Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-04
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

The Oroville Mercury is to have new
building of its own.
The railroad is completed from Walla
Walla to Milton, Or.
A dozen oil wells are in successful oper-
alton around Newhall.
Scarlet fever prevails in Klamath county,
Oregon, and several deaths have occurred.
A lynching excitement at Woodville, M.
T., on Christmas, threatened to result
in the hanging of petty thief.
During the last six weeks Custer
county, M. T., hunter has poisoned $50
wolves and taken 200 buffalo robes.
A Benton, NJ. T., restauranteur an.
nounced "possums aud quails as among
the delicacies for Christmas dinner.
A prominent Mexican military official
was arrested at Ell Paso, N. NJ, last week,
and fined $50 for carrying concealed
weapons.
John Broughall, at the Lexington mine,
at Butte, NJ. T., received compound tract.
ure of the right leg last Christmas from .
fall of scaffold.
Two cowboys, while attempting to rob
store at Lactoria, A. T., last week, were
fired upon, and one John Bennett. alias
John Stewart, was killed.
During the month of December lS6 ar.
rests were made in Oakland. The cost of
supplying 2 953 meals to prisoners was
$40 81, or AZ cents per meal.
The members of the Warren Hose Com.
pany, Carson, New, talk of disbanding On
account of the cold treatment they receive
from the citizens of that town.
The Santa Barbara Independent states
that the expense 80 the county in the case
of Clarence Gray, charged with the muir.
der of Theodore Clancy, amounts to ST.
6S2 60.
According to the report of the State
Controller, Yolo county paid to the State
in 1882, 1884, 4S4 GA. There are but eight
counties in the State that pay more taxes
than Yolo.
Watermelons of Sonora Importation are
in the market of Tucson, A. I. The peo-
pie of that State have method of pre-
serving them, by means of sand-packing,
the year through.
A station is to be opened on the Carson
and Colorado Railroad at Benton, Mono
county, Oai. All tHc LTaVSi rum OWeu
Valley and the country beyond will pass
this way over the road.
There is considerable wheat in the ware
houses along the northern road, says the
Woodland Democrat, but at the rate it is
being shipped IL will all soon be at tide.
water. On Friday morning last train of
sixty-eight cars, drawn by two engines,
passed over the road. This is the longest
train that ever passed this point.
The Sheriff of Umatilla county refuses
to surrender the Indians implicated in the
murder of Charles Mnlheiner at the Una
tilla Reservation on November 22j, con-
tending that the State of Oregon is entitled
TO try them, having competent Jurisdiction.
The United States Marshal will make a
formal demand for the prisoners.
The following figures give the number
of tons of grain stored in Stockton and
vicinity In Stockton-Wheat, A. $50
tons barley, 1850 tons rye, 2l5 tons /;
corr, 80 tons. In Pennington, l. 300 tons
wheat; Acampo, 1900 Lodi, 2025 !;
Clements, 200; Oakdale, 300; Salida,
l, 100; Gait, 800. At MERGED and south
of the San Joaquin river, 4, $50 tons.
A mysterious and fatal disease has ap-
peared among the poultry at Monterey.
Fowls which have been fed heartily in the
the next morning, nor is there in the ap.
pearance of their bodies externally any
manifestation of disease Turkeys and
ducks belonging to the same poultry yards
do not seem to be attacked by the malady.