Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-28
PACIFIC COAST IrEMs.
Game is plentiful near Truckee.

Billings is to have o $40, 900 hotel near
the depot.
Laundries at Healdsburg pay s45 license
per quarter.
Mrs. Strong has about 250 acres in cot
ton in Merced county.
Wild animals make frequent raids into
the suburbs OF Yreka.
The mountains around Lake Tahoe are
being denuded of timber.
The Oregon Short Line Railroad has all
been graded in Southern Idaho.
a disease similar to pinkeys is carry
ing off many horses in Idaho.
The Washington Territory Legislature
will convene the first week in October.
The contract for building the bridge at
Redding has not yet been secured.
The wool crop of Meagber county, NJ.
T., this year is said to be worth so, 900.
The report that Charlie McComas Is
with Juhs band has rot been authenti-
Gated.
The Indians on the Yakima Reservation,
w. T., raised Is. 600 bushels Of grain this
year.
Judge J. D. Fenill, OF Ferndale, Hum.
boldt county, has been missing for several
days.
The new I2,O0O.pouud telegraph cable,
to cross the Columbia river at KaIama, W
T., will be laid this week.
The Victoria Coloaist gays that smuggling
Chinese into the United States is proceed.
ing as regular business.
Harry Hill, of New York, has contracted
with Yellowstone hunter to capture and
ship him fifty buffalo calves.
Hop. picking is progressing favorably in
Washington Territory. The yield will be
light as compared with last year.
A little child was whipped and hung up
on q post by her parents in Salt Lske the
other day. She died from the treatment.
Telegrams from Magdalena, Sonora, cay
the Governor has postponed the grand
religious feast one month OF account Of the
fever.
A Truckee man charged with selling
liquor to Indians escaped punishment on.
the teohnicsity that he was himself half
breed.
The chandelier 10 the Presbyterian
Church at st. Helena fell Sunday evening
while lighting up for service, and was
badly broken up
The new opera house in course Of con-
struction at SEATTLE, w. T., will, it is said,
be one Of the finest theaters on the coast
outside of San Francisco It will cost
SIS OO0
The W. c. Wilson will case is before tine
Superior Court 1t San Jose. The will is
contested by John Harvey Wilson, of Mis-
souri,, who claims to be the son of ". G.
Wilson by former marriage.
a rancher in Fresno county. whose land
was recently overrun with gophers, pro-
tected the gopher snakes which his neigh
bors desired him to kill, and the snakea
have now nearly exterminRted the gophers.
The Supreme Court hes affirmed the
Judgment and order OF TIE Superior Court
of Butte county sentencing An Coon and
All Lee to be hanged for the murder of
Lin Yen on the night of the 81 Of Noyem-
ber, 1880.
A tree, 100 feet long and 4 feet in
diameter, fell across the track of the
Southern Pacific Railroad few miles this
side of Santa Cruz, on Sunday, snd it
took the section hands four hours TO chop
it away so that the train could procoed
Forest fires north of Santa Cruz are
doing great damage. Virgin forests Of red
wood, tanbark oak and thousands OF acres
of feed, besides cordwoo6, shakes, pickess,
! ete.-in many cases the fruits Of months
of labor OF poor men-have been destroyed
TIE dual name of Central City for the
town and Santa Maria for the postofice in
Santa Barbara has hitherto created much
confusion. a meeting Of citizens has rem
edied the matter, and the postofice and
town will hereafter be known only as
Santa Maria.
A miner named Laws at Newcastle, W.
T., while assisting in extiuguisbing fire
| in the mines, slipped down the slope into
the burning coal. Although recovered i'm.
| mediately, the lower part Of his body and
legs were literally roasted. He lived in
great agony for twelve hours and expired.
Grass Valley claims to have the oldest
horse in the State, The animal is named
"Callsghan, and is believed to be So or
81 years old. "Callsghan was formerly
q very handsome horse, and has done duty
in many Fourth of July procession. The
I'idmgs says he is now so helpless that he
will have TO be shot.
S. R Wagner. dentist, started Sep.
tember 18th to walk up Granite mountain
from Helena, NJ. T., on pleasure trip.
About noon a heavy snow storm set in,
and, becoming Lost, he wandered around
on the mountains for two days, when ne
managed to find the trail, and reached
Glendale in an exhausted and fanished
condition.
A Mormon settlement in Idaho Is FIVE
miles long. extending from Clifton to Ok.
ford. It is called Stringtown, and the
homesteads are so taken up that the resi-
dents of the homesteadeTs are within 300
feet of each other, and the farms are mere
strips of land from $50 TO 800 feet in
width. This land wss taken up IN this
manner TO give every settler frontage on
the public road.
The Truekee Republican says A light
engine from the Summit, Wednesday aft
ernoon, when coming around the Horse
shoe Bend ran into hock Of grouse which
were crossing the track. Four OF then
started and ran along the track ahead Of
the engine for short distance, when the
engine caught them 0ue escaped uuhurs,
two were injured and the fourth had is
head cut off by the wheels of the engine.
A Justice Of the Peace in Oakdale,
StaisIaus county. voluntarily resigned his
office. In his letter 20 the Supervisors ne
uses the following humorous language;
When criminal actions are protrscted by
the laws delays until the Justice fipally
comes out in debt for his tobacco and sta
tionery when attorneys and counseiors
from Superior Courts viii fatly toll the
Justice he cannot DO thing which he has
already done when a studied seublauea of
iuoicial dignity and wisdom is looked upon
as owllikc imbsciity : when the serious
rulinge of 'the Court are called the
rawlings Of crank then patience oesses
to be virtue, and who woald such fsTdals
bear, TO grosn aud grunt and sweat under
the weary life of public duties, when he
himself can his quietus mEke with mere