Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Salt Lake is to have a free postal delivery.
Salt Lake is alive with thieves.
Red Bluff has few cases of scarlet fever.
Humboldt has shipped within the last two
weeks e. 0S2 600 feet Of lumber.
Yreka thinks it is destined to become the
largest town between Sacramento and Port
land on the California and Oregon Railroad.
The heat of the Colorado desert the pres.
ent season has been greater than in any pre-
vious year, the thermometer daily remaining
at 1SO'.
Stockton h1odiums stretch tarred rope
across the sidewalk, so as u leave mark on
the face or clothing Of the passing peies-
TRANS.
There is 9 good deal Of excitement in Salt
Lake over tie discovery Of silver in sand
stone at Lower Price, on the line Of the Rio
Grande Railway.
The coal mine on the Lsguna ranch, Los
prospect is that an abundance of excellent
coal will be found.
At Rsnton, W. T., Tbursday, locomo-
tive ran over and killed Bradbury Whitaker,
an E1glishman, sged 81 years and miner
by occupation. He leaves a family in
Beaver, Pa.
ne EHl-INN.A Is NlI-h'lN tbll pl-ltQ iHI k'lt
dis-auC. of twenty miles above Rsddiug, and
the construction train runs that far. Prob.
ably regular trains VIII make the rul before
long.
y limb Of q genuine French pruue tree
which measured eight feet long is on exhibit
ton at San Diero. 1t was one years growth
and illustrates what can be done III the South
Chollas valley.
Y Dung hoodlums smoke cigarettes in the
gallery Of the San B-rnardiuo Opera House,
and occasionally drop them on the heads Of
the audience. A lsdy's hat, ard the feathers
on it, were ruined The other evening in this
wGy.
A young girl arrived in Sci, Lake day or
two sgo from one of the lower counties Of
L tab, wi had been turned out of her home
by her father, who sent her into the world to
live life Of shame. He had Just taken an
other wife. and gave IS q reason that he had
more wives and children than he could sup
port.
The Board OF Normal School Trustees met
at San Jose Wednesday. The resignation Of
Professor Brady, Vice Principal. was accepted,
and Professor Norton was elected to till the
vacancy. Miss Sara b. Nunk was elected
assistant teacher in the Branch Normal
School. The report of the Principal shows
the attendance of 50l pupils at San Jose and
$50 at Los Angeles.
The discovery shat the Crystal Lake stone
quarries are in Nevada county has caused
some complaint from Placer county papers,
the wounded ard injured having hitherto been
taken care OF at Auburn. The Nevada City
Transcript ss an offset, claims that Placer
has collected something like 81 600 In poll
taxes and assessments on the property, and
thinks the recovery Of the money should ne
looked into.
How They Goa late number Of the
Reno Gazette has this to say about persons
well known in this city: Railroad boys are
pr0verbislly rolling stones, and come and 20
with sn esse that excites the envy Of men
who get settled and spend their lives in one
county Business men are almost all like the
man who caught the wolf and had 90 wait for
some Que to help him let it go. On the
division John Conner Is the only
conductor left VINO was there in 1876. Good
rich and Calderwood were on passenger
Conner, Willard. Buckley, Webster, Burch-
ard, Creedon, Alien. Biscoe, MURPHY, Clarke,
Turner, Robb and Hendricl on freight. Now
Goodrich is dead. Calderwood is on the Red
ding run, snd Willard is running an engine
on the Northern Pacific. Burchard lives in
r cklin, Clarke runs a locomotive on the
Sacramento and oakland run, and Hendrick
is on this Carson and Colorado. On the Reno
division, Joe Corby, Fred Bayliss and Hugh
Darrah were on passenger; Jay Parks, Car
michael, Cliuch, Mike Shields, Williams,
Greeuleaf, Hill, Hayward and Fletter on
freight. Darrsh is still here, BAyhss is a
Motel clerk in Los Angeles, Parks is on tie
Austin route, Clinch is dead, Shields is Con-
stable at Wsdsworth, Williams keeps store
in Truckee, Hayward is dead, Fletter is agent
Tor powder company, GreenIeaf is in Los
Angeles, and Carmichael was hanged in Mon
tana by the vigilsntes.
A PIUTE Doctor SUPPRESSED. The
Reno Gazette says:
The Piutes at Big Meadows last Wednes.
day sacrificed their leading physician be-
cause he lost three patients ia succession.
The third and last patient who slipped
through the doctors fingers was son of
Captain Dick. A council was held among
the members of the tribe living in that Vi
cinity and the necessary proof taken, when
it was decided that DR.. Ma-sho-go should
suffer death, and his ponies-two in num-
ber-be shot. During the night of De.
cember 18th the executioners appeared at
the doctors wigwam and put four or five
bullets into his body. The whites living
near heard the shots and the screams and
yells. The next morning the Indians re-
ported that the doctor had first killed his
horses and then suicided by eating wild
The Indians have ways of max
ing a condemned member of the tribe will
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