Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-05
PACIFIC COAST news.


Chico Daily Enterprise.
Another case of small pox has appeared
in the jail at Red Bluff.
One dollar pound was paid for Christ.
mas turkeys in Butte, M. t.
The Lander (Nev.) Free Press proposes
to publish at Elko hereafter.
Over 300 houses have been erected in
Butte, M. T., during the past year.
The police force of Los Angeles has been
increased from six to sixteen officers.
The appeal says it is difficult to rent a
desirable house for a residence in Carson.
Thirteen marriage licenses were issued
by the County Clerk of Los Angeles one
day last week.
DIR. F. G. Hearn, of Yreka, claims to
have the oldest horseshOe in existence, it
being over 100 years old.
The Princess Louise has charmed the
people of Santa Barbara with he- gentle
voice and gracious manners.
| Last year the produce and merchandise
exports of the Santa Ana Valley footed up
the gratifying total of 81, coo. 600 pounds.
There is now about six inches of dry
snow in Truckee, and the sleighing to
the lakes and Sierra Valley was never
better.
A much larger acreage of grain has been
planted in and about Lower Lake than for
many years, and it is looking fine, says the
Bulletin.
Centerville, Umatilla county, Oregon, is
above high-water mark, and many new
buildings were erected in the place the past
summer.
Washoe county, Nevada, has S45, $50 %
| in coin in the treasury; the Indebtedness
amounts TO g. 7S9 S8-almost all of which
is against the district road funds.
MIR. Webb, of Gila Bend, informs the
Phoenix, A. T, Herald that the Mormon
colony in that section has folded its tents
and set out for some other location.
The cold weather has obliged the Piutes
in Nevada to "rustle for fuel as well as
food. To find the former gives them more
toll and trouble than to obtain supply of
the latter.
| A petrifed clam is the property of Gen.
J. r. Briefly, who picked it up on the hill
at San Pedro few days ago, says the Los
Angeles Herald. It was living on an en-.
inence $50 feet above sea.level.
Alfred Nelson, of Reno, New, has brought
suit against DR.. w. Bergman for SIS Coo
damages, alleging malpractice. Nelson
claims that in resetting broken leg the
doctor made him cripple for life.
The pulp mill at Alta was completed
yesterday. The pulp will be shipped to
| Stockton, and there be worked into paper.
! The enterprise is welcomed with much en-
thusiasm by residents Of that vicinity.
The Carson New Tribune thinks the
salaries paid officials at the Nevada Insane
Asylum are not enough, and until raise is
made the right class of men and women
will not much longer be procured for Off
GERS.
Cayotes and wild geese are getting very
numerous at the Msrysville Buttes. One
farmer lost over thirty sheep by csyotes in
one night last week, and hunters are kept
busy frightening the geese from the grain
fields.
The youngest members of the Nevada
Legislature are Assemhlyman Muldoon of
Eureka, sgeed % years, Assemblymsn
Howell of Lincoln, aged % years, and As
semblyman Hardin of Humboldt, aged 26
years.
A wellknown miner named A. L. George
was shot and killed on New Year eve
while protecting the Bodie mine, in the
Dragon Mountains A. T., which he de-
sired to relocate. The murderer is un-
known.
Blesh arrested on charge of destroying
young orchard at Florence recently, and
who was to have trial at Florence, asked
for and obtained change OF venue to
Compton, and the trial has been set for
Saturday.
ID ID L
John Kelly and Frank Motion, who stood
him up and robbed him at Portland, Or, has
mysteriouslY disappeared. He is supposed
to have been murdered to prevent his ap-
pearance on the trial.
There are 2,000 coo sheep in the Terri
tory of New Mexico. About half of this
number average two pounds of wool to the
head 100000 average four pounds of
wool each, and the remaining 1000, 900
average seven pounds of wool each.
The Placerville Democrat reports that
ledge of high grade sulphureted copper
ore, four feet thick, has been discovered
near Garden Valley, and near by is ledge
of quartz freely interspersed with copper,
containing also good prospect in gold.
1 During the year just closed l2l marriage
licenses were issued and sixteen divorces
granted In Solano county. Thirty.three
aliens were naturalizsd, and nineteen in.
sane persons were committed. For labor
at the Navy Yard $525, 900 was paid out.
1t is reported that band of five desper.
ADDE'S have taken up quarters in the lava
beds of Modoc county. The bandits are
armed with Winchester rifles and revolyers.
and levy principally on stock. They defy
the authorities, and represent that in their
position they can stand off " a good.sizsd
regiment of soldiers.
Cochise county, Arizona, has three good
| producing mines, namely, Grand Central,
Contention Consolidated and Copper Queen.
These produced about 81. 500, 600 in 1882.
and paid 81, 100000 in dividends. These
are not the only good mines in that county.
but at present they are the largest pro.
ducers.
| The Jacksonville Tor Times says Some
Of the stockraisers east OF the mountains
are trying the vaccination Of calves with
garlic as a preventive of blackleg, with
apparently good results. The garlic is in
serted under the skin and produces run
lining sere, which brings out all impurities
of the blood and rescues the animal from
the ravages of this dread disease.
Wesley Nichols, sent to San Quentin
from Nevada City five months ago for a
term of seven years on a charge Of being
concerned in the robbery Of Whiting and
Gibson, two old men living near Marsh's
lumber yard, has been pardoned, and re-
turned home Monday, accompanied by his
faithful young wife, who has stood by him
bravely ever since his troubles began.
The Chico Record says: On Sunday,
while some of the men on Llano Seco
Ranch were out hunting, they came across
one buck deer that had killed another in
combat and was then unable to free him
self, owing to locking of horns. From
appearances, it seemed that the buck had
been in this tight fix for many days, and
had dragged his dead foe about with him.
When discovered he was SO weak and
emaciated that his slaughter was an act of
mercy.
Isaac Tamkin (Longstree.) who shot and
killed Fl. G. Mcclellan In Truckee August
2S, 1881, has been denied a new trial by
the Supreme Court. The two had quar-
relied tia night before, and upon the occs-