Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-28
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
The loss at Ogden, Utah. by the late
storm is estimated at $50, 600.

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storm is estimated at $50, 600.
Quite town is springing up on the ella
river, nine miles from Clifton, A. 7.
A party is being organized at Fort Ellis,
Mont, under Government orders, to sur
vey road from Billings up the valley from
Clarke's Fork to the Yellowstone Park.
1t is estimated that there are about 225,.
600 head Of stock cattle in Nevada. The
ranges are by no means unstocked, and the
capacity of the State is equal to another
100. 900.
Frank Burd, who went fishing some days
ago along the creek in Choteau county,
| M. T., had an apoplectic stroke, fell into
the creek and was drowned under the
bushes, where he was found.
The highest trestle on the line of the
Northern Pacific is that across Coriacan
defle, about twelve miles west of Mis-
soula, Mont. When finished the track
level will be 800 feet in the air.
Arrangements looking toward the sale of
800 acres of land near Helena, Mont, for
$40, 900, and the establishment of machine
shops in connection with the Northern
Pacific Railroad, it is said, have been COM
pleted.
Daniel Leahy, who had been found guilty
of murder at Helena, M. T., and who COM
mitted suicide the day he was to be
hanged, offered the jailer $500 to allow
him to escape far enough to be shot by the
guards.
While man named Parker, living at
San Pedro, was recently preparing to de-
| sert his family, committee of citizens
waited upon him, took all his money but
$40 and gave it to his wife, after which he
was told to skip.
The municipal officers of Fort Benton,
M. T., receive the following compensations
| for their services Police Magistrate, $500
per year; Treasurer, $500 per year City
Attorney, 5000 per year and 500 for each
city case which he wins.
Mrs. Noble, of Reynolds creek, recently
fastened her infant daughter in chair,
and during her brief absence in an adjoin.
ing room the child, in trying to free itself
from it's fastenings, was caught around the
neck and strangled to death.
In Bodie the boys put in the time trying
to win an egg stake in Coryville they get
their dogs out and chase porcupines in
Virgins they tear down houses for Haw.
thorne in Cat Creek they catch coyotes !;
in Lundy they kick for payday in
Carson they invoke the spirits of the dear
| departed in Tuscarora they discuss the
late strike, and in Hawthorne they race
mules.
a force of about 100 men are new en-
ployed in and about the Monadnock at
Mare Island. Work driving piles for the
ways on which the vessel will be launched
| has been commenced, and it is now ex-
peoted that she will be launched in July.
This event will be one that will be looked
forward to with great interest from all por-
tions of the State, as the Monadnock is the
heaviest vessel that has ever been con.
strueted on the coast.
o. CLANCY, who lives about three miles
from Nevada City, on the Blue Tent road,
| picked up from the ground what he sup
posed was copper rivet, and began pick.
| ing the dirt from it with match. He was
engaged in conversation with another gen.
tleman and kept picking away at the piece
of copper without looking at it. Suddenly
an explosion occurred, tearing off the end
of Chaney's left thumb and badly shatter-
ing the end of the index finger. The bit
of copper which he thought an ordinary
rivet proved to be giant powder cap.