Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Quail are plentiful in Plumag.

Quail are plentiful in Plumas.
Stock thieves are at work near Bodie.
Portland, Or, has a ten-cent parcel de-
livery.
Carson river is low, and there is said to he
much sickness on the stream.
San Diego boasts of csntipede seven
inches in length and one in width.
The graders on the railroad for Clear Lake,
Butte county, were increased by forty China-
men the other day.
Several hundred cords of wood have been
seized at Clinton, Mono county, by United
States timber agents.
The locks ON the boxes to receive contrl-
buttons for the poor at the Catnohc Ohurcn
at Monterey were broken last week.
An almost inexhaustible supply OF water
has been found by digging st Independence,
on the Carson and Colorado Railroad.
The United States Land Office at Carson
has been abolished, and the books and
records transferred to the Office at Eureka.
Isadore, noted Piegan half.breed, was
killed by Piegsn brave, about fen days ago,
on Birch creek, Nj. t., north Of Old Agency.
So many cattle have been sent over the
California lire from Nevada that the COM
plant is made of scarcity In the sagebrush
State.
Six contracts have been let on the Ari-
iona Central Railroad, and it is now IN
tended to fnish work by the 1st of June
next.
On Tuesday morning $4,000 salmon eggs
were taken down from the Government
hatchery on the McCloud river and shipped
to the East.
The Oroville Register gives currency to a
report that Governor Stanford offered Cen
eral Bidwell a million and half for his Chico
RANCH which was refused.
The pay car of the Southern Pacific Rail
road passed through Fresno with about $780,
600 on board, which will be paid out between
that place and New Orleans.
Henry Volkmar a little boy, was attacked
by vicious steer at Myrtle Point, Or, the
other day. and had one of his eyelid5 torn of
and the skull laid bare for some distance
above the eye.
Rev. W. G. Gray, who for years has &C.
cupied the pulpit at Reno, Carson and Vir-
ginia City, has been transferred to the
Columbia River Conference. and has been
assigned to the charge at Walla Walla, w. L.
The Walla Walla Statesman says: 1.-THE
Kootenai Railroad is surveying its line on
the Kootenai river, and will begin grading as
soon as the Canadian Pacific can transport
their rails and supplies. Their expenditures
this season will amount to over 500. 0OO."
The old vines in the Stanford vineyard at
Vina are heavily loaded with grapes, and the
men are engaged in raisin and wine.msking
It is probable that an immense winery and
fruit cannery will be erected on the ranch
next spring, when all the surplus fruit will be
purchased from Tehama, Shasta, Butte and
Colusa counties.
On the summit of Mount Rose. tall peak
of the main Sierras, lying nearly west of
Steamboat Springs, New, is a huge assure,
formerly portion of the crater Of an extinct
volcano, which has been constantly filled
with snow and ico ever since the settlement
of the country by the whites. This snow
has suddenly disappeared, to the great won
der of the ranchmen of Washoe Valley.
Never before has the chasm been seen bare
of snow. No one has yet been up TO in
vestigate, bnt it is feared that the old noun
tain may be preparing to fire up, and that
the rocks have grown so hot as to melt the
snow.
Miss Annie Derry, of Napa City, now
teaching school in Soscol district. while walk.
ing on the railroad track on her way from
school, stumbled and fell, and on attempting
to rise found her shoe had become fast under
the rail- The train was in sight, and every
effort to extricate herself was unsuccessful
until she thought of taking her foot out of
the shoe, which she did, and rolled off the
track as the train dashed by. Her mental
anxiety was intense, and the shock Co her
nervous system was so great that she tainted,
in which condition she was picked up by her
friends