Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
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Best from Snake river valley, SO the Idaho
Ayalancte says, is in good condition.
Eatable apples aud plums are still to be
found upon the trees in Grass Valley.
The Los Angeles Commercial has changed
its form, and is now issued every morning
Eight boxes of samples of Butte. NJ. T..
ore are ready for shipment to Amsterdam.
Benton, NJ. T., is figuring on a High
School building, TO cost from $50, 600 to S23,
600.
Dealers and restaurant keepers in Virginia
City are refusing to buy quail not killed with
shot.
Hunters have been using the headboards in
the graveyard at Tucson, a. T., for riff
practice.
One of the citizens of Miles City, M. T
does an extensive business shipping buffalo
bones East.
A comedy company, after playing two or
three nights in Butte, Mont, dissolved by
mutual consent
A band Of Crow Indians were In Livings-
tor, NJ T., last week, and treated the citi-
zens to war.dance.
A band Of Piegan Indians ara committing
deprsdstions on Deer creek, about thirty
miles below Maginnis, l. I.
Diphtheria still prevails to great extent
in Scott Valley. Siskiyou county, number
of new cases appearing at Fort Jones.
The attempt to secure sufficient interest
among the citizens CT Santa Ana for public
exhibition of their citrus fruit has failed.
A mountain lion entered the corral of Sayre
Brothers, of Meagher county, M. t., one
night last week, and killed forty head of
sheep.
The smelling works at Irondale, Or, are
completed and the fire has been started 10
the furnaces. Five hundred men will be
employed.
A piece OF glass was taken from one of the
thumbs of W. S. Dixon, of Truckee, the other
day. 1t had remained imbedded there for
nine years.
D. K. Osborn has jumped portion of the
Governors palace at Santa Fe, n. NJ, and
swears he will hold it. The ground has al
ways been in dispute.
Uniontewn, as the new western extension
of Astoria, Or, is called, presents brilliant
appearance when lit up, the houses rising in
tiers on the river bank.
A citizen of Miles City, Mont, sent East
for wife, After she saw her would-be hus-
band, she declared she wouldn't marry him
under any circumstances.
1t is reported at Salt Lake that the Nor
mons who were deprived of suffrage by the
Edmunds law, propose suing the Utah Com
missioners and Registrars appointed by them.
The Fresno Citisen says that medico of
that place visited smallpox patient the
other morning and made inquiries through
the keyhole, and was answered in like man.
ner.
The San Jose Mercury wants a poor.house
and farm for Santa Clara. It sees in that q
means of relief from the persistent applica-
tions for help which are made to the Super.
visors.
The Healdsburg Flag says: Bears. driven
southwark by forest fires last fall. are rather
thick on some of the mountain ranches, and
in trying to live off stock frequently get into
trouble.
The question of the title to town proper
at Tombstone, A. T.. which has hindered the
prosperity of the town, will be tried this
term of the District Court and property
titles settled.
West Travas, an old Neyadap, and Sheriff
of Lincoln county during the pslmy days OF
Phoebe, was brought in from Gold Camp, A.
T., few days since, sdiudged insane, and
sent to Stockton.
Advicss from the front of the Northern
Pacific Railroad are to the effect that all law
less characters have been driven from Weeks
vile, Mont, the last being two Chinese, who
left in half minute.
A new towa has been laid out near What
com, w. T, and named Fairhaven. 1t is on
a dead-water bay, a mile south of Sehome,
and on the line of the contemplated railroad
from Seattle to Burrard Inlet.
Lloyd Smith, vaquero, better known as
Yank Smith, employed on the ranch of Louis
Gerlacb, on the San Joaquin river, near San
Joaquin City, hanged himself to the rafter of
a shed on the ranch Wednesday.
Scarlet fever is raging at Jacksonville,
Or, and a number of children have died from
this terrible disease within the past two
weeks. Several others are down with it, but
the disease is believed to be abating.
Timothy Lebesu, of Butte, Mont, and his
almost grown son started to cross the Mis-.
soula on the ice January 25;h, but broke
through, and being benumbed by the intense
cold, drowned before help could reach them.
George Wright and his horse fell into an
old well the other day at Springfield. The
boy scrambled out, but the horse had to be
dug from his uncomfortable position. Neither
boy nor horse was hurt, although both fell
fifteen feet.
A party of seven Cloverdale gentlemen
Ot ldEEc sdiulOu III ItuSSlou EiNcE ldsJ
week, after making four draws with seine,
besides number of other fish. The first draw
they caught Is salmon, and as many more es'
capped from the seine.
Alturas county, of which Haley is the
county seat, is nearly as large as the State of
Ohio containing the famous Wood river,
Sawtooth and Smoky mines, and popula-
tiou of 10, 600 people-one-ffth of the entire
population Of Idaho Territory.
L, NJ. Lafountain, of Stevensville. NJ. T.,
rides in q buggy in which he carried General
Garfield through the valley when the tresty
was negotiated with the Fiatheads in 1872
Mr., Lafountain acted az interpreter during
the progress Of the negotiations.
Reports from the northern partof Humboldt
county, Nevada, are daily received at Winnie
mucca relative to the restitution which pre-
walls among the Indians in that section.
Nsches has been informed that some fam
lilies are living on the barley that drops from
the m Anglers where mules are fed at Fort Nc
Dermit.
There is talk of organizing a prospecting
company in Reno, New, for the purpose of
thoroughly examining the general mineral
belt which extends more than hun
bred miles southerly, and which has hardly
been glanced at. Most of the country is en-
tirely new to the prospector.
An alleged prophet in Woodland named
Professor Noal agrees with Virgins that
" there will be a great storm in March" The
Woodland prophet says there will be heavy
rainfall during the last Of February that will
cause the Sacramento to overflow its banks
and make large crops Of wheat.
The Gilroy Record says: Yesterday the
two proprietors of the Orc Fino saloon, Itali-
aus, were taken to San Jose for treatment Of
a very peculiar disease. They were found in
bed unable to rise. They complained Of
weakness dizziness and inability to stand.
That they should both be affected the same
way at the same time without any apparent
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