Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

1t is said Santa Rosa has case of lep-
rosy.
Cherry Creek. New, is rapidly becoming
depopulsted.
Eggs are worth 80 cents per dozen in.
Butte, Montana.
A large vein of cinnabar has been found
near Beaver, U. t.
During March 1928. 600 was coined at
the Carson New Mint.
a shad weighing over four pounds has
been caught abreast Of Benicis.
A vigilance committee has been organized
at Balloon, in the Wood river country.
a Bozemsn (Mont.) butcher ships his
pork from st. Paul, and sells it as cheap as
the home product.
The owner of an olive orchard at San
Juan has lately sent thirty five barrels Of
picked olives to Los Angeles.
The report comes from Hamilton, New,
that the Sweetwater Mining Company will
pay it's miners and millmen only SO day.
The artesian well works of the Atlantic
and Pacific Road at Ash Fork, Prescott
county, a. T., were destroyed by fire Mon
day.
From the railroad laborers alone in Los
Angeles, Kern and San Bernardino coun.
ties, So, $50 for poll-tax was collected last
week.
Fohrman, who murdered his father.in.
law at Helena, NJ. T., recently, has been
convicted and sentenced to be hanged
May I'd.
A rock weighing three pounds and three
quarters was thrown up by an artesian well
on farm near Old San Bernardino Cross
ing few days ago.
Charles Sperry was buried by cave in
the Bunker Hill mine at Tombstone, A. T.,
Tuesday. He was dug out, but it ia feared
he is internally injured.
A $4,000 gold bar was brought to Ne.
vada City, Monday, from the North
Bloomfield hydraulic mine. 1t was the re.
suit of two weeks washing.
Persons just down from Boise City,
Idaho, say three stages leave there daily
for Wood river. The stages are nearly al
ways loaded with passengers.
The Eureka mine Wood river) has been
| jumped by a gang of men who were hired
TO develop the property. An armed force
has been sent TO diHpossess them.
The wagon road from Hawthorne, New,
to Coryville having been completed, large
quantities of supplies and merchandise are
now going into that promising camp.
Frederick Hopt, the convicted Park
City, U. T., murderer, having his choice
between hanging and shooting, chose the
| former. The date of his execution is fixed
for the lst of June.
The town of Bullion, in the Wood river
country, is preparing to receive the roughs
that are expected to come with the rail.
road. They have organized Vigilante
Committee and a militia company.
The Knights Templar of Albuquerque,
n. NJ, will visit Ssn Francisco on the &C.
casion of the Triennisl Conclave, in tkeir
own private car, provided with colored
cook, walters, provisions, liquids, etc.
The climate at Kingman, the present
coming town on the Atlantic and Pacific
Road, is said to be so hot that workmen on
the grade can scarcely stand the effects
The mercury climbs above 100 degrees
nearly every day.
Aurora New Teacher" Define the
word 'excavate'" Aurora Pupil" It
means to hollow out" Teacher" Con.
struct sentence in which the word is
properly used" Pupil-"The baby exca-
Yates when it gets hurt"
/ Il is authori.atively stated that Fred
erick Billings will erect school, in
Billings, Montana, this summer. He an
nounoed this intention some time ago, and
placed the probable cost at SO 600, and it
seems now that he will carry out his inten.
ton.
The coaches from Bozsmsn, Mont, will
continue to run TO Helena on the winter
schedule time for several weeks. When the
end of the track reaches Hamilton-70
miles from the capitalize trip will be
made without stoppage, except to change
| horses
The Minnesota and Montana Land and
Improvement Company have offered to re-
convey to the Northern Pacific II 600 acres
of the best lands in the Clarkes Fork bot
tom, if the principal machine shops for the
central portion of the road are located and
erected at Billings.
It is said that the ostriches upon arriving
at the corrals in Anaheim manifested their
Joy by indulging in the most ludicrous an
tics. For over half an hour they kept up
an incessant waltz around the corral, and
in other ways exhibited their delight at
escaping from their pent.up quarters in the
car.