Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The supply OF carp sent to LakevIew, Or.
all died on the way.
The mining season at Jacksonville, Or.
does not promise well.
Poisoned apples have been placed OF
many trees in San Bernardino to kill birds
The Postoffice at Naples, on the Wood
river, l. T., was recently robbed of all itl
wealth.
The Union bridge over the Stanislaus
river at Burns Ferry was burned last
Sunday. Loss, $500; insured.
Piute Dick committed suicide near va
kima, w. T., lately, by shooting himself
with a pistol. Civilization is spreading
among the Indians.
Joseph Casey, desperate, who escaped
from the Jail at Tucson last October, is
again behind the bars in that city, having
been captured at Colorado City.
1t is thought forty new buildings will be
in process of erection at Cheney, W. T.,
by the lst of April. Town property has
advanced 25 per cent In three weeks.
Some of the passengers on north. bound
train blockaded at Twin Wells, near
Cheney, W. T., nearly starved, the other
day, before they reached the portage"
Two Indian boys are in custody at San
Bernardino for stealing honey from the
hives of j. 7. HARRISON. They succeeded
in emptying some twenty-five hives before
they were captured.
The ranges operated on the Yellowstone
and Mussel She'll in Montana, this winter
have been most favorable for stock. The
estimates of losses for the Territory ia not
more than five per cent.
A company of soldiers under Captain L.
W. Cook is stationed at the terminus of
the Northern Pacific Railroad ia Montana,
to prevent liquor selling and any encroach.
ment on the Indian Reservation.
A large ballon was seen to pass over
Santa Barbara about 7 80 o'clock Wednes.
day evening. 1t was at a considerable al.
titude and the basket was brilliantly illu.
minated. Its direction was westerly.
James McDevitt, Sheriff of Choteau
county, M. T., is tunneling hill between
his ranch and Shoskin creek, to tap the
latter for the use of his farm. The tunnel
will be nearly 900 feet in length and will
cost S.. 600.
A portion of the old Calistoga Springs
property, thirty y-eight acres in size, was
sold last week for $4,000. It includes
some improvements, such as cottage, barn,
etc. The purchaser will convert the place
into vineyard and winery.
J. A. Ritchie and wife of Grangerville,
while on the eve of leaving their house to
attend party, discovered that the prem.
ises were on fire. They had intended to
leave their three children in bed, and few
minutes later would have been gone. The
house was entirely destroyed.
Rogers district, A. T., is excited over
the rich strikes. The World Beater bids
fair to beat the world. They are taking
out at the rate of one ton of ore per day to
each man, some ore running from S400 to
81. 600 per ton. Each man clears at least
$50 per day, says the Pinal Drill.
Ebon Shoemaker was the victim of
strange and fatal accident in Big Hole
Basin, NJ. T., on February 18th. While in
pursuit of moose, gun in hand, he was
compelled to cross the ice, which broke
through with him. In the descent the
hammer in some way caught and discharged
the gun, sending rife bullet through the
unfortunate mans neck.
Last fall there was discovered by Mr.
Beck, near the summit of the Sierras in
Fresno county, says the E'rpositor, the
largest and richest mine ever discovered in
the world. The ledge is two hundred feet
in width and is three miles in length. 1t
assays $4,000 in gold per ton and $500
in silver, and is called the Mother of Gold.
In west Los Angeles and on the old E.
H. Workman place, Gays the Los Angeles
Herald, improvements are marvellous. No
one who has not visited those quarters of
the city during the past four or five months
has the remotest idea Of the lightning
changes which have taken place there in
that period. In truth, more houses have
gone up in month than in many of the
years since the boom" of lS74.75 and
lS75-76 began to wane.
L S. Welton, of San Francisco, commit
ted suicide at sea on the Sth instant on the
voyage from San Bias to Mszatlan. He
was sitting with his leg over the railing of
the schooner, and was observed stabbing
himself in the neck He instantly jumped
overheard, and as he fell he cried out. "One
hundred and thirty Kearny street" His
body was secured by lasso being thrown
over his neck, and when caught huge sea
tiger had it's teeth In his back.