Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS,

Diphtheria is prevalent at Milton, Or.
The Los Angeles Bicycle Club is grow.
ing.
Santa Barbara is to have a steam fire
engine.
Many children in Sonoma county have
the mumps.
There are twelve prisoners in the Nevada
County Jail, six of them being from
Truckee.
The Walla Walla, W. T., undertaken
charges only 500 to wash, shave, dress and
bury person.
The Sierra Buttes Mining Company at
Sierra City gives steady employment to
about 800 men.
Almond culture is considered failure in
Santa Barbara county and the trees are
generally being cut down.
Los Angeles needs larger school house
accommodations. The Times wants the
curfew ordinance enforced against hoodlum
boys.
The staggers among horses in portions
OF Yamhill county, Oregon. are proving
fatal. Mr. Benton, of Highland, has lost
three.
At Sheridan. Or, the City Council raised
the liquor license to $1,000 year. The
saloons refused to pay it, and closed up
business.
In Clarke county, W. T., all are consid.
cred pioneers whose residence dates back
to 1865, and all such are eligible to the as
socistion.
Daniel Goodwin, who came to this State
in 1880, is wanted at Peabody, Mass, TO
take care OF $50, 600 which his father has
left him.
A son of Bishop Taylor, of Salt Lake,
was severely stabbed at Jacksonville, o.
T., last week by an intoxicated man named
j. NJ. Shupe, who is in jail.
A rich strike is reported in the lower
level of the kentuck mine, Patterson Dis.
trict. The ore assays 81 500 to the ton in
silver. The tunnel is 300 feet below the
surface.
The Deer Lodge IN. T. Ne,o Northwest
says that the Territory of Montana pre-
sents the best showing for the yield of
Irish potatoes this year. The average yield
is 1872 bushels per acre.
Webber Lake shows signs Of breaking
up. The warm weather has caused the ice
to become rotten, so that it is unsafe for
person to venture upon it. There is
only about a foot of snow in the vicinity.
The Wood River Times reports hundreds
of certificates of new locations poured in
On the Recorder of that district on the two
first days of January, indicating that much
jumping of claims must have taken place.
| A suit against James Parker of Esna
Mills, Siskiyou, for $4,000 damages for
the seduction of young girl of that place,
was terminated Wednesday. The Jury
awarded Sl,375 damages and the costs of
the suit.
Many citizens in White Pine county.
Nevada, protest against the report that
McConkey, Wells, Fargo & Cos agent and
County Treasurer at Hamilton, Nevada,
committed suicide. They strenuously hold
it to have been murder.
At Olympia, W. T., an elderly man
named Mathew Woodruff, was arrested on
the charge of seduction by girl named
Emma Williams, who accompanied Wood.
ruff from Alabama. He pronounces the
arrest an attempt at blackmsil.
The Riverside Press and Horticulturist
says: Aresident of this valley has already
had an offer for his coming apricot crop, of
which he will this season have some twenty
tons. The offer is reliable one of two
cents pound for the entire crop on the
tree.
A large and ferocious coyote, much larger
than shepherd dog, was killed last week
on the ranch OF I. III. Ink, OF Cloverdale.
This coyote has killed five sheep for Mr..
Atkins, and Mr.. Ink also found dead on
his place one fine sheep aud six lambs
the work of this animal.
Deputy United States Marshal Kennon,
of Grant, n. NJ, has been held to answer
before the Grand Jury for the killing of
Black, the train wrecker, at Damiug. The
Santa Fe road will defend Kennon, and
the Odd Fellows, of which Order Black
was member, will prosecute the officer.
During the late cold snap in western
Montana the Thermometer indicated 49,
below at Missoula on the 3lst, Do below at
Deer Lodge, and at Fort Missoula l5' be.
low. The coolest weather experienced this
year in Missoula county was on the I'd of
December, when it was 20' below zero at
Fort Missoula.
The boys at the La Plata mine have put up
free lunch box on telegraph pole near
by, into which they put the remains of
their dinner baskets for the benefit of the
friendiess and homeless tramps drifting
past there. The new Institution ia said to
be well pstronizad by the wandering fra.
ternity. Butte Oh. IT, Inter Mountain.
The Winnemucca, New, Silver State
ssys: Lee, son of old Winnemucca, is
physically one of the fiGest specimens of
the genus Piute extant. He is straight as
an arrow, nearly six feet in hight, and
though in what might be termed good
condition, he is by no means fat. Yester-
day ne got on the scales at the EXPIRE of.
flee and raised the beam at 1924 pounds.
The Board of Regents of the Oregon
State University are inviting the friends
and all persons interested in the Universe.
ty to donate young trees suitable for shade
trees on the campus of that institution.
and have designated the 10Th of next
February for receiving and planting the
same. Anybody who desires can send his
donation of trees to the Executive Com.
mitree of the State University at Eugene
City, Oregon.
A gentleman in Fresno, the other even.
ing, while going home at about 8 o'clock,
in the dark stumbled across a little girl
asleep on the sidewalk. Upon interrogat.
ing the little one and finding where she
lived, he conducted her home, but found
that her parents had retired for the night,
and that when he apprised them of where
he had found the little child, they mani.
tested no particular surprise, the mother
exclaiming, "On, forgot that she was
out"
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