Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Mariposa county owes but 81. s57 50

Mariposs county owes but 81, 357 80.
The mohair industry is growing one in
Shasta county.
rived in SmithvilIe, A. T., thus far this
season.
The new railroad depot at Centerville,
w. T., is fast assuming shape. The frame
is nearly up.
Many grape-growers in Napa smoked
their vines during the cold spell, to protect
them from frost.
During the past week it is said that the
Chinese have purchased $500 worth Of pis.
tolls Of one firm in Tuscarora, New.
Thirty thousand ties are being hauled
from Mono Lake to the Carson and Colo
RADIO Railroad at Benton, New, distance
Of forty miles.
A Tulare county man, near Frazier Post.
office, has several ponds stocked with carp,
and some twelve and fifteen pound fish have
been taken from them.
Parties are still at work mining in the
bed of the South Fork of Feather river,
near Enterprise. They have not been dis
turbed by water this winter.
William Pearl, who murdered soldier
at Fort Stanton last week, and was con.
fined in the Jail at Lincoln, N. NJ, was
taken out of prison by mob of fifteen sol.
diers and hanged.
The Democrat tells of well-known citi-
zen of Sonoma who deliberately laid him
self on the railroad track with suicidal
intent, but was discovered and dragged
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A schooner brought into Santa Barbara
the ether day six young sea elephants from
the islands. Thirty years ago these ami
mails were quite numerous on the Califor.
mia coast, but for a long time none have
been seen.
]. B. De Jarnatt, ex.County Clerk of Co.
lusa, just missed the train on which oc.
Cured the Tehachspi accident. He was
going TO visit Southern California with
County Clerk Oliver, of Lake. Mr.. Oliver
was killed.
The deficit of George McConkey, de-
ceased, late Treasurer Of White Pine
county, Nevada, has SO crippled the school
fund in that county that it will either be
necessary to levy special tax, or else close
the schools.
All available teams in ST. Helens, Or,
are engaged in hauling brush to the new
jetty to be constructed there. About TO-
600 cords of fir brush will be needed for
the work, and this will all be cut between
St. Helens and Deer Island.
The Old Dominion Company of Globe,
A. T., have purchased several groups of
mines adjoining the Metcalf group, about
five miles from Clifton. The price paid
by the purchasers is $500, 600. They will
Immediately erect two smelters.
1t is reported that work on the Eureka
and Colorado River Railroad in Nevada
will commence at Eureka as soon as the
weather permits, and that it will be pushed
energetically during the season. 1t is also
stated that Cherry Greek will be the first
objective point.
The Hop Growers Association, which
was recently formed in Seattle, w. T., has
secured about 700 acres of land on the Sno-
qualmie prairie, which will be planted in
hops this year. About thirty men are now
engaged in cutting poles and preparing the
land for the roots.
Coroners were elected for the various
counties in the State of Nevada at the
election last fall, but it appears that the
honor is an empty one, as the Legislature
of 1881 repealed the old law providing for
Coroners, and made the Justices OF the
Peace ex oficio Coroners.
The seven-year. old son of Mr.. Hyllian,
of KelseyviIle, Lake county, was last week
accidently shot in the forehead over the
left eye. While romping with the children
in the house, pistol, which was carelessly
placed Oh shelf, was shaken to the floor,
the fall causing its discharge. The weapon
is supposed to have contained but small
charge of powder. The bullet has not
been extracted, but there are hopes Of the
lads recovery.