Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-28
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Flour at Baker City. Or, is selling at
Sl4 per barrel.
The school for the blind at Salem, o.,
will open April 10th.
Yanhill county, Oregon, has three men
whose combined weight is COS pounds.
1t costs 800 car, or about three quar-.
tiers OF cent per pound on the average, to
ship cattle from Reno to San Francisco.
The County Commissioners of Lander
county, Nevada, have settled their tax
cases against the railroad on the company's
basis.
D. NJ. Jordan, of Rutherford, Napa
county, now in his eighty-seventh year,
has pruned ten acres of grapevines this
spring.
It is said The people of Aurora, Nevada,
intend to resist by legal means the removal
of the county seat of Esmeralda to Haw-
thorne.
The Billings on. 7. Board of Trade has
been organized with thirty.five members.
At the first meeting Sl75 was paid into the
treasury.
Several brand new plug hats, says the
Tucson Star of the oath, appeared on the
streets yesterday. They afforded much
amusement for the small boy.
Ninety miles of grading are completed
on the Palouse, W. T., branch of the
Union Pacific Railroad, and over twenty.
six miles of iron and ties are lying at the
junction.
I. Ostreicher, County Commissioner of
Elko, Nevada, who was bidder for GER
tain county work, got possession of his
competitors bid, opened it and underbid
him. The Commissioner has been held
for trial.
The Los Angeles City Council has or
dered willow trees planted along the west
bank of the Los Angeles river, between
First street and the covered bridge on
Macy street, or Old Also road.
The people of Mussel Slough section are
greatly elated over the fact that the sue
cess of artesian well. boring has been estab.
lished. A well was completed near Han
ford last week which, from depth of 500
feet, yields 2l0 gallons of water per min.
ute.
Mrs. William Miller, residing near Ores.
well, Or, was burned to death on the 18th
instant. The lady was preparing meal,
when her dress caught fire, and no assist
ance being at hand, she was unable to save
herself. She leaves husband and several
children.
Nellie Moore, stepdaughter of James
Stacy, of Millville, Shasta county, attempted
to remove a loaded shotgun from bed by
grasping the muzzle and drawing it toward
her. In doing SO the gun was discharged,
the contents passing through her abdomen
and killing her instantly.
An experiment in the cultivation of the
grape at Colfax has resulted so favorably
that there is local excitement over the
prospect of laying out large vineyards.
Land can be bought there at very low
prices, most of the railroad land being held
at only 81 80 per acre. Abont l, 200 acres
adapted to grape culture have already been
purchased.
On Monday of last week, az Jewell, Or,
w. J. Dever's youngest child, while play
ing around place where the folks had been
burning some rubbish, fell into the hot EN-.
bers and burned its hands and arms nearly
to the elbows. Tuesday the child was
walking around, and about 5 o'clock in the
evening it suddenly went into commissions,
which lasted about two hours, when it
died.
In regard to the narrow. gauge railroad
through the Arroyo Ssco, says the Los An
geles Herald, it appears that the owners
of land along the line do not wish to give
sufficient room for the use of'the track
If a narrow. gauge is not built along the
Arroyo Seco, it will only be the fault of
the land. who are playing the role
Of monopoly themselves and cursing the
same thing in others.
At Cherokee, Butte county, Chris.
Lynch, well known stockraiser, and
hardy temperance man, who had never
been troubled with his eyes in any manner,
was stricken blind instantly while CON.
versing with his family some weeks ago,
and has been in total darkness ever since.
The eyelids closed without moments no.
tice. The case was considered remarka-
BILE one by the physicians, and the unfor-
tunate man has been taken to San Francisco
for treatment.
For the third or fourth time in the his
tory of the Comstock, buildings are being
removed aud hauled to and set up in new
camps. In 1868 a number of buildings
were torn down and taken to Reese river
(Austin). In 1865 Meadow Lake came in
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1869 houses were torn down and hauled
from Virginia to White Pine. This time
houses that are useless on the Comstock are
being hauled to Hawthorne, the coming
metropolis on the line of the Carson and
Colorado Railroad.
The reasons for the Mormons buying up
the ranches and taking up all the available
land in the lower part of the county is that
they are posted as to the railroad routes
that are to be constructed for certainty.
Bishop Sharp, the Manager of the Utah
Central, keeps the brethren well posted on
routes that the railroads will take, thus
giving members of the church an oppor.
tunity of gathering up all the good land.
The day is not far distant when the lower
part of Lincoln county will possess rapid
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