Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-29
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

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PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
An Episcopal hospital is contemplated
at Seattle, w. I.
The recent session of the Montana Legis.
lature cost Sl6,S90
The dog fend is using his poison on val.
liable dogs in Red Bluff.
Pickpockets have been at work in the
Butte, nj. T., skating Kinks.
Jacksonville (Or.) citizens want liquor
licenses raised to $3.50 year.
A species of mineral charcoal has been
found in the Payette country, W. 7.
The people of Carson, Nevada, are try.
ing to establish State militia rife range.
The stock men of Fresno county are
forming TO protect themselves from cattle
thieves.
The new town of Belmont, in Colville
valley, w. T., has had its name changed
to Colville.
The run of herring this spring at va.
quina and Alsea bays, in Oregon, is I'M
usually large.
The fruit crop of Los Angeles is said to
have never given greater promise of large
yield than at present.
Some of the black sand mines, on the
beach south of Alsea bay, in Oregon, are
paying well this spring.
James Gaines, of Colfax, W. T., has had
both feet amputated, they having been
frozen during the winter.
There are six boys under 20 years of age
in the Portland (Or.) Prison, five of whom
are charged with murder.
Judge S. C. Hastings, of Lakeport, offers
to put S25, 900 in bank, if the people of
Calistoga will establish one at that place.
Twenty-Five ostriches, for the ostrich
farm near Contra Costa station, Los Angeles
county, have arrived safely at their desti-
nation.
May Woodman, who shot and killed
Billy Kinsmsn at Tombstone, A. T., re-
Gently, has pleaded not guilty to charge
of murder.
Genoa, Douglas county, Nevada, is to
have a paper factory, the paper to be made
from the tules that grow in large quantities
along the Carson river.
At Winnemucca, New, a woman serving
a sentence in Jail for whipping her hus-
band, secured divorce on the ground of
extreme cruelty on his part.
Hellroarng creek is within the bounda.
ries of the National Park, and it tumbles
from rocky declivities into Yellowstone
river above the Third canyon.
John Watts aud William Gilliard, alias
Bush, two desperadoes, ere shot and
killed in Lake Valley, n. NJ, last week,
while attempting to escape arrest
The petrifed trunk of a fir tree was
found in the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon,
few days ago, and a portion of 1t taken
to Portland to be placed in a private cab
met of curiosities.
A Shoshone Indian stoned his Young
step. daughter to death near Belmont. New,
last week. 1t is stated that the girl is the
sixth victim of the murderous savage dur
ing the past five years.
John Kinney, leader OF all the New
Mexico rustlers, is said to be braggart,
talks loud, drinks hard, lacks prudence,
has killed two men, brags of killing others,
is bold, but lacks nerve.
Necessary arrangements have been made
to perfect the organization of the town of
Ashland, M. T., already laid out on the
Tongue river, about midway from Miles
City to the Wyoming line.
San Juan Capistrano, settlement of
some 300 souls in the southern part of Los
Angeles county, is without lawyer, doc
tor, Justice of the Peace, Constable or Road
Overseer. Fortunate San Juan
Mrs. o. F. Rogers, of Elko, New, has a
hen that presented her last week with an
egg measuring 6a inches in circumference
and inches around the ends. It weighs
about six ounces, and, says the Independent,
is most remarkable specimen.
A gentleman in Eureka, Nevada, pur.
chased an incubator recently aud started
in to hatch out some fine blood chickens,
but he came down town after starting fire
under the machine and forgot all about it,
By the time he returned all the eggs were
cooked.
The Grand Jury for Yuba county, after
two days session, has adjourned without
finding any indictments. This is the sec.
ond Grand Jury under the new Judiciary
system, neither of which has found any
thing to do except examine county build.
ings and books.
Mr.. Dryson, of Red Bluff, was bitten by
black spider few days ago. The bite
has caused great pain and loss of rest. A
hard, black lump was formed, from which
the pain seemed to radiate. Mr.. Dyson
had resolved, at last reports, to have the
lump removed by a surgeon.
Notwithstanding the large number of
dwelling houses built at Seattle, w. T.,
this season, the demand for places to live
in is constantly increasing. Many families
are getting along with two or three rooms
up stairs in some building or other, who
are able and willing to pay rent for COM
Portable houses, were such accommoda-
tions to be had.
The Benton on. IT, Record is RESPONSE.
BILE for this item: There is movement
on foot, as we understand, to establish
town somewhere in the neighborhood of
the mouth of the Judith, to be called
"Giantville. The programme is to secure
800 acres of land, to divide the same into
town lots and streets, establish laws and
regulations allowing only "six.footers
to obtain possession of any of the lots,
and allowing no female thereon below the
standard of five feet eight. By these
means it is proposed to establish, in due
course of time, a race of giants.
PUNY, weak and sickly children need