Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Sixty cases Of smallpox at Phoenix,
A. T.
Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, is said
to be nest Of outlaws.
There are ll6 men and two women con.
fined in the Nevada State Prison.
81. Westly Hilbert, telegraph operator
at Gallatin City, NJ. T., is missing
Helena, NJ. T., has about 5000 inhabit-
ants, and covers nine square miles OF ter
ritory.
Crow Foot, Chief of the Blackfoot Ma
ton, is lying at the point OF death IN
Montana.
A block of coal weighing S, 960 pounds is
among the exhibits at the Tertio- Millenial
at Santa Fe.
The Record GAYS Chico has nearly
doubled in population since the census OF
1880 was taken.
The jury fees in the trial OF Miller, at
Colusa, for the murder of DR.. Glenn,
amount to $1,000.
The waves at Hueneme washed up hum
dreds of smelts last week. Boysi picked
up $50 in half an hour.
A trestle bridge on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, near Missoula, 81. T., is 300 feet
high and 2, 400 feet long.
A land and farming company, with a
capital stock of 81 900, 900, has filed arti-
cles of incorporation at Los Angeles.
Roy Lee, of Chico, is said to be able to
play on fourteen musical instruments.
Chico has also young lady banjoist.
A new town has been laid out at the
point where the Oregon Short Line Rail.
road is expected to enter Oregon. 1t Is to
be called Ontario.
Cattle dead and dying in large numbers
for want of water are reported on the So
zorro county, n. NJ, ranges, west of the
Rio Grande river.
Santa Barbara claims to have on exhibit
ton genuine blood-sucking vampire. 1t
has the head of kitten, the body of a
gopher and the wings of bat.
Assessor Demmon of Vallejo has COM
pleted the city assessment roll, which foots
up 81, l56, 352. This shows an increase of
500, 600 since last years assessment.
The barracks at Benicia are being en-.
larged so as to make the station a three.
company post. One company from Angel
Island will soon be directed to take station
there.
Through tickets to Chicago and all
Eastern points were placed on sale at Port
land Thursday for the first time. The fare
to Chicago, including 100 miles of staging,
is Sl24.
The grain crop throughout Sonoma
county is looking most promising. Hay.
ing is about through with. The crop is
estimated at fully $4,000 tons. No
thrashing has been done as yet.
A new disease has appeared among the
young peaches in Yuba county. A small
red spot appears on the fruit, the skin
turns from green to white, and the fruit
shrivels and drops from the trees.
A hand.power catamaran has been built
at New Tacoma. 1t is run by stern
wheel three and half feet in diameter,
and can be made to go five miles an hour
by two men, each working lever
The Needles, on the Colorado river, has
the reputation of being the hottest place
on the coast. Last week the mercury reg
istered 100 degrees in the shade. It is 30
warm there that it is almost impossible to
handle metallic articles or implements
without gloves, and even pick handles be.
come so hot as to be very uncomfortable.
The number of passengers reaching the
Columbia river and Puget sound by ocean
for the first six months of the present year
was 80, GAL, as against 81, $50 for the same
period last year, an increase of AZ per cent.
For the corresponding months the freight
lists show an import tonnage brought by
13l ships of l40, 92l tons, as against 49,
So in 1882; increase, GA per cent.
Grading has been commenced on the
Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad. The
line is prospected from Tucson to Globe, a
distance of l25 miles. 1t il expected to
reach the San Pedro river in November,
and Globe on or before February. The
road will run through the richest copper
district of Southern Arizona and will take
in the Deer Creek coal fields, about 80
miles north of Tucson.
A drove of 1000 sheep, lately from
California, and all ravenously hungry,
were driven recently into a canyon forty
five miles from Eureka, New, for
feed, when, after eating greedily, all
took sick. They seemed crazed by what
they had eaten, and the whole flock stag
gered and ran about, bleating sometimes
piteously. In a day and half all but l20
got well and fell to eating again as though
nothing had happened to them.