territory. During its course it
passes within half mile of the Columbia,
and canal Of that distance over grassy
prairie would save it course of 500 miles
before reaching it's goal.
The fire in the mountains about Shasta
has spread to Trinity Mountain, north and
west of the Tower House, for five miles,
causing delay and trouble to teams. The
County Hospital at Shasta was threatened
with destruction, and would probably have
been burned but for timely resistance to
the spreading flames by the citizens of
tina. place. The destruction of private
property, such as houses, barns, orchards,
vineyards, ETC., has alredy reached thou.
sands OF dollars, laying waste large scope
OF country, burning up some fine timber
and mining improvements.
The Reno New Journal says that new
dam or bulkhead will shortly be con-
| structed above the large dam on the
fruckee, for the purpose of concentrating
the entire flow of the river into one chan.
mel. Formerly the Truckee river flowed
through but one channel, but about year
or two ago flume vas put in on the south
ward bank, which after being used was
neglected, and finally cut for itself the
south channel in the river just above the
| dam. The new bulkhesd will return the
truant water to the main bed and increase
the body necessary for the various bitches.
| In one of the Pullman cars of the Union
Pacific at Ogden, going East Friday, sat a
| pleasant old lady, dressed in black, who
was pointed out to a reporter as the widow
of old John Brown. Upon being approached
she said that her visit East was in answer
to a request from the John Brown Monu.
mental Association, who had invited her to
be at Chicago on August 23d, to attend q
celebration inaugurated for the purpose OF
raising funds with which to erect a suit.
able monument to the memory of her hus
band, who took such an important part in
the affairs of Kansas in the early days OF
the border warfare, and who afterwards
died martyr to his convictions.
Hon. G. w. Stapleton has returned,
says the Butte (Montana) Miner of last
Saturday, from business trip to Glendale,
and while there was told of lake which a
hunter had seen near the headwaters oil
Wise river, about eighty miles south OF
Butte. 1t is situated high up in the noun.
tains and surrounded by steep crags, and
the water is frozen solid, Notwithstanding
the remarkably warm weather in this sec.
ton. The hunter is convinced that il
never thaws, and states that in the center
of this great body of ice is a large ava.
lancbe of snow piled up to great hight
which has evidently slid down from the
crags surrounding the lake. 1t is described
as beautiful spot, scenery grand, and the
whole country alive with game. A glori
Gus place, no doubt, for summer excur,
sion.
One of the Oldest mules in the State,
says the Amador Dispatch, is now owned
and made to do valuable service by a
ChiDamsn of this vicinity. The animal
did good service in one of the earliest mule
teams that came across the plains il lS49,
and must now be close on to 40 sars OF
age. This venerable mule was kept BY his
original master in Calaveras county until a
few years since, when the maste. died
and the faithful old brute became the
property of it's present Chinese owner,
who requires of him as much labor as
though he were but an ordinary riece Of
animal flesh. The Pioneer Socity OF
this and Calaveras counties should pit rchase
this old living relic of ..,,.s flush. { avs q,
gofd, and protect him in his declining
years from overwork, hunger and sbuse.
He was brought to this State by the late
Captain Richards, of Calaveras County.