Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS

A strange and fatal horse disease has
broken out in Utah.
No liquor saloon within 200 yards of a
school lot ia allowed at Woodland.
It is said "Black Bart" the noted stage
robber, was seen in 0akdale, Stanislaus
county, a few days ago.
1t is reported that Mrs. Smith, of Oak.
dale, Stanislaus county, has deserted her
husband and eloped with Mexican boy.
j: F. Mcdowell, farmer on the Mo.
quelumnes grant, lost the sight of one of
his eyes last week by piece of scale from
rusty hatchet flying into it.
Along the line of the Mexican Central
Railroad there are twenty-one cities, with
an aggregate population of 500, 200, and
none of them are State capitals.
An English syndicate has leased l.. 900
acres of agricultural land in the Kootenay
district, B. c., for farming purposes. They
will bring out an English colony to settle.
A Chinaman caught sturgeon weighing
l65 pounds in Feather river, below Oro-
vile, last week. The fsh pulled him
overheard, but he was rescued by his com.
rades.
The waters of the Corral de Luz Mineral
Springs, about fifty miles from San DIEGO
and five miles from Fall Brook, in the
Temecula canyon, are said to be so dense
that g person cannot sink.
The new game law in Idaho is very
strict. No buffalo, deer, elk. antelope or
mountain sheep are to be killed between
the lst OF January and the lst of Septem.
Der OF each year, and at no other time, If
killed to obtain their hides or to ship their
carcasses out OF the Territory.
A petrifed forest about 300 acres in
extent has been discovered on tho Arizona
side OF the Colorado river, in the Buck.
skin mountains. There are petrifed trees
twenty inches in diameter. and there is not
bush that is not petrifed, the sagsbrush
and grass being all turned to stone.
Dr.. Pond has discovered the little insect
which Mr.. Blowers says is causing all the
damage to the grape this season. The one
that Che doctor found on vine is so email
that il can hardly be seen with the naked
eye, but when put under the powerful
magnifying glass of the Winegrowers' As.
ISOLATION it looks quite formidable
Helena Star.
u. W. Welis. VINO resides IN the New
Hope district. four miles from Santa Ana,
has on his place an srtesisn well 1870 feet.
which has almost stopped flowing and a
few days ago he found that millions of in
sects, resembling small red ants, are daily
brought to the surface. They are so nu-
merous that they can almost be taken by
the painful. Il Standard.
The sawmiila west OF the Summit. in
the belt tributary to the Central Pacific,
Gays the Grass Valley Union. are getting a
good start for their summers work, which
will be about % 600, 600 feet. Voss will
cut 2 500, 900 on the You Bet divide Car
lin will cut about l 900 600 at Gold Run :;
Towle brothers IL, coo, 600 in their three
mills, with the Damsguard mill idle. They
now have eighteen miles of railroad and
three engines. They have just moved the
Kearssrge mill and got it running. Gel.
sendorfer will cut Loco, coo in Onion val.
ley, back of Emigrsnt Gap; Friend &
Terry will cut 5000, coo On The north
fork of the American Avery will cut
l,j00, 600 in Monument canyon; Marsh
will cut 100000 on Rock creek, above
Nevada City, and Cooper 1000 600 on
Deer creek,