Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-10
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

It is estimated that Mendocino will ex-
pend $50, coo simply for picking the pres
ent hop crop.
The Canadian Government offers bonus
Of e for every able bodied white man who
may settle in British Columbia.
Two Cree Indians who had been killed
by South Pieeans were found on the prairie
near Fort Mcleod, NJ. T., last week.
Not a particle of snow is seen from
Truekee on the Sierras, something never
known before in the history of Truckee.
The amount of taxable property in Modoc
county in 1882 was 81 100 93l in 1883 If
amounts to 81, l6l, 6S2. The increase is
% rs per cent.
There is project on foot at Modesto to
take the water cut OF the Tuclumne river
for irrigation. The ditch is to run out on
the south side of the river.
Twenty-Five hundred extra road tax re-
ceipts have been ordered in Shasta, and it
is expected that the Chinese will contribute
about 81, 500 to the road fund this year.
A complaint comes from Tucson by the
way of New York that business houses are
closing because of the unsafe condition of
the country caused by the continued dep
relations of the Indians.
Two cougars that have been the terror OF
sheep men for some time in the neighbor-
hood of junction Bar, Or, were treed by
a shepherds dog and shoe by herder re-
Gently. They were males, and measured
feet inches from tip to tip.
The completion of the Stanford levee
i / 1
Chico Enterprise. On either side of the
road just beyond the bridge there are nov
at work some sixty Or more teams, with
scrapers and plows, and the huge embank.
ment is being rapidly piled up. The i'm.
meme oak trees which stand in the way
are taken out by the roots and cut into
frewood. Some fifteen or twenty tents
are clustered in the field beyond the
bridge, and the entire scene is one of great
activity. The levee will be a grand i'm
provement to all that splendid body of
land lying south and east of Butte creek,
extending several miles in width, and
twelve or more miles in length.
A physician lately performed delicate
surgical operation successfully on the per-
son Of Mike Isaaes, miner from Lead
vile, at Denver, gays the Salt Lake T'rib-
laie. About the 22d Of June he visited
she doctor while suffering excrntiating pain
from cancer on his lower jaw-bone, which
was slowly eating away that part of his
anatomy. He was taken to St. Luke's
Hospital, where the physician removed his
entire lower jaw-bone, sewing up the skin
and cauterizing the places of contact. The
patient said he did not feel any particular
inconvenience since the operation. This
is said to be the first time in the annals of
medical knowledge that the operation has
been performed and tee patient lived longer
than nine weeks.
The other day stalwart Piute matron,
built like Dutch lugger, pourced upon a
long linen apron that had been thrown
out from c street saloon, says the Vir.
ginis Enterprise. She held the apron be-
fore her eyes, spread to its full width, and
was admiringly gazing upon it, as was her
mother, her grandmother and great grand
mother, when her nose suddenly gave her
information in regard to the article about
which her eyes had left her in the dark.
"Poof !" cried she, and the end of her
stumpy little smeller withdrew TO the
vicinity of her eyebrows" poof one
Chinaman apron" and she tossed the
apron as lar as she could send it. "Poof !!
poof /" cried the several grandmothers, and
all their little wrinkied noses went up
well onto their foreheads.