Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

A kangaroo rat was killed near Antioch
last week.
Miles City, NJ. T., iz to incorporate as
municipality.
Hops in Washington Territory are quite
forward this year.
Many Indians followed the circus from
Elko to Carson, New.
! The burnt block at Tulare City will all
be replaced by brick buildings.
The Montana FAIR Association offers
$4,000 in premiums this year.
The Placer Herald is said to be printed
on the frat press brought to this coast.
The Dutch Fiat Placer Times comes TO
us in an enlarged form and greatly i'm
proved.
The combined weight of Elk large water
melons sold at Los Angeles last week was
453 pounds.
The School Trustees have been author
lied to establish high grade in the pub.
lie school at Lodi.
They have Horseshoe Club in Walla
Walla, w. T. Each member ia required
TO wear horseshoe.
A brilliant meteor passed over Los An
geles Saturday morning, "of violet color
and going at lively rate"
A large ras-tailed stiugaree was captured
at Laguna beach, Los Angeles, last week,
which measured three feet across.
Visalia had on exhibition last week
neetarine measuring nine inches In circum-
ference. 1t was of the Hardwick variety.
The San Francisco Grain Exchange has
Just published tabulated statement Of
the wheat yield this year, which foots up
SO, 000. 600 bushels.
A gentleman who has been travelling in
Pleasant Valley informs the Dixan Tribune
that all the late peaches 10 that section
have been engaged at four cents per pound.
The Inyo Independent says that the body
of an unknown man, who had evidently
died from the effects of the heat while
crossing the desert, was found near there
last week.
Upwards of twenty leads have been To-
Gated in the Sixteen-mile country, in
Meagher county, NJ. T., within the past
two months, and prospecting is progress
ing lively.
The MissouliGR gives the altitude of
mountains in the neighborhood as follows
st. Mary's peak, 1900 feet McDonalds,
| 5000 feet another mountain close to Nc.
DOnald's, $500 feet.
The Big Hole monument, which has been
lying at Silver Bow, NJ. T., since last fall,
was last week reloaded on the cars and
shipped back to Dillon, from whence it
will be shipped to the battlefield.
Timothy Openshaw, of Salt Lake, was
/ IL Il. =,,A
ing stone at it wrenched himself 80 that
Sure enough, inside of tWenty-four hours
he died of his hurt.
8 miner working in claim at Seven
Mile Canyon, in Nevada, the other day,
after putting in fuse was, with some diff.
Guilty, brought to the surface before the
blast went off. a new animal at work at
the whim was obstreperous. The miner
does not wish to repeat the experience.
On the California and Oregon Railroad
extension, Tuesday, Superintendent Kirk
moved his camp to near the Sacramento
bridge, and in burning off the brush to get
camping ground the FIRE got beyond con-
troll and burned up the tents, blankets,
clothing, provisions and working utensils.
Tuesday afternoon freight train bound
for Oakland and railroad construction
train collided short distance below VAL
lejo Junction. The engine of the con.
struetion train was pushing two fat cars
along ahead of it, and was struck by the
freight engine and thrown from the track.
Both engines were damaged. No one was
seriously injured, although travel was i'm
peded for some time.
Sheriff Fulkerth arrived at Modesto.
Wednesday, with John MINI and Crock
ct, his accomplice. They are the sup.
posed murderers of Alfred Case. and are
now in Jail. Had they arrived Tuesday
night, as was expected, they surely would
have been lynched, as there were over 100
men ready and willing at the depot with
ropes ready to hang them. There is still
strong talk of lynching.
A singular accident happened to Daniel
Keeny at Moscow, Idaho, recently. He
was riding horseback, and, seeing pack
age lying in the road, he dismounted,
picked it up, got into the saddle again
and proceeded to examine his find, when a
revolver in the package was discharged.
| The bullet narrowly missed Keeny and
lodged in the horses head, killing the ami
NAL instantly.
| An arteslan well has Oeen sunk on the
Rocker ranch, out in the middle of Reese
river valley, says the Austin New RevilJe,
to depth of 275 feet and the water comes
to within seven feet of the surface. To
| get it into an immense tank windmill has
been erected, which fills the tank with
water very readily. Yesterday q minnow
nearly two inches long was found in that
tank, having evidently been pumped out
of the artesian well. How did it get there?
What fish stream has that well tapped
Information recently received here, says
the Reno (Nev.) Gazette, leaves but little
room for doubt that slim Jim is still
alive. A. Mr.. Skeleton. the agent for the
iron post and wire fence, who was here
short time sgo ssid that he knows Jim
and all his family well, and that the gen.
uine three-card monte thief OF the Central
Pacific, for sone offense against the peace
and dignity of the commonwealth of Illi-
nois, is Iapguishing in the State Prison at
Joliet, where his many victims probably
hope he may long remain.