Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Jacksonville, Or, has a high license.
The Fraser river is now open to naviga-
tion.
Salt Lake City has l40 acres of public
parks.
San Gabriel is making an effort to build
public hail.
Sweetland has female ghost as "pretty
as picture. :"
The railroad office at Whitman station
has been closed.
Two little boys at Arimo, 1. T., tasted
concentrated lye last week with fatal re-
suits.
At Fort Clatsop, Or, there is an mex
haustible deposit of the finest pottery clay
and four. foot bank Of fine brick clay.
The spring racing meeting begins at Los
Angeles Thursday and ends next Tuesday.
Purses to the amount Of 81 600 are offered.
Sea. shells and crawfsh remains are to be
found on the top of Lookout mountain, in
the northeastern part of Yavapai county,
A. T.
In Frisco, U. T., VIM. Brown tipped
over his chair and received fatal wound
from a pistol which dropped from his
pocket.
The inhabitants and houses of Last
Chance, M. T., the railroad town which
was SO lively few weeks ago, have moved
onward.
The politicians of Benton, NJ T., are
excited by the report that number of
them would be indicted for violating the
election laws.
There is young man at work at the
Blue Tent mine, in Nevada county, who
has heavy beard on one side of his face,
and the other side is entirely hairless.
Bullionville, New, is said to be very un-
healthy, because of the liability to lead
poisoning. Children are said to have but
slight chances for recovery after their sys.
tenn has absorbed the poison.
Miss Jennie Carson owns the land on
both sides of Hopley's creek, Meagher
county, M. I. Her property is one of the
best ranches in the Territories, and she is
as successful with her herds as any man in
country.
The True FSsure gauges the prosperity
of Candelara by the following observation
n
all the saloons are running later hours than
during the latter part of any month since
last fall.
A suit has been commenced in the United
States Circuit Court at Portland, Or, by
Mrs. H. Mumford, of New York, to test
the validity of an Act passed by the last
Legislature taxing mortgages in the county
in which they are recorded.
A lawyer of Butte, NJ. T., while re-
Gently explaining how he conducted him
self in late shooting scrape in which he
was a principal, accidentally pulled the
trigger of his exhibition pistol and lost the
middle finger of his left hand.
A report that Chief Moses reservation,
Oregon, was to be thrown open for settle
ment, has caused great dissatisfaction
among his Indians. Colonel Merriam, in
command at Fort Spokan, arrived at Port
land on Tuesday with Moses, who is on
the way to interview General Miles.
Moses is bad In1ian, and his band is COM
posed largely of renegades from many
tribes.
The Oregon Construction Company, who
have the contract for building the Baker
division of the o. r. and N. Railway, have
made arrangements with W. j. Hawkins
& Co., by which the 5000 Chinese con-
trolled by the latter firm, now at work on
the Northern Pacific, will be transferred to
the Baker City line as soon as the North
ern Pacific force is disbanded-about a
month hence.
Mrs. Conway died with the smallpox in
Nevada City Monday afternoon. A few
days since she was confined, and about the
same time was taken with the disease
which resulted in her death. Her husband
died with the smallpox about week ago.
Eight children, the eldest but IA, are thus
made orphans and thrown upon the charity
of the public. Four of them have small
pox and are now at the pest
A little Quincy (Plumas county, boy was
told by his mother day or two since to
amuse his sister, child of three. Accord
ingly he took her to one corner of the
room, and telling her to sit down, pro.
ceeded to divert her with a story. "Once
there was q man named Jesus Christ, " said
he; he was good man, but some bad
men got him and said they meant to hang
him; and I'm id if they didn't do it. I"
The mother interrupted the story right
there.